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ospam (DJS0302) wrote:

>>I guess you haven't been doing low-carb for long, because the best
>>low-carb products that are really good run in very short supply and
>>regularly become unavailable.
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>That's because so few people buy low carb products the grocery stores can't
>make any money off of them. I remember seeing Atkins bread and bagels in the
>health food section of the grocery store for $5.00 for a small loaf of bread or
>a package of six bagels. I'd never buy it and I asked the guy working there if
>they ever sold any. He said they might sell 1package of bagels every other
>week and the rest gets tossed in the garbage. He said the bread never sells.
>He also said as soon as their current supply in the warehouse runs out they
>were going to stop carrying it.

Case in point, lots of Atkins brand products were amongst the first
produced and are really pretty frigging awful in quality. The only
Atkins' branded food I thought was decent was a brownie mix--and it
was mediocre. Some of them were downright nasty tasting-one spoonful
and into the trash it went. But there are good-tasting low-carb
products (usually made by real food companies or small quality
vendors) and they do sell out. Jello sugar free puddings would be
another, Hood Carb COuntdown products when they were first released.
They just released an EggNog that's very good and just came back in
stock this week. Atkins brands don't have a purpose anymore. They were
marketed because none of the normal manufacturers were making low-carb
products. That's not true anymore. Hell I just saw my Stop-n-shop are
carrying a Stop-n-Shop brand of low-carb tortillas.

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