I thought something was up when a package no longer covered enough for a single pizza.
The larger packs were also <$4.50, and now they are $6 - $6.50.
"New" = less product and a huge price jump! (Daiya vegan cheese)
2 years ago by Showroom7561 to c/shrinkflation
I thought something was up when a package no longer covered enough for a single pizza.
The larger packs were also <$4.50, and now they are $6 - $6.50.
Yeah, there are way better vegan cheeses out there, but this is the brand that pretty much every store in Canada carries. It's rare to see a different brand, although, Walmart does have one that's not bad (needs very high temps to melt).
There is some really good vegan cheese out there, it's expensive though.
I'm a big fan of Treeline, their bleu cheese is to die for.
I wonder if I can find it. Basically I need cheese for burritos or worse quesadillas. Daiya has a real chemical after taste that just rubs me all the wrong ways.
I recommend ordering from their website, they'll ship it on ice to your door!
i tried this one from oddlygood a while ago and it's pretty damn close to just straight up being cheese, the only real difference is that it tastes yeasty (still within the realm of cheese flavour) with some starchy grittyness to it, it melts.. strangely.. like you sorta have to make sure the fat and starch stays together as it gets warm otherwise the fat just drains away and the starch gets burnt, and of course it's mainly starch rather than protein.
and it's sometimes cheaper than dairy cheese, though that's more of a sign of how fucked up everything is than anything else.
I distinctly remember that change. A bunch of us complained enough and they changed it back. I got a bunch of coupons for free products. This change unfortunately forces me to move to another brand because of the new ingredients.
It's actually not bad. There was a different brand from Walmart (violife or something like that), and we couldn't get it to "melt like cheese" unless the oven was 500f.
I prefer my own homemade vegan cheese, but my wife has to have this stuff. It's a compromise, but at some point only her half of the pizza will get covered if they keep shrinking the package!
What do you make your own cheese with? Cashews?
This is the recipe I've been using: https://itdoesnttastelikechicken.com/...
Yes, it has cashews, but the tapioca starch gives it a really authentic texture.
Now, it won't get you shredded cheese, which you'd need a different recipe and far more effort. But this gives you globs as that you can drop down in dollops, similar to a traditional Italian pizza.
I'm sure there are plenty of other recipes out there, but this has worked for us.
Actually yeah. I did not like the OG one, way too much oil and could never get it to melt. This one actually melts and tastes good. Now my favorite is actually Mikonos pourable mozzarella but that’s just for pizza.
animal ag corporation
They are actually owned by a Japanese pharmaceutical company! LOL But they operate in Canada and have been pretty good as far as companies go.
We rarely get packaged food like this, and vegan cheese has been really hard to find outside of this brand.
But yeah, gotta profit!
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A community about companies who sneakily adjust their product instead of the price in the hopes that consumers won't notice.
We notice. We feel ripped off. Let's call out those products so we can shop better.
Shrinkflation is a term often coined to refer to a product reducing in size or quality while the price remains the same or increases.
Companies will often claim that this is necessary due to inflation, although this is rarely the case. Over the course of the pandemic, they have learned that they can mark up inelastic goods, which are goods with an intangible demand, such as food, as much as they want, and consumers will have no choice but to purchase it anyway because they are necessities.
From Wikipedia:
In economics, shrinkflation, also known as the grocery shrink ray, deflation, or package downsizing, is the process of items shrinking in size or quantity, or even sometimes reformulating or reducing quality, while their prices remain the same or increase. The word is a portmanteau of the words shrink and inflation.
[...]
Consumer advocates are critical of shrinkflation because it has the effect of reducing product value by "stealth". The reduction in pack size is sufficiently small as not to be immediately obvious to regular consumers. An unchanged price means that consumers are not alerted to the higher unit price. The practice adversely affects consumers' ability to make informed buying choices. Consumers have been found to be deterred more by rises in prices than by reductions in pack sizes. Suppliers and retailers have been called upon to be upfront with customers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation
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@lemmy.ca
A community about companies who sneakily adjust their product instead of the price in the hopes that consumers won't notice.
We notice. We feel ripped off. Let's call out those products so we can shop better.
Shrinkflation is a term often coined to refer to a product reducing in size or quality while the price remains the same or increases.
Companies will often claim that this is necessary due to inflation, although this is rarely the case. Over the course of the pandemic, they have learned that they can mark up inelastic goods, which are goods with an intangible demand, such as food, as much as they want, and consumers will have no choice but to purchase it anyway because they are necessities.
From Wikipedia:
In economics, shrinkflation, also known as the grocery shrink ray, deflation, or package downsizing, is the process of items shrinking in size or quantity, or even sometimes reformulating or reducing quality, while their prices remain the same or increase. The word is a portmanteau of the words shrink and inflation.
[...]
Consumer advocates are critical of shrinkflation because it has the effect of reducing product value by "stealth". The reduction in pack size is sufficiently small as not to be immediately obvious to regular consumers. An unchanged price means that consumers are not alerted to the higher unit price. The practice adversely affects consumers' ability to make informed buying choices. Consumers have been found to be deterred more by rises in prices than by reductions in pack sizes. Suppliers and retailers have been called upon to be upfront with customers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation
n.b.: for moderation purposes, only posts in English or in French are accepted.##
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Man I cannot stand daiya. I really want their product to be good but each time I try it it tastes horrible. How can cheese be so far behind meat in plant based alternatives?
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