I am so FED UP with bitchy, assholey grocery store checkers.  From their rude attitudes to their shitty bagging skills, I'm seriously considering ordering all my groceries online from now on.  I've had it.  I don't know how many times I have complained to management about these issues, but they clearly are not listening.  They send me their pathetic, "We're sorry" emails and then mail me a bunch of coupons for their store.  What I'd like is for them take those coupons and shove them up their asses and fix the fucking problem at hand...their INCOMPETENT checkers.  Seriously folks, it does not take a college degree to learn how to properly pack a shopping bag.  My 11 year old son can do it and he can't even tie his own shoes, yet!  And if it's YOUR JOB, you should learn how to do it and do it well before someone else swoops in there and either a) kicks your ass for being so retarded or b) takes your job because uh....your fucking retarded! (*Disclaimer: No offense implied to actual retarded people.)

Today is a prime example.  We went to Fred Meyer in Redmond to grab a couple of things.  We brought in two cloth reusable bags.  You know, the kind with the removable black plastic bottom liner.  Anyway, we purchased 3 quarts of eggnog, a 4 1/2 pound chicken, a 2-pound brick of cheese, 2 2-liter bottles of soda, and 2 greeting cards.  These totaled 23 1/2 pounds.  Yes, I actually weighed it when we got home.  So the checker, Ladina (who always has a chip on her shoulder, but also always has the shortest lines...hmm wonder why?) is bagging and she starts putting everything into one bag.  She says to Tom, "You don't mind if I put everything in one bag, do you?"  Tom, being a strong dude and also not one for confrontation, says he doesn't, but I pipe up and say, "Actually, I do mind.  Over-packing is how all these bags keep getting ruined."  So she gets a little huffy and says, "Well, I can split it up into the two bags!"

Well alrighty then!  I didn't fucking bring two bags in for you to just use one, you stupid twat.  What's the big deal anyway?  Is it the 5 cent refund they give out for bringing your own bags?  If that's the issue, then keep your god damned 5 cents.  If I didn't bring my own bag, you know damn well that every friggin item would have had it's own individual plastic bag.  RETARDED.

This is from Operationbeautiful.com. 

I was watching my local news online this morning and they have a feature called Save Me Money.  In today's episode they focused on saving money by using what you have in your kitchen and pantry to make meals.  This concept is often scary for some lesser experienced cooks as well as frustrating for more seasoned chefs.  The folks without much kitchen experience might feel overwhelmed by their stock and not know how to pair things to create a complete meal whereas people who are well versed in the kitchen might want to make recipes that they don't have all the ingredients for and become discouraged with what they have in their pantry at the moment.

I fall somewhere in the middle of those two types.  While I'm very adept in the kitchen, I sometimes find myself stumped for ideas that utilize the ingredients I have on hand.  I am forever needing to run to the store for "just one more thing" that turns into a $50+ shopping extravaganza.  In these tight economic times, I can't afford to do that all the time and rather than recycle the same 10 dinners over and over again, I would love to have a tool at my fingertips that can help me overcome the desire to rush off to the store to buy that bulb of fennel or the quart of buttermilk for a specific recipe I had in mind in favor of using my pantry staples.  Wow, if that wasn't the longest sentence in the history of the world!

So guess what?  The news program featured four websites that I have never heard of that can help with the "what should I make for dinner tonight" dilemma!  I haven't tried any of these out, yet, so I'm not sure how easy they are to use, but I was so excited that I wanted to pass them on to you guys in case you're like me, with a decently stocked pantry, but not sure what exactly to make except chili and spaghetti! 

Mealopedia
Leftover Wizard
RecipeMatcher
Supercook

I just found this one today (8 Oct 2009)
Betty Crocker Easy Meal Finder

Do you already use a meal planning website?  If so, please leave a link to it in the comments.

In addition to those websites mentioned above, I also read money-saving blogs.  A couple of them might be of interest to you as well.

