Real Or Artificial?????

Stitchindude · Post by **Stitchindude** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:10 pm

If you sweeten you coffee, tea, cereal, do you use a real sweetener like sugar or honey, or an artificial one such as Splenda, Sweet and Low, or Equal?? Or are you so sweet you don't use either kind??

lacemaker2004 · Post by **lacemaker2004** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:23 pm

Well, I'd like to think it's because I'm so sweet I don't need the added sugar (my you are from the south aren't you!?!) Anyway, coffee just gets fatfree half and half but tea gets about 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of real live sugar.

Stitchindude · Post by **Stitchindude** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:35 pm

Well I have to admit I use the fake stuff, only because I'm a diabetic and have to watch my sugar and carbohydrate intake. I have gotten used to the taste over the years so I'm ok with it!

mags · Post by **mags** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:13 pm

Sugar every time and two spoons I'm afraid - must cut down

coffee_freak · Post by **coffee_freak** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:26 pm

i do low carb so splenda and a tsp of half n half goes in each cup

coffee_freak · Post by **coffee_freak** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:26 pm

oh and when i read the title i was thinking something else..

lacemaker2004 · Post by **lacemaker2004** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:41 pm

Oh my you are naughty! I hadn't even gone there until you said that!

hada56 · Post by **hada56** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:51 pm

yuck! no artifical for me or my DD. she's allergic to it and I can't stand the taste of any of them. Only the real deal for me. And, I can get "standard" sugar here, which is a less refined type. Sweetens more with less...

ConnieO · Post by **ConnieO** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:17 pm

I'm the real deal when I use it, on cereal etc. None at all in my tea, gave it up when I tried the GI diet, and now can't stand tea with sugar in it!

I've tried Splenda and others, but I've found they leave a residue, especially on cereal. It's very weird.

wendywombat · Post by **wendywombat** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:32 pm

We use sugar or Honey. I read somewhere that to build up a resistance to allergies ie 'hay-fever' use a locally produced honey which has all the local pollens in it. And as D/H get the dreaded hay-fever we try to use the local stuff.

BUT don't use sugar in tea or coffee though!! Only in baking.

~threadbear~ · Post by **~threadbear~** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:19 pm

I don't use sugar in drinks or on cereal.
I used to have 2 sugars in my tea years ago and decided to go onto sweetners (to try and give sugar up).
It tasted that bad I ended up thinking tea with no sugar at all was the lesser of the evils! Now I cant drink tea with any sugar at all, much too sweet for me. haha.

mauveme · Post by **mauveme** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:23 pm

I dont drink hot stuff. So no sugar there, I can't stand sweet cereal, just special K with no sugar for me. I save all my sugar for where it counts----CHOCOLATE

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:44 am

That fake stuff makes me feel ill!

Sugar and honey all the way baby!

Jilly · Post by **Jilly** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:40 am

I love sugar, but we switched to sweetener at home a while back.

Serinde · Post by **Serinde** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:38 pm

Sugar, from cane when I can get it.

UK produces much of its own sugar from beet, and you can't tell the difference, but I just think those fertile acres in East Anglia ought to be growing wheat for my bread, not beet to feed cattle and/or rot my teeth.

Rachael · Post by **Rachael** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:17 pm

mags wrote:Sugar every time and two spoons I'm afraid - must cut down

Me too Two sugars and must cut down,I have got the artificial stuff but it taste horrid!

ConnieO · Post by **ConnieO** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:47 pm

Serinde wrote:Sugar, from cane when I can get it.

UK produces much of its own sugar from beet, and you can't tell the difference, but I just think those fertile acres in East Anglia ought to be growing wheat for my bread, not beet to feed cattle and/or rot my teeth.

Don't worry Serinde! The winter wheat is already several inches high here, and we are also known for our potatoes, carrots and salad crops.

Serinde · Post by **Serinde** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:11 pm

Whew! I feel so much better knowing that (really!).

Jilly · Post by **Jilly** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:35 am

It's the beet lorries that drive you nuts

My Daughter used to live in Plumstead Road, Connie, just round the corner (nearly ) from my Aunt and Uncle in Sprowston.
I am an east Anglian lass

Alexanie · Post by **Alexanie** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:36 am

I'm not sweetening my tea, but I need to sweeten my coffee. I've to take the artificial sweeteners because I'm diabetic, too.