And larger containers have less surface area:volume —> less packaging.

Which is why I really hate it when manufacturers reduce pack sizes.

Small pack sizes are such a load of shite.

Some small number of people are travelling.

For the rest, 500g of rice is a pointlessly small amount. It lasts forever, is dense enough to stash, etc.

I once got a 10KG sack of rice from an Asian store once. After a year it got full of tiny bugs less than 1mm in size. Now I buy 1kg bags that I can more easily seal airtight with pegs.

I divide the 10kg sack into a bunch of mason jars and avoid the pests.

Thats the correct way to go about it really. I will do it this way next time.

Buy a canning funnel!

But you're missing out on all that extra protein!

For bulk foods, like grains, you can use aluminized polyester film bags, and blow in pure nitrogen or drop in an oxygen-absorber packets while sealing the bag. Then you put the bags in a food-grade bucket and seal it. The bags can have resealable zip-locks on them.

Yes, this uses plastic, but all of it is reusable when using certain bag-sealing methods.

I’ve seen OJ go from 2L to 1.89, and now 1.75L.

Pasta: 1kg to 908g.

It’s bullshit.

Juice tastes good, but it removes the fiber from the ingestion of that fructose that tells our body how to digest it. It is not healthful. Juice is basically a refined food, and I prefer raw food.

They're going from metric to US measures?

They're increasing the price without changing the price tag.

A.k.a. shrinkflation. Search for it, right here on HN.

It goes the other way too. Pop used to be in 591mL bottles, now it’s 500. Jerks.