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Any ideas of what can be used to replace sugar? I know some but aren't thrilled with them.

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Splenda (sucralose), Truvia (stevia), Equal (aspartame), and Agave nectar to name a few. On some natural sugars like agave nectar be sure to read the nutritional information on it. My wife and I primarily use Splenda. We use to use stevia but it would tend to leave an after taste. It may very well be up to your taste what you'll like. Hope this helps. Brian

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Something that I found about 7 months ago is Monk Fruit (extract). It's a plant extract like stevia, but I like it better. I have bottles of liquid under the Skinny Girl brand I found at Kroger (or you can find online at netrition.com or other places, I'm sure). I use it to sweeten my occasional tea (iced or hot).

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I use Splenda and Monk Fruit as my sweeteners. stevia tastes funny to me and aspartame gives me Migraines and Xylitol leaves me gittery like I'm going hypoglycemic. Agave nectar is ok, but expensive.

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I've been using the generic stevia, splenda and nutra-sweet in my coffee and iced tea.

I'll give the Monk Fruit stuff a try when I'm in the store again.

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You can get a box of about 1000 packets of Stevia at costco. It's around $11.99. The other week they had a $3 instant coupon! The brand name for it is PureVia.

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I thought agave nectar had a lot of calories and wasn't much better than sugar.

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