A few products available today, from a list of thousands I suspect, show that the consumer can be robbed of precious dollars for so called, time saving foods.
I've said before, I don't want the blog turning into a series of lists, but a couple of items have caught my eye in this weeks grocery flyer, the first being bacon.
Fully cooked bacon, 65 grams of it, for $3.49 a package, which on closer inspection has 15 slices of the precious metal. That's thirty cents a slice, and a small slice at 4 grams a piece. Now, call me crazy, but I hear that a whole pound of bacon, a whacking great 454 grams of bacon, can be bought in the same store for $3.99
The second item that riles me, is a new product called purely potato chunks, that can be steamed and mashed, they have been selected, peeled, chunked and all you have to do is defrost and steam them, oh and then mash them. $3.99 for 750 grams, which, by my reckoning is less than two pounds of potato.
In the same store, potatoes can be had for $3.99 for a ten pound bag (and that is expensive).
The point, well, roll up your sleeves and cook your own bacon, peel your own spuds and eat lots of fresh vegetables instead of frozen.
The only thing that will be fatter is your wallet.
1 comment:
Bacon weighs a lot less when cooked. With the cooked bacon you get to eat all 65 grams. However the weight of the raw bacon includes a lot of fat that you don't actually eat. Cooked is still expensive, but not quite as much as you're making it out to be.
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