Favorite Sugar Free Treat

I’m not a big fan of sugar free cookies and whatnot but I wonder if real people actually do eat and enjoy that stuff. My mother-in-law once gave me some SF cookie dough and there were awesome…heavy on the sugar alcohols, though. I warned my non-D husband not to overindulge, but to my amusement he did not listen. (You all know what I mean!) Anyways…do you eat sugar free stuff over the real thing and if you do what is your favorite?

I prefer a small amount of the sugar sweetened stuff over SF.

I love my sugar free popsicles, they are the only thing that I can eat without it making my bs go nuts.

I like sugar free jello (black cherry) flavored. Don’t get me wrong its no krispy kreme donut but it will do.

How could I forget about the jello!!!

I dont touch that sf stuff,I agree with Rashelle,but I do count carbs and love Breyers choc covered vanilla ice cream bar with nuts,only 5 carbs! and mmmmmm,mmmmmm,good!

Unlike alot of pumpers I still eat alot of sugar free stuff. I guess I am so use to it that it would be weird to buy the regular stuff. I draw the line at most baked good though and always buy the regular kind. If anyone has tried the sugar free chocolate pie that Walmart sell, then you understand, yucky! I love sugar free jello and the Jello sugar free rice pudding packs. I also love blue bunny low fat sugar free ice cream. You get a cup of ice cream with fudge swirls, chocolate covered peanuts, and peanut butter cups for 30g of carb. It is awesome!

The sugar free Da Vinci syrups are good in smoothies, coffee, margaritas…

Just diet soda for me. I feel weird about sugar free stuff. But oddly have no problems with diet soda. I’d rather eat real food though. Also I don’t want to to keep it around the house b/c I don’t want my kids to be eating fake sweeteners.

However, who knows, in a few years I may completely change my mind.

It depends. I can generally handle smaller amounts of the real stuff, especially with baked goods. But there are some sugar-free items I enjoy. Let’s see…of the easily accessible varieties, I like the Werther’s sugar-free caramels, sugar-free York peppermint patties (but can’t have too many of them at one go), and sugar-free popsicles. I’ve tried Emerald Nuts’ Cocoa Roasted Almonds. They’re a little strange…the cocoa flavor reminds me of breakfast cereal chocolate flavor.

For a big splurge, I like Enstrom’s Candies.
http://www.enstrom.com/sugarfree.aspx
English toffee, toffee popcorn, nut assortment, and mint meltaways.
Toffee: This stuff is fantastic!!! Heavy on the maltitol, so proceed with caution.
Mint meltaways: Also good. I think I like Yorkies better, though. (Likewise on the maltitol.)

Girl Scouts: SUGAR-FREE chocolate toffee bits (Ashdon Farms)
Nutritional info: http://www.alschutzman.com/proddetail.php?baseitem=9032
Pretty decent for sugar-free. Maltitol, so watch it if you’re sensitive. The toffee bits are kind of “sticky” in consistency. (Slightly different “tooth-feel” than full-sugar toffees I’ve had.)

Judy’s Candy Company
http://www.judyscandy.com/index3.htm
They offer sugar free versions of many of their favorites. I love the caramels–even more than the regular ones. Their peanut brittle and toffee are great. I found that I didn’t care for the nut clusters as much, the milk chocolate wasn’t quite chocolatey enough for my taste.

Halter sugar-free bon-bons. (Made in Switzerland by Halter Bonbons.) I like the caramel and green apple flavors best.

Sadly, I haven’t found a sugar-free chocolate I really like, but I can tolerate the regular dark chocolate (60-80%) pretty well. While not sugar-free, Vere chocolates’ “diabetic friendly” items worked well for me. Extremely chocolatey! http://www.verechocolate.com/chocolates/catalog/diabetic-friendly

I’m a big choc eater and I have to say that Jello choc pudding w lite cool whip has SAVED ME. my wife keeps it in the fridge and so now I don’t feel the need for choc bars or candy, and I can resist the sweets at work. JELLO ROCKS!!!

I was just curious but now I’m getting some good ideas of things to try…:slight_smile:

I just eat the real thing and bolus/exercise to compensate. But honestly, 14 years of Type 1 has more or less killed my appetite for sweet things.

The one exception is frozen yogurt. Where I live, there has in recent months been an explosion of self-serve frozen yogurt places popping up in every strip mall. The sugar-free flavors are limited to just one or two, but they taste the same as the sugar-sweetened varieties. Of course, the toppings are another matter. I just put a bunch of different fruit on it, then a small squirt of (real) chocolate syrup. With 120mcg of Symlin beforehand, a good size serving only requires 1-2 units of insulin, and less if I exercise after.

I learn to make the break from sugar to sugar-free when I was first diagnosed by eating sugar-free choc pudding with sugar-free cool whip. I still make this when I get those sugar cravings. From parties, holidays, I make a “no sugar added” banana pudding using sugar-free cool whip, bananas, sugar-free cookies, sugar-free pudding, and a splenda/butter/powder milk mixture I use to subsitute for condensed milk. This dessert is extremely rich but it does not affect bs and nobody really knows it is sugar-free. The kids love it.

I just found some very nice so called sugar free choc syrup for ice cream etc ,No Ice cream for me but just a taste on a spoon was great!!!
and we went to the Vermont Country store coming back from seeing my Mom,and we /(I) got some SF Vt maple syrup !!! OMG…I grew up on a farm and we had a maple sugar shack and produced the great taste of VT!!!

no, NO and no…
Sugarfree choklad is bad tasting…etc.and those sugarfree products often has same carbohydrates than originals.
Our doctor says that same, "don´t buy sugarfree ´cos it´s not nesessary"
Those are more expensive also…

Diabetic diet is somehow weird sometimes, “diabetic diet is same thing that all people must use in their living ´cos it´s the healthy food what must be eating all the time” =) …and that´s why I don`t agree those “diets” or sugarfree stuff.

Diabetic diet is somehow weird sometimes, “diabetic diet is same thing that all people must use in their living ´cos it´s the healthy food what must be eating all the time” =) …and that´s why I don`t agree those “diets” or sugarfree stuff.
Healthy food is that right way to talk about…

My mom makes me a home-made jello out of milk and sugar free sugar =)
i love it!!!
i could eventually eat the whole thing by myself in one day.
Also i love my mom’s sugar free cheesecake and strawberries and cream cake =)

=) thanks! and she is kinda lucky of having me cause no one in the family likes the cheesecake only me =) hehehe