Not just because our beekeeping buddies are worried that the work of their little winged friends is going to waste, but because honey is one of the very best sweeteners.
Although Tom and I are trying to avoid it this month, to stop the sweetness craving in general, if we do need something sweet we plan to have honey. In addition to having a number of health benefits, it seems that no one ever really "over does it" with honey (except maybe bears). Honey is really in a class by itself - it doesn't get abused (or abuse us) the way other sweeteners do.
After this month without sugar, Tom and I are planning to start using our local honey to fight off allergies (you may or may not know that the use of honey from within a few miles of your home is a great remedy for all those allergies during hay fever season).
If the month without sugar is a little too much during one of these thirty days, a little spot of honey might be just what is needed to get through a tough patch... There are some people who might do a month without sugar without giving up the honey, by eliminating white sugar, corn syrup, and those fiendish artificial sweeteners.
Honey... sweet!
M & T
2 comments:
Honey is good for you. Not like sugar and HFCS in is bad effects. Definitely hard to over do it with honey but it is sort of "addictive" because it is so good.
Sweet, indeed. Ron is extracting this year's honey as I write. I am joining the group as of today - birthday parties are over, no more excuses. No white sugar, corn syrup and various other sweeteners, but I will still be eating fruit. We'll do our best, but the lack of cookies, desserts and dark chocolate are going to be the hardest for us. Whew, at least we can still have our wine. And a drop of honey now and then.
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