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.
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Aspartame...
Right now I am drinking a Diet Dr. Pepper. Mmmm. The taste of Dr. Pepper without the calories. It's glorious. And it's all because of aspartame. Actually, most of my "diet" foods contain aspartame. That South Beach drink mix with fiber I bought? Sweetened with aspartame. My sugar free jello? Aspartame. Fat free / sugar free pudding? Yup, aspartame. It's what keeps me eating the "cheater" foods I like without cheating on my calories. It's what gets me through my diet.
And then I read this.
WOW. That might just convince me to quit consuming aspartame. Maybe it's worth the extra calories to eat the sugared pudding and jello. Maybe it's worth adding my own fiber powder to our standard drink mix instead of using the South Beach stuff. Maybe it's worth changing my tastes to drink a diet drink sweetened with Splenda instead of aspartame.
And maybe it's worth being a little more careful about what I put on my daughter's plate, my husband's plate, and my own.
And then I read this.
WOW. That might just convince me to quit consuming aspartame. Maybe it's worth the extra calories to eat the sugared pudding and jello. Maybe it's worth adding my own fiber powder to our standard drink mix instead of using the South Beach stuff. Maybe it's worth changing my tastes to drink a diet drink sweetened with Splenda instead of aspartame.
And maybe it's worth being a little more careful about what I put on my daughter's plate, my husband's plate, and my own.
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