Prune Juice

There had been heavy rain in both Chile and Argentina this past growing season.

So heavy in fact that it caused flooding.

This flooding ruined 14,000 tons of plums in the region. Leaving a paltry 45,000 tons of plums available to be used and processed WORLDWIDE.

The Sunsweet Growers co-op uses plums from Chile and Argentina to make their prunes and prune juice. More specifically the prune juice in the 5.5oz cans.

The 5.5oz cans of Sunsweet prune juice are a staple for me. Apart from the regularity benefits, it provides me with an easily digestible and received source of potassium, some B12 and other nutrients that work together to keep me this side of living. But really, it keeps things going because of the soluble fiber, which for a Celiac like me? I’ll take all the easily digestible fiber that my guts won’t reject as I can get.

Tell me why I’ve felt like I was back in the Access department at Royal, working on a guests’ special food order trying to source me some prune juice in the cans?! It’s been 3 weeks and I’ve only been able to scavenge 3 6pks to complement the three I’ve been steady going through?

I had one vendor cancel on me, another two are pending. Meanwhile I’ve been geeking on InstaCart checking any store that might have them and that I can get delivery for and I’m checking every store within a mile or so radius of where I live on foot/wheels hoping I run into a hidden stash.

Dis tew much.

Before you say it – the juice in the plastic bottles are not the same. Something about the alchemy of those 5.5oz cans gets my GI going. I don’t have to chill them, they are shelf stable for when I need, the amount is just right and the viscosity is way different than the bottled ones.

One specific thing my body/extra special guts rock with and a global shortage is threatening to upend my GI world

Im high-key panicked at this point.

No other company that I know, makes them in a can like that.

Sigh… I just …

If you ever wanted a story about how global warming is fucking shit up… global warming is literally fucking up my ability to take a poo. Literally.

Let’s hope this one vendor ships me my case of those canned Sunsweet prune juices on Monday as scheduled.

If they cancel, I’ll source another vendor and hope the second one comes through.

The other issue is expense – though I get my money back when they cancel, I have between $45-$70 of my money just hanging out there wondering which vendor will come through. Its like playing prune juice roulette – It’s nerve wracking!

This is nuts!

Side note: I’m pretty freakin’ awesome at what I do. I can see why my Guests loved working with me when they called in – I get resourceful and got the things they needed to make their vacation awesome food wise