I miss radio shack... and frys, I don't need 100 5k ohm resistors, I need 3. Thank god Microcenter and EPO are still around. Shoutout to Mouser and McMaster Carr too but their shipping adds up for oddball stuff.

That's already a thing.

Look for one of those hippie grocery stores that sells spices etc. in bulk, where you scoop however much you want into a baggie and pay for it by weight.

I've never seen a place selling fish sauce in particular that way, but the one near me does sell liquids like soap, honey, and various nut butters.

Unironically, bulk barn lets you buy exactly how much you want.

Except for saffron.

Once I saw a video of a chef that swears by putting fish sauce into his chili. I tried it and it tasted good. I no long have a fear of fish sauce. I put fish sauce in everything,

This is common in the Philippines for commonly needed things like shampoo etc. Downside is increased packaging litter

In Korea there are Costco Club Clubs where lots of people come together and purchase stuff under one account that later on split in smaller amounts based on how much they need.

Octsoc. The individual items are small and cheap. But a hot dog is like $12

Fish sauce isn't going to go bad, no need to keep it in your fridge

LoL like seriously, just do a little research on how it's made

I thought I was the only one! So often I don’t get food I want because I don’t want to throw food away. Half of every loaf of bread I buy ends up in the trash.

The other day I went to Costco, and did my standard pacing of the bakery while lamenting I couldn’t buy anything, because if I did then I would eat all three dozen cookies or a party size cake. Then I saw a normal amount of danishes, and it was like the clouds broke and a single ray of light shone on the package.

As I was checking out the woman was like “These are 2 for 1, you can get a second package.” “No thank you, I’m good with one.” “It’s really no problem, I could send someone to go grab it.” “I will pay you more not to. I don’t need this temptation in my life.”

My grocery store started selling tiny bottles of sauce, it was like 3 for $5.

"Great!", I thought. "I can finally get only a few sandwiches worth of buffalo sauce, or try some weird new sauce I don't want to gamble on a whole bottle of!"

NOPE

SPECIAL ATTACK: 1000 GENERIC HOT SAUCE BEAM

Bulk Barn does that! A bunch of bins; you scoop what you need and pay by weight. Good for spices and other baking ingredients. No fish oil though.

https://www.bulkbarn.ca/

Dollar General kinda already does this, and it makes food more expensive over all, as the packaging to product ratio is worse, and you end up paying a lot more for a lot less. Sometimes it's so extreme you pay more for less product than if you wentt to a regular grocery store.

You ask your neighbours if you want that little of something.

Give me half a liter (about two cups) of milk. I can't count how often I have opened a liter pack of milk for something and then had it go bad because I didn't need it for anything else. There are a few premium brands that sell milk in smaller quantities but those are way more expensive than one liter of the cheap store brand.

Fish sauce adds umami so you can throw it a lot of things. I always use some in my chili.

That's basically what those meal delivery services are: you get exactly the ingredients you need to cook a meal, with no extra left over.

Lot of small grocery co-ops have systems where you can buy spices and the like by weight.

Isn't that just Doller General?

I believe that companies package products like this because it is easier to distribute. It is also easier for them to sell. They know it will likely expire before you use a quarter of it. That is all inbuilt into their model. Waste. They know you will throw it out, go back to the store, buy some more and waste it again. They don't care. They want that. There is no reason to not have smaller packages except profits.

I feel this way about some food places. Not all, but defintely some will charge a decent amount for something and then i get it and go wow thats a lot of food! Ill eat maybe half of it and its then 50/50 if i have the leftovers. I always think instead of charging me $15 for this why not give me the option of paying like $8 for half the amount. Especially these days, give me the cheaper option please! People are always looking for a cheap deal. Closest thing ive seen to this is a chain mexican place that offered exactly that, instead of the regular nachos they had a mini version and was still to big to eat it all. They also had a budget option for tacos as well that was great.

1/8 tsp of turmeric.