To think not keeping sugar in the house

[Hullygully]

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

Sugar is one of the least poisonous things there is, it's almost as un-poisonous as plain water (a Rat would need to eat 30kg of it for every kg of its own weight!)

I'd say it's reasonably unusual not to keep such a very low cost long lived item in out of politeness - although we would give you caster sugar in our house. It's a social convention to offer tea and coffee to visitors, and of course you're free to bunk it, but why?

I don't take sugar in my tea but I'm sure it would be a lot nicer for them if you just kept some in the back of your cupboard and forgot about it until they visit.

But then it ends up as a solid block.

Not untrasonable. We had no sugar for 3 years until I brought some recently. If anyone asked for sugar in their tea I used caster sugar. But one time I was embarrassed when my friend made her own cup of tea and asked where the sugar was and I had to admit I'd been using caster sugar every time she came round.

"No, I don't have sugar in the house either. I do have sweeteners (not aspartame grin ) and I ask "do you take sugar" and if they say yes, 1 or 2 or whatever, I stick that amount of sweetener in."

Now that is infinitesimally worse than having no sugar.

Do what you like but don't get the hump if your regular guests bring their own.

And don't expect them to be particularly impressed at your non-sugar-eating credentials....

I wish DC would eat chilli
DS12 is an excellent cake maker, plus you can't make hot cocoa properly without adding sugar separately.
Full fat milk only in this house.
We buy sugar in 5kg bags. And I thought we were middle class!

It is sugar not crack If you get isitors thattake the poison sugar i would keep a small bag in the cupboard

Dcs aren't MAD KEEN on chilli tbh, they call me "asbestos mouth"

why would anybody be embarrised about using caster sugar isant it only slightly more ground than normal sugar?

im slighty perturbed by sugar being a social barometer but i spect that is cos i is ded posh, but i know thats more to do with my choice of tea than it is to do with any white powdered or granulated products that may or may not be in my house

You need a bit of sugar in salad dressing, and for BBQ sauce.

I don't put any in pasta sauce, I add a little honey instead.

Pizza bread also needs sugar!

To be honest when I go to someone's house and they do all that "oh, I think I have sme Demerara somewhere back here" whilst ostentatiously looking through their cupboards then I deftly think they are a bit of a twat.
You shouldn't invite plebs like me around if you are not prepared to provide the basics.

YABU. Sugar is a basic ingredient. I don't know anyone who doesn't have sugar in their home!

Dont know where "deftly" came from - I typed "silently"!

Even homemade bread has to have a teaspoon of sugar to activate the yeast. Do you never eat bread?

Do your kids ever have a chocolate, ice lolly, pudding etc?

For the record some cooking does require sugar, it is called, well, good cooking.

You sound like you might be setting your kids up for food issues. Labelling any food as poison just creates a lack of balance. I grew up with that approach, chocolate was so tightly rationed, and frowned upon. I actually craved sugar more, and would binge on biscuits I bought with my pocket money

Balance is the key. Yes it is good to be aware and I agree, a lot of food contains too much sugar. But I also think this 'my kid eats nuts for breakfast and has never had a fish finger' kind of ideal psychologically unhealthy.

My SIL seemed shocked when I asked for sugar for my coffee.

I don't smoke, am well within my alcohol units, exercise, eat a farely balanced diet.

Yes, I will damn well enjoy my coffee with a sugar! Enjoy life ffs.

Since when is sugar poison?

I only buy it to bake. Anything I dont use goes in the sugar jar for dh who is the only person I know who takes sugar.

If it runs out, he buys more.

A friend of mine always says "milk and one sweetener" when I ask what she has. I dont have sweetener so she has some of dhs sugar. Would it be rude of me not to have sweetener?

soupDragon i dont seem to have got that message either , and tbh i would much rather have sugar than chemically sweetners

I do eat bread, but never make it.

The fridge is full of kit kats so I am not an anti sugar freakola, just never use sugar in normal cooking because I don't cook anything with sugar in it.

I don't ostentatiously rummage through cupboards, I do it in an 'oh bollocks' kind of way . I don't have those tea coffee sugar canisters so a bit of rummaging is going to happen anyway.

I couldn't drink coffee without sugar.

But if you don't bake, or make puddings, then I can't see that it's unreasonable. Just buy some sachets, or steal them from Starbucks. And I never put sugar in tomatoes, you don't need sugar to take the metallic taste away, cooking them down for 30 minutes gets rid of that naturally, without adding shit to them.

I have to have two sugars in my coffee.
Hully, your tomato story was lovely, you should incorporate it into your play wot I'm in.

It was touching, wasn't it?

perhaps a musical tomatoe episode when things get really tense? Just before the.............snake