Oh no! Hood LC Milk is gone!

I was afraid this day would come and it looks like we're really
screwed this time. Hood's CalorieCountdown LC milk is gone! They've
come out with several new products called SimplySmart and the existing
CalorieCountdown ones are gone. The bad news is the SimplySmart is
low fat and NOT low carb. This just happened because I just bought a
carton of the existing CalorieCountdown chocolate this weekend.

http://www.hood.com/Products/prodListColl.aspx?id=862


This was one great product that AFAIK, will be impossible to
replace. It's really sad that we're back to the low fat thing
again. We can all contact them and complain, but I doubt it will do
any good. Probably 6 of us left here and I don't know how many of you
had it available where you are. Hood is based in MA. I'm sure the
product just didn't move well enough off the store shelves.

I'm not surprised to hear this, it slowly disappeared from our Krogers here,
they would have it once in a while, then not at all. I didn't drink it,
only used it in my LC muffins and have switched to yogurt for them.

I want to scream when people talk about how they can't eat any fat and how
expensive their statins are. I try to educate them but it is hard when I'm
going against their doctors' advice. I did keep my SO from going on
statins, he's definitely in the old man group where research has shown they
don't do any good. I was most concerned about the reported cases of memory
loss, he has none to spare. His doctor said if he wasn't going to take them
he should eat oatmeal so I have been more than happy to fix oatmeal for him
as a substitute. Carbs are not a problem for him, he has never been
overweight in his life.



wrote:
| I was afraid this day would come and it looks like we're really
| screwed this time. Hood's CalorieCountdown LC milk is gone! They've
| come out with several new products called SimplySmart and the existing
| CalorieCountdown ones are gone. The bad news is the SimplySmart is
| low fat and NOT low carb. This just happened because I just bought a
| carton of the existing CalorieCountdown chocolate this weekend.
|
| http://www.hood.com/Products/prodListColl.aspx?id=862
|
|
| This was one great product that AFAIK, will be impossible to
| replace. It's really sad that we're back to the low fat thing
| again. We can all contact them and complain, but I doubt it will do
| any good. Probably 6 of us left here and I don't know how many of you
| had it available where you are. Hood is based in MA. I'm sure the
| product just didn't move well enough off the store shelves.

wrote in message
...
I was afraid this day would come and it looks like we're really
screwed this time. Hood's CalorieCountdown LC milk is gone! They've
come out with several new products called SimplySmart and the existing
CalorieCountdown ones are gone. The bad news is the SimplySmart is
low fat and NOT low carb. This just happened because I just bought a
carton of the existing CalorieCountdown chocolate this weekend.

http://www.hood.com/Products/prodListColl.aspx?id=862


This was one great product that AFAIK, will be impossible to
replace. It's really sad that we're back to the low fat thing
again. We can all contact them and complain, but I doubt it will do
any good. Probably 6 of us left here and I don't know how many of you
had it available where you are. Hood is based in MA. I'm sure the
product just didn't move well enough off the store shelves.


I still see it on the shelves... is this official?


--
JK Sinrod
www.MyConeyIslandMemories.com

On Jan 19, 11:37*pm, BlueBrooke wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:59:27 -0500, "JK Coney"
wrote:







wrote in message
...
I was afraid this day would come and it looks like we're really
screwed this time. *Hood's CalorieCountdown LC milk is gone! * They've
come out with several new products called SimplySmart and the existing
CalorieCountdown ones are gone. * The bad news is the SimplySmart is
low fat and NOT low carb. *This just happened because I just bought a
carton of the existing CalorieCountdown chocolate this weekend.

http://www.hood.com/Products/prodListColl.aspx?id=862

This was one great product that AFAIK, will be impossible to
replace. * *It's really sad that we're back to the low fat thing
again. * We can all contact them and complain, but I doubt it will do
any good. *Probably 6 of us left here and I don't know how many of you
had it available where you are. * Hood is based in MA. *I'm sure the
product just didn't move well enough off the store shelves.

* * *I still see it on the shelves... is this official?

I'm wondering if they haven't been phasing it out for a long time. *I
never used it, but did check for it when this came up before -- and it
wasn't there. *So our stores haven't carried it for a year or two, at
least. *- Hide quoted text -



Oh no! Looks like I was wrong!

Here's what happened. I could not find it here at my local Shoprite
anymore and the shelf space was now occupied by their SimplySmart low
fat product which I had not seen before. So, I went to the Hood
website and looked under the milk product category. It was not
there, just the other Hood mild products. From that I concluded it
was gone. After JK's question I just googled on Hood
CalorieCountdown and it turns out it's still on their website under
it's own CalorieCountdown product heading, completely seperate from
the other milk products. It's strange that they list all the other
modified milk products, eg fat free under milk but put
CalorieCountdown elsewhere.

So, sorry for the apparently false alarm. So, I guess it's time for
me to go ask Shoprite to bring it back or find it elsewhere. I've
done some looking already elsewhere and haven't been successful. The
last one I bought was Chocolate at Wegmans last weekend, that was all
they had and the shelf space was also occupied by the SimplySmart
product that I had not seen before. I do hope it continues to be
available here at some store.

