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SUGAR IN MY TEA?

I've had two cups of tea in my entire life... hate the stuff with a passion. However, if it was me and if I really didn't want to stop drinking a beverage just the way I like it, I'd knock the digestives on the head first (maybe replace them with morning coffee or rich tea? Are they less carby? I've never really eaten biscuits either... no point, when I don't drink tea lol), and maybe try sweeteners.
I do have one cup of coffee a day because I'm a slave to really good ground coffee, and I swapped out one sugar for one sweetener a long time ago... I never really noticed the difference taste-wise.
 

I also never imagined drinking tea without milk, never had green tea before I was diagnosed although my wife used to drink it. And now I enjoy both black and green tea.
If your having 8 cups a days with sugar and digestive biscuits thats a whole lot of sugars going into your bloodstream. What if you substitute the sugar for a sweetner like truvia and make your own sugar free biscuits, that way your not giving up your treats but finding an alternative thats going to be just one more step towards controlling diabetes .
I make a load of twiced baked almond flour biscotti with nuts for when I need that treat. ( I have to hide them because anyone here with teenagers will know they do more damage that a swarm of locusts)

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I dont like milk in my tea and I gave up sugar years ago so now I have a slice of lemon in my tea it is very refreshing but everyone laughs at me when I produce a little bag of sliced lemon when I am offered a cuppa
CAROL
 
I've tried every sweetener there is and never come across an after taste yet I have the extra taste buds that cause me to detest brussels sprouts. Perhaps I'm missing the sweetener taste bud gene?
 
bake your own buscuits lots lovley suger free recipies to go at better 4 you and wont send you high xx
 
Daibell said:
I've tried every sweetener there is and never come across an after taste yet I have the extra taste buds that cause me to detest brussels sprouts. Perhaps I'm missing the sweetener taste bud gene?
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Very funny, well done! You're like me then, I like sprouts too but couldn't eat a raw one..aaaawwwwkkk. Why do they call them Brussels sprouts when they don't grow nor eat them in Brussels???


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carty said:
I dont like milk in my tea and I gave up sugar years ago so now I have a slice of lemon in my tea it is very refreshing but everyone laughs at me when I produce a little bag of sliced lemon when I am offered a cuppa
CAROL
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What, do you carry a bag of lemons with you in your bag Carol? I bet you smell fresh as a daisy!! x


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Daibell said:
I've tried every sweetener there is and never come across an after taste yet I have the extra taste buds that cause me to detest brussels sprouts. Perhaps I'm missing the sweetener taste bud gene?
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I hear you on the extra taste buds thing. Hermesetas are the only sweetener that I use (and that will no doubt spark some aspartame furore somewhere... but I likes what I likes!).
 
Beachbag said:
I gave up sugar years ago Q and don't like the after taste of sweeteners either. How about ditching the digestive, which is one of the higher carb and calorie biscuits. Perhaps swap to a less loaded one?
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Yep, fair point. Anyone know of a biccy I can have? Funny enough I've just had a cuppa without sugar and I was fine, but I had a biccy. Maybe best to ditch the sugar first then the biccy. Qx


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My normal world of 3 sugars in my tea and going up came to an abrupt halt with my diagnosis it however restarted when I found granulated Splenda you can also buy a cheaper version from asda and tescos people told me I had caused it by too much sugar but I wasn't sweet enough clearly I now prefer it to sugar but I was very against chemicals shame I had to eat my words I now get nagged about the amount I use of Splenda
 
Q007 said:
Yep, fair point. Anyone know of a biccy I can have? Funny enough I've just had a cuppa without sugar and I was fine, but I had a biccy. Maybe best to ditch the sugar first then the biccy. Qx


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A Rich Tea biscuit has around 5g of carbs, half as much as a digestive biscuit.
 
When I was first diagnosed with diabetes I immediately changed from sugar to sweetex! Nothing wrong with the biscuit!
 
I gave up sugar in my tea and coffee long before I became diabetic. When I was dignosed, I had to give up other sugary thngs too but, I could do it with the knowledge that I had changed my perceptions on how things should change before, so I could do it again.

I have managed to kick the association between sweet things and finding them tasty. However, I still need a crunch or bite in certain things and biscuits are a big temptation. Cakes and buns are no problem. I don't fancy those because they are not crunchy, but I managed to give up smoking so I'm not going to cave in to ginger biscuits.

You can use a sweetener like Truvia in your tea though. It is a beta carb sugar, ie it doesn't get digested. It is also very sweet and you won't need even a quarter of a teaspoon, but it is not bitter like a sweetex. I use a tiny amount in porridge, because I have to be careful about the salt I eat.
 
Sarah69 said:
When I was first diagnosed with diabetes I immediately changed from sugar to sweetex! Nothing wrong with the biscuit!
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you mean "theres nothing wrong with a biscuit" unless it pushes up your bg numbers too high?
 
l cold turkeyed on sweet things and sugar. l refuse to have sweetner read about them on tinternet nooooo thanks! from start of november 2013 no sugar :-\

l dont drink tea like weak coffee been a real struggle finally getting to like it with no sugar.. mellow birds very weak with tablespoon (well 8ml see my measuring spoon post) of single cream and dont fill the mug up. l took a swig of hubs coffee other day by mistake....he put it near mine and l was reading had 2sugars, nearly threw up.

lt isnt easy...but cream is brilliant and help from here is what counts you are not alone.

Now trying to drink water as dont like water but putting in lemon slice helps
 
Many years ago before the diabetes, I used to have 2 tsp sugar in a cup of coffee. One day I just decided to stop having sugar in drinks. It took a couple of days to get used to it and I've never had it since. Now even if a spoon that has stirred another drink with sugar in has then been used to stir mine, I can still taste it and I won't drink it. My husband who is non diabetic used to take 5 tsp in his tea or coffee but he cut down gradually to 3 tsp then 1 tsp, now he doesn't have any. Not to long ago he tried a cup of tea how he used to like it with 5 sugars and he had to spit it out saying how disgusting it was. Believe it or not a bag of sugar only used to last a week in my house as all the sugar he used in drinks, having several a day, as well as smothering it on cereal. Now I probably only buy a bag once, maybe twice a year as it's rarely used by anyone now.


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Is truvia a laxative then? I maybe out of touch but I used to love polo mints, my dentist said I'd have no teeth of my own if I carried on and that I should try sugar free ones. They tasted foul and a trouser accident whilst out and about would have been quite easy. I wouldn't go anywhere that didn't have a loo just in case, so I binned polo mints all together.

I love ginger nuts, they fit in a tea cup too for dipping where as the digestives won't fit any cup, are ginger nuts ok then? Kind wishes, Q..


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Ginger nuts, about 2 carbs (and 30 cals) less than a digestive. A tasty option Q. "Suck it and see"
 
*whine* ginger nuts.... stop it i loved ginger nuts, could eat the whole pack with a single cup of tea until my mouth tingled *whine*


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Ginger nuts, about 2 carbs (and 30 cals) less than a digestive. A tasty option Q. "Suck it and see"
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are you sure? mcvities have 8.5g per biscuit according to where i looked

unfortunately the mac docent seem to have copy paste, so i can't do that
 
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