Stealth inflation

We all know that inflation is crazy at the moment.

But has anyone else noticed any stealth inflation?

We buy bags of 8 ready cooked jacket potatoes. The McCain ones. We buy them because by the time you buy spuds and cook them, it used to be about as cheap to just buy the ready made ones and whack them in the microwave for a few minutes. Last couple of bags we've bought though, we've noticed the spuds are practically raw. Certainly not the nice crusty jackets with fluffy interior that they used to be. Just barely cooked and frozen. I imagine this is because McCain has taken steps to reduce their production costs, probably by shortening the baking time. They still sell at about the same price, but now we have to spend more on energy to finish the cooking process. If I wanted to bake a potato, I'd just... bake a potato. The ready made ones used to be a convenience.

Then today we had pie for tea. The lovely tender chunks of steak in said pies, were as tough as old boots.

 

I'd write to McCain and complain/ask them it could be a quality issue. I didn't know such things even existed. I've just done spuds in the microwave myself a few minutes, cut in half add filling and another minute, done.

Could be old boots given the current fad of recycling everything.

 

I part cook my Bake Pots in the Microwave and finish off in the oven. I've tried the McCain ones and don't think they taste the same as fresh cooked ones.

 

I've got a combination microwave, comes with a preset for baked potato, depending on size it takes 10 to 15 min.

 

But apart from baked spuds, has anyone else noticed examples of stealth inflation?

 

Its been going of for years, the humble Mars bar or wagon wheel are the usual examples.
But packaging is getting larger and the contents are getting smaller.

 

I don't know if this counts, I bought an apple pie yesterday in the Coop but the pastry is underdone and I'll have to put it in the oven for a while before it can be eaten.
Tesco ones have been like that for years so I never buy them. I won't buy a Coop one again, I may try making my own. I suppose it will take some electricity but if I make two and cook them both together it may save a bit, and I can put one in the freezer.

 

I keep clothes for many years and I have 'small' shirts from those days that are the same size as the 'large' ones you buy now, so I buy 'large' these days even though I have the same size chest. I don't like tight clothes.

 

I have a similar problem, a pair of 34in waist jeans dont fit anymore, has the imperial inch been made smaller I ask myself.
I blame Brexit.

 

Thank god for that, for a while I thought I was getting fat.

 

I thought it was because our greater mass compared to clothes gave us a greater gravitational pull. You don't often see pies falling into the wardrobe.