This probably should have made it into the 6 weird things post, but I hate swallowing pills. It’s not that I’m afraid of them, or that I CAN’T swallow them. I just don’t like it.

Consequently, I take two chewable Flintstones vitamins every morning.

I’m also anemic. So when I was roaming the vitamins aisle yesterday and saw “Flintstones Vitamins: WITH IRON,” I immediately picked up a couple of bottles. See, in addition to hating pill-swallowing, I also have a daily maximum of pills, medicines and vitamins that I can convince myself to take (I know, I’m starting to sound like a real mental case). That daily limit right now has reached capacity with my Flintstones and birth control, so for whatever reason, taking my iron pills just doesn’t happen.

When I got home, I compared the new Iron chewables with the regular vitamins I had previously been taking (you know, I didn’t want to overdose on iron or anything) and found much to my shock and horror that Flintstones WITH IRON actually have LESS iron than the regular Flintstones I had been taking.

J says I have fallen victim to a marketing scheme. I say I have been lied to and now I am vexed. And the fact that they have added a new flavor (Wilma now comes in blueberry) makes no advance in my consolation.

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