Morning Deb,
I would advise you to try not to get off cheap with the stevia - the cheaper stuff is often bitter and you have to use more of it.

Mail order is the way to go on all supplements - I like vitacost.com and iherb.com, they are the chepest for quality products. Buying cheaper stuff from the regular grocery store or Walmart type store often leaves you with a less potent product incuding undesirable fillers. With the better stuff you can get the same effect without having to take as much, too.

Also on the whole milk yogurt (i'm sure you know this ) - only the plain is ok on Schwarzbein since all the other flavors are sweetened. Also, sugar of any sort would be counterproductive if you're working on the other stuff.

I've read that any fishoil products you buy, nowadays, should be ultra-filtered to take out the harmful metals since the fish population is growing more and more contaminated. If your codliver oil has much cholesterol, this is a good indictation that all the impurities, including mercury and other such dangers things, have NOT been filtered out.

http://www.mercola.com/2002/dec/14/mercury_fish.htm

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press...0616095350.html

I BELIEVE Wanda, on our SP forum, is so contaminated with mercury from eating fish, that she is no longer allowed to consume it.

I don't mean to put too much bad news forth, since I don't want you to lose your momentum! just thought you'd like weigh the info yourself. The mercola site, above, has some really useful info on all sorts of stuff like this, including Splenda and Nutrasweet info.

I, too, am on a budget so I can totally empathize!

Best of luck (to all of us!) on this journey.
Jinx

Ps here's a link for orange AND mint cod liver oil! YUUUMMMMM!!

http://www.vitacost.com/store/produ....x=2&submit.y=8