$5 Dinners
How to Live in Poverty & Still Have it All

I am a long-time reader of Roni's Weigh and one of her other blogs, Green Lite Bites.  This morning I was brought to tears as I watched the video I am posting below.   I've had weight issues, from one extreme to the other and every stop in between, since I was 6 years old when my dad first told me I was fat and needed to go on a diet.  Yes, you read that right...SIX YEARS OLD.  It didn't matter that I really wasn't fat.  His words still echo in my ears to this day.   I started my first diet when I was 9 and in the 4th grade.   I remember being so proud of myself when I'd lose a pound.  I'd tell my teacher and she'd always try to be supportive, but I could tell that she was holding something back.  It makes me sick to think that I didn't even get a chance to appreciate my body as a child.  It makes me angry that I spent most of my life thinking I was not good enough because my body didn't look exactly the way my dad thought it should.  I'm 37 years old and am still trying to learn how to eat healthy foods and appreciate the body I am living in.  Most days I feel ok, but there are always those voices that sneak in and try to undo all the hard work I've put in retraining my brain to realize that just because I don't wear a size 6 or weigh 102 pounds does not mean that I am any less of a person, that my feelings, hopes, dreams, desires, thoughts don't matter.  For most of my life, I was programmed to feel like I didn't matter, that I wasn't good enough, that if only I could lose some weight that my life would be perfect.

Guess what?  It's total bullshit.  Yep.  Being skinny will not fix anything, but your dress size.  It's a complete fucking lie and I'm sick of people around me (including those I don't know) thinking that if they were skinnier that their lives would be infinitely better.  I'll agree that shopping for clothes might be more pleasurable, being able to fit in small spaces might be of benefit when changing a washing machine hose, and it might be nice not to be stared at, but I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt, that life sucks just as much as a skinny person as it does when you are not at an "ideal" weight.  The things that you struggle with as a larger person are going to be the same things you struggle with as a thinner person.  So please stop thinking that dieting is going to be the panacea that you assume it to be because it is not, and you will be disappointed when you get there and realize this if you don't start changing your way of thinking now.

And while we're at it, why don't we stop dieting altogether and just start eating better, moving more, and stressing out less about how we look?  How about spending some real quality time with your family and friends and start enjoying your life, rather than obsessing on how much you weigh or how you don't quite look like that one girl.  How many of you have dieted and felt like you couldn't eat your favorite foods?  Do you know what happens when you make certain foods off limits?  You are training yourself to feel bad, you are setting yourself up for failure, and as soon as you can't stand it anymore, you'll reach for whatever it is you deemed a "bad food" and gorge out on it.  Then you'll feel guilty, you'll think you're a bad person and have no willpower and that you'll always be fat.  Guess what?  You are partially right.  If you don't stop this ridiculous behavior and stop labeling things as bad, you are going to remain overweight because you will continue to cycle through eating healthy for a little while, feeling deprived, overeating, feeling guilty, giving up and going back to your old unhealthy eating habits.  The fact that you cannot stop doing it does not make you a bad person.  In the grand scheme of things, when you look back on your life, your weight is but a minuscule part of it.  Why make it such a huge thing day to day?

I'm not suggesting to continue eating family size bags of chips and lay around the house all day.  I'm very much in favor of finding your daily caloric limit and finding a happy place around it so that you don't continue to gain, but can retrain your mind and body in the art of healthful living.  I'm very much in favor of having a healthy body, but I also know that healthy bodies come in every shape and size out there.  If you are trying to lose weight for your health, good for you.  If you are trying to lose weight just because you don't think you're skinny enough and it's for superficial reasons, then I think you should take a long hard look at yourself and figure out what is driving you to feel that way.  Who are you competing with?  How skinny is enough?

There are too many women (as well as men) who are trying to achieve an unrealistic body shape/size for vanity sake and it just perpetuates this cycle of unhealthy eating, unrealistic body size goals, unhealthy weight goals, and eating disorders.  Not only does this affect millions of adults, it also sends out the message to our children that they should be like someone else, like that woman on the cover of a magazine or that model on tv rather than the beautiful person they were born as.  It's bullshit and it's time it stopped.

If you are one of those people who are unhappy with themselves because you don't fit into a perfect size 2, please take a step back and reevaluate why you aren't happy with your current body size.  Weight is just a number.  The issues surrounding chronic dieting are largely psychological and have nothing to do with a healthy body image.  If I've offended you with this post, you are probably one of the people that needs this message the most.



I'm not advocating obesity....I just want people to realize that there is more to life than being skinny and killing yourself to get there is no way to live, ya know?

