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Just Like Sugar

There’s Just No Substitute for Just Like Sugar

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By on Aug 13th, 2012

I know I’ve written about Just Like Sugar before, but it’s topping my list of “what I missed” while living abroad this summer, and so I gotta give it another shout out (in addition to yerba mate tea, which is also high on the list).

Our family rented a beautiful apartment on the Île Saint-Louis in France for the summer, and the owners graciously left us some espresso and sugar cubes and these teeny tiny pellets of some sort of sweetener. Now Supermom don’t drink coffee, never have (and never even liked the taste); however, during our travels, I tried some espresso in a hotel suite that had a machine and some pods—and became hooked.

So I started drinking it every morning, and was lovin’ it. I had brought some Just Like Sugar with me, but not enough for our entire stay. Once my stash was gone, I switched to sugar cubes—but was horrified by the number I needed to make my espresso as sweet as I liked it. So I tried the sweetener pellets. I had no idea what they were, but just a few sweetened my espresso real quick, so I didn’t think about it. (Denial, I know!)

 

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The Comforts of Home

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By on Jun 27th, 2012

Quotes of the day:

“Home isn’t a place, its a feeling”

― Cecelia Ahern

I was recently in California, teaching at David Wolfe’s Longevity Now conference. And I was in my hotel room, all by myself. Sans my five kiddos and husband.

To say it was weird is an understatement. I haven’t experienced that much quiet since… well, I don’t remember when. How ’bout never? Yeah, that sounds about right.

I had brought some Yerba mate tea with me—the one from Eco Teas. It’s my favorite. It’s organic and fair trade and so delicious. And it doesn’t give you that crazy caffeine buzz that other caffeinated teas do. I really do love it, as evidenced by my bringing it with me across the country.

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Just Like Sugar

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By on May 2nd, 2012

Quote of the day:

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.

~Marcus Valerius Martial

 

I am super Vata (a dosha, or mind-body type, in the 5,000 year-old Ayurvedic healing system), so this Super-mom loves sweets. Not necessarily “heavy” sweets, such as pastries or what have you—but the sweet flavor in general.

Since I have a propensity toward light-but-sweet-tasting foods, Just Like Sugar was such a find for me. I love putting it in my tea and raw hot chocolate and using it in some of the baking I do with my five kiddos.

The thing I love about it is that it tastes really good, not like some of the other sugar alternatives out there. It’s all-natural, made from chicory root, not chemicals. I don’t use fake sweeteners because they’re not good for you, and I learned this first-hand in my early twenties when I cut them out of my diet and the headaches I was having stopped immediately.

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