Changing tins [A Bug's Life]

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My favourite ratatouille has been a bit hard to find lately (a staple meal is a tin of rat, a tin of haricot beans, and some corn cakes, loads of easy tasty veg).

It's back now, looking just the same, but with a ring pull can. And it tastes horrid :-(
Tomatoes down from 40% to 27%
Courgettes up from 30% to 37%
Tomato puree up from 2% to 17% YES 17%
Size down from 390g to 375g

It's edible but it's too salty and slimy to be something I "like". My diet is restricted enough that I get quite upset when I "lose" a staple food, but I'm at the whim of manufacturers and supermarket stocking decisions.

Yep, double the salt per 100g (but also more protein, more fibre, and less fat)

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Some of them actually listen to feedback....

Teddy

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I hate this. It's like shrinkflation but even sneakier. "worseflation", I guess?

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Ruinflation? I'd also be upset if they put the price up by 20p...

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The pound's fallen by, what, a fifth? What was the base price of a tin a couple of years ago?

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60-65p. I don't know what they'd want to be putting it up to if they kept the original recipe...

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:( If you have a freezer, I can cook some batches of ratatouille to your specifications, if that helps.

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Mum also offered :-) But a) I have only one drawer in a shared freezer and it's already full of chilli, and b) I've tried bringing frozen/slowly-defrosting-in-your-bag food in to school for lunch and it's a big old hassle. I loved bringing in 4-5 tins of rat and beans once a week and leaving them in my work cupboard for lunches (and carry a small bag the rest of the week), and was looking forward to doing the same when we get a locker here in January.

I'll experiment with chucking in a big slug of some sort of spice (smoked paprika? chilli?) and see if that helps.

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In the industry the general term is reformulation, reformulation to reduce the price is often referred to "value engineering". Obviously that's a term that's intended to avoid the negative connotations...

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Reformulation is a great word, I can almost taste it :-)

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I'm not a courgette fan, but I know some people are; there is no excuse for replacing a third of the actual tomatoes with tomato puree.

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If it's a store brand (e.g. Tesco, Waitrose) maybe one of the other supermarkets sells something similar; most of the "own brand" stuff is sold under multiple labels by big canning companies, possibly your preferred brand has switched to a different canning company for some reason.

Be glad you're not Peter C, who I think we both know, a vegetarian who's allergic to tomatoes and has a LOT of trouble finding food he likes.

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