Davina's 5 Weeks to Sugar-Free is a total con and most people can't afford real maple syrup

[alittlethyme]

I bought this to try and reduce my sugar intake , but the recipes are full of sugar just in the very expensive form of maple syrup and honey! Ffs I can barely keep my house warm let alone afford maple!

If you do low carb bootcamp you can achieve no sugar in one day.

Maple syrup?

Er

You can achieve no sugar in one day by

Stopping eating sugar

On a separate note maple syrup is on special for £1.50 in tesco this week

I used it for a recipe

how is it a con? just leave out the syrup? use some common sense

Sugar is very very addictive, most people are addicted. How many low carbers quit it long term....

What brand was the maple? Only ever seen cheap stuff that has added sugar and flavourings on offer, not real stuff.

If you understand about processed sugars it's not a con.
Intrinsic and extrinsic sugars are processed by the body differently.
How do you think she'd be able to make chocolate brownies without any sort of sweetness?

But yes proper maple syrup is very expensive

Found it. Its shit stuff :(
m.tesco.com/h5/groceries/r/www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=265485175

I hardly think the cakes will taste good without any sugar added. If I just wanted to not ad the sugar I could of followed any old recipe and ignore the sugar

they taste fine without the sugar......its pancakes

Maple is still a suagr though. And it is processed, I once made it and it took hours to reduce a vat of sap to a tiny amount. Smelt lovley though

Aldi specially selected have 100% maple syrup in at the moment for under £3 or Costco sell 1l for under£10 which lasts for ages (we get through a lot of maple syrup in our house!)

Bit harsh, it's not 'shit' stuff like golden syrup or added white cocaine sugar

It contains maple syrup and sugars derived from fruit

It's as good as it gets without spending a fiver

Maple syrup and honey in a sugar free diet seems a bit oxymoronic!

Maple syrup is essentially sugar and super sweet, how is that going to quell any sugar cravings?

Aldi maple syrup is cheap.

In debates about sugar there is a very real argument that says your body can't tell the difference between Mars bar and fruit

I know for me that if I eat an orange I get exactly the same sugar rush and hunger pangs as if I'd eaten a bar of chocolate

Real maple syrup is expensive but worth it.

modernhealthmonk.com/natural-sweeteners-sugar-myth/

This is a simple explanation.

Basically all sugars from all sources are metabolised in the body the same way. Too much of any sugar will lead to weight gain and other related diseases.

The only sugars we can't avoid are
Lactose - breast milk/other milks (unless you're lactose free/vegan)
Carbs - intrinsic rather than added ie beans, pulses, rice, pasta, cereals etc... Not talking about the avoidable cakes, breads etc...

My eyebrow does a good impression of Spock when I see these 'sugar free' recipes chocked full of maple/agave/honey etc...

I think the only 2 which don't cause an insulin response in the same way is xylitol and stevia (could be wrong).

Cereal mom-xylitol is extremely dangerous to dogs, sends them into a hypoglycaemic coma.

Awful daughter- how do you make brownies with only cocoa powder?

So is agave syrup a con then? It says its low GI and I have been using it a lot on eg. Porridge etc and as a honey substitute as DD is under 1? I dot even know exactly what it is, but its really nice!

I must have missed the bit when cereal mom was suggesting that you gave it to your dog

Dogs can't eat grapes or chocolate either so I'm not sure you can compare their reaction to a substance to what a human reaction is.

Yeah don't give your dog Wrigley's Extra chewing gum!

I just find it fascinating :). Irrelevant, probably, but interesting. I do wonder if artificial sweetners have as little effect as is claimed, in dogs it does something catastrophic, so wonder if it does anything to humans?

Algave is a con also. Is lower in glucose but much higher in fructose to make up for it! Its horrible stuff for your teeth too.