Wednesday, July 23, 2008
I'm Addicted!
Boy do I suck at this blog business. One blog a month seems to be it for me. Anyway, this week I decided to kick a habit. A not-so-sweet habit. For a few years I've been using Splenda in my coffee and in my cottage cheese and fruit, and I recently decided that I didn't want to consume anything fake anymore (most of the time anyway). So no more Splenda for me. So far it's been tough. Since I don't use sugar, nor will I use artificial sweeteners now, that leaves me with Stevia. My god this is nasty stuff. I will continue to use it for another few weeks and hope to just get used to the taste. Normally I look forward to my Jose's Vanilla Bean coffee from Costco each morning, but the last couple days I've been sort of afraid of my coffee. I can't find the language to describe Stevia's odd taste, but it just isn't good. Why do I continue to drink coffee? Well, because I'm addicted to it. If I don't get my fix, I will be irritable, I'll get wicked headaches, and I'll become a monster of a person. Seriously. I have a problem. One day I'd like to kick the coffee habit, but I'm not ready yet. One thing at a time!
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try the sweetleaf brand and start with liquid stevia or even try their vanilla creme liquid stevia in your coffee. Sweetleaf has 11 different flavors. It will taste nasty if you use too much. You can also try using half a pack of stevia. EACH BRAND TASTE VERY VERY DIFFERENT. I think you're doing the right thing, dont give up!
Hey,
I can't believe you could stomach that splenda crap. I can instantly tell when it's in some sort of drink instead of sugar :(
There's some Xylitol based sweeteners that are supposed to be good (I've only had it in gum though). My dad started using that when he got diagnosed as diabetic a little while back. It's a "sugar alcohol" that's found in some plants:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol
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