Jelly

Dee1960 said:

Hi just wondering if it's OK to have a small pot of suger free jelly?

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As long as you do well on the sweetener used, it should be fine, enjoy!

You can probably have a huge bowl of sugar free jelly with berries and cream or yoghurt - if you are a type 2 watching the carbs - on festive occasions a trifle with almond flour sponge softened with a little squashed fruit and maybe a splash (or more) of sherry), berries in the jelly, a lot of real custard made with cream, eggs and vanilla, whipped cream piped on top and segments of mandarin orange carefully deskinned and the zest scattered on top.
I use pure gelatine to beef up ordinary jelly as making up a jelly with artificial sweetener with only a small amount of water can make it overpowering - I have really sensitive taste and smell so it might not affect everyone, but particularly if children are likely to want to try it the gelatine is probably the way to go.

I use the packets and make up with half water and half thick greek yoghurt to make a change. Often throw in a handful frozen berries too

Sugar free jelly= not many yards away from toilet.

I used to eat it a lot and it had no impact on my blood sugars. I went off it when I had covid in 2021 and lost my sense of taste. The texture of the jelly without the taste put me right off!

I can't stand the taste of most sweeteners so avoid sugar free products. My metformin is risky enough in terms of toilet rushing without them anyway. Once my daughter had an exploding bottom incident after eating too many Maoam pinballs (contain sorbitol as well as sugar)

I had never thought of adding cream or yogurt to regular jelly to counteract some of the carby spikiness until I read this thread. I do have a delicious recipe for chocolate mousse involving a packet of lemon jelly and a pint of whipping cream. Might work with sugar free if the gelatine is the same.

I regularly add yoghurt or cream or both to jelly - I have cacao powder which I sometimes mix in.
My mum used to add cream to jelly when almost cool and then whip it up so it set frothy.
The descriptions of the consequences if eating sugar free Haribo bears helped me get over the trauma of five weeks taking Metformin back in 2016. It is still dreadful, but the addition of some howlingly funny accounts helped a lot.