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Six Wonderful Sweeteners Better For You Than Sugar

Even if you never touch dessert it’s still easy to have too much sugar in your diet. We all know now that sugar is virtually everywhere in our food system. Plan Z dieters know to stay away from things like bread, pasta, pancakes, baked goods, sodas, fruit drinks, and virtually every processed food. When you include HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) it seems like sugar is everywhere.

Good news is you can still enjoy sweets and not totally blow a low carb existence. You don’t have to feel deprived either.

One trick is to concentrate on NATURAL sugar sources. Obviously, you’ll have to keep them in check and not go crazy with these but here are some ideas on how you can use them. Leave all the chemistry involved in processed table sugar and artificial sweeteners by the wayside. That means diet soda is not your friend. Research has proven that it never really made you skinnier, and some new research even links it to overeating.

Here are the top 6 sweeteners to use when you’re living a low carb life...

Read the full column at PlanZDiet.com

Strawberry "Almost Ice Cream"

Dieter Claire invented this recipe by modifying the fruit parfait recipe and adding extra frozen strawberries. She says, "it's as close to ice cream as you can get." Great idea, Claire!

Servings: Makes four, half-cup servings (because of the cottage/ricotta cheese, one serving counts as two ounces of your protein allotment)

Ingredients:

1 cup of cottage cheese or ricotta cheese
1 tsp of Truvia
1 tsp of vanilla
2 cups of frozen strawberries
sprinkle of nutmeg or pumpkin pie spice

Instructions:

All you have to do is whiz everything in your food processor or blender until smooth and light.

For this recipe, I recommend using a food processor. If you are using a blender, you'll want to add up to a one-fourth-cup of water to get the right consistency.

The texture will be a little different from traditional ice cream (keep that in mind, texture-people), but the it's got an awesome dreamy flavor!

Serve immediately.

Enjoy!
Cheers,
Zola