My folks are heading to the US soon.  Is there anything that I should be getting them to bring back for me, for post-surgery, that isn't available here?  I know every once in a while someone will post something that they like from the States but can't remember what it is and can't find the posts.

Thanks!

Lisa

Well from what I can tell.. there are a lot more options for sugar free things i.e. sugar free cake mix, sugar free icing, sugar free chocolate chips, many more flavours of sugar free pudding, jello etc.
I think that vitamins are cheaper.. but do not know for sure or what ones to buy.

For directly post-op I have found no sugar added Granny Smith apple sauce; more variety of flavours of sugar free Jello, puddings and Crystal Lite than you can get here in Canada; sugar free Powerade (think it's called Powerade Zero) in more flavours than you can get here.

My dealer brings me back, SF hersheys choc syrup ( i use that in my protein shakes), also SF banana pudding, SF caramel sauce. Some flavours of crystal light (Peach) that comes in big packages, the proten powder that I love is at Costco in US exclusviely. Oh and Log Cabin SF maple syrup for when i have protein pancakes.

They last a long long time.

ALso here are links to this question... maybe someone is feeling really helpful and will create a list
you may have to cut and paste though.....
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/ON/4311748/U-S-SHOPPING-WHAT-TO-GET/
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/on/4160156/US-Shopping-List/
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/on/4128966/What-to-Buy/
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/on/4218282/What-to-buy-in-the-U-S/
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/on/4011415/Things-to-buy-in-the/

Hi All,

I am going to try this again.  If it doesn't format properly I apologize.  I have complied a master list from the links DancingDaisy posted for US shopping.  I cross border shop alot so it is helpful for me.  Hope it works for some of you:

Dream field pasta (Wal-Mart, tops, or Wegmans),
Barilla "Plus" penne pasta (meigers),
Many flavors of Crystal light and SF Kool-Aid,
SF carnation instant breakfast,
Ocean spray singles,
Fuze slenderize or sobe ligh****er,
Vitamin water (Kirkland brand) SF,
Splenda coffee singles flavours,
Private Selection mocha SF FF,
Hot choc mix-Swiss miss,
Wal-Mart crystals-apple, & orange,
Safeway Select coffee mix (at Safeway),  
Sf creamer-French vanilla,
Decaf tea-chai,
Decaf iced tea-sugar free,
SF caffeine free latte mixes,
Nestle Fat Free Hot Chocolate,
Minute Maid Lemonade/ 2L bottles and cans,
Tropicana light lemonade and orangeade,
"Raspberry" diet Snapple,
Wyler's Light Sunsplash,
Orange/ Snapple diet peach,
No name "crystal light" singles from Wal-Mart - cherry lemonade is great! (esp. with vodka),
Sugar free popsicles - I bring a cooler and buy ice to put them in with. They have a lot more flavours (like Diet Dr Pepper flavoured.... yummy) and they're also much much cheaper!,
Sugar free snow cone syrups,
Special K crackers,
Lance Toasty peanut crackers, 
Oroweat sandwich thins, 
Arnolds Sandwich thins -whole wheat- 5 grams of protein, 100 calories,
Martin's 100% whole wheat bread,
Flatout wraps (bread isle,
Josephs Pitas/Tortillas/,
Turkey jerky (just cheaper at US Costco),
Weigh****chers portioned cheeses (Wal-Mart),
LF Laughing Cow cheese - herb and garlic and French onion,
Kraft cheese slices - pepper jack especially,
Sargento cheese sticks (like cheese strings but REAL cheese),
Individual squares of low fat cheese,
Fat free half and half,
Ff cream cheese ,
I can’t believe it’s not butter"  (I use the new stick version it melts just like butter,
I can’t believe it’s not butter-spray,
Nf whipped cream sp can,
Nf feta,
Lean Cuisine Pizza,
South beach pizza,
Kashi Pizza,
Quaker Chewy Granola Bars Plus Protein,
Kashi bars,
Marathon Snickers protein bar,
Vitamin shop-power crunch bars, 
Kashi honey sunshine cereal-honey crunch,
SF Hershey chocolate syrup,
SF Quik chocolate,
Sugar free log cabin syrup,
DaVinci sugar free syrup,
Walden farms pancake syrup,
SF caramel/cho**** cream sauce,
KC Masterpiece Low Cal BBQ Sauce,
 Walden Farms Calorie-Free Alfredo Sauce,
Heinz Fat Free Gravy,
Four seasons Italian dressing mix (like east side Mario’s dressing!),
No name brand Four Seasons Italian Salad dressing mix (good for salad and for "oven fries"),
Russell Stover toffee squares sugar free - big bags!,
SF Russell Stover chocolates (caramel is my favourite),
SF jelly bellies,
Sugar Free Licorice. 6 piecs for approx. 100 cals,.
Sugar Free Oreos,
Fat free chips,
Cocoa covered almonds,
Reduced fat Baskin-Robbins sf candy,
Murray Brand sugar free Shortbread cookies - Blue and White packages. You can have 8 of them for like 100 cals. super yum and great to have on hand at work for cravings and hungry moments.,
Sugar Free Pudding,
Mousse Temptation Desserts from Jell-O,
Lavish Mandarins-sugar free Pudding-boil vanilla,
Carbmaster yogurt from Kroger's,
Yoplait Fat Free key lime pie yogurt,
Dried edamame (cheapest at Costco),
Naked nuggets,
Sugar free honey,
Sugar free chocolate chips,
Eagle brand ff evaporated milk,
Sugar free cake mixes-vanilla,
Sugar free angel food cake,
Sf cherry/apple pie filling,
Maple Grove Farms of Vermont pancake mix,
Vegetable based iron supplements,
Vitamins - The vitamins in the US have 18mg of iron as opposed to our 4-10mg. They're also cheaper.,
Calcium - They sell the calcium petites for $9.99 a bottle which is cheaper than here. They also have huge bottles of the Equate brand calcium citrate which can be snapped in half easily making them the same size as the petites but at about half the cost!,
B12 - this is a good one to pick up as well. We have the dissolvable strips here, but they have the little tablets that you put under your tounge. They taste okay and they're a heck of a lot cheaper than the strips! I get a bottle of 200 for less than half the cost of a box of 50 strips.,
Gas X strips,
No name brand Zantac 150 (MUCH cheaper OTC),
Excedrin migraine (Tylenol, aspirin and caffeine - almost as good as Advil for headache),

 

 You rock!!

Wow kiley...great job! This is great to have a list. I am heading over the border tomorrow.

I am bookmarking this page for sure! Great list, thanks for doing that.