On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:57:02 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

> I used to have a severe problem with drugstore.com back when they were run
> by Rite Aid.

Who runs it now?

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

On 8/11/2012 1:21 AM, Cheryl wrote:

> Actually I've been sort of disappointed by how many people would just
> keep the free food and not even mention it to the supplier.

I missed that completely, I thought you'd been charged.

nancy

On 8/11/2012 12:08 PM, Nancy Young wrote:

> On 8/11/2012 1:21 AM, Cheryl wrote:
>
>> Actually I've been sort of disappointed by how many people would just
>> keep the free food and not even mention it to the supplier.
>
> I missed that completely, I thought you'd been charged.
>
I think most people who replied realized 25 line items on my shopping
list had been duplicated in the shipment but not on the bill. I
apologize if I didn't make that clearer. It's not really important
anymore. LOL This thread is getting really messed up with incorrect
attributions, people not reading it right, etc. Not you, I'm not naming
names and now I just want it to die. I'm still grumpy from the pain and
meds. I think the leg pain is the worst, over the back pain.
Neuropathic pain. I've had to resort to doing my own reading about it
so I can talk to the doctor on Monday.

Cheryl wrote:
> On 8/9/2012 8:33 PM, Jean B. wrote:
>> BTW, my cat only eats poultry-based products. He had a blockage many
>> years ago, so I feed him canned food (and some dried). Exactly what he
>> will eat is a bit of a moving target. He likes Natural Balance, Core,
>> and Now! but will suddenly decide he doesn't like something after all.
>> As far as dried food goes, I try to get samples. If he seems to like
>> it, I buy a bag... then he frequently will decide not to eat it.
>> Arrgh. He did really like one food, so, of course, it was discontinued.
>
> I really hate it when a company discontinues a food my cats like. As
> for samples, I'm fortunate in that the premium pet food place I buy from
> has small packages of samples available for almost anything as long as
> it's the dry version.
>

Yes, it really screws things up if your cat's beloved food is
discontinued. And when they change it, it can upset the cat or
turn the cat against it. My daughter now says, when we see
something that is new and improved, that yeah, it
improves/increases folks' incomes.

--

Julie Bove wrote:
> "Jean B." > wrote in message
> ...
>> Cats are so funny... and strong-willed. I wonder about those veggies,
>> fruits, etc. in cat food. Those things are not part of a cat's natural
>> diet, so I think they are there just because they are good for humans and
>> we are supposed to think they are also good for cats.
>>
>> Ming won't eat treats and has no interest in people food. He has tried
>> the Now! kibbles and seemed to like it. I need to get him some more food
>> within the next day or two and will see what is there that he will
>> (probably) eat.
>
> Winco has slightly increased the cat foods that they carry. Bali and Jazzy
> LOVE the Fancy Feast Appetizer that is the Skipjack Tuna. It is like kitty
> crack to them. It's the only thing they eat all of. Their second favorite
> is the Tender Tongal Tuna. Winco is now carrying that flavor plus the
> chicken. So I bought a few of the Tender Tongal because it is 5 cents
> cheaper than the best sale price I can get anywhere else. They looked
> disappointed when it came out of the bag. I do not believe that cats are
> color blind. They can tell.
>
> They also have the Fancy Feast Medleys which are not their favorite of the
> canned foods. That would be the Fancy Feast Gravy Lovers Tuna and
> Whitefish. The best price I have found on that is 20/$11 at Target. Or
> maybe it was a little less at Pet Smart. It may have been $1 a can there
> but they never have very many. The Medleys have a tuna with I think they
> call it garden greens. I know I have bought it before for them. It was 73
> cents a can. I have only been giving each of them half of the can for
> dinner because no matter what I give them if they eat any at all it is just
> a few bites. So I thought I would try this again. They actually ate it.
> Not all of it but they did a pretty good job.
>
> What really bugs me is that at Costco you can get Fancy Feast for cheap but
> you have to buy a mixed case. My old cat Maui would eat any flavor but the
> fish and seafood. So that wouldn't have even worked for her.
>
> I feel bad for the truly poor people who own pets. Especially the seniors
> who may need help at times. I always donate pet food to help people in need
> and then I think that they will have a picky pet who won't eat whatever I
> donate.
>
>
That's nice of you. Yes, pets mean so much to people, it must be
awful to feel you have to choose between having and loving a
critter and other necessities.

