Dave Smith wrote:

>As much as I like eating sweet things, I
> have never really liked drinking sweet
> things. I was puzzled when my started
> buying diet soft drinks for me after my
> heart surgery because I rarely drank
> regular soft drinks. I never used to have
> much sugar in tea and started drinking it
> black with no sugar when I was about
> 20. Shortly after that I stopped sugaring
> coffee to.

>No soft drink mixers for booze. I drink
> that straight, or a bit of sweet vermouth
> with rye.

>I do not use sugar substitutes for
> cooking. I prefer to have less sugar. On
> hot and cold cereals I use the darkest
> brown sugar I can find and it has
> enough flavour that I only need a little.

Same here, I like to EAT sweet things, but do NOT want them in liquid
form. I was never a big pop/soda drinker, even as a kid, and when I did
occasionally have it, such as in a root beer float maybe, I never used
the diet soda.

I won't use any sugar substitutes period, as haven't liked the ones I
ever tried, and just feel in the long run, those things do more harm to
one's body, so I would rather go without sugar, than to have the
alternative. Like you, I cut back sugar in all my baking, same as I do
salt, and I don't find any difference in the quality of the finished
product. I will continue to eat sugar, or nothing, other than maybe a
little honey, such as in my oatmeal. I never put sugar on my dry cereal,
such as cornflakes, but put a sliced banana in with it.

I do keep a box of Splenda packets in the pantry, for our daughter to
use when she is here. I have my tea and coffee with no sugar, but I do
like a small bit of 1/2 & 1/2 in my coffee now.

Judy