<p>HImom,
I would just eat more mochi! That’s my monitoring problem. I watch it all disappear.</p>
<p>Just buy one/day per person. :)</p>
<p>Tuna. You can’t even get a normal sandwich out of a can now.</p>
<p>You are absolutely right. When we were kids, my mom use to make 3-4 tuna sandwiches from a can.</p>
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Not to worry - after the first few weeks get yourself some of the low-carb, low-sugar fudgesickle or ice cream bars and have one of those every couple of nights. Although it’s not exactly like the premium (and high-calorie,) ice cream being discussed here, it’ll help to satisfy your ice cream cravings.</p>
<p>What’s a mochi?</p>
<p>VeryHappy, the answer to your question is “BB’s DDs’ favorite dessert!”</p>
<p>Mochi filled with ice cream is impossible to resist: [MochiIceCream.com</a> - Home](<a href=“http://www.mochiicecream.com/]MochiIceCream.com”>http://www.mochiicecream.com/)</p>
<p>I have noticed this trend in food packaging for some time…tuna cans are smaller, so are canned tomatoes, nestle choc chips…you name it…very tricky…trim off a few oz and no one will notice. A little tough when recipes are measured by the container , not measurement.</p>
<p>It has been a long time since I bought plastic diapres, but I notices that they kept the prices the same, but cut on the quantity…just sent my nephew and his wife some as they struggle with two in diapers…tried to convince them how much cheaper and easy are the cloth choice</p>
<p>The toilet paper REALLY ticks me off! Some of those rolls last 5 minutes in a house with a family! We’ve gone to buying the Scott 1000 rolls (I think that’s what it’s called) only - not luxurious, but at least lasts awhile.</p>
<p>Stephen Jay Gould once wrote a great piece on the size and price of Hershey bars. I think he calculated the date that the Hershey bar would totally disappear and the price that it would be when it became nothing.</p>
<p>My first real job was at a family owned soda fountain/gift shop when I was 14 years old.
Many, many years ago. I rang the register on weekends. There was the very inconveniently located candy display right next to the register. Torture. The smell of Nestles bars was pervasive.
Yup, those big bars were 12 cents each. What are they now, a dollar?
Wow, am I old.</p>
<p>back to the Starbucks -in big quart containers, often on sale for less than $3.50, packing a great coffee taste and caffeine punch, and the java chocolate chunk (it’s called something like that…) is absolutely terrific. Okay - back to shrunken toilet paper… ;)</p>
<p>McConnells Ice Cream Turkish Coffee. The best coffee ice cream out there. Packed with finely ground coffee beans. Not sure what there distribution area is.</p>
<p>The OP is SO RIGHT!!!</p>
<p>I don’t buy ice cream very often (even though I LOVE IT), but the discounted sale sign recently at the local mega market caught me eye. I began to scoop up 3 pints of Hagen-Daz when I noticed that the container didn’t look the same. Yep, 14oz. And thus, the bargain price wasn’t really a bargain!!! [compared to the old regular price for the pint container] Andy Rooney makes a commentary about shrinking containers with rising prices every few years. Lord a’mighty, you can’t trust anyone anymore! LOL.</p>