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Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by esotericn on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:34PM (#20764113)
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.

Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by baroffoos on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:02PM (#20764271)
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.
Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by Ensorceled on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:30AM (#20764932)
I divide the 10kg sack into a bunch of mason jars and avoid the pests.
Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by baroffoos on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:34AM (#20764960)
Thats the correct way to go about it really. I will do it this way next time.
Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by Ensorceled on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:31AM (#20776403)
Buy a canning funnel!
Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by p1necone on Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:09AM (#20764545)
But you're missing out on all that extra protein!
Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by logfromblammo on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:17AM (#20769031)
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.

Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by Scoundreller on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:58PM (#20764251)
I’ve seen OJ go from 2L to 1.89, and now 1.75L.

Pasta: 1kg to 908g.

It’s bullshit.

Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by 18pfsmt on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:38AM (#20765568)
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.
Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by gdwatson on Thursday August 22, 2019 @02:36AM (#20765274)
They're going from metric to US measures?
Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by jfk13 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @07:24AM (#20766848)
They're increasing the price without changing the price tag.
Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by hanche on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:47AM (#20767398)
A.k.a. shrinkflation. Search for it, right here on HN.
Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by Scoundreller on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:40AM (#20777469)
It goes the other way too. Pop used to be in 591mL bottles, now it’s 500. Jerks.