I have heard Fancy Feast referred to as "feline crack" before. I
forget whether the King of the household deigned to eat it. I
probably tried just about everything when he was sick or when he
would stop eating for a while.
--
Jean B.

--

"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
...
> Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> For once I'm going to have to pretend to be you. I don't want food in
>> my already overstuffed closets, I don't have a garage, and I don't want
>> to store food under a bed.
>>
>> Any more suggestions.
>
> Instead of stocking up on more food than I have space for, or more
> importantly more food than I want to *invest* in, I use the store as a
> warehouse/food bank. I actually have enough space to store food for a
> hundred familys but it's really dumb to tie up that much money in
> advance... there is absolutely no savings in bulk buying sale items
> just to save pennies an item at the checkout... it only pays to buy
> sale items in bulk if the store doesn't make the tab due until you
> actually use the item because you're still paying the bulk of your
> food bill way in advance, and that is plain stupid, especially with
> perishables. Everytime I read about folks buying meat in bulk on sale
> just to pay a few cents less and then use up all that savings+ vacuum
> wrapping I think pinheads.

Meat is one thing I rarely ever buy in bulk. Only if I happen to be at
Costco and happen to need meat. I don't like to freeze meat. Exception
being cooked hamburger or perhaps a few cooked chicken breasts. That sort
of stuff is handy to keep around.

Mostly what I do buy in bulk is canned foods and of course only when I get a
super good price on them. Recently my daughter found some little cans of
Rotel seasoned tomato sauce for 14 cent a can. I wasn't sure we would like
them so I only bought 4 cans. It made excellent Spanish rice. So I went
back to get more. And luckily there was more. I think we bought 10 more
cans.

I like to keep extra canned food during the winter. I also like to keep
extra dried beans and rice. And plenty of pasta. We have switched to
eating whole wheat pasta and Costco had whole wheat spaghetti. So I bought
some. It was a large package consisting of many smaller packages. It's
very good stuff and cheaper to buy it that way than at the regular grocery
store.

I do buy some frozen stuff at Costco or Winco in a very large package. But
I have to be careful what I buy. When there are just the two of us here, it
can take a very long time to eat such a package of stuff up. I once made
the mistake of buying those chicken nuggets that look like Mickey Mouse. I
had been told that they were very good. I didn't like them. Eventually my
husband ate them.

What I don't understand is why people buy things in bulk that frequently go
on sale. When I was a kid, the local mark it yourself store would put bread
on sale. It was either 4/$1.00 or 3/$1.00. I can't remember which. But it
seemed to almost always be on sale for that price. My parents would buy it
and store it in the freezer. Since we rarely ever ate bread, that made no
sense to me.

I also don't understand those people on the Extreme Couponing show.
Hundreds of packages of pasta or chips. Hundreds of bottles of lotion or
containers of deodorant. Those things do go bad! It doesn't make sense to
stockpile things that you'll just have to throw out.

"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:57:02 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>> I used to have a severe problem with drugstore.com back when they were
>> run
>> by Rite Aid.
>
> Who runs it now?

Walgreens. I only happened to figure that out when I was ordering something
fairly recently and saw a Walgreen's brand item for sale. I was like...
Uh... So I had posted something about it on a forum and a person who is
always up on all things retail sent me a link that explained when they
bought it out a few years ago. They didn't make a big deal about it and
didn't publicly announce it. I had been wondering though because you can
also shop at Walgreen's.com and Riteaid.com. Used to be when it was
Riteaid, the two sites were somehow linked and had the same prices. But now
that is not the case. One of the sites had a much better price on the item
I needed to buy.

"Jean B." > wrote in message
...
> Cheryl wrote:
>> On 8/9/2012 8:33 PM, Jean B. wrote:
>>> BTW, my cat only eats poultry-based products. He had a blockage many
>>> years ago, so I feed him canned food (and some dried). Exactly what he
>>> will eat is a bit of a moving target. He likes Natural Balance, Core,
>>> and Now! but will suddenly decide he doesn't like something after all.
>>> As far as dried food goes, I try to get samples. If he seems to like
>>> it, I buy a bag... then he frequently will decide not to eat it.
>>> Arrgh. He did really like one food, so, of course, it was discontinued.
>>
>> I really hate it when a company discontinues a food my cats like. As for
>> samples, I'm fortunate in that the premium pet food place I buy from has
>> small packages of samples available for almost anything as long as it's
>> the dry version.
>>
>
> Yes, it really screws things up if your cat's beloved food is
> discontinued. And when they change it, it can upset the cat or turn the
> cat against it. My daughter now says, when we see something that is new
> and improved, that yeah, it improves/increases folks' incomes.

