Monthly Archives: July 2015

Downsizing, or Why I Buy Ben & Jerry’s, Where a Pint is a Pint is a Pint

A 14-ounce container of Haagen-Dazs ice cream with the weight circled in marker.

Downsizing always makes me mad. This ice cream should be 16 ounces — a pint!!!!

Why don’t manufacturers take a little hit to their own bottom lines in order to benefit the consumer? I guess in today’s world greed reigns supreme.

Downsizing is why I now rarely buy Hellmann’s/Best Foods mayo. I buy Kirkland brand, which is excellent, and believe me when I say that I was always a Hellmann’s girl. I’m from New York City, for crying out loud.

The Kirkland version is a little salty, but it’s great, and is a full 64 ounces!

I am simply tired of being given less. I understand that prices need to go up now and then. I get that. This game of downsizing, though, I don’t get, and I try to opt out of participation whenever possible.

Do Most Plug-in Grilled Cheese Makers Stink?

Photo of box of Snoopy grilled chese maker

Short and sweet: The Snoopy Grilled Cheese Maker is a piece of junk. Unless you want grilled cheese sandwiches that are as thin as dimes and hard as them, too.

Even using cruddy, soft white bread and one slice of cheese yields something too thick to close the thing without squashing the sandwich into a wafer. I have had to revert to thin-sliced rye and thin-sliced cheese, which results in something akin to a large cheese cracker.

This is Smart Planet model SGCM1. Avoid it like the plague. I bought it at Grocery Outlet for $15.

Photo of Snoopy grilled cheese maker exterior
The only real use I get out of this thing is courtesy of the box. My cat likes it.

It will be unloaded at my next garage sale.

My cat, Puff, trying to get into the box the grilled cheese maker came in