how have you fought against shrinking cereal?
OhioGuy
ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are very processed, and
horribly expensive - often $3 or more per pound when you do the math. I can
often get decent cuts of meat for about that.
I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you folks
have fought back against the high prices.
For years, I've considered buying grain bulk (several of my uncles are
farmers) and trying to process it into something we can eat for breakfast
(like hot wheat, or whatever), but I've never tried it, and am afraid my
kids might not eat it.
Siskuwihane
> I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by 2.3
> ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are very processed, and
> horribly expensive - often $3 or more per pound when you do the math. I can
> often get decent cuts of meat for about that.
The average price per pound for Malt-O-Meal Frosted Mini-Spooners is
$1.63.
M-O-M Golden Puffs, $1.78 per pound.
>
> I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you folks
> have fought back against the high prices.
By eating a slice of whole wheat toast and 2 teaspoons of
peanutbutter.
>
> For years, I've considered buying grain bulk (several of my uncles are
> farmers) and trying to process it into something we can eat for breakfast
> (like hot wheat, or whatever), but I've never tried it, and am afraid my
> kids might not eat it.
Your kids will eat it if they get hungry enough.
Siskuwihane
> On Jun 25, 7:52 am, "OhioGuy" <n...@none.net> wrote:
>
> > I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by 2.3
> > ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are very processed, and
> > horribly expensive - often $3 or more per pound when you do the math. I can
> > often get decent cuts of meat for about that.
>
> The average price per pound for Malt-O-Meal Frosted Mini-Spooners is
> $1.63.
> M-O-M Golden Puffs, $1.78 per pound.
>
>
>
> > I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you folks
> > have fought back against the high prices.
>
> By eating a slice of whole wheat toast and 2 teaspoons of
> peanutbutter.
Actually it's two tablespoons.
hchi...@hotmail.com
<nob...@imaginary-host.danbirchall.com> wrote:
>I knew I had blogged about this sort of thing a couple years ago...
>http://danbirchall.multiply.com/journal/item/324
>
>They're screwing around not only with the price and the size of the box,
>but also with the size of the serving. :)
Cereal has always been outragously expensive for what it is.
Save-a-lot has some dollar boxes of corn flakes and raisin bran.
Can't tell the difference between them and the higher priced stuff.
Harry, still trying to figure out how to fight shrinking cereal.
Sharpened spoon? Tiny racks to stretch the individual flakes?
Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply
>
> I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you folks
> have fought back against the high prices.
I quit eating them a long time ago, because they have been overpriced
for absolutely ages.
> For years, I've considered buying grain bulk (several of my uncles are
> farmers) and trying to process it into something we can eat for breakfast
> (like hot wheat, or whatever), but I've never tried it, and am afraid my
> kids might not eat it.
Think outside the box, pun intended. Quick breads are easy to make,
cheap, and work. Peanut butter sandwiches worked for my oldest when he
was young. Add fruit or yogurt to cooked grains, or make
not-terribly-sweetened rice pudding or wheat pudding (same recipe,
different grain and longer cooking time) and have that for breakfast.
h
is what food eats.
Evelyn C. Leeper
> On Jun 25, 7:52 am, "OhioGuy" <n...@none.net> wrote:
>> I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by 2.3
>> ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are very processed, and
>> horribly expensive - often $3 or more per pound when you do the math. I can
>> often get decent cuts of meat for about that.
>
> The average price per pound for Malt-O-Meal Frosted Mini-Spooners is
> $1.63.
> M-O-M Golden Puffs, $1.78 per pound.
Malt-O-Meal (and store brands) are certainly one way to fight the cost.
When I last checked, for example, Kellogg's Raisin Bran Crunch was
$3.51/pound ($2.63/pound on sale), while Shop-Rite Raisin Bran was
$1.75/pound all the time. Malt-O-Meal cereals run about $1.33/pound
when on sale, twice that regular price.
Buying only when on sale is another, particularly if one is limited in
what one can by. (One relative has diabetes and is severely limited in
what cereals are even allowed. Combine that with what she likes and
we're down to Wheaties, Total, and corn flakes. When they go on sale
for half price, she stocks up.)
Bulk store-brand oatmeal is still cheap, I think. (When last I checked,
it was about 67 cents/pound, or a little over a nickel a serving. I
think dry cereal is about 16 servings to the pound, so even the cheapest
is more than oatmeal.) Of course, in hot weather, people are less
likely to want a hot cereal.
(Note: I last checked these prices a few months ago here in New Jersey,
so they probably have gone up. :-( )
--
Evelyn C. Leeper
A great many people think they are thinking when they are
only rearranging their prejudices. -William James
larry
Locally, Blue Bell Ice Cream is running ads that show
shortened rulers, shoes, ice cream box that's a pint short.
Then say get what you're paying for, a full half gallon.
They added a bright red banner to their container months
ago- "still a full half gallon".
You can fight it, only buy from makers that have pint,
quart, pound, or 1/2 or 1/4 of these containers. I loyally
bought Dreyers Ice Cream since a kid. No more, since they
were one of the first to start this crap with downsized ice
cream containers. This was also about the time they were
bought out by Yum Brands, overpriced poor quality street
vendor purveyor, my opinion, ymmv.