I almost always hate it when they improve anything be it a food or a health
or beauty item. Once in a rare great while there will be an actual
improvement. Usually not. The worst thing I can think of is when they
added calcium to Tab. They changed that back in about two weeks. Stuff was
horrid! Now they messed it up by putting Aspartame. Why? We already have
diet Coke. Some of us actually liked that bitter aftertaste.

"Jean B." > wrote in message
...
> Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Jean B." > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Cats are so funny... and strong-willed. I wonder about those veggies,
>>> fruits, etc. in cat food. Those things are not part of a cat's natural
>>> diet, so I think they are there just because they are good for humans
>>> and we are supposed to think they are also good for cats.
>>>
>>> Ming won't eat treats and has no interest in people food. He has tried
>>> the Now! kibbles and seemed to like it. I need to get him some more
>>> food within the next day or two and will see what is there that he will
>>> (probably) eat.
>>
>> Winco has slightly increased the cat foods that they carry. Bali and
>> Jazzy LOVE the Fancy Feast Appetizer that is the Skipjack Tuna. It is
>> like kitty crack to them. It's the only thing they eat all of. Their
>> second favorite is the Tender Tongal Tuna. Winco is now carrying that
>> flavor plus the chicken. So I bought a few of the Tender Tongal because
>> it is 5 cents cheaper than the best sale price I can get anywhere else.
>> They looked disappointed when it came out of the bag. I do not believe
>> that cats are color blind. They can tell.
>>
>> They also have the Fancy Feast Medleys which are not their favorite of
>> the canned foods. That would be the Fancy Feast Gravy Lovers Tuna and
>> Whitefish. The best price I have found on that is 20/$11 at Target. Or
>> maybe it was a little less at Pet Smart. It may have been $1 a can there
>> but they never have very many. The Medleys have a tuna with I think they
>> call it garden greens. I know I have bought it before for them. It was
>> 73 cents a can. I have only been giving each of them half of the can for
>> dinner because no matter what I give them if they eat any at all it is
>> just a few bites. So I thought I would try this again. They actually
>> ate it. Not all of it but they did a pretty good job.
>>
>> What really bugs me is that at Costco you can get Fancy Feast for cheap
>> but you have to buy a mixed case. My old cat Maui would eat any flavor
>> but the fish and seafood. So that wouldn't have even worked for her.
>>
>> I feel bad for the truly poor people who own pets. Especially the
>> seniors who may need help at times. I always donate pet food to help
>> people in need and then I think that they will have a picky pet who won't
>> eat whatever I donate.
> That's nice of you. Yes, pets mean so much to people, it must be awful to
> feel you have to choose between having and loving a critter and other
> necessities.
>
> I have heard Fancy Feast referred to as "feline crack" before. I forget
> whether the King of the household deigned to eat it. I probably tried
> just about everything when he was sick or when he would stop eating for a
> while.

I wish I had never gotten them started on it. But I had a few packages
leftover from when Maui was alive and I didn't want it to go to waste. I
had been given a few cans of a turkey flavor of premium food. I think it
was the Wellness brand. The lady at Purrfect pals said that was what they
had been eating but only for dinner. Oddly enough the store where I got
them from didn't carry that flavor. So I bought a few cans of each flavor
they did have. They would only eat maybe a few bites but they wouldn't even
touch the herring. Then I tracked down the turkey. They didn't like that
either.

Then the quest began. I finally determined that they liked tuna but only
the certain kinds. And I couldn't pin it down to a particular texture or
cut or whatever.

Before I got them they were used to eating dinner of moist food and then
having a bowl of cereal for the rest of the time. But I then made two
mistakes. Giving them the Appetizers for breakfast and then some treats
when I have my midnight snack. I don't normally eat lunch so that was never
an issue. But now they seem to want their food at our meal times. And they
can tell if it is midnight. If I am 5 minutes late on giving them their
treats, I hear about it!

