To think not keeping sugar in the house

[Hullygully]

Is fine if no one in your family takes it and it's poison anyway?

Oh yes salad dressing? Do none of you make your own? Sugar is vital.

Knick some sachets, or buy sugar lumps. They don't go hard

I never buy granulated sugar. If somebody visits and takes sugar in their tea, it has to be caster sugar (fished out and dusted off from the back of my 'baking' cupboard) Didn't realise that made me 'wierd'

No, sugar is a preservative. As long as it's kept dry it should be fine.

I keep a really small bit in the back of my cupboard for my step-father when he comes round

< this is my 'what, no sugar in the house at all?' face. What kind of a person would have no sugar? It's essential for all kinds of recipes, and essential for being a good host. I keep coffee and one of those little boxes of mixed fruit/herbal teas in although I wouldn't drink them myself, just in case a guest asks for it. It doesn't go off, doesn't cost much, and doesn't take up much space.

My cupboard resembles Umami's - lots of different kinds of sugar. And sprinkles. If you have flour, sugar, butter, eggs and sprinkles you can keep small children entertained for HOURS! And impress your OH when he gets in from work. And you have cake at the end of it!

Pah.

I always have some for guests, and I use it in pasta sauces too (only a pinch or two!).

When I used to take sugar in my tea, it would have killed me to have to drink tea without it and I wouldn't have enjoyed it all.

Like mentioned previously, if you don't want to buy any in in bulk, get some sachets from the local cafe or some such place and keep them in the cupboard.

I have a friend who doesn't like any hot drinks but keeps in tea, coffee, hot chocolate powder and sugar, just for guests.

She is lovely.

WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE SLAVES?

You don't need sugar for salad dressings surely?

I know sugar lasts a long time but I don't think my Fairtrade Sainsbury's sugar is that old.

I am AMAZED that nobody has come on to flame us all for suggesting stealing sugar sachets from coffee shops.

Of course you do! 1 tsp sugar to 25ml vinegar and 25ml olive oil. Without sugar it would taste vile and vinegary!

I used to have have guest sugar till ants got into the sugar caddy and took over my kitchen. No sugar or ants now!

I just have dijon, oil, vinegar and salt and pepper. You don't need sugar in that. It would taste strange.

Think of all the times that you could have put 2 or 3 sugars in your coffee but didn't.

The cost of those sugars is included in the cost of your coffee.

You are owed a number of sachets.

People who do use sugar are freeloading off your non-sugar-using generosity!

lol at 'you OWE me sugar' to starbucks.

I don't take milk. Perhaps I should nick one of those steel flasks of milk when I am next in there. And the pot of cinammon whilst I am at it.

What on earth would you do with cinnamon?

Put it in a curry, dur brain.

Lol at the accusatory you, in italics.

its not essential for cooking at all, honey or maple syrup are much more natural and yummier and go well in things like tagines etc

Put it on pancakes with maple syrup. Yum!

cinnamon goes in coffee and tagines