Just last week, at Community Health Foods, just off Macleod Trail (61st Avenue S.W.) my husband and me found Atkins bread and pancake mix. This is a first. We go there to buy organic vegetables and soy protein and the occasional 'Low Carb Chocolate bars'! (for me) from Vancouver. They have run out, but I suspect they will be stocking up some more. We also buy our supplements there and find the staff really informed! This is not a plug for their store but I am relieved to find a store relatively close to me where I can talk about low carbing without staff looking at me with disdain!

Was the Atkins bread and pancake mix expensive? I saw the Atkins baking mix at the Community Helath store on 10th Avenue and it was $18.99 for the container. I thought that was expensive, especially since I have read on this forum that some folks don't like it.

The day I was in there I asked an employee for low-carb products and he didn't have a clue what I was talking about.

I also wanted Ross chocolate bars because I had bought some in B.C. in the summer and loved them. I was told Community Health will not carry them because they have malitol in them and that is not good for them. On the weekend I was in Market Mall in Calgary and stopped into the Morning Sun Health Store to see if they had them and they did!! They were the same price as I paid in B. C. so I bought quite a few to keep on hand. I only eat about a third of a bar at a time to curb my chocalte craving.

JanC:

Yes, the Atkins Bread and Pancake mix was expensive. It was $18.99 per container, and to tell you the truth, we didn't enjoy it. I can make my own a lot tastier and a lot cheaper!

I don't know what kind of low carb chocolate I bought at Community Health but it was from B.C. and within one week, they no longer carried it. It may be the same kind you speak of with malitol, I don't know. But they don't carry it any longer. Strangely enough they deny they ever carried a low carb chocolate bar!