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emkay - 12 Mar 2004 18:04 GMT

Jean -- I was in Bedford today and went into the Stop & Shop on Great Road.
They had the Heinz One-Carb ketchup there. (There was a sign saying
"Sorry, this product is temporarily unavailable" hanging right below about
a dozen bottles of it :-)

They also had the Joseph's Oat Flour & Whole Wheat Reduced Carb Pita bread,
as well as some 5-g carb tortillas, also by Joseph's. (Both were in the
deli section. The tortillas were about at knee-height, along with the
regular pita bread; the LC pita bread was at ankle-height. Careful,
though; there's also a new Joseph's soy pita, which is not LC.)

While I was in that shopping plaza, I peeked in TJ Maxx, and they had at
least 15 bottles of SF DaVinci syrup. Flavors that I recall seeing there
were vanilla, french vanilla, caramel, hazelnut, irish cream, white
chocolate, and spiced chai. There may have been others, too.

Em

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Jean B. - 13 Mar 2004 17:43 GMT

> Jean -- I was in Bedford today and went into the Stop & Shop on Great Road.
> They had the Heinz One-Carb ketchup there. (There was a sign saying
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> Em

Hey! What were you doing in MY neck of the woods? I actually
found the LC catsup in the generally useless S&S in Lexington,
right after our last conversation re same. I also found (and
didn't get) the Protein Total at the Burlington Market Basket,
which was the first store I looked for the catsup in.

As for the pita--OMG! Wish I had read this last night. I just
looked a few days ago, and none. I'm psyched! I am
misremembering or do they also have Mission brand stuff in that
area? That is what I recall looking at, and I think it was at
that store. No sign of anything LC then.

Did you see the Entenmann's stuff over near the salad bar? Too
bad the ingredients are not what I want to see--or maybe it's just
as well. I have really been wanting some coffeecake-type thing,
but I will have to kluge something together myself someday.

And DaVinci's too! I have looked at various other related stores
with not much luck since before Christmas. Wouldn't you know I
haven't checked that TJ Maxx for about a week. Where were they?

Gee, I just shopped up there this morning and I hope I manage not
to go right back up there later today.

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emkay - 13 Mar 2004 19:31 GMT

>Hey! What were you doing in MY neck of the woods?

I had to go to Lahey in Burlington for an A1C, so decided to take a slight
detour up 4&225 on my way home.

>I actually
>found the LC catsup in the generally useless S&S in Lexington,
>right after our last conversation re same. I also found (and
>didn't get) the Protein Total at the Burlington Market Basket,
>which was the first store I looked for the catsup in.

I tried the Protein Total, and I don't recommend it. It tasted fine, but
it *felt* just like normal cereal: one bowl was not enough (I didn't have
seconds though). An hour later I was very hungry. It acted just like
regular carby cereal.

>As for the pita--OMG! Wish I had read this last night. I just
>looked a few days ago, and none. I'm psyched! I am
>misremembering or do they also have Mission brand stuff in that
>area? That is what I recall looking at, and I think it was at
>that store. No sign of anything LC then.

No idea; I wasn't looking for Mission. I tend to have tunnel vision in
that regard -- if I'm looking for a certain thing, I don't see anything
else. They could have been giving away sacks of hundred-dollar bills and I
wouldn't have noticed :-)

>Did you see the Entenmann's stuff over near the salad bar? Too
>bad the ingredients are not what I want to see--or maybe it's just
>as well. I have really been wanting some coffeecake-type thing,
>but I will have to kluge something together myself someday.

I had seen them earlier; the ingredients look like junk, so I wasn't
planning on trying them. Maltitol is high up on the list of most of them,
I think. Luckily for me, I was never really crazy about Entenmann's
products before. so these were not the least bit enticing.

>And DaVinci's too! I have looked at various other related stores
>with not much luck since before Christmas. Wouldn't you know I
>haven't checked that TJ Maxx for about a week. Where were they?

In the back, in the aisle with the gourmet foods -- flavored vinegars,
coffess, cocoas, olive oil, etc. The syrups were all on the lowest shelf.

(I also checked the Marshall's a little ways up the road, but they had only
one bottle of spiced chai concentrate, nothing else.)

Em

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Jean B. - 13 Mar 2004 22:21 GMT

> I tried the Protein Total, and I don't recommend it. It tasted fine, but
> it *felt* just like normal cereal: one bowl was not enough (I didn't have
> seconds though). An hour later I was very hungry. It acted just like
> regular carby cereal.

Well, that's a sure sign it should be avoided!

> No idea; I wasn't looking for Mission. I tend to have tunnel vision in
> that regard -- if I'm looking for a certain thing, I don't see anything
> else. They could have been giving away sacks of hundred-dollar bills and I
> wouldn't have noticed :-)

I totally understand. I am that way too. I am okay with a list
in a store, but otherwise... Clothes shopping, I can only focus
on ONE thing at a time. Very inefficient. Anyway, I went back
and got some of those pitas. I am not happy to see soy (x2) in
them, so, at most, will eat them very rarely--and that only if
they are palatable. And that is NOT where I saw the Mission
tortillas. Now I wonder where they were???? :-(

> I had seen them earlier; the ingredients look like junk, so I wasn't
> planning on trying them. Maltitol is high up on the list of most of them,
> I think. Luckily for me, I was never really crazy about Entenmann's
> products before. so these were not the least bit enticing.

No, they were never enticing, and having maltitol as the first or
second ingredient, depending on the product, is a total turnoff.

> In the back, in the aisle with the gourmet foods -- flavored vinegars,
> coffess, cocoas, olive oil, etc. The syrups were all on the lowest shelf.

Okay, that's their normal position. I only asked because I had
not seen them recently. They must have gotten a shipment. The
related Home Goods, in the same area, had NONE. And the TJ Maxx
in Woburn also had none, and I checked there yesterday.

> (I also checked the Marshall's a little ways up the road, but they had only
> one bottle of spiced chai concentrate, nothing else.)

I think that bottle has been there for a while. Too bad these
places aren't more predictable.

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Kalish - 13 Mar 2004 21:37 GMT

After emkay's post, I took a look this morning when I went to my S&S -
yep, there they were, where NO ONE would ever look (god bless you,
emkay!): on the ankle-high shelf of the bread stand in front of the
deli cases (you know, the one that prevents you from being able to
reach the deli package the clerk is trying to pass over to you...).
I bought a package of the Joseph's 5-carb tortillas wraps - I heated
one in a dry pan until it puffed up, then rolled it up using caesar
salad as a filling. I was impressed, I just hope it really is only 5
carbs. I got suspicious and checked that a "serving" isn't 1/4 of a
wrap but nope, it says "1 serving = 1 tortilla." $2.39 for 6
"tortillas." Nutritionals::

calories: 70
c. from fat: 15
total carbs: 11 g
dietary fiber: 6 g
protein: 7 g

Ingredients: water, wheat gluten, corn starch, oat fiber, whole wheat
flour, oat bran, isolated soy protein, salt, sodium acid
pyrophosophate, destrose, sodium bicarbonate, calcium propinate,
fumaric acid, potassium sorbate, monodiglycerides, sucralose, sodium
metabsulate

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