Make healthier food choices, but don't label anything as off limits (unless you have a medical reason, that goes without saying), move a little bit every day, and LIVE your life.  Be joyful...find SOMETHING to be happy about.  Spend time with your kids, your friends, yourself! 

But stop trying to be someone you aren't.  Learn to love the YOU that you are!  And quit caring so much about what other people think.  It's what YOU think about yourself that is the most important.

It's meal plan time again!  I've been buying bits and pieces here and there on our outings for the last few weeks, so I haven't really done any major grocery shopping.  I sort of like doing it this way, but it makes meal planning a little harder, but I accept the challenge like a 1500 piece jigsaw puzzle!  Haha.  This week we're having a lot of comfort food and for the most part, it's all easy stuff to throw together.  There's quite a bit of vegetable prep, but you can bang that out in a half hour and portion it out for your recipes later in the week.  You can also brown up all the ground beef that you need and portion it out as well.  Since I'm an at-home mom, I tend to have enough time to prep things the day of, but sometimes I'm in a hurry after an outing and like to have stuff ready to go.

Sometimes I find myself not wanting to cook what is planned so we move things around or find something else altogether.  This week, the carry-over meal is the chicken fajita sandwiches.  I bought 4 packages of pre-seasoned chicken fajita style chicken breasts and have used 2 for their intended purpose and plan to use one for sandwiches.  I'm not quite sure what I will do with the remaining one, but I'm sort of leaning toward making it into a white bean-chicken chili for next week.  We'll see!

I also find myself with one boneless skinless chicken breast and about 5 ounces of round steak.  Neither of those chunks of protein is enough to feed a family of 4 on their own, so I'm combining them to make a stir fry.  Who cares if you get a mixed grill in your stir fry, right?  Heck, I think I even have some shrimp in the freezer that I could throw in as well.  Do you ever find yourself with mismatched odds n ends?  If so, what do you usually do?  I tend to lean toward stir fry or soups.  Like last week, I made a huge crock pot of beef-veg stew and had about a pound of chunked up, raw stew beef (cut from a whole roast) leftover.  I froze it in a zip lock and am using it this week to make chili.

So this is what we're having:

Monday:  Beef tacos, refried beans, packaged Spanish rice

Tuesday:  Chicken/beef stir fry with peppers, onions, baby bok choy, carrots, & zucchini
               Bacon fried rice with eggs & peas

Wednesday:  Ground beef & very veggie sauce over whole grain spag. noodles

Thursday:  Grilled lemon pepper turkey tenderloins, 7 grain rice medley, broccoli

Friday:  BBQ pork chops, Kraft mac n cheese, broccoli/cauliflower

Saturday:  Chicken fajita sandwiches on small French rolls, corn on the cob (This is a carry-over from last week when we had something else.)

Sunday:  Stew beef chili, cheddar-onion biscuits

What's on YOUR menu this week?

Last night while laying in bed, I was reading the weekly Fred Meyer ad.  I had already been there picking up printer ink, propane, and a few odds n ends that I had coupons for, but I didn't have the time (or the patience) to look through the ad while I was there.  It was a madhouse at the store yesterday so I figured I'd thumb through the ad later and see if there was anything worth going back for. 

I'm so glad I did because right on the front page was an ad for a 6 quart Crock-Pot for $24.99.  It was regularly priced at $36.99 so there was an initial savings of twelve bucks.  Ordinarily, I wouldn't pay the sale price for this product as it's still kind of pricey for me (plus I have a 4 quart Crock-Pot already), but I was hooked with the $5 mail in rebate and the free chili fixings that came with the purchase considering they are items I would ordinarily buy anyhow. (Well, not the ground beef, but I'll reserve my pickiness this time.)  Plus, I have really been wanting a larger slow cooker to do whole chickens in and larger roasts.



So here's the breakdown of what I got:

$24.99 6 quart Crock-Pot Slow Cooker (with a super cool hinged/locking lid)

Free:

  $2.66 1# 80/20 store brand ground beef
  $1.59 28 oz store brand diced tomatoes
  $1.45 2 oz bottle Tobasco sauce
   .85 15 oz store brand light red kidney beans
   .50 6 oz store brand no-salt added tomato paste
   .80 1.25 oz McCormick Chili Seasoning packet

Mail-In Rebate:

$5

After taxes, I figured this spiffy new slow cooker cost me $14.38.  Now that's a price I can fit into our really skinny budget!  So if you are looking for a new Crock-Pot and you have a Fred Meyer nearby, check it out.  The sale is good until this Saturday, October 10th.

