Products that make me mad -- Yoplait Whips
So I was at Ultra Foods the other day taking advantage of their big Yoplait yogurt sale. They were out of the light cups so I went with "whips," which I'd never purchased before. HUGE MISTAKE. Check this out:
- Yoplait light yogurt? six ounces
- Yoplait whips? four ounces
Yes: You get a third less product for the same price -- and it appears to simply be Yoplait light yogurt that they have simply whipped up so it's full of air. Stir, and it collapses like a souffle into four ounces of real yogurt. Nice trick, Yoplait! Not only that, the texture is completely off. I don't like it. The kids don't like it. Good thing I have 10 more cups...
So what products make you mad?
Try putting the Whips in the freezer. So good that way, like ice cream almost.
I hate products that make it seem like they are low in calories or salt. If you look at the calorie count on those low calorie frozen meals and compare it to regular meals - there's not much of a difference.
Same with "lower sodium" products - read the label they might be slightly lower than there regular product but still very high in salt.
Laura get outta here! we are debating the glorious yogurt that is known as yoplait whips. If you don't like it you're most likely a bad parent and a communist! Roll tide.
My son prefers the whipped yogurt but I never noticed the size difference...I just bought a bunch of these (and other types) the other day..What I hate (as well as other people do) is how the ice cream containers have SHRUNK but they charge the same price...grrrrrr (ditto for coffee, cereal and so on..)
My personal pet peeve is boxed pasta. It used to be 16oz. aka 1 pound. Now you have to check the boxes, many of them are 14.5 oz for the same price. I have yet to come across a recipe that calls for 14.5 oz of pasta.
Did anyone else notice all the food coloring and HFCS in your Yoplait Light yogurts?! THAT had me very upset... "healthy" yogurt packed with HFCS and tons of food coloring, then tack on some artificial sweetners. The one I ate gave me a headache... we won't be buying these again at any price until they clean up their ingredient list.
Did you know that some foods such as yogurt, ice cream, boxed red velvet cake and so on sometimes use the red coloring extracted from insect shells? I think its specifically a certain type of beetle. It is called Carmine (also called Crimson Lake, Cochineal, Natural Red 4, C.I. 75470, or E120)
I learned about it about a year ago while watching Dateline or 20/20 or something like that. I still eat foods that use it because I am sure there are othr weird things that have been out there forever that don't really harm you.
I did know that, lol -- don't ever look at what Jell-O is made from, either. http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/jello.asp
oh I know. Too funny.
Any product that is kosher certified will not use red food coloring from beetles. Look for a U or a K inside a circle, or a CRC inside a triangle. (there are about 100 symbols but those 3 are most common in chicago land)
it seems terrible to pay that much for air, same thing applies to Macdonald's soft serve ice cream (which is why I never buy them). Paying extra for whipping in air shouldn't cost that much
Whipping in air requires extra processing, which increases the cost of making it. The reason people buy Whips is not to eat real yogurt, but to get the experience of eating a dessert mousse that they can rationalize as "healthy" when it is just junk. People who eat Whips to get the benefits of yogurt are kidding themselves.
...and check out the sugar content in that 4 oz....ick !!!!!!!!
Juice is a bad one. 50 and lite to me means they watered it down so you are paying the same full price for something you could have watered down yourself and got double the product.
haha... wallet pop just wrote about that today!
"More and More Products Lose Weight"
http://www.walletpop.com/2011/01/05/downsized-more-and-more-products-lose-weight/
LOL Kindra -- I think this is my favorite reason of the lot: "Reason: The marketing department decided to change the packaging, and with that came a change in size."
I was buying feta the other day and just grabbed one. When I got home I realized it was fat free feta. Don't ever ever go for the fat free. It tastes like feet.
Lol. All feta tastes like feet to me!