"BlueBrooke" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:59:27 -0500, "JK Coney"
wrote:

I still see it on the shelves... is this official?

I'm wondering if they haven't been phasing it out for a long time. I
never used it, but did check for it when this came up before -- and it
wasn't there. So our stores haven't carried it for a year or two, at
least.




Phased out locally is probably more accurate. We have 5 big
supermarkets within a few miles, and only 1 carries it, but they always have
it. You need to pester them to stock it.


--
JK Sinrod
www.MyConeyIslandMemories.com

In article ,
BlueBrooke wrote:

I've been down this road with them before. If it doesn't have
anything to do with frying catfish, they aren't interested. :-D

Good side of that is that you can get lard.

So I'm in a Southern town and ask the cabbie where can I get lard, and
he says, "That's the first time I've heard that question in the
pluperfect subjunctive".

--
A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.

Walter Bushell wrote:

Good side of that is that you can get lard.

So I'm in a Southern town and ask the cabbie where can I get lard, and
he says, "That's the first time I've heard that question in the
pluperfect subjunctive".

Chortle. The first time I heard that it was shopping for scrod in
Boston - Where can I get scrod? ;^)

In article ,
Doug Freyburger wrote:

Walter Bushell wrote:

Good side of that is that you can get lard.

So I'm in a Southern town and ask the cabbie where can I get lard, and
he says, "That's the first time I've heard that question in the
pluperfect subjunctive".

Chortle. The first time I heard that it was shopping for scrod in
Boston - Where can I get scrod? ;^)

I just rang a change on that joke.

--
A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.

Walter Bushell wrote in his .signature file:

A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.

Chuckle. I figure I can even morph that into a low carb comment.

A BBQ sauce without sugar is building a fire in the pit without throwing
the family pet cat into the pit.

Even before I started low carbing I didn't get the point of adding sugar
to meat. Honey on ham? Pass. Sugar in a BBQ sauce? Sugar free dry
rubs beat them every time IMO. Then again I liked ketchup and didn't
realize just how much sugar is in it.

Does anyone make their own sugarless BBQ sauces? It's been a lot of
years since I made one but it was wonderfull. I like vinegary sauces
and that helps.

Start with a cup of red wine vinegar. Stir in a mixture of spices until
it reaches the thin consistancy of a regular BBQ sauce. Rest it in the
refrigerator at least 2 hours to marry the flavors, stir back to a thin
consistancy and use as a mop while cooking meat.

I liked to use powdered pascilla chillis (they are not hot to me), a
little bit of powdered ancho chillis (for the heat), powdered mustard,
several other types of powdered seeds, garlic powder and a tiny bit of
powdered cumin. No exact recipe just get what looked good that day at
the display of powdered herbs in the Mexican section.

I wonder of the powdered parts would be too intense for a dry rub if
mixed 50-50 with salt and 100-0 with no sugar added.

I have made a similar sauce starting with vinegar in the blender and adding
a variety of whole dried chiles and a bit of salt. We have a BBQ place here
that makes a similar sauce (used to be two but one shut down) and I have
never quite been able to duplicate it but this is close. We much prefer it
to the sweet tomato based sauces though those have their place. Just bought
an interesting sauce from Soupbase.com, it has a few carbs but you don't
want to use very much of it unless your mouth is lined with firebricks:
http://www.soupbase.com/view.asp?cid=2701 Had some on chicken and it was
quite nice.

Doug Freyburger wrote:
| Walter Bushell wrote in his .signature file:
|
| A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without
| mustard.
|
| Chuckle. I figure I can even morph that into a low carb comment.
|
| A BBQ sauce without sugar is building a fire in the pit without
| throwing the family pet cat into the pit.
|
| Even before I started low carbing I didn't get the point of adding
| sugar to meat. Honey on ham? Pass. Sugar in a BBQ sauce? Sugar
| free dry rubs beat them every time IMO. Then again I liked ketchup
| and didn't realize just how much sugar is in it.
|
| Does anyone make their own sugarless BBQ sauces? It's been a lot of
| years since I made one but it was wonderfull. I like vinegary sauces
| and that helps.
|
| Start with a cup of red wine vinegar. Stir in a mixture of spices
| until it reaches the thin consistancy of a regular BBQ sauce. Rest
| it in the refrigerator at least 2 hours to marry the flavors, stir
| back to a thin consistancy and use as a mop while cooking meat.
|
| I liked to use powdered pascilla chillis (they are not hot to me), a
| little bit of powdered ancho chillis (for the heat), powdered mustard,
| several other types of powdered seeds, garlic powder and a tiny bit of
| powdered cumin. No exact recipe just get what looked good that day at
| the display of powdered herbs in the Mexican section.
|
| I wonder of the powdered parts would be too intense for a dry rub if
| mixed 50-50 with salt and 100-0 with no sugar added.