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Sugar-free Carob Chip Cookie Recipe

October 31, 2009 • Comments (1)

Ingredients:

1 cup of wheat flour
baking soda
2 eggs
vanilla
white grape juice concentrate
3/4 stick of butter
oats
carob chips

Instructions:

Mix 1/2 cup of flour, butter (softened), baking soda.
Add eggs, vanilla, grape juice, and another 1/2 cup flour, oats.

If it’s dry you can add water or milk.

Mix in carob chips.

Place on un-greased cookie sheet.

Bake at 315 degrees until done.

Sorry about the lack of exact measurements, I tend to just shake a little of this-or-than into the mix and judge the amount visually. If you have been eating sweets then the results of this recipe will taste like cardboard. However, if you’ve been off sweets for a while then these are pretty darn nice!

Addendum: Carob contains natural sugars. However, unsweetened carob has less natural sugars than sweetened chocolate and therefore does not cause me to want to binge on it.

Posted in Tips, Tricks, Info & News on 10/31/09 • Comment

October 31, 2009 - Halloween

October 31, 2009 • Comments (0)

I ate sugar last night—a whole pint of Ben & Jerry's Half Baked ice cream. I also had some cookies. Today I will eat more.

When I woke up this morning my eye had a big crusty in it. That's a sugar thing. It's rare that I wake up with crust in my eyes (de-lic-ious!) when I am not eating sugar.

So far this morning I just feel hungry. More to come, I will keep updating.

1:00 pm Amazing. I have a bunch of chocolate sitting there waiting for me but I am not craving it. I feel kinda gross having just eaten a few bites of a Nutella Crepe. Last night, after I ate the ice cream, my teeth were coated with sugar. It was way nasty.

5:00 pm I have a bunch of chocolate in the house but don’t want it. I am not craving it at all. I have eaten some chocolate covered pretzels and, although they were not very good, kept eating them. I am going to skip dinner and will probably have some more junk before the day is done...

Posted in My Personal Journal on 10/31/09 • Comment

Sugar Challenge: November 2009

October 28, 2009 • Comments (20)

It’s back! The Monthly Sugar Challenge is back!

November is now NOvember.

From Sunday, November 1st through Thanksgiving day (November 26th in the USA) eat no sweets. No refined sugar. No cookies. No dessert. No soda. No candy.

Just Say No.

If you’re gonna eat sugar, do it on Halloween and get it out of your system. Abstain until Thanksgiving and eat whatever you want on that day. The next challenge will take us through the holidays.

You can do it… if you want to.

Whenever you find yourself wanting sweets, eat something healthy. Remember that you will be able to eat dessert on Thanksgiving day, so just put it off until then. Procrastination can be a good thing. NOvember 26th is just a few weeks away. And now it’s even closer.

And now it’s even closer…

Posted in Sugar Challenge on 10/28/09 • Comment

Four More Days ‘til Halloween

October 27, 2009 • Comments (0)

Halloween Candy It’s that time of year. In just four days I’ll be eating something sweet. Gwenn just returned from France with some really special chocolates. My friend Gabe says he’d like to make me some chocolate mousse. I hear it’s amazing and so of course I am pleased. Mousse is one of the things on my list for eating every year. Rich chocolaty things are my favorite.

For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, I only eat refined sugary sweets for four days once every year. From Halloween until my birthday on November 3rd I eat whatever I want. This ritual has kept me sugar free 361 days out of the year for four years (with a slip up here and there). This year I made it all the way through with no mishaps. It wasn’t easy at times, but I made it.

Gearing up for Halloween ‘09

October 24, 2009 • Comments (3)

My “annual sugar binge” is coming up. While at the store yesterday, I grabbed some sugary snacks that I haven’t purchased in a long time.

Sweets from the store It was a tough decision between the Fruit Loops and Captain Crunch with Crunch Berries but Fruit Loops were on sale and so the Tucan won. If I had more time (to eat sweets) I’d have purchased both boxes. Got a bunch of Reeses, some KitKat, chocolate covered pretzels (didn’t realize how many until I got home), chocolate covered almonds and some peanut clusters. Who knows why Pop-Tarts make the list each year, they never make me feel good.

The man in front of me at the checkout had a conveyer belt full of healthy food. There wasn’t a single sugar product in his cart. I began to get self conscious. Three people got in line behind me and purchased three boxes of chocolate chip cookies. Probably each person had their own box for the night’s activities. It made me feel better—not so crazy.

Also on my list for this year: Ice cream and chocolate mousse. Other than that, nothing comes to mind.

Many people ask me why I eat sugar at all. Why not just go straight through the year and make it two years in a row? The answer is that I don’t want to. I’m also not sure I could. A year is plenty of time to avoid sweets. Having them and then avoiding them is one of the best ways I know to exercise my willpower. What’s more, after a year I really want sweets. My mind starts to think that I can handle them and that I could eat them again in moderation. It starts to seem like a good idea to reintroduce some sugary snacks back into my diet. However, this would be bad news and so I simply eat for a few days and then stop being sweet again. It works for me.

Posted in My Personal Journal on 10/24/09 • Comment