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RE: SUPERFOOD SMOOTHIE SECRETS - FRUITS AND VEGGIES MONDAY
Yes, several visits but not going to be happening too often. It is vital to give children a good healthy foundation. This includes food and healthy food choices. Growing up we didn't have money for junk food (which here was still expensive). It was wholesome home cooking and water or go without. I can't say I miss the fast food because it was never part of my childhood. In fact except for my natural sweet tooth I actually don't like the taste of it. So I really sympathise with those that have given it up but still miss it
howdy back buckaroo! how interesting..what about sugar? you had a taste for that even with getting limited amounts?
Yes. But there are alternatives. I don't miss sugar. But I do like sweet things. Give me cake over food any day! I use honey to sweeten, or even dates do the trick. I think you get the genuine maple syrup there. We get other natural plant based sweeteners like stevia but having our own hives I prefer honey
By the way, do yourself a favour and watch "That Sugar Film" made by and Australian company. It's a real eye opener.
yes I've done posts about the best available sugar replacements and I've been campaigning against sugar for years actually, even though I would go off the wagon quite often! lol.
but now we are more disciplined. dates and honey, especially raw honey like yours is so wonderful, just with those two you can almost totally replace sugar. right now Monk Fruit is our favorite.
You can replace sugar! I think if we couldn't replicate the junk with equally yummy healthy options it would be really hard. But I disagree with healthy tasting like medicine. Why punish yourself? What is Monk Fruit?
oh Monk Fruit is SO good and healthy. It's named because the Monk's have been using it for hundreds of years as a sweetner, maybe thousands, but anyway it's a little green gourd and they come from China.
It's just the best tasting that we've found, no aftertaste and very sweet, tastes like sugar but totally healthy. I don't think it's been available to the mass market place that long, we got ours from Walmart.com.
Sounds good. The only South African options are stevia, xylitol and sometimes coconut sugar. We can occasionally get things like maple syrup but I'd have to rob a bank to be able to afford it!
haha! yes Maple Syrup is crazy expensive even here. I take it there are no Maple trees in Africa?
No way! I wish. I think they need really really cold weather and we simply don't have the right climate