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[ocelot]

The US has banned Vegemite, even to the point of searching Australians for jars of the spread when they enter the country.

This is due to the inclusion of the OMG EVIL folate (aka folic acid aka the vitamin they encourage you to get enough of if you're pregnant or planning to be so or not planning extremely thoroughly not to be so). In the US, you may only add folate to breads and cereals. Not to foul tasting yet oddly addictive yeast spreads.

I went to our local grocery-store-that-stocks-British-food a little bit ago, ostensibly to get ingredients for pumpkin milkshakes, but really to check the availability of vegemite (and the OMG HUGE SALE gdiaper starter packs. Anyone want to try them? I expect I can buy and ship them for cheaper than you can find them most anywhere).

Vegemite and Marmite were no longer on the shelves.

Some knockoff that starts with B (Bogon or Borate or something) was, however. And it included folate.

The local grocery-store-that-stocks-British-food is breakin' da law!

Comments

[geminigirl]

I've been intrigued by the idea of gdiapers-probably useful for travelling and such. I'm reluctant to buy any babythings until there is one much closer to arrival, after the last time...and since my uterus is unoccupied at the moment they'll have to wait.

Feh.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

I understand :(

I love the idea, especially since the covers can be used with cloth diapers too, but the inserts are considerably more expensive than normal disposable diapers (which is rather counterintuitive, since they use less material and are less complex than normal disposables, but they ship from Australia (hmm, just like Vegemite) and apparently don't have a good backstock here yet). It's too bad - I have a feeling they'd really take off if they could get the cost down.

I need to get some before the sale ends though, even if they won't be useful for a while (they only have sizes medium and large), because it's cheap enough to be a good cost for a cloth diaper cover if nothing else.

[geminigirl]

I totally love the idea, and if I can get them, would probably do them when we travelled if it were reasonable. I can see, for a weekend, for example, but I'm not sure about two weeks worth when we go to Canada for example.

Hopefully it will cease to become irrelevant in a few months. :)

[koyote.livejournal.com]

well, for canadia you just take the cloth along, too :)

and good luck ;)

[geminigirl]

Thank you for the luck. I am sure we will begin relying on all the luck that is sent our way very soon.

And yes, conceivably I could just take the cloth along, especially since my sister in law does cloth up there. It's more a question of how much carrying around of soiled diapers seems reasonable, until I have access to washing facilities.

[koyote.livejournal.com]

oh, I meant take the semi disposables for a day or two and cloth for the week, pretty much

[geminigirl]

That makes far more sense. And it's convenient , if the gdiaper covers work well for you with cloth underneath too, so you only have to pack one set of covers.

Still, it's all mood right now. Just hope for not too much longer.