The Great Big Animal Food Shrinkage Scandal

[fossyant]

OK not a scandal, but the mars bar/wagon wheel product shrinkage has come to your animal food packets.

Felis As Good As It Looks. Prices are somewhat mental, upto £16 for 40 100g packets. Checks latest bulk order, down to 85g packets now for the standard stuff.

We spend about £80 to £100 a month feeding four creatures so 15% reduction is a big hit, as well as prices from £12 to £16 for the same pack.

Anyone else noticed a change in quantity in aminal food.

 

[Drago]

I buy Bruce his food in 10 or 12kg bags and they still weigh 10 or 12kg.

There is an upside. Lemmy was a snob and would only eat the posh Royal Canin or Harringtons, which shot from £30 or so a bag to £60-70.

Bruce, conversely, will onky eat the Wagg stuff at £12 a bag. He loves it.

 

[fossyant]

MrsF suggested we try them on cheaper tins. Never going to work.

 

[DCLane]

@fossyant - that shift happened a couple of months ago. And yes, the price remained the same = shrinkflation.

 

[cyberknight]

MrsF suggested we try them on cheaper tins. Never going to work.

our moggy only eats whiskas fish flavour pouches that you cant buy in the bulk packets , anything else gets gets ignored .

 

[fossyant]

@fossyant - that shift happened a couple of months ago. And yes, the price remained the same = shrinkflation.

Must admit I hadn't noticed until my recent batch as I order in bulk. Just checked and at the end of March I bought 100g packs

 

[Drago]

I wonder if they'll trot out the same pathetic excuses rhe human food manufacturers.

Like when Mars reckoned they had shrunk their confectionary as part of the fight against obesity. About as honest as Marlboro's fight against lung cancer.

 

[briantrumpet]

I wonder if they'll trot out the same pathetic excuses rhe human food manufacturers.

Like when Mars reckoned they had shrunk their confectionary as part of the fight against obesity. About as honest as Marlboro's fight against lung cancer.

Well, it's worked with reducing my consumption of Magnums (to nil). Last time I bought one, I assumed it must have been from a 'fun pack', but no, now they seem to be 'Minimums'. Any smaller, and it'll just be the stick.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

@fossyant I have 2 fur babies, had noticed the shrinkage ages ago, while shopping for something else.
I stopped feeding my cats commercial food years ago.
I cook for them:
one medium chicken slow cooked or boiled - no seasoning at all, very important
couple of hundred grams of chicken livers and chicken hearts, boiled
I take most of the chicken fat off, blend to chunks the white flesh, add some of the produced stock plus a large cup of water.
The set aside bones I grind (got a very strong blender) then I add them but sieve them first, with just a normal flour/icing sugar sieve, reserved for this purpose.
Add more water and the rest of the chicken stock produced by the cooking, NOT made of cubes.
Then I freeze in tubs of a size that feeds them for 2 days, so the food is always fresh.
Before feeding, I add taurine supplement and pure salmon oil, but not every day, maybe a couple of times a week.
Alfie won't eat the chicken spiked with salmon oil!
They also get steamed white fish - well microwaved lol, mackerel or sardines (oil mostly drained, absolutely not in tomato sauce!), very occasional treat a wee bit of tuna in spring water from Aldi.
Outside their wet meal times (3 small meals for Rosie, 2 bigger portions for Alfie, he only likes to eat twice a day) they have a bowl of dried GoCat available, but it hardly gets touched.
They are both healthy, coats soft and shiny, hardly any food gets wasted, their food bill is around £20 a month.

 

[Drago]

Alfie won't eat the chicken spiked with salmon oil!

What's that all about, Alfie?

 

[fossyant]

@fossyant I have 2 fur babies, had noticed the shrinkage ages ago, while shopping for something else.
I stopped feeding my cats commercial food years ago.
I cook for them:
one medium chicken slow cooked or boiled - no seasoning at all, very important
couple of hundred grams of chicken livers and chicken hearts, boiled
I take most of the chicken fat off, blend to chunks the white flesh, add some of the produced stock plus a large cup of water.
The set aside bones I grind (got a very strong blender) then I add them but sieve them first, with just a normal flour/icing sugar sieve, reserved for this purpose.
Add more water and the rest of the chicken stock produced by the cooking, NOT made of cubes.
Then I freeze in tubs of a size that feeds them for 2 days, so the food is always fresh.
Before feeding, I add taurine supplement and pure salmon oil, but not every day, maybe a couple of times a week.
Alfie won't eat the chicken spiked with salmon oil!
They also get steamed white fish - well microwaved lol, mackerel or sardines (oil mostly drained, absolutely not in tomato sauce!), very occasional treat a wee bit of tuna in spring water from Aldi.
Outside their wet meal times (3 small meals for Rosie, 2 bigger portions for Alfie, he only likes to eat twice a day) they have a bowl of dried GoCat available, but it hardly gets touched.
They are both healthy, coats soft and shiny, hardly any food gets wasted, their food bill is around £20 a month.

Three of them would love that diet, but one won't eat human food. She doesn't eat much wet either, preferring dried food.

Apparently Purina's excuse was cat's don't eat 100g at a time - doh, we know that. At most, we will share out two packs between four. Ours aren't into a couple of meals - they will have a bit if hungry, so we never leave a lot out. Always have dried available.

 

[Reynard]

I kind of noticed that too. Although I still have about a dozen boxes of the 100g Felix AGAIL pouches, and each box lasts the Lexter about a fortnight. She gets 1/3 of a pouch in the morning and the same in the evening. There's dry (Royal Canin Sensible) down for her all the time. Although she's currently got some Josera dry as well - a friend won some at a cat show, but her boy won't eat it.

The big annoyance for me is that the boxes for the 85g pouches are an inch narrower, which means they're not quite as versatile for making parcels to send birthday / xmas gifts.

 

[vickster]

Diabetic IBD Harry eats about 3 or 4 pouches a day (a fair amount dries out and goes in the food waster. Bless him and still hungry and very skinny, just had his first at 4am! He's fussy so can't buy in bulk, currently Sheba fine flakes or whatever it is called. I just search on Trolley app for whichever supermarket has on special.

Plus ample hypoallergenic Royal Canin daily at £30 for 2.5kg.

At least Petplan pays 80% of the cost of the insulin and syringes which is about £130 every 2 months! Must remember to order before policy renews in June and there'll be the £135 annual excess too.

Expensive things, fur babies!

 

[Jameshow]

Even houses are shrinking!!

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Anything he can scrounge - as here, plus (reluctantly) Royal Canin dry food chicken variety, cooked chicken thighs (om nom nom in dog) and one of his tablets for his joints. Eats well does the dog, and is fit as.