Tropicana has a new orange juice beverage that is sweetened with stevia. Check out Trop50 at the Tropicana website. It contains 42% orange juice (not from concentrate). This reduces the sugar content to 10 g per 8 fl. oz. (regular Tropicana orange juice has 22 g). This may be a good way to reduce your (or your family's) sugar and calorie intake without giving up orange juice completely.
With a large garden, several fruit trees, and numerous fruit bushes, I like to think of my backyard as a small farm. I hope to produce plenty of food for the family, and someday I may have enough to sell at a Farmer's Market. But ... how can I sell at a Farmer's Market unless I'm a farmer? Well, that's what I am. I'm a backyard farmer!
If you have a small farm in your backyard, let people know with this shirt! It is available in a variety of colors and styles, including men's and women's styles.
Add a little color to your morning with this mug!
This year, we are following a low-carb diet, so I needed to update my pumpkin pie recipe. I used xylitol and stevia in place of the sugar, and it turned out great!
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup xylitol
- 1/2 tsp. stevia extract powder
- 1 13.5 fl. oz. can coconut milk
- 1 15 oz. can pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie mix)
- 1/2 Tbsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
- pinch of ground cloves
- 1 partially baked 10-inch pie shell or a deep 9-inch pie shell
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In bowl of electric mixer, combine eggs, xylitol, and stevia. Mix until smooth. Stir in the coconut milk, pumpkin puree, and vanilla extract. Add the salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves and mix.
Pour mixture into pie shell. Bake the pie until set, approximately 1 hour. Cool the pie to room temperature. Serve.
I used a whole wheat pie crust I had in the freezer, but I'd recommend using a low-carb crust instead. This makes a little more than will fit in a standard 9-inch pie crust. I poured the extra in a custard cup and baked it separately.
reusable filter. I put one tablespoon of Teeccino in the filter and place it in the Keurig brewer. You can adjust the amount, of course, to make it stronger or weaker depending on your personal preference.
For pod brewers like the Senseo, I use the Perfect Pod Maker
. Again, I put one tablespoon of Teeccino in each pod. For the Senseo brewer, it may work better in the double pod holder.Zevia is "The Natural Alternative to Diet Soda". It uses stevia, which currently can only be sold as a dietary supplement in the US (although that may change in the near future). All four flavors (Cola, Twist (lemon lime), Orange, and Ginger Root Beer) are all natural. Zevia contains no sugar or artificial sweeteners. Best of all, it tastes great, especially the Ginger Root Beer.
UPDATE: The Zevia blog has information about this, along with quotes from two emails I sent them!
Online stores that sell coffee pods
Other links
- Perfect Pod Maker - make your own coffee pods
- Single Serve Coffee - a blog about single serve coffee
I suspect they are doing this for two reasons:
- Increase the number of coffee pod buyers
- Sell more through word-of-mouth advertising (that's what the $20 coupons are for)