This week we're actually transitioning into some fall weather.  I am super excited for that because it's been so hot this summer in Washington.  Usually I'm bitching about the rain and the endless gray days, but actually, I am a little giddy for it this year.  We've finally put the ghetto A/C away for the season and I think we'll have another month before it's time to turn on the heater.  We've spent more in electricity this summer to run the A/C than we spend in the winter on heat.  Unreal.

On the menu this week are a couple of fall favorites, including a thick beef and vegetable stew and roasted bone-in chicken.  My house is going to smell so good!  We haven't put our bbq up yet, so we'll also have a couple of grilled dinners, weather permitting.

Monday:  Chicken fajitas, yellow rice, beans

Tuesday:  BBQ boneless pork ribs, loaded baked mashed potatoes, green beans

Wednesday:  Chicken breast & veg stir fry, bacon fried rice

Thursday:  Beef & veg stew, cheddar biscuits

Friday:  Garam masala roasted chicken, cinnamon spiced acorn squash, broccoli/cauliflower, Kashi pilaf

Saturday:  Grilled chipotle pork chops, baked sweet potatoes with maple syrup & macadamia nut butter, corn

Sunday:  Grilled fajita chicken breast burgers, Spanish rice, salad

Monday:  Easy stove top mac n cheese, salad

Saturday is a repeat of a meal I made last week.  It was so delicious that even the kids liked it.  The day I originally made it, I didn't blog or photograph it because I was too hungry at mealtime to take the extra time to do it.  I'll be sure to do it this week, though so you all can make it, too.

Despite baking four cakes and making a double batch of Cocoa Rice Krispie treats this weekend, I'll be making individual Better Than Banoffee pies with a bit of a twist tomorrow.  I'm using the mini Keebler graham cracker tart shells instead of the regular pie crust.  I hope they turn out well as a friend of Tom's is stopping over tomorrow to pick up a computer he got and fixed up for her and I'd love to send one home with her. 

So, what's on YOUR menu this week?

We have 7 grocery stores within 3 miles of our house.  We usually shop the sales at each one, but sometimes we'll do our weekly shopping exclusively at a particular store.  For a long while it was Fred Meyer, then we went to Safeway, next up was QFC, and now we are spending most of our grocery budget at Top Foods, which is a locally owned store.  What I love about Top Foods is that they have a 7 day price guarantee.  This means that if you purchase something and it goes on sale within 7 days of purchase, you get the difference refunded to you.  There are lots of stores that do this, but Top is different because you don't have to be the one doing the sleuthing and then finding your receipt and making a trip to the store to get your refund.  Top does all that for you and your credit goes in your Top Wallet which is spendable on your next trip.  This is a perk that is tied to your shopper card, which has nothing to do with sale prices.  You don't need a shopper card to get their advertised sales.  Also I have found that Top emails to alert you to special sales such as spend $100 or more in a single trip and get 10% of your purchase total credited to your Top Wallet or spend $50 in a single trip and get $10 credited to your Top Wallet.  They also have super cool register coupons like Get two free Red Baron frozen pizzas and a 2 liter of Pepsi or A&W soda or 1 free package of hot dogs, buns, bottle of mustard, and can of baked beans.  It's the little things, ya know?  In addition to the monetary perks of this store, the employees are SO friendly and helpful.  Sometimes their produce and meat is less than stellar, but overall, it's a great store and I plan on shopping there for a long time.  I just wish they'd get their self-service espresso kiosk working again.

Fred Meyer also has a rewards program where you use your shopper card to rack up rewards points that are tallied every few months.  You are then mailed a packet with coupons including $$ off.  I usually get about $25 in that mailing plus % off on certain items.  It's nice, but I am not fond of the way that the shopper card is used to get decent prices in that store.  The Safeway and QFC cards are the same way.  You must have that card in order to get the sale price.  Bullshit on that.

I also am not appreciative of the fact that Safeway and QFC hire "handi-capable" baggers.  I'm all for EOE, I really am, but for fuck's sake, PLEASE teach these people how to bag properly and efficiently.  I hate standing there watching my stuff get squished at the end of the belt because the checker is checking too fast for the bagger or the bagger gets distracted easily and loses focus on the task at hand.  I think that these employers are doing a disservice to their customers as well as the baggers because people get frustrated with them and blame it on their handicap, when really, it's most likely a matter of poor training.  So step it up, Safeway and QFC. 

