Manufacturers need to get with the program

I bought two bags of chips on a buy one, get one half off deal. One had a coupon on it: Free dip if you get two bags of chips.

So I grabbed some kind of queso because I've been wanting to try it but not wanting to spend the money on it knowing a lot of it is likely to end up in the trash, in part because my kids won't eat it. 

That is, in fact, how it went.

One of the reasons it's so hard for Americans to figure out how to feed themselves these days is because average household size has shrunk but grocery store products still trend towards family-style packaging.

The dip I bought came in a 15 ounce jar as the smallest jar, it's a glass jar and it's shelf stable until it's opened. After it's opened, it has to be refrigerated.

This isn't travel friendly, it isn't brown bag lunch friendly, and it isn't one-to-three people in my household friendly.

Why can't I get individual dipping cups for things like bean dip and queso? If it were individually packaged, then it's shelf stable until opened and there are no leftovers to refrigerate and it's lunchbox friendly.

At the moment, if I want something like cheese with chips, my only shelf stable until opened and comes in a single serving size option is Babybel wax covered mini cheese rounds.

I would eat cream cheese or cream cheese with chives or similar in addition to queso a lot more frequently if I could get it individually packaged.

And please make it some reasonable serving size. I know your suggested serving size is an ounce or two so you can market to neurotic white chicks who are perpetually on a diet and still having a cow about Tina the talking tummy, but most people don't eat that way.

I'm a neurotic white chick who totally resembles Ms. Tina the talking tummy but I also EAT. No, three whole potato chips, one lightly misted with queso, is NOT a serving size.