Their cereal feeder and moist food bowls are here in the family room on a
little vinyl floor covered area. Why that is there I do not know. This
room is carpeted but two little areas have the same vinyl floor as in the
kitchen. Their fountain is near the food. I feed them the treats in the
kitchen and they have little dishes in there.

On Friday we brought home some of their favorite treats. We were unable to
get very many for a while and had to get other brands. They became very
excited when they saw them coming out of the bag and went to their bowls
even though it wasn't midnight. They looked very sad that they didn't get
any. But then they were happy again when they got dinner.

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:51:28 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:57:02 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> I used to have a severe problem with drugstore.com back when they were
> >> run
> >> by Rite Aid.
> >
> > Who runs it now?
>
> Walgreens. I only happened to figure that out when I was ordering something
> fairly recently and saw a Walgreen's brand item for sale. I was like...
> Uh... So I had posted something about it on a forum and a person who is
> always up on all things retail sent me a link that explained when they
> bought it out a few years ago. They didn't make a big deal about it and
> didn't publicly announce it. I had been wondering though because you can
> also shop at Walgreen's.com and Riteaid.com. Used to be when it was
> Riteaid, the two sites were somehow linked and had the same prices. But now
> that is not the case. One of the sites had a much better price on the item
> I needed to buy.
>
I don't use it very often - but when I do it's to buy something I
can't find locally and I don't comparison shop.


--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Julie Bove wrote:
> "Jean B." > wrote in message
> ...
>> Cheryl wrote:
>>> On 8/9/2012 8:33 PM, Jean B. wrote:
>>>> BTW, my cat only eats poultry-based products. He had a blockage many
>>>> years ago, so I feed him canned food (and some dried). Exactly what he
>>>> will eat is a bit of a moving target. He likes Natural Balance, Core,
>>>> and Now! but will suddenly decide he doesn't like something after all.
>>>> As far as dried food goes, I try to get samples. If he seems to like
>>>> it, I buy a bag... then he frequently will decide not to eat it.
>>>> Arrgh. He did really like one food, so, of course, it was discontinued.
>>> I really hate it when a company discontinues a food my cats like. As for
>>> samples, I'm fortunate in that the premium pet food place I buy from has
>>> small packages of samples available for almost anything as long as it's
>>> the dry version.
>>>
>> Yes, it really screws things up if your cat's beloved food is
>> discontinued. And when they change it, it can upset the cat or turn the
>> cat against it. My daughter now says, when we see something that is new
>> and improved, that yeah, it improves/increases folks' incomes.
>
> I almost always hate it when they improve anything be it a food or a health
> or beauty item. Once in a rare great while there will be an actual
> improvement. Usually not. The worst thing I can think of is when they
> added calcium to Tab. They changed that back in about two weeks. Stuff was
> horrid! Now they messed it up by putting Aspartame. Why? We already have
> diet Coke. Some of us actually liked that bitter aftertaste.
>
>
And aspartame is widely believed to be very bad for you.
--
Jean B.

Julie Bove wrote:
> I wish I had never gotten them started on it. But I had a few packages
> leftover from when Maui was alive and I didn't want it to go to waste. I
> had been given a few cans of a turkey flavor of premium food. I think it
> was the Wellness brand. The lady at Purrfect pals said that was what they
> had been eating but only for dinner. Oddly enough the store where I got
> them from didn't carry that flavor. So I bought a few cans of each flavor
> they did have. They would only eat maybe a few bites but they wouldn't even
> touch the herring. Then I tracked down the turkey. They didn't like that
> either.

Ming used to like Wellness, but then their product became
variable, or maybe I should say even MORE variable. I get their
Core sometimes. Well, that may be in the past, because I was
eying cat food at a store I don't get to extremely often, and the
price had skyrocketed. Now it's $2 for a 5.5-ounce can.
>
> Then the quest began. I finally determined that they liked tuna but only
> the certain kinds. And I couldn't pin it down to a particular texture or
> cut or whatever.

Oh fun. Not.
>
> Before I got them they were used to eating dinner of moist food and then
> having a bowl of cereal for the rest of the time. But I then made two
> mistakes. Giving them the Appetizers for breakfast and then some treats
> when I have my midnight snack. I don't normally eat lunch so that was never
> an issue. But now they seem to want their food at our meal times. And they
> can tell if it is midnight. If I am 5 minutes late on giving them their
> treats, I hear about it!

