Going sugar-free was a natural change for me. Oneday I just stopped taking any white, brown, and golden sugar. This was about 15 years ago now. I did however keep ingesting pure 100% maple syrup, honey and never caught on to agave. I also ate dates because I made alot of my raw desserts with them. When breast cancer came to visit I continued eating ‘healthy’ bars, dates in my energy balls and crusts for my raw cheese cakes. I could feel the tumor continuing to grow, slowly, but still growing. I made a very DIFFICULT decision because I loved these healthy sweet options. And the decision was to QUIT ALL OF THESE. The difficulty was I was highly ADDICTED TO THE SWEET FLAVOR in everything I liked to ingest including my daily morning hot drink. Over 3 years ago now I stopped my maple syrup or honey in my hot drink, complete downer!!! I had become emotionally attached to that slightly sweet hot drink first thing in the morning. Or was it the parasites and the tumor that was so deeply craving this sweetness? Regardless what was behind this BIG POWERFUL DESIRE, the want and need for my sweet craving, MY BIG AND POWERFUL INNATE WISDOM said NO! I am in a place now where I have to listen to my inside voice otherwise the consequences are crippling! 

I started making my own stevia sweetener just over 2 1/2 years ago now, this has become my new best friend. Every morning we meet in my medicinal hot drink where it caresses my slightly sweet desire. I made a hot drink for someone a while back the way I make mine and she almost spit it out because of course it was not at her level of sweetness. She did say and realize that she was going to begin toning down her sweet desire because if I found that drink sweet it made her wonder about her own sweet desires and how could that be affecting her health?

Am I through my addiction to sweetness? Yes! Do I miss my energy balls with dates? Oh God do I ever! Do I want some of my homemade chocolate bars with maple syrup? With every fiber of my being. Do I want my delicious raw cheese cake? Well I could kill for a piece! And I love a good challenge. So that began my HOW DO I MAKE A SIMPLE DESSERT with no sweet in it? I have been experimenting with my homemade stevia, vegan protein powder, and apples as a natural sweetener. I am coming along in this journey. I have made it one of my passions to create desserts without the standard sweeteners.

My big changes in my diet are still challenging me on many levels. To be in this world, with my past life experiences, addicted to white sugar, the childhood fun times of gorging on candies, mars and reeses peanut butter cups are over! What a run I had, I loved all those moments of satiating my sweet tooth monster without question or concern. And had I known that this was poison, damaging to my body and setting me up into a chronic addiction I would have liked to have avoided this all together, NOT EVER BEEN EXPOSED to any of it.

So I enjoy my moments in the morning with my medicinal hot drink and homemade stevia best friend. I have really fine tuned the level of sweetness I have to have since the beginning of this journey, over 3 years ago, TO BE CONTINUED!

I will be bringing at some point my new creations without sweeteners. Please check on my Recipes Page under Menu. It is here I bring all my creations. Stay tuned.