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2 Sugar Tricks: How to Tint Sugar and How to Make Powdered Sugar

How to dye sugar: If you want dyed sugar to decorate cookies or holiday cups, save money by making your own dyed sugar! You can dip it with granulated sugar, coarse sugar, and even raw sugar. They are easy to target! Once you know this trick, you’ll always be sugar coated whenever you need it! […]

How to Make Homemade Granola

Granola is a delicious breakfast in the morning, a nice snack in the afternoon, and sometimes a good dessert too! Homemade granola is really easy to make, and the best part is that you can adapt the ingredients to your personal tastes! Granola from the grocery store is usually laden with extra fat and refined […]

Is Agave Nectar a Healthy Replacement for Sugar?

Agave (uh-gah-vay) nectar is marketed as a healthier, sweeter alternative to sugar. Derived from the sticky sap of the Agave plant in Mexico, where Agave has had a long sacred tradition of healing and purifying the soul and body. The Spanish agave juice was fermented several hundred years ago, and people have been enjoying tequila […]

10 Tips for Cutting Sugar Out of Your Diet

It’s no secret, Americans love sugar and we put it on everything. Sugar is added to whole-wheat bread and muffins, as well as muffins. Yes, you read that right! Sugar whole wheat whole-pasta>whole wheat has traditionally been considered “healthy” and unhealthy items like pasta for its addictive properties. This just proves how much Americans love […]

7 Low Sugar Baking Tips for Diabetics

Getting a Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis doesn’t mean you have to give up baking or baking goodies like cakes, cookies and pies. Here are seven low-sugar baking tips that even non-diabetic friends and family will enjoy. Cut into Amounts of Sugar In doing so, he says to use two cups of sugar. You don’t need […]

Splenda VS. Madhava Agave Nectar

Splenda vs. Madhava Agave Nectar. You’ve heard of Splenda, no doubt. Splenda is the most recent sugar substitute to the hit the United States grocery and retail food market. Splenda is five hundred to seven hundred times sweeter than sugar, and yet has zero calories. A “laboratory sugar,” Splenda is a favorite among diabetics. Unlike […]

Tips for Using Agave Nectar

It is popular and tasty! Agave nectar is the latest trend in natural sweeteners. If you haven’t tried it yet, it’s worth a taste. If you’re not sure what it is, you don’t know where to get it, or you’re clueless when it comes to cooking or cooking with aloe nectar, more tips you will […]

Healthy, Easy School Lunch Ideas

Except for two years, my 10 year old daughter has been home schooled her entire life. Now she’s starting 5th grade in the public school system at the end of this month, August 2009. She’s a vegetarian who eats mostly vegan (that’s because her mother, me, is a vegan) so the National School Lunch Program […]

Tips for Baking with Sugar Substitutes

Some great pain is arising around the world and many scientists blame the increase in sugar consumption on a daily basis. Although America has lost the number one slot for the highest percentage of obese people, Australians have sunk and the throne of obesity. Since World War II, societies have blown more amounts of sugar […]