What does a guy do who has a sweet tooth?

Geo-TH,In

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Some say Americans eat too much sugar,
sugar is bad for you.
Some say artificial sweeteners are bad for you.
I've given up drinking all carbonated beverages.
I know water is good for you,
BUT SOMETIMES I WANT SOMETHING SWEET TO DRINK.
I drink 8 oz OJ for breakfast and supper.
Could drink OJ all the time, but has too much sugar.
So what does a guy to do?
george
 
I used to be like you.
I told my wife not to buy anymore soft drinks and cookies or sweets of any kind.
You wont miss what you don't have access to.
If i feel a need to have something to eat between meals i eat a dry slice of bread. I drink only coffee.
 
Walking around in the bakery dept. this morning and noticed that they had individual cherry pies that said "NO SUGAR ADDED". BUT, I looked and it had 320 calories - 150 of them from fat!

Thought to myself: "Not enough sugar to harm you, but the fat will kill you!"
 
I was told to cut out my sugar as my blood sugar was slightly high. So I did and went to diet sode and Splenda and all that fake stuff. Went out the barn to work on something and started to pass out came back checked my sugar and it to low causing me to pas out. A big gob of sugar and I was Ok. Now I don't eat all that diet stuff.
Walt
 
You need to find some Jalapeno jelly. Good and sweet plus in many ways good for you also. I will be canning some in a few days if all goes well.
I plan on canning some Habanero Gold Jelly tomorrow. Good and sweet also
 
The Arnold Palmer brand of Diet Icetea/lemonade 50/50 Mix is real good, I drink Pineapple juice straight. I do not drink OJ due to stomach problems.
 
I always thought it was funny to see a bag of candy with "fat free food" on the label lol. Maybe one day I will have to move to this town called "Moderation"....you can do and eat anything there ;)
 
Sometimes I have some orange juice or cranberry juice mixed with club soda. Less sugar and a little fizz, but sometimes I just want a soda pop. I know what you are talking about. Years ago orange juice was GOOD for you, now all they talk about is that it has sugar.....it had sugar before...
 

Aspertame tastes like some solvent or something to me.
I will go thirsty before drinking a diet drink.

Good old sugar for me.
 
I gave up soda pop about 6 months ago. Doc said my sugar was high. I still crave a sweet drink now and then so I drink club soda with slices of lime and a couple of tsps of sugar. Otherwise, I stick to water. I've lost over 10 lbs since I gave up soda pop. My sugar dropped big-time even with the occasional club soda-sugar-lime drink. I call it my "virgin mojitos". :lol:
 
This past May I started on HFLC (High Fat Low Carbs) and no sugar at all. The good fats are animal fats and so I had lots of meat but no vegetable oils at all. Here's a youtube "Butter makes your pants fall off":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6aMN6NLOTQ

The only sugars I had were maple syrup, raw unpasturized honey, tart fruits and coconut sugar. These are all simple sugars but you cannot pig out on them. I've only lost 9 pounds since May but I feel so much healthier.
 
25 grams of sugar per day is all one should be consuming based on a 2,000 calorie intake. One glass of orange juice will give you that.
 
Those who indulge in food or drinks need to figure out what appetite they're are trying to satisfy!!
Whether it's a psychological need or actual hunger.
 
Dried fruit.
Raisens, mixed fruit, dried apricots, a couple of prunes.
They're like candy but better for you.
Watch out as they'll make you toot.
Raise your wife's blood pressure but not your sugar.
 
I have been drinking Old Orchard fruit juice. I mix 2/3 juice with 1/3 ginger ale. It tastes pretty good.
 
I'm pretty sure I'm going to die of something; it may as well be something I like. Besides, at the end of the journey I'd hate to know I died of nothing.
 
I see some of the replys and it makes me wonder! When I was growing up I had a lot of stomach pains, cramps in my legs, and headaches. It made me wonder back then if I was going to live the rest of my life like that. Then I discovered that the soda I was drinking before making hay was dehydrating me so bad it was hard to keep going. So I stopped drinking it before making hay then quit drinking any of it. I switched to water, apple cider, and a bunch of other juices. I started feeling better and with more energy. A few years ago I cut out all processed foods, artificial colors, artificial flavors, corn syrup, and hydrogenated oils, if it wasn't locally grown from stands around were I live, our garden, or anything fresh, I don't eat it. I feel like I have the energy of a ten year old now. Others say why die healthy, well I say why poison yourself and try to live! I rarely get a cold anymore, not any congestion like I see kids at the school when I pick up my son, snot coming out of their nose, it is from the food they eat. When I go to some shindig and have some of their food it taste like I am chewing on a plastic bag.Sorry to go on like this but it hits home, I suffered with my health at an early age. This is the best I have felt all my life,and no one should feel the way I did growing up! Tom
 
I like my Orange Juice, Pineapple Juice, & Cranberry Juice; each mixed with some of that clear stuff called V-O-D-K-A . LOL!

In moderation of course.

:>)
 
Juice mixed with plain soda water is good. Cuts the sweetness some and makes it fizzy.

(But if you have issues with sodium... then it may not be a good option).
 
Dr.: "You should eat only organic foods, avoid all processed foods, sugar, salt, alcohol, etc. It will make you live longer."

Patient: "Well, at least it will sure SEEM longer. . ."
 
A couple people have mentioned missing the fizz of soda, even adding club soda to get the fizz. For those that dont know, you can carbonate your own drinks pretty easily. I learned about this years ago when brewing beer and how to speed up the process of carbonating it but the same thing can be done with any drink if you want fizz.

You can buy a special cap for 2 liter bottles for carbonating or make your own. Here is the bought one http://morebeer.com/products/carbonator-cap.html That has a special connector on the top of it that fits the common homebrewing connector (used to be a common soda connector but not its obsolete for that use now). You hook it up to a CO2 tank and it adds the fizz people crave.

Or you can make your a carbonator cap out of a schrader valve. Just put a schrader valve on a 2 liter bottle cap and charge the bottle from your CO2 tank and you get your fizz fix. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJD0bv9kLAQ&feature=player_embedded#t=0

Put anything you want in a bottle and add as much fizz as you want. No need to mix juices with soda water to only get a kinda fizzy drink, get a full fizz drink all the time. Enjoy!
 
Look online for cookie and bar recipes that use honey instead of sugar. I know a guy that owns a large honey bee operation, his wife bakes sweets all the time with honey instead of sugar. It's good for you and can be used in many ways. I often put a tablespoon of it in my coffee and have even boiled water in a tea pot poured it in a cup added a tablespoon or two of honey and I'm good to go!
 
I don't know if polar beverage are national - they bottling plant's right up the road from me here in MA.

But I like they'r flavored seltzer waters. No sugars, no calories - just fizzy water with a hint of black cherry, pomegranate, etc, etc.

I'm sure there are other brands out there.

I buy it in the small bottles because it looses its fizz quickly, and they're not so good once they start going flat.
 

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