Coffee started this, candy bars makers never made the same
size twice. Now here in hot country, we find out that
gasoline pumps are ~5% short on hot days because they don't
adjust for the liquid expansion when warm. Too expensive to
fix. Bet they would fix it if the pumps had to be
calibrated to deliver 1 gallon at 100 degrees. ;-)
- larry / dallas
Bill
not paying for advertising and fancy packaging.
Go to stores like Walmart which have "price per ounce" shelf labels.
Say a brand name box product is $3 and the price per ounce is 60 cents. And
the same thing in generic is $6 and 15 cents price per ounce for a big bag.
Buy the big bag for $6.
"OhioGuy" wrote in message
rtan...@yahoo.com
> I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by
> 2.3 ounces.
Has anyone actually verified this?
I've heard the claim that this is happening many times over the years,
yet I've been buying the same 25.5oz box of Raisan Bran since 1986.
Maybe it just doesn't effect Raisan Bran
-Brian
m...@privacy.net
>Don't buy it. Cereal and other grains should not be eaten by humans. Grain
>is what food eats.
>
So what to eat for breakfast then?
Rod Speed
> h <tmc...@searchmachine.com> wrote
I havent bothered with breakfast for almost half a century now.
Just have a single slice of toast, as thick as will still fit in the toaster
bought specially to be able to toast the thickest bread available.
The bread is mulitigrain, made in the bread machine.
Dont even bother with coffee anymore, just water.
Parallax
> I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by 2.3
> ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are very processed, and
> horribly expensive - often $3 or more per pound when you do the math. I can
> often get decent cuts of meat for about that.
>
> I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you folks
> have fought back against the high prices.
>
By doing what I've always done, eat pop tarts.
Seerialmom
I stopped eating cereal a few years ago along with milk. However from
time to time the local grocery store will have a $1-$2 each sale on
Kelloggs cereals (which I'll buy for my son). Even if the Frosted
Mini-Wheats are only 14oz vs the previous 15.4oz it's still worth it.
But if you want to keep it even more frugal, buy the Malt-O-Meal
equivalents in the bags and pour those into Rubbermaid or Tupperware
cereal keepers.
JonL
oats, too. Buy small amounts, see if your kids will eat it, or if you
want to bother with the xtra work.
Or, try serving your reg cereal in smaller bowls, or dilute it with
something cheaper, or use lots more milk to "expand" the shrinkage.
ps: I stopped eating natural foods when I realized most peeps die a
natural death.......
Brad Naylor
"h" <tmc...@searchmachine.com> wrote in message
news:g3te1o$7ii$1...@aioe.org...
> Don't buy it. Cereal and other grains should not be eaten by humans. Grain
> is what food eats.
That's the spirit: Don't eat anything that doesn't have a face.
JonL
> I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is shrinking by 2.3
> ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are very processed, and
> horribly expensive - often $3 or more per pound when you do the math. I can
> often get decent cuts of meat for about that.
>
> I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you folks
> have fought back against the high prices.
>
Check the price increases of corn, oats, wheat, rice.
The Price Of Food: 2007 - 2008
George
Grinding up corn to make ethanol to keep the SUVs going has to be one of
the dumbest ideas ever promoted by the government.
larry
> JonL wrote:
>> Imo, the cereal companies are feeling "gouged" too.
>>
>> Check the price increases of corn, oats, wheat, rice.
>>
>> The Price Of Food: 2007 - 2008
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/3kh956
>
> Grinding up corn to make ethanol to keep the SUVs going has to be one of
> the dumbest ideas ever promoted by the government.
But the farmers sure liked the idea! Corn futures doubled
in a few months. Now indexed for btu value to other energy
futures.
-- larry/dallas
JonL
Especially considering there's no shortage of oil, according to the
Sheiks.Imo, if it wasn't for the Big Iowa Primary, where the Dems must
kneel and kiss the rings of the Ethanol Lobby, there'd be no interest in
ethanol from corn. Btw, what ever happened to that "free trade"
thing,.....we could get ethanol from sugar in Brazil for cheap if not
for the tariff, about 50 cents a gallon, iirc.
h
"Brad Naylor" <brad_...@live.com> wrote in message
news:o7N8k.28896$ZE5....@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com...
Well...pretty much...yeah.
clams_casino
It's making a lot of people rich. What better way to increase the
price of energy than by using energy to make (less) energy?
Rod Speed
> George wrote
>> JonL wrote
>>> OhioGuy wrote
>>>> I just heard that the average size of a box of cereal is
>>>> shrinking by 2.3 ounces. Outrageous! Most cereals I see now are
>>>> very processed, and horribly expensive - often $3 or more per
>>>> pound when you do the math. I can often get decent cuts of meat
>>>> for about that.
>>>> I'm tired of feeling gouged for cereals, and am wondering how you
>>>> folks have fought back against the high prices.
>>> Imo, the cereal companies are feeling "gouged" too.
>>> Check the price increases of corn, oats, wheat, rice.
>>> The Price Of Food: 2007 - 2008
>> Grinding up corn to make ethanol to keep the SUVs going has to be one of the dumbest ideas ever promoted by the
>> government.
> It's making a lot of people rich.
Nope.
> What better way to increase the price of energy than by using energy to make (less) energy?
Drive the price up by speculating in the energy.