Cereal prices killed me. I went to generics which were fine and then they got too expensive. So I learned to make my own, sugar smacks are really easy to make and taste WAY better. Plus you can tweak the recipe like I add toasted almonds in mine, local honey, etc.
Jerky was the other, bought a dehydrator and wait for skirt to be on sale. I have a clone of Wild Bills and I’m good to go.
And you can do so much more w/ a dehydrator. Veggie? You can make awesome fruit strips/etc
vote with your money, if a company or brand doesn’t respect you or fight for your business then starve them out
Fuck brands. Buy less shit.
Fuck pointless consumption!
why buy brand names when generics are cheaper.
It is impossible to make a good decision. There are so many brands, and information that is important is so difficult to find. I’ll happily pay more for brands that focus on sustainability, avoid slave-labour-like practices, support communities, don’t fund genocide, etc. But it is exhausting trying to keep up. I see it on Lemmy all the time…a digital product I use or pay for because the last information I had was that they’re good; but then there’s an uproar that it was bought out or the founder supports some appalling ideology or something. Can’t fucking keep up.
Because of ingredients? I check ingredients first, origin second and price third.
Depends. Sometimes its better to pay more for a better quality brand because it’ll last longer - therefore costing less in the long run. Shoes/boots are a good example of this. Obviously if its more expensive that doesn’t mean it’ll be automatically be better though.
I stopped buying cereal years before covid. A recent trip to the grocery store took me through the cereal aisle and I happened to stop to pay closer attention. The shrunken boxes and jacked up prices were very apparent. Yet another reason not to buy that unhealthy trash.
almost ever chain i go to, nobody visits the cereal aisle ever, they know its just pure sugar in a box. they opted for the “healthier” foods. the only people that buy cereal, are people with children or is addicted to the even more sugary granola cereal.
You people have such a small world. There are plenty of healthy cereals. Especially if you’re looking for more fiber, which isthe single largest deficiency in diet that we have in Western nations.
Y’all see one fucking reddit post and treat it like gospel 🤣
Yet another reason not to buy that unhealthy trash.
ButButBut it’s part of this complete breakfast!
Gestures broadly at the huge array of breakfast items on the table of which the cereal is a minor component
Capitalism cannibalising itself one brand at a time.
I honestly can’t trust any brands and their packaging because of shrinkflation.
Eveytime I go into a grocery store i see packaging stay the same size but the amount inside the packages keeps getting smaller and smaller.
Uh… those are two different fruits. If you are going to compare packing to measure shrinkflation, shouldn’t you be using the same product?
I think this may be a bad example. Different fruits are not necessarily sold in the same weights. Fresh strawberries are typically sold in heavier containers than a container of raspberries, and have been for a long time. Raspberries are just a more expensive fruit.
Same, I usually compare the net weight and amount of servings in a package vs the other brands nowadays.
There are definitely brands I stopped buying due to shrinkflation. A few times I’ve seen shrinkflated items on sale later and then do the math just to realize the price is still too stupid to buy even at sale price.
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I’d say “That’s Loblaw’s for you” but the other day I was in Costco, and even THEIR packages have shrunk. You still have to buy a pack of 6, but it doesn’t weigh as much.
Oddly though, a 1kg bag of oats is still a 1kg bag of oats… just more expensive.
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The breaking point? A price jump of 16%.
When shoppers do make the switch, groceries are the first to go with 76% dropping a brand they were previously loyal to
I guess that’s why shrinkflation is such a thing specifically with food.
I always bought tons of that off brand stuff in giant bags, lol!
I feel like this happened years ago for me and now it’s just the norm to not spring for any cereal regularly.
Yeah I buy cereal about as often as I buy ice cream. Too often
There was an ice cream parlor near me that MIXED them!
So you could get a vanilla ice cream add coco crispies, add butterfinger bits , and drizzle it with caramel.
Or
Get a chocolate ice cream, mix it with cookie crisp, oreo bits, and marshmellow fluff.
They closed. I miss them.
