[JustJo]

Both of those recipes sound sooooo good....gonna' have to try them!

And, on another note....as you may recall, I went off artificial sweeteners. No more diet cokes, coke frees, etc.

Instead I drink Sobe LifeWater (sweetened with stevia) or drink unsweetened ice tea I brew at home (part black tea, part green tea for the good stuff in the green tea). Sometimes I drink it plain...sometimes I add a little stevia or agave or even honey....depending on the status of my sweet tooth.

Well....diet coke (or even worse, coke free) was a big addiction for me. If they were in the house, I would drink them...a couple a day. If they weren't in the house, I'd frequently be asking Scoote "can you bring me home a Coke Free honey?"

Addiction.

I would crave them.

Well, it's been a few weeks and....although it was difficult in the beginning...I don't crave them at all anymore. Poof! Gone! I'm totally satisfied with my water, iced tea, Sobe or coffee (or the occasional V8).

It's too early to tell what the long term effect will be. But here's the interesting parallel....I crave sweets much, much less often as well.

I'm not craving cookies or chocolate or candy bars....(almost) at all. And I haven't been craving any McDonald's runs for Big Macs and fries either.

Unheard of.

And makes me very happy.