I am laughing. Cats are funny that way.
>
> Their cereal feeder and moist food bowls are here in the family room on a
> little vinyl floor covered area. Why that is there I do not know. This
> room is carpeted but two little areas have the same vinyl floor as in the
> kitchen. Their fountain is near the food. I feed them the treats in the
> kitchen and they have little dishes in there.
>
> On Friday we brought home some of their favorite treats. We were unable to
> get very many for a while and had to get other brands. They became very
> excited when they saw them coming out of the bag and went to their bowls
> even though it wasn't midnight. They looked very sad that they didn't get
> any. But then they were happy again when they got dinner.

It sounds like they provide much amusement... and some
frustration. Cats!

--
Jean B.

"Jean B." > wrote in message
...
> Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Jean B." > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Cheryl wrote:
>>>> On 8/9/2012 8:33 PM, Jean B. wrote:
>>>>> BTW, my cat only eats poultry-based products. He had a blockage many
>>>>> years ago, so I feed him canned food (and some dried). Exactly what he
>>>>> will eat is a bit of a moving target. He likes Natural Balance, Core,
>>>>> and Now! but will suddenly decide he doesn't like something after all.
>>>>> As far as dried food goes, I try to get samples. If he seems to like
>>>>> it, I buy a bag... then he frequently will decide not to eat it.
>>>>> Arrgh. He did really like one food, so, of course, it was
>>>>> discontinued.
>>>> I really hate it when a company discontinues a food my cats like. As
>>>> for samples, I'm fortunate in that the premium pet food place I buy
>>>> from has small packages of samples available for almost anything as
>>>> long as it's the dry version.
>>>>
>>> Yes, it really screws things up if your cat's beloved food is
>>> discontinued. And when they change it, it can upset the cat or turn the
>>> cat against it. My daughter now says, when we see something that is new
>>> and improved, that yeah, it improves/increases folks' incomes.
>>
>> I almost always hate it when they improve anything be it a food or a
>> health or beauty item. Once in a rare great while there will be an
>> actual improvement. Usually not. The worst thing I can think of is when
>> they added calcium to Tab. They changed that back in about two weeks.
>> Stuff was horrid! Now they messed it up by putting Aspartame. Why? We
>> already have diet Coke. Some of us actually liked that bitter
>> aftertaste.
> And aspartame is widely believed to be very bad for you.

No it's not. Some people might believe so. It's not a wide belief by any
means!

Julie Bove wrote:
> "Jean B." > wrote in message
> ...
>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>> "Jean B." > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> Cheryl wrote:
>>>>> On 8/9/2012 8:33 PM, Jean B. wrote:
>>>>>> BTW, my cat only eats poultry-based products. He had a blockage many
>>>>>> years ago, so I feed him canned food (and some dried). Exactly what he
>>>>>> will eat is a bit of a moving target. He likes Natural Balance, Core,
>>>>>> and Now! but will suddenly decide he doesn't like something after all.
>>>>>> As far as dried food goes, I try to get samples. If he seems to like
>>>>>> it, I buy a bag... then he frequently will decide not to eat it.
>>>>>> Arrgh. He did really like one food, so, of course, it was
>>>>>> discontinued.
>>>>> I really hate it when a company discontinues a food my cats like. As
>>>>> for samples, I'm fortunate in that the premium pet food place I buy
>>>>> from has small packages of samples available for almost anything as
>>>>> long as it's the dry version.
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, it really screws things up if your cat's beloved food is
>>>> discontinued. And when they change it, it can upset the cat or turn the
>>>> cat against it. My daughter now says, when we see something that is new
>>>> and improved, that yeah, it improves/increases folks' incomes.
>>> I almost always hate it when they improve anything be it a food or a
>>> health or beauty item. Once in a rare great while there will be an
>>> actual improvement. Usually not. The worst thing I can think of is when
>>> they added calcium to Tab. They changed that back in about two weeks.
>>> Stuff was horrid! Now they messed it up by putting Aspartame. Why? We
>>> already have diet Coke. Some of us actually liked that bitter
>>> aftertaste.
>> And aspartame is widely believed to be very bad for you.
>
> No it's not. Some people might believe so. It's not a wide belief by any
> means!
>
>

Well, he who knows everything scientific, has a lot to say on this
matter, and it's not good.

