The Quest for Aspartame Free Pop

I had no idea when I swore off Aspartame that it would be so hard to find a diet soda sweetened with sucralose (Splenda) instead. I swore I saw some Sprite or 7 Up last summer that was aspartame free. But it looks like my choices are not so plentiful. There's Diet Coke with Splenda, which tastes NASTY and isn't carried at our Walmart or Costco, the two places we usually buy our groceries. And then there's Hansen's.

I am very excited about Hansen's Diet Soda. It's more expensive, for sure, at about $0.50 a can (at least at Albertsons, where we found it last night) but they have 8 flavors (at least on their website - we'll see how many we can actually get here in the valley) and they're all calorie free and aspartame free. WOOHOOO! Now we just have to see if Costco carries the diet Hansen's (we know they carry the regular) and if Walmart does. Then we can see where to get them the cheapest. I'll still be trying to wean myself off pop for the most part, but at least now I won't feel like I'm killing myself while I drink it.

Of course, in 5 years they may say Splenda causes all sorts of problems, too, but I will live in blissful ignorance until then.