Small pleasures

Submitted by Honey on Thu, 01/12/2006 - 5:06am

I gave up sugar in tea and coffee last September, no mean feat as I'd been taking at least two (heaped!) spoonfuls in every cup all my life.

Once I'd given it up though, I really came to regret it. Everyone who has given up sugar in drinks tells you that after a week or two they didn't notice and they got used to it easily. For me that wasn't true - every cup I have drunk since has been only tolerable - but at the same time the few times someone has given me sugar by mistake it's tasted horrible to me. So there was no going back, but I couldn't seem to go forward either.

I was getting really fed up that an avenue of pleasure had been closed off to me. I had always really loved my tea and coffee. Then yesterday....woohoo! I made myself a cup of tea, with no sugar as usual and it tasted wonderful.

Such a small thing to make me so happy. It really is the simple things.

Kaffeeklatsch

Thats great Honey

Submitted by Hope on Thu, 01/12/2006 - 6:26am.

Cheering and clapping for you on the other side of the pond.

I remember waaay back when the New You thread was going I tried giving up sugar. If I'm not mistaken I was preparing to lo carb. One day I took an extra cup and sat it by the coffee pot, and everytime I had coffee I put the same amount of sugar into the cup that I put into my coffee. I was shocked at the end of the day to see with my own eyes just how much sugar I was ingesting in a day just in my coffee alone. It was over 1/2 a cup.

Have you given up crisps??

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Good Work Honey!

Submitted by Zillah on Thu, 01/12/2006 - 7:04am.

Funny how your taste buds eventually adjust, isn't it. We stopped putting salt into food as we cooked it when DD started having solids, and now my desire for salt has gone right down. Things that used to be fine now seem very salty to me.

Crisps, however, that's another matter . . . (Although funnily enough DD acts as a kind of inadvertent moral pressure on that one. I don't feel that I can just pop out to the shop and buy a packet now, because I don't feel it's right to do it when she's there. Is that daft?)

Zillah

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yup - it's daft!

Submitted by Kerri on Thu, 01/12/2006 - 7:07am.

though I'll admit that most of my junk food sessions happen when the kids are in school or asleep, and their own junk food intake is carefully rationed or now. Maybe I'm not really the one to comment on other people's eccentricities!

Kerri.

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Sugar in tea

Submitted by Lynn on Thu, 01/12/2006 - 10:41am.

I find that good quality tea makes the difference. I don't drink as much as the average Brit would I'm betting, but I do down a big Brown Betty pot or two a week. Because I don't drink it every day I buy reaaalllly good tea. Doesn't need anything but itself.

Lynn Siprelle, Editor