The great acidophilus find!

When I went shopping yesterday, I came home loaded down with boxes.  I picked up 2 cases of sweet potatoes (80 lb), 1 case of regular potatoes (50 lb), 1 case of red potatoes (50 lb), 1 case of organic bananas (40 lb), 30 lb of apples and you already read about the boniatos.  I also bought a 50 lb bag of rolled oats, about 20 lb of quick oats, a bunch of organic hard red wheat, and then all the other things, like canned goods.  That’s in addition to the 50 lb of carrots and 50 lb of cabbage that I picked up at the vegetable store a couple of days ago, along with all the other veggies in my order.  (Do you ever wonder how I find a place to store all this?  Trust me, it takes an effort.)

I also found something in the dairy department that I decided to buy because it was such a good price, even though I wasn’t sure what it was.  I told my kids I was sure it was something that was usually very expensive, though!  It said Bio-K Plus, dairy culture.  No instructions on how to use it, just the ingredients and that it was packed with acidophilus.  A case of 12 boxes was $3, so I bought a box.  It didn’t look very appealing and I figured no one was buying it because no one knew what it was.  Even the cashier asked me what it was when I checked out.  After we packed everything into the van, I decided to pop back in and buy another case.  I knew that whatever it was, it was a good buy and I didn’t want to kick myself when I got home that I didn’t buy more. My main concern was where I would put it, since I only have one regular sized refrigerator.  

When I got home, I googled (told you I love Google) Bio-K to see what this stuff was.  Well.  I found out that it is a very pricey nutritional supplement used to improve the health of the digestive system, in a yogurt like form, but very potent.  Each 3.5 oz container is equivalent to the acidophilus in 100 3.5 oz servings of plain yogurt.  Then I looked at the price – a box of six little bottles was $25.  And I had 12 of those boxes in one case!  And two cases of it! 

I didn’t do the math, my kids did.  They informed me that it would have cost a bit over $600 dollars had I bought them at market value, instead of for $6.  Quite a savings, don’t you think?!? 

So you might be wondering, why was it so cheap?  Was something wrong with it?  No, nothing was wrong with it, except that it was very close to the expiration date.  The way this store works is they buy truckloads of food items from various stores.  Sometimes things come through and whoever is pricing it doesn’t know what it is.  So they price it according to whatever they suppose it is.  In this case, they priced it the way they would a case of six containers of yogurt, and put it next to the yogurts. 

I’ve already started giving it to the kids.  Digestive health is the most crucial aspect of health, since if your digestion and absorption aren’t efficient, then it can manifest itself in ill health in other seemingly unrelated areas.  It will be interesting to see if we notice any visible improvements to our health, but whether we notice it or not, it’s logical to me that it will be helpful for us.  So that was a nice find.  🙂

Avivah

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