kathryn
Cathlete
>Good idea. Gotta buy me some stevia! Is that like the
>splenda that I bought? Or, since I'm such a coffee lover,
>maybe I should make myself a pot of decaf at night? Or would
>that make me want cookies? :-(
Stevia is actually from a plant. I get the liquid extract (which looks expensive, but isn't because you only use 2-5 drops or so to nicely sweeten a glass of water. If you use too much, it starts tasting bitter. It's several hundred times sweeter than sugar.)
I don't know much about Spenda, except that it is derived from sugar. I know it's many times sweeter than sugar, so you'd use less of it. OF course, with these things that are "hundred of times sweeter than sugar", if you get a powdered version of it, it has some kind of filler in. Otherwise it's almost impossible to measure out a tiny, tiny amount.
>splenda that I bought? Or, since I'm such a coffee lover,
>maybe I should make myself a pot of decaf at night? Or would
>that make me want cookies? :-(
Stevia is actually from a plant. I get the liquid extract (which looks expensive, but isn't because you only use 2-5 drops or so to nicely sweeten a glass of water. If you use too much, it starts tasting bitter. It's several hundred times sweeter than sugar.)
I don't know much about Spenda, except that it is derived from sugar. I know it's many times sweeter than sugar, so you'd use less of it. OF course, with these things that are "hundred of times sweeter than sugar", if you get a powdered version of it, it has some kind of filler in. Otherwise it's almost impossible to measure out a tiny, tiny amount.
