We significantly cut back on our sugar intake yesterday. I didn’t have any. The kids had 1 TBL of syrup on their waffles(about 8 grams sugar). I posted in May a rundown of how much sugar we ate in a typical day, and I know we can do better. My plan is to keep our intake below 12 grams of sugar per day. While I don’t practice eliminating foods from our diet, too much sugar in ones diet leads to eating lower quality, less nutritious foods at the expense of sugar laced goods.
Eating less sugar doesn’t mean you can’t eat sweet foods. I was on the hunt for some no sugar desserts. The book I got from the library had recipes with ingredients I normally don’t have on hand. And, unfortunately most of my google searches came up with desserts that had splenda as the sweeetner, which I don’t care for. I finally found one on Allrecipes, using mashed bananas as sweetener, and made them. Once again, I liked them (because I ususally like everything), however, they did not go over so well with the family.
The Husband said, “ gross “. The Flip-flopper and Ketchup boy said, “ Don’t like them.” But Cereal boy said, “ they are OK, but there isn’t really any flavor in them”. I thought they tasted kind of like a bland banana bread. They could have used less butter (which some of the reviewers did).
Things less sweet will be an aquired taste. Once we get used to less sugar in things, food will finally start to taste better. In the meantime, if you have any links to recipes that use fruit as the sweetner rather than sugar or splenda, please let me know. I will do my best this weekend to come up with one that is a crowd pleaser.
Eating less sugar doesn’t mean you can’t eat sweet foods. I was on the hunt for some no sugar desserts. The book I got from the library had recipes with ingredients I normally don’t have on hand. And, unfortunately most of my google searches came up with desserts that had splenda as the sweeetner, which I don’t care for. I finally found one on Allrecipes, using mashed bananas as sweetener, and made them. Once again, I liked them (because I ususally like everything), however, they did not go over so well with the family.
The Husband said, “ gross “. The Flip-flopper and Ketchup boy said, “ Don’t like them.” But Cereal boy said, “ they are OK, but there isn’t really any flavor in them”. I thought they tasted kind of like a bland banana bread. They could have used less butter (which some of the reviewers did).
Things less sweet will be an aquired taste. Once we get used to less sugar in things, food will finally start to taste better. In the meantime, if you have any links to recipes that use fruit as the sweetner rather than sugar or splenda, please let me know. I will do my best this weekend to come up with one that is a crowd pleaser.