ok, so i lied,lol

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Registered: 10-12-2005
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Mon, 04-24-2006 - 1:43pm
One last question(maybe).  What about Altern artificial sweetner?  I got some at walmart today but I think it may just be generic brand splenda.  It has a wierd consistancy that I'm not sure that I like but I could get used to it.  Does anyone know anything about it?  I prefer xylitol for my occasional artificial sweetner needs but there are no health food stores near me so it's hard to keep in the house.
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Registered: 07-01-2005
Fri, 04-28-2006 - 5:10pm
Thanks! So I guess I could use the sucanat in a recipe calling for brown sugar, and use the one with honey to sweeten my tea. Or I could use the sage or tupelo honey for tea. I've used soy too but had to get used to the unsweetened stuff as even the "plain" soymilk has sugar in it! Unfortunately, tea tastes beter with milk, but I'm still on the fence as to whether I want to have dairy in my diet or not. For right now, I am. Have you tried goat's milk yogourt? It's really nice tasting and supposed to be easier to digest than cow's milk yogourt.
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Registered: 01-08-2005
Fri, 04-28-2006 - 6:03pm

Yes, I used to have a lot of goat's milk products since they didn't bother me like the cow's milk, but now the regular yogurt doesn't affect me so I just have it. And yes, the sucanat with honey is great in tea. Both of those honeys I mentioned also would be good in tea. I use either depending on they type of tea I'm having. I'm a tea junkie and get the loose leaf kinds and some go well with the flavor of honey and some just don't. THe sucanat with honey does not have a honey flavor to it at all, so it is much more like white table sugar, so I use it with the flavors of tea that I don't want the honey flavor in. My favorite use for the sage and tupelo honey, by the way, is homeade granola. I use freshly cut oats and mix 4 cups with half a cup of honey and a third cup of canola oil and then bake until golden brown and cool. I figured out that there is only like 1 tablespoon full of honey at the most in one serving of the granola and I eat it as a cereal cold. Usually that and maybe a little in tea is all the sweetener I have in a day, so I don't feel guilty at all. I use the honey in all the baking I can, but some things don't work with honey, like cookies or brownies etc, so that is when I use the sucanats.

Jen

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