"Jean B." > wrote in message
...
> Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Jean B." > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>> "Jean B." > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> Cheryl wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/9/2012 8:33 PM, Jean B. wrote:
>>>>>>> BTW, my cat only eats poultry-based products. He had a blockage
>>>>>>> many
>>>>>>> years ago, so I feed him canned food (and some dried). Exactly what
>>>>>>> he
>>>>>>> will eat is a bit of a moving target. He likes Natural Balance,
>>>>>>> Core,
>>>>>>> and Now! but will suddenly decide he doesn't like something after
>>>>>>> all.
>>>>>>> As far as dried food goes, I try to get samples. If he seems to
>>>>>>> like
>>>>>>> it, I buy a bag... then he frequently will decide not to eat it.
>>>>>>> Arrgh. He did really like one food, so, of course, it was
>>>>>>> discontinued.
>>>>>> I really hate it when a company discontinues a food my cats like. As
>>>>>> for samples, I'm fortunate in that the premium pet food place I buy
>>>>>> from has small packages of samples available for almost anything as
>>>>>> long as it's the dry version.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, it really screws things up if your cat's beloved food is
>>>>> discontinued. And when they change it, it can upset the cat or turn
>>>>> the cat against it. My daughter now says, when we see something that
>>>>> is new and improved, that yeah, it improves/increases folks' incomes.
>>>> I almost always hate it when they improve anything be it a food or a
>>>> health or beauty item. Once in a rare great while there will be an
>>>> actual improvement. Usually not. The worst thing I can think of is
>>>> when they added calcium to Tab. They changed that back in about two
>>>> weeks. Stuff was horrid! Now they messed it up by putting Aspartame.
>>>> Why? We already have diet Coke. Some of us actually liked that bitter
>>>> aftertaste.
>>> And aspartame is widely believed to be very bad for you.
>>
>> No it's not. Some people might believe so. It's not a wide belief by
>> any means!
>
> Well, he who knows everything scientific, has a lot to say on this matter,
> and it's not good.

I don't know who that might be. But I know plenty of people who consume it
and AFAIK it hasn't caused any problems.

Julie Bove wrote:
> "Jean B." > wrote in message
> ...
>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>> "Jean B." > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>> "Jean B." > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> Cheryl wrote:
>>>>>>> On 8/9/2012 8:33 PM, Jean B. wrote:
>>>>>>>> BTW, my cat only eats poultry-based products. He had a blockage
>>>>>>>> many
>>>>>>>> years ago, so I feed him canned food (and some dried). Exactly what
>>>>>>>> he
>>>>>>>> will eat is a bit of a moving target. He likes Natural Balance,
>>>>>>>> Core,
>>>>>>>> and Now! but will suddenly decide he doesn't like something after
>>>>>>>> all.
>>>>>>>> As far as dried food goes, I try to get samples. If he seems to
>>>>>>>> like
>>>>>>>> it, I buy a bag... then he frequently will decide not to eat it.
>>>>>>>> Arrgh. He did really like one food, so, of course, it was
>>>>>>>> discontinued.
>>>>>>> I really hate it when a company discontinues a food my cats like. As
>>>>>>> for samples, I'm fortunate in that the premium pet food place I buy
>>>>>>> from has small packages of samples available for almost anything as
>>>>>>> long as it's the dry version.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, it really screws things up if your cat's beloved food is
>>>>>> discontinued. And when they change it, it can upset the cat or turn
>>>>>> the cat against it. My daughter now says, when we see something that
>>>>>> is new and improved, that yeah, it improves/increases folks' incomes.
>>>>> I almost always hate it when they improve anything be it a food or a
>>>>> health or beauty item. Once in a rare great while there will be an
>>>>> actual improvement. Usually not. The worst thing I can think of is
>>>>> when they added calcium to Tab. They changed that back in about two
>>>>> weeks. Stuff was horrid! Now they messed it up by putting Aspartame.
>>>>> Why? We already have diet Coke. Some of us actually liked that bitter
>>>>> aftertaste.
>>>> And aspartame is widely believed to be very bad for you.
>>> No it's not. Some people might believe so. It's not a wide belief by
>>> any means!
>> Well, he who knows everything scientific, has a lot to say on this matter,
>> and it's not good.
>
> I don't know who that might be. But I know plenty of people who consume it
> and AFAIK it hasn't caused any problems.
>
>
Of course, not everyone who eats (most) substances is going to
have a bad reaction or worse from them.