What kinds of sweetners do you use that work well with drinks, baking, and
any other form of cooking or food production?

13 responses total.

Sometime when I think of it while at the store, I need to remember to get some
honey for my hot tea.  And once, many years ago, I had an interesting
combination of stawberries dipped in brown sugar and if I remember right, sour
cream...

I know some of the artificial sweetners shouldn't be used for baking. Has
anyone tried baking with that Splenda mix [part Splenda, part suger]?

I usually use splenda instead of sugar when I need to sweeten my tea [though
some types of teas dont need sweetning.].

Dried fruit, sweet potato, squash.

re 2:  I've baked with Splenda by itself and it bakes nicely.  I made 
a sugar free cheese cake at Tgiving, and it turned out great.

I think the only thing you can use to bake with is Splenda.  I tend to 
just use Splenda for making kool-aid (no joke).  For baking, I tend to 
use real sugar.

I steal Splenda packets from Starbucks and keep em in the desk in case I want
to add a lil zing to my tea.

Honey can replace sugar in any recipe.  You just have to remember that
honey is 80% water, so you'll have to take out some liquid somewhere
else to make up for it.

Stevia and Succanat can be baked with as well.

I try to avoid artifical sweeteners like the plague.

Licorice is a natural sweetener.

Yeah, I have been avoiding artifical sweeteners for the past year and 
half or so too

I don't.  I probably use them more than I should, but I'm gonna die
anyway, so I might as well fill my body with bad shit!

;)

Hear hear!

I use blackstrap molassas & honey on my oatmeal, but the result
isn't very sweet (intentional; i don't want sweet cereal as my
daily breakfast staple).  There's also dutch cocoa powder and
wheat germ in my recipe...somehow i crave the stuff even though
it doesn't "taste good".

I figure that people should eat what they want to eat. And if what they
want to eat is artificial sweeteners, more power to them! 

But I like plain old fashioned sugar ;) 

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