Duncan hines has joined the club...

[brant_ix]

I'm in market basket picking up a box of cake mix for my partners birthday tomorrow and noticed 2 different product weights. Yes, duncan hines has reduced their product from 18.25 oz to 16.5 oz. We all knew it was a matter of time but the time has come for duncan hines to join the club of reducing its product.

 

[polkanut]

Be careful when shopping for cake mixes.  I've found that some brands have versions that are specifically sized to be used with 9"x13" oblong pans.

 

[mrb627]

Test!

You should have purchased a box of each, prepared as directed and noted any differences in your results.

Malcolm

 

[joeekaitis]

We can still take comfort that the major national and regional brands of bulk sausage still come in one pound chubs. Any attempt at charging the same price for a 14 ounce or 12 ounce chub results in the same kind of consumer outcry that would have saved half-gallon ice cream had consumers not been a bunch of wussy wimps.

Why didn't some ice cream maker cash in when they had the opportunity with an ad campaign about "honest ice cream" made from honest ingredients and sold in honest sizes like half-gallons and full pints?

"Anything less just isn't honest."

 

[maytagbear]

Joe-

around here, at least, Ben & Jerrys says on the lid "Still 16 ounces."

Just sayin'

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[abcomatic]

Duncan Hines mixes

There was a sale today in Peoria on Drunken Hines and I bought all of the 18.25 chocolate mixes they had. They have always been my favorite brand; too bad they have to go with the rest of them on brand reduction. Gary

 

[launderess]

Thankfully One Only Bakes From Scratch

And the weight of flour, butter, eggs, etc are all regulated by statue. Therefore a pound of flour, sugar, or whatever is just that.

Sugar one stocks up on in five pound sacks when on sale (just added another bag today). Same with butter (Land O Lakes unsalted) as it stays fresh for a long time in the freezer.

 

[magic_clean]

This "one"

will bake from scratch when not pressed for time. Pillsbury cake mixes are still in the 18.25 oz. format, seem to be least expensive of the "name" brand product and reliably produce a very good cake. Kroger store brand cake mixes are very good too and still full size.

L.P.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I would like to think D-H is the "Best Buy" in cake mixes!

I was sold on "super moist" and having bought, baked, and eaten others' Duncan Hines cakes & able to buy "the most mix for the money" in that it was priced below its competitors, I bought a box for each liquor I'm planning to make cakes with, having made a rum cake and a Bourbon red velvet, so far...

Coming up: A scotch cake, (maybe BUTTER-scotch?), brandy cake, vodka cake, Irish whiskey cake, and a Bourbon made w/ a yellow cake mix & might wanna go back out & buy a mix, or two as well as a couple bottles for making a cognac cake and a tequila cake, too!

-- Dave

 

[franksdad]

Bourbon red velvet cake...

Sounds interesting.  Please share the recipe! 

 

I've always preferred Duncan Hines cake, brownie, and muffin mixes over all the others.  My aunt took a cake decorating course at a local community college back in the early 70's and made decorated cakes on the side for years.  She told me and my mama her instructor told them Duncan Hines cake mixes were the best.  Although 99.999% of all cakes my wife and I bake are from scratch I love to mix up a Duncan Hines white cake mix and top with Duncan Hines lemon frosting from time to time for a good old sugar rush!   

 

Sugar, both all store brands, Dixie Crystals, and Domino, have all been 4 pound bags around here for years.  I haven't seen a 5 pound bag of sugar in years!  When I was growing up and eventually got my first job at Winn-Dixie, this store had an on-going a weekly special for years and years - Dixie Crystals sugar 5 pound bags 39 cents with a $5.00 or more grocery order!  Heck, a pack of gum can bust a $5.00 bill now!

 

Thankfully, Blue Bell ice cream STILL comes in 1/2 gallon containers!  Blue Bell also advertises this fact!  $6.79/gallon - but darn well will worth it!   

 

[mrb627]

BlueBelle

I love the old fashioned vanilla from BB. Haven't had it since last Summer. Almost time to begin stocking it as a staple in the freezer again.

Malcolm

 

[brant_ix]

I prefer to bake from scratch as well, but like "Magic Clean" sometimes it's a hell of alot easier to rip open a box, dump your ingredients into a single bowl and have a lot less mess to clean up.

I did make the cake and did notice that it didn't raise quite as much out of the pan because there was less of it, but it still was super moist and fluffy!

 

[joeekaitis]

Thankfully, Blue Bell ice cream STILL comes in 1/2 gallon co

Too bad it's a regional brand. America needs a national brand that comes in honest half-gallons. Here in Sunny SoCal, the only ice cream in a half-gallon is Trader Joe's French Vanilla.

 

[launderess]

Just Checked

Bag of sugar one purchased on sale the other night. It is five (5) pounds as is the one stored in my cupboards, brand name Shoprite and was on sale for $3.99.

Will peep what Domino "five pound" bags are next time down at the shops to see if they are still that or have downsized.

 

[launderess]

Just Came In From A Quick Run To The Shops

Every single brand of sugar from Domino's to store label was five (5) pound bag.

The Domino's was actually on sale but the Shoprite purchased at another shop yesterday was still cheaper.

 

[frigilux]

A big, fat, loud raspberry to Duncan Hines. I guess it's Pillsbuy's turn to downsize.

 

[Ultramatic]

Aldi Supermarkets

<span style="font-size: medium;">You can still get Baker's Corner (Aldi store brand) cake mixes in the full 18.25 oz size for 99 cents. While nothing can match a cake made from scratch, these mixes do just fine in a pinch. And they are just as good as any other cake mix. </span>

 

 

[hunter]

C+H sugar...

...was lowered to 4 pounds, though interestingly enough I did recently pick some up at Target in a 5 pound bags.

C+H is owned by Domino.

 

[Ultramatic]

Sugar here is still in 5 pound bags...

<span style="font-size: medium;">...all brands. Never seen the 4 pound bag. BTW, got a 5lb bag of all purpose flour for $1.99. </span>

 

[polkanut]

While I like the quality of Aldi's cake mixes, they all have pudding in them.  Some recipes that have cake mixes in them specify non-pudding type mixes.  What's a person to do as almost all mixes come that way now with a few exceptions.

 

[hunter]

GRR on the 4 pound sugar bags.

They moved it to 4 pounds when the price went up and as I thought, now the cost of a 4 pound bag is as much as a 5 pound bag.

One thing that is interesting, and this may be a western thing: Store brand sugar, which is mostly beet sugar, is still in 5 pound bags and significantly cheaper.

The cane sugar tastes sweeter to me (and more importantly to my wife, as I don't use that much sugar), so I buy that.

 

[circlew]

I buy C&H Baker's Sugar which comes in a carton (like milk), and I think it's always been 4 lbs. as long as I've used it, which is 8 - 10 years.

With many things, I've noticed that the package size varies between different stores. For example, I see Kingsford charcoal in full 20 lb. bags at GFS and Home Depot, but at Kroger and Meijer they are smaller, like 17 or 18 lbs.

 

[hunter]

yeah those milk cartons..

The sugar crystal is finer, they are nice.

The bags used to be 5 pounds tho