About a year ago I went on a "no refined sugars" diet. It worked. I lost tons of weight, stopped having dips in my blood sugars after several hours of not eating and didn't have the major food cravings I would always get for the good stuff like chips, chocolate, candy, etc. The only problem with this diet is that I do like sweet things. Fruit is great, but after a while you want to feel your teeth hurt from the sweetness.
Yesterday, while I was at the grocery store I was planning our meals this week. I have been trying desperately to get back on the "no refined sugars" wagon and it has been a struggle. I don't really need to lose any more weight, but I just felt better when I was eating less sugar. I came across some cinnamon rolls in the dairy case. You know the ones with that cute little dough boy on them. The ones with all the sugar and all the icing and all the delicious flavor and fat and calories. I grabbed them and thought, "The kids would love to have these for breakfast tomorrow." Then I put them back because I knew that I would HAVE to have not one, but two of them and I just don't need that temptation right now. THEN, out of the corner of my eye I saw a different one, same cinnamon rolls, same dough boy, same pretty picture on the package with icing and then I saw the miracle of all grocery shopping miracles. The package said SUGAR FREE. Oh....my.....goooooodneeeeeeeess! I can eat these. They are sweetened with Splenda. I grabbed them and wondered if the kids would notice the difference.
This morning I got up and worked like usual. Wesley woke up early so I had to struggle a bit, but overall he was cooperative and let me work for an hour (another miracle). The kids were out of school today so I turned on the oven to bake the rolls for breakfast. I could tell by the uncooked product that they were different. They didn't pull apart quite the same way, but I figured they were still worth a try. After popping them into the oven I began making my breakfast and feeding Wesley his favorite, grits. The rolls started baking and I could smell them. They smelled the same. I peaked in the oven, they didn't look the same. They were more formed. They didn't melt together and stick to each other like the regular ones. I called the girls down for breakfast as Justin had already been at the counter begging for these little gems.
They were all so excited that they were getting some sugary rolls for breakfast. I didn't bother telling them that they had no sugar. I gave Wesley one and took one for myself as my breakfast dessert. I took just one bite and decided that next time I go shopping we will be buying these again. They were awesome. I couldn't tell a huge difference in them. They weren't as greasy, but they were just as sticky and when we are talking about sweet cinnamon rolls we don't want greasy. We want them sticky. In my "no refined sugars" world they were PERFECT. And the kids didn't know the difference either which was also perfect.
