Do You Weigh Food Products To Make Sure The Package Weight Is Accurate?

I read a post on another website. A woman said she bought pasta and brought it home and weighed it….said the package weight was 16 ounces and she weighed it on her scales and it said 11.5 ounces and that included the box. I bought two packages of Good Value brand macaroni from Walmart and weighed each box just now. Poured the macaroni out and the boxes weigh 1.5 ounces each, the macaroni weighed 13.5 ounces….they slighted me 2 ounces of product on each box. It’s getting time to do some online store and product reviews. And like the lady on that other site said, she’s bringing her scales to the stores and weighing things. And I will e-mail the corporate office and post these findings on websites. Maybe a consumer group will investigate. The price of groceries have increased and now they are cheating on weight.

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InHeaven · F

No, but I saw someone weighing frozen fish package and after it thawed she weighed again and it turned out that out of specified on package only 1/3 was fish the rest was ice, so she mostly paid for ice

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@InHeaven I think they can get by with the water/ice weight though. Chickens have water injected in them or “broth” and that raises their weight.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@InHeaven I have bought frozen pollock and thawed out some and squeezed one dry and it wasn’t half the weight it was to begin with, mostly water. And pollock is a cheap fish too.