Best Sweetener to Use

Use fruits and sweet veggies as sweeteners when baking and cooking.

Instead of adding sugar to the spaghetti sauce, add a cup of grated carrots and cook until they disintegrate.

Instead of adding sugar to muffins and quick breads add very ripe bananas, apples, pears, raisins, dates, carrots, sweet potatoes, etc.

Make fruit chutneys without sugar and use that as a sweetening condiment when you are craving something sugary.

Purchase your favorite dried fruit and pulvarize it in the food processor to sprinkle over foods that need to be sweetened. I've done this with dried pineapple and dried papaya.

I don't eat all that much in a sitting. Just need to feed constantly. I don't avoid fat that much. I choose butter over margarine. Favorite meat is chicken. I use sea salt in cooking. Never did savor the fancy dishes. I often eat baked salmon. I eat berries when possible. Have walnuts and other nuts daily, along with other seeds. I eat some red meat, but not often. I avoid most fruit, except the occasional orange. I treat corn the same as sugar. When I come home from work, my lunch consists of vegetables. If it's a salad, I put in something along the order of mushrooms, avocado or last night's chicken. Dinner can be almost anything - sugarless. Breakfast has mostly been cereal, such as Weetabix or organic raisin bran, with nuts. Often have eggs with a meal. That's not the whole picture, but you get the idea.

we eat very similarly, ed.

have you looked at the farmer's markets for honey?

I have a local amish guy who is half of grocery prices, and sells quarts.

(he has different flavors, too)

Klein's, a Tomball grocer, stocks raw honey from a local source, rock.

Since you eat mostly vegetables, nuts, fish and chicken what is it that you are wanting to sweeten? Maybe tell us what you want to sweeten and we can give you suggestions for that rather than this hit or miss thing.

Im going to agree with osso and suggest that after you 'wean', try raw organic cane sugar.

it is not the processed white stuff most call sugar. In fact what is called sugar in the box now is a processed chemical that started out as cane sugar

Cane sugar IS sugar, exactly as sugar should be, but part of the primary issue that is jacking your blood sugar around is all of the chemicals that are IN common white table sugar and used to make that sugar.

But these are topics i am waaayyy to passionate about. Not angry.. I just talk too much

Corn is another excellent avoidance.
It IS in almost every product we eat, sometimes called something completely different.

many diabetics I know , well.. they USED to be diabetic.. until they got away from the chemicals in foods.. but.. they use raw cane sugar.
In the coffee, on the cereal etc..
they dont go over board with it of course.
All but one of my friends no longer have blood sugar problems.

Oh, and raw cane sugar? Is not addictive.

regular white table sugar? corn syrups? other chemical 'sweetners'? .. ARE

Cancer loves sugar. It does not seem to discriminate about the source.

I like my breakfast cereal sweet. I like to have a few cookies and the like. I have as much a sweet tooth as anybody.

Have a go.

It's pretty damned near useless to me because I can hardly taste it. But I think it ia fine for lots of folk.

I allow sugar in my morning coffee, and when I go to cafes and buy good coffee.

At work, whatever I drink, is unsweetened.

I was also thinking about my wife. She sweetens her coffee and sometimes her tea. I may get the stevia this week.

Use sugar free.

I have been buying stevia. It not only satisfies the need, it is highly recommended by a source I respect in the fight against cancer.

Good for you, edgar. I use nothing but Stevia too (obviously) .

But I keep a little raw honey on hand too. Just for a taste now and then.

Stevia is now easy to buy around here, and not that expensive.