• plz1@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Man, so many people in this thread at least unintentionally defending shrinkflation. Yes, “a box” isn’t what it used to be. I’m sure if Big Agg could figure out a way to shrinkflate chicken’s eggs for profit, they would. Don’t give these corpo’s any support for this robbery practice. They will continue to shrink things, at the same t8ime they increase prices on them to blame inflation.

    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      15 minutes ago

      My first thought is why are people using these box mixes, the ingredients are trivial. There are recipes online that have the ingredients.

      The base ingredients for many things are flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt. – these are not expensive and are shelf stable. A chocolate cake mix adds cocoa powder. Some need vanilla.

      The mix already requires adding rggs and oil.

      Mixing it yourself allows way better quality control; they aren’t using high quality cocoa or vanilla.