Sugar

[Guest guest]

I loved reading everyone's favorite teas. I like my tea with 1 teaspoon

of sugar but thenI realized I drink a lot of tea and that sugar adds up

I read online that because of pollution honey is equally as bad for

you. I won't use sugar substitutes and stevia is really expensive does

anyone know of any healthy sweetner?

[Guest guest]

I use maple syrup and agave syrup.

 

And, over time, I have learned--with practice (;->)--to enjoy lots of teas (and

other food/drinks) without added sweetner. I am appreciating, more and more, the

simple, natural, and unadulterated flavors of food.

 

HTH, gela

 

 

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" mrswalp29 " <mrswalp29

 

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:39:49

 

Sugar

 

 

I loved reading everyone's favorite teas. I like my tea with 1 teaspoon

of sugar but thenI realized I drink a lot of tea and that sugar adds up

I read online that because of pollution honey is equally as bad for

you. I won't use sugar substitutes and stevia is really expensive does

anyone know of any healthy sweetner?

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

-I use raw organic Agave Nectar. It's like honey and very sweet so I

only use a half teaspoon or less. I love the flavor. No aftertaste.

You are right about the honey. Even if the fields are not sprayed the

bee keepers are having to spray the bees for mites that are killing

them. There seem to be conflicting ideas about the bees dying but it is

very worrisome. Try growing your own Stevia plant. All it takes is one

small leaf to sweeten a cuppa. I'm trying to collect seeds from my

Stevia plants and will share if I can.

Deanna in Colorado

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" mrswalp29 " <mrswalp29 wrote:

I read online that because of pollution honey is equally as bad for

you. I won't use sugar substitutes and stevia is really expensive does

anyone know of any healthy sweetner?

[Guest guest]

Deanna,

I will look for Agave Nectar, Vermont tends to be very limited. Does the stevia

plant require a lot of light? In our home it is even hard to grow philodendrons

and you know they can practically grow in closets.

Steph

 

 

--- On Sun, 11/2/08, genny_y2k <genny_y2k wrote:

 

genny_y2k <genny_y2k

Re: Sugar

 

Sunday, November 2, 2008, 10:37 AM

 

-I use raw organic Agave Nectar. It's like honey and very sweet so I

only use a half teaspoon or less. I love the flavor. No aftertaste.

You are right about the honey. Even if the fields are not sprayed the

bee keepers are having to spray the bees for mites that are killing

them. There seem to be conflicting ideas about the bees dying but it is

very worrisome. Try growing your own Stevia plant. All it takes is one

small leaf to sweeten a cuppa. I'm trying to collect seeds from my

Stevia plants and will share if I can.

Deanna in Colorado

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" mrswalp29 " <mrswalp29 wrote:

I read online that because of pollution honey is equally as bad for

you. I won't use sugar substitutes and stevia is really expensive does

anyone know of any healthy sweetner?

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hey kidz!

 

Love the idea of growing Stevia.(Did I spell that right?) Let me know more

about that.

 

 

 

FYI

 

The Bee keepers do not spray the bees.

 

They to have a screen that keeps out the mites and a dust that is on the

base of the hive.

 

Therefore the Honey nor the bees are compromised by chemicals.

 

I ran into this subject back in Or-oh-gone.Talked to a Bee collective about

it and was educated

 

On the Mite problem..It all has to do with housekeeping.Advice from the

keepers of the hives.?

 

Find Local Honey, buy local honey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cooking is like love,

 

It should be entered into with abandon

 

or

 

not at all.,

 

 

 

~Harriet Van Horne

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I'm still a honey user and read reports of how bad it is with a huge grain of

salt. Over the past 20 years the authorities have told us that coffee is bad for

us, then it isn't the coffee, but the caffeine, then they came out with reports

that caffeine isn't the boogie man and coffee is good for us. Then the

authorities discovered that tea is good for us...who knows what they will come

up with us next.

 

My body is sensitive to sugars and it doesn't take much for my blood glucose to

bottom out fast, but honey doesn't send me into rebound hypoglycemia as the

other sugars do. This is a good thing as I go through 12 ounces of honey a week

in my tea, oatmeal and coffee. There's nothing like a piece of fresh hot bread

from the oven with honey dripping off it. Drool.

 

The honey I use is raw, unpasteurized honey from a local farmer who doesn't use

pesticides. You should taste his wildflower honey.  I think I could live on it.

So far colony collapse disease hasn't hit the bees down here. I pray they find

out what is killing the world's bees before they are gone.

 

Horrors! my teapot is empty! Ta ta, love and hugs, Jeanne in GA

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

LOL Jeane! Shall I call you Pooh-bear? I use local honey as well, especially in

the morning with my tea and oatmeal.

 

I love honey too. Actually, I just flat-out love bees! I used to live on a farm

as a kid; we had a natural hive of honey bees that would pollinate our garden

and our field of morning glories. I never tasted their honey, but I saw them all

the time and never got stung.

 

I, too, worry about the bees, and not just for the honey. If enough pollinators

die, then we could really start losing our world's food supply. I hope someone

is outting a lot of study and money into it! Mermaid

 

 

 

: treazured: Sun, 2 Nov

2008 15:07:18 -0800Re: Sugar

 

 

 

 

I'm still a honey user and read reports of how bad it is with a huge grain of

salt. Over the past 20 years the authorities have told us that coffee is bad for

us, then it isn't the coffee, but the caffeine, then they came out with reports

that caffeine isn't the boogie man and coffee is good for us. Then the

authorities discovered that tea is good for us...who knows what they will come

up with us next. My body is sensitive to sugars and it doesn't take much for my

blood glucose to bottom out fast, but honey doesn't send me into rebound

hypoglycemia as the other sugars do. This is a good thing as I go through 12

ounces of honey a week in my tea, oatmeal and coffee. There's nothing like a

piece of fresh hot bread from the oven with honey dripping off it. Drool. The

honey I use is raw, unpasteurized honey from a local farmer who doesn't use

pesticides. You should taste his wildflower honey. I think I could live on it.

So far colony collapse disease hasn't hit the bees down here. I pray they find

out what is killing the world's bees before they are gone. Horrors! my teapot

is empty! Ta ta, love and hugs, Jeanne in GA[Non-text portions of this message

have been removed]

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I had to buy sugar last night, after reading some of this -- making peanut

butter cookies for a co-worker's last day.

The regular old, Wal-mart Great Value brand sugar is beet sugar -- to my

understanding, beet sugar is not refined with bone char, is that right? And

what is turbinado?

 

Audrey S.