Favorite Sugar Substitute?

Taste of Home's Healthy Cooking magazine wants to know: What's your favorite sugar substitute? 

 Stevia and agave syrup. I won't use any of the artificial sweeteners.

chefly

I do not use sugar substitutes.  Every one of them that I have tried adds a strange aftertaste to whatever it is used with.  I keep Equal and Splenda on hand for guests.  I use real butter and real milk (2%), I do buy whole milk, half and half and cream for certain recipes. As you could probably guess, I do not use egg substitutes either.  If it is not real, I don't use it.  I prefer to have just a taste of real food than a whole plateful of imitation.

I use Splenda.  I'm hoping there are no bad side effects from this, like others.

 I use Splenda. I'll use the pink or blue if that's all the choice I have but prefer Splenda.

I use Splenda.  I don't like the taste of it in coffee however, so I use regular sugar in my coffee.  It is good on cereals, in tea or other cold drinks.  I do not use in baking. The texture of the finished product is just not right.

I use Splenda.  I don't use sugar sustitutes in my baking though!

 I've read about Stevia as a natural sugar substitute, but where do you buy it?

Health food stores, definitely.

And a lot of grocery stores near me are starting to carry it.  You might have to go to the natural foods section.

I use Splenda. To me it taste the most like sugar with no after-taste. I like it because it comes in bulk and they also make brown sugar.

I also use splenda.  I found that after I had my daughter almost 5 years ago, I needed my coffee sweeter..(vs drinking it black as I used to).. and I was going through way too much sugar (almost a 1 lb a month in just coffee!), so I switched to Spenda as I didn't care for the pink or blue.... now I can't put sugar in my coffee (unless it is the only thing avail) as it doesn't taste the same.... I do use sugar for everything else, but in coffee it is splenda

I LOVE SPLENDA!!   ITS THE CLOSEST THING TO REAL SUGAR. I LOVE USING IT IN ALL MY COOKING AND BAKING.

We don't use sugar substitutes.  I have heard too many side effects on these sort of products.  We just maintain the sugars and watch what we eat & drink and we have no problems.  You just have to get use to the taste of no sugar added to things and then you don't miss it.  I am by no means a health nut, we just cut out all the wasted sugar items that we were consuming and found other things to replace it.  It took a little while, but we are fine with it now.

Have a blessed day.

Kelli

My favorite, so far, is Splenda.  I use it for my coffee, baking and also use the brown sugar substitute.  I will get Altern from Wal-Marts once in a while also since it has the same ingredients as Splenda and is cheaper.   Since using these I have lost 20 pounds.  The doctor told me to cut down on the sugar intake (no diabetes yet) so I did.  Even buy candy on occasion which is sugar-free and cake and pudding  mixes with lower sugar or using Splenda.