Anyway, what I really wanted to bitch about today was the ridonkulous bullshit at QFC.  It started off in the deli department.  Every time we shop there, Tom goes to get chicken strips and jojo's and he snacks while I shop.  I sometimes have a few jojo's, too because let's be real...they are fucking delicious dipped in ranch dressing.  Today however, there was no ranch.  Do you know why?  Because they now CHARGE for it.  I couldn't believe it when Tom told me that.  He bought 2 freaking pounds of jojo's and 2 chicken strips and the bitch told him that he would have to pay for ranch if he wanted it.  Had I been there, I'd have pitched a fit, but I was at the other end of the store in the produce, trying to shop around the hordes of produce employees who do nothing but stand around bullshitting all day.  Since when do grocery store delis charge for ranch when a customer is buying dippable food?  I have NEVER heard of such a thing and as recently as 2 weeks ago, QFC wasn't charging for it, either.  I could understand if they charge for more than 2 if you're only buying a quarter pound or something, but we bought TWO POUNDS.  Apparently the shit is made of gold or something because they were not parting with it and we weren't about to pay for it. 

Still fuming, I explained to Tom that I was getting two boxes of taco shells for dinner, but could not locate the coupon item that was affixed to the boxes.  Well, turns out this store doesn't carry it.  So they sell the taco shells with an affixed coupon for a free package of the same brand taco seasoning, but you can't get it at that store and you can only get it if you buy the two boxes of taco shells at the same time.  When we went through the checkout line, I made sure to tell them that I thought it was stupid.  Which it totally is.

We only bought enough stuff for 2 cloth bags, but the "handi-capable" gal doing the bagging totally fucked it up, as usual.  The bags were super heavy and the black plastic bottom thingy was not put down (also, per the usual).  When I got out to the van, I dumped everything out and reorganized.  I am so sick of having to repack.  If they can't get it right, why not let me do it myself?  I'm faster and I'll get it done the right way.  Or perhaps just throw everything back into my shopping cart so I can pack it at my car?  I actually do this at Fred Meyer because most of their checkers are sucky baggers, too.

The moral of this story is....I'm no longer shopping at QFC.  Their prices suck, they don't have rewards, their baggers are seriously retarded, their produce people stand around talking all damn day and not doing any work except to get in the way, they don't carry certain products, their employees are totally grouchy, and they fucking charge for ranch in their deli.  QFC can eat it because I'm taking my money to my favorite locally owned store where the employees are sweet and the deals are even sweeter.....and they give me handfuls of ranch at no charge.

My youngest son is turning 11 tomorrow and he is a HUGE Rockband & Guitar Hero fan.  Since I already made him a life size acoustic guitar for a previous birthday, I decided to go with the Rockband Drum Set this year.  Because we don't own this, yet (he's getting it tomorrow for his bday), I had to look online to find this photo so I would know what the heck I was supposed to be creating.  I'm not sure who the photo belongs to, hence no proper credit.



I baked the cakes yesterday, one painstaking cake at a time because I only had one pan that was even close to the proper size.  Each cake is a full boxed mix and took an hour to bake.  The flavors left to right are: Strawberry, Butter Rum, Triple Chocolate, and Cherry Chip.  I also made a double batch of Rice Krispy treats, using Cocoa Krispies for the controller.  I am super frugal and shop sales using coupons, so this entire cake cost me right around $15.



I made a huge batch of icing and tried my best to get the tint black enough.  Thankfully it darkens as it dries.  I should have used chocolate frosting and added the tint to that.  Live and learn.  I made the frosting with butter, Crisco, coconut oil, powdered sugar, vanilla, almond, and creme bouquet extracts.  It tastes wicked!



I bought Wilton colored icing in tubes to do the rings around each cake.  It was supposed to be easy, but the icing in those is kind of dry and doesn't come out that well.  I'd recommend tinting your own white frosting.



After piping the white and colored rings, I placed a large size York Peppermint Patty in the center of each cake to resemble the gel pads on the drum head.  In hindsight, I should have recessed these a bit, but I didn't think about it until after I had already frosted the first cake. 



