My husband and I have laughed for years at what we have named, “The Lewis Effect.”
Basically, this says that when we buy something, move in a certain direction, decide something, it causes something in the universe to realign – causing the stocks we purchase to take a dive, difficulty in being able to purchase things again, or even companies deciding to no longer make things or go out of business completely. This pattern has persisted over many years. We used to laugh about starting “The Lewis Effect Newsletter” so that we could warn people not to buy – or do – what we just did.
The latest example of this has been that we have been trying to increase our fiber while avoiding sugar. The answer we found was Fiber One Original Cereal.
It has 18 grams of fiber (65% of the daily recommendation for fiber) and NO SUGAR. It’s the only cereal that we found that met our needs so well. I wrote a post comparing it to ‘rabbit pellets,’ but it doesn’t taste BAD and we sweeten it with blueberries (me) or blackberries (my husband). We bought three boxes of it so we would have plenty.
When we decided that this was the cereal we wanted to eat every morning, we went to purchase more. AND GUESS WHAT – the Lewis Effect had begun and Walmart didn’t have any. Neither did our local store, Harps. We asked the manager to see if he could get them for us. I got online and found that NONE of the stores in Greenwood, Fort Smith, or other surrounding towns had any. I went to Amazon. They didn’t have any. There was a notice that they couldn’t get any and weren’t sure when they could. I couldn’t find any information as to WHY this problem had occurred, but to say we were ‘upset’ was to understate the issue.
A couple of weeks later, I was able to order 3 boxes on Amazon, but they wouldn’t be delivered until the ‘week of Sept 7th. ‘ We bought another bran cereal after reading MANY labels in the store. It had half the fiber and had 9 grams of sugar per serving, but it was the best we could find. ‘Rabbit pellets’ would taste better, but we were determined to do the best we could.
Yesterday after Lunch Bunch we went to Walmart and FOUND some Fiber One! We bought the 3 boxes they had. We are still supposed to be getting the Amazon order from over a month ago – the week of the 7th.
We HOPE that this was a supply glitch and that we won’t have any more trouble trying to eat right. We have a lot of ‘discussions’ around here about what we SHOULD or SHOULD NOT be eating because of our health conditions, overweight, etc., and we need all the help we can get when we FINALLY agree that one food is doable…
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