On Thursday, February 13, 2014 4:30:09 PM UTC-6, wrote:
> Namely: It counts as sugar (and as something to be avoided) even when you can't quite taste it. Of course, to many kids, this seems horribly unfair.
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> Example: "Yes, I know you like canned tomato soup better than any homemade tomato soup, but we're still not buying it, even with your allowance money. Why? Because sugar happens to be the second ingredient - surprise, surprise."
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> (No reason to phrase it exactly that way, of course. I just wondered how many here have had kids get upset over that rule or that realization - especially if those kids happen to be surrounded by schoolmates who eat candy as a snack at least several times a week - and/or the more popular super-processed foods for dinner.)
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My son has been raised on sucralose, but there are exceptions. Tonight's
home made applesauce will have a bit of cane sugar added. I won't be eating
it, but my wife is slender, and my son, even more so.

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Back after dinner. Perfect pork chops, perfect apple sauce, perfect mashed
potatoes, and what can I say about the faux gravy? One thing is that my son
really loves the Better Than Bouillon chicken gravy, thickened with Swan's
Down flour. He often complains about dinner, but he was the one who used the word, "perfect," and w/o the "gravy," he might not have.
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> Lenona.

--B