I made the controller out of the Cocoa Krispie treats.  I frosted it and then placed some candies to resemble the buttons on the real controller.  The XBox button is made from a green Dot candy, the start and back buttons are chocolate Skittles, the ABXY buttons are Nestle Smarties chocolate candies, and the D pad is made from a carved Necco wafer sitting on top of another Necco wafer.  Big thanks goes to my husband for helping with this part....I designed and placed the candies, he carved and cut them for me.



Here's a frontal view of the finished cake.  The red and green cakes should actually be positioned a bit lower, but I didn't notice this till after the pictures were taken.  We used a pair of new wooden drumsticks, but I had also purchased some long pretzel rods that I was going to use if I couldn't find real sticks.



This is a side view of the finished product.  Certainly not perfect, but my kid loves it and that is what really matters!



We bought the Rockband 2 Special Edition today and here is what the cake looks like in comparison to the real drum set.




HAPPY 11th BIRTHDAY, KIDDO!
ROCK ON, DUDE!!

Way back in September 2006, I wrote a blog about my annoyance with toilet paper.  At that time, I was annoyed about the amount of adhesive they use to secure the tp to the roll.  Here's what I said:

Is That Really Necessary?
September 29, 2006

I finally found some butt-wipe that is coochie friendly.  You know what I'm talking about ladies.  The kind that doesn't leave much, if any, lint on you, that's soft enough not to feel like you're using the local Chevron restroom, that's thick enough so you aren't afraid of an accidental finger poke-through incident, and one that doesn't give you the yeasty-beasties from added dyes and perfumes.

I love the Quilted Northern Ultra.  I really do.  But I have to wonder why they deem it so important to use such a gawd-awful amount of glue to secure the first sheet to the rest of the roll to ensure it arrives safely bundled up for the consumer.  I mean really, this isn't just a few dots of Elmer's School Glue.  Oh no, this shit's like Gorilla Glue or something and it is fused on there like white on rice. 

So I sit there on the toity fucking around with a fresh roll, making sure that it goes OVER and not under because under is the WRONG way, and I always end up peeling up not two layers, but three.  And I go a couple rotations on the roll trying to fix it so that the perforations line up just exactly right and when I finally do, I've got a major wad of paper on the floor.  Dammit.

A little note to the Quilted Northern Ultra folks...a little dab'll do ya.  It's not like you're making a fucking pinata. 

And now I'm annoyed because my beloved brand has duped me!  Today I had to replenish the butt-wipe in my boys' bathroom so I opened a new package.  It looked strangely squat in comparison to the rolls in the previous packages.  Since I had several rolls of the package I bought last month, I decided to compare.  Sure enough, they have downsized their product, but mysteriously still use the same packaging, albeit, with different numbers at the bottom.  The package looks *exactly* the same.  They tout the same things:



Quilted Northern, Soft & Strong 24 double rolls = 48 regular rolls.  Au contraire.  I beg to differ.  Both packages cannot be right because:

It's all in the fine print at the bottom of the package. Here is where you see:

762.6 sq. ft., 286 2-ply sheets per roll, 4" rolls

WTF?  My previous package says:

900 sq. ft., 300 2-ply sheets per roll, 4.5" rolls



Now, if you are just quickly looking at it, you'd think you're only missing 14 sheets, right?  Well wrong.  You are also missing 1/2 an inch per roll.  That is a half inch for every roll in that package, which happens to be 24.  By doing some complicated math (which I did not do, but pimped it out to my Other Half, thank you Sweetie.), it is concluded that not only are the 14 sheets missing, but there is also an equivalent of about 50 more sheets that we're shorted.  That pisses me off.



And it's not only the butt-wipe people that are ripping us off.  It's everywhere! Take my store brand of tuna, for example.  These two cans were bought on the same day, for the same price.  Yet see the discrepancy?  I noticed it at the store, but bought a smaller can just to prove a point.  One ounce isn't going to matter for this one photo op, but over time, it surely adds up.



Check your product labels, people.  The packaging may appear to be identical, but somewhere in the fine print, you are being shorted, yet still being charged the same price,as the products are being downsized.  I'm sure this is the way manufacturers are keeping the prices level while not losing their own shirts, but I for one, don't appreciate the sneaky way they are doing this.

What products have you noticed being downsized in a sneaky way?