Calcet Creamy Bites on sale

Just FYI, right now drugstore.com has the Calcet Creamy Bites on sale for $10.99 each (instead of $14.99).  They also have free shipping on orders over $35.  

lora

Are these the ones you can freeze and have as a 'chew'? My husband was interested in trying them and I forget which brand froze well. 

Yes.  I really like the chocolate fudge ones frozen.

The chocolate ones are delicious frozen.  I think they taste like a frozen candy bar.

I haven't tried freezing the lemon ones.  I actually like those slightly warm.  Like, if it's a sunny day and they sit on my table in the sunlight.  Then they taste like fresh lemon cake.

I wouldn't bother freezing the lemon ones.  IMO, it just makes them hard, LOL, and less like a lemon cake type treat as you called it.

Thanks for the info!  I see that the box is 30 chews of 500 mg calcium each.  Does this mean you chew two, three times a day?  So a box of 30 lasts five days?  I am about to run out of my Caltrate bottle of 155 chewable tablets which are delicious but have a lot of carbs.  I am looking for ideas of which pills to continue with :)  Thanks!

...and two a day would not meet the 1500-2000 mg recommendation.  People report they are delicious, but an indulgence not affordable for many of us.  But, thanks to this post, it's a good time to try them out.

I only use one as my final dose of the day (as an evening "dessert", if you will).  My other doses (I take four instead of three per day) are pills, the BA chews, or Upcal D powder in my morning hot chocolate.  

They are good, but way too expensive for me to use four per day!  It seems like many people just use them for one dose.

Lora

Also, unless they have something new, the Caltrate chewables are NOT calcium citrate, so they are the wrong kind of calcium for us.  Lots of people get confused by the name (and since calcium citrate is more expensive than calcium carbonate, I prsonally think the naming was intentional.)

Lora

I feel like Citracal has intentionally misnamed their new chewable. I saw them and thought, "Great! Citracal finally has a chewable calcium citrate!" Nope. "Citra"cal that I have always associated with calcium "citra"te has a carbonate chew.  I know we have to read labels but they really seemed to have a theme going there until they added those. It's the only carbonate product that I have seen under that brand.

 I couldn't help but wonder how many bariatric patients might buy them without noticing until they end up with kidney stones. I did that early out with viactiv chews and those aren't misleading you just have to pay attention. Alas, I was young and foolish early post-op.