As a part of our weekly effort to eat and live healthy, while grocery shopping for our cooking, my husband and I regularly pass a Laura Secord counter. All the wonderful and healthy dishes that we cook on a weekly basis and which constitute the overwhelming bulk of what we eat, are not the subject…

As I have mentioned in the “Xylitol” post, stevia has an aftertaste that not everyone can tolerate. However, in some applications, combined with other sweeteners, you can’t taste it at all. Such are the Krisda stevia chocolate chips sweetened with erythritol and stevia. There is a lot of information on the internet regarding both erythritol…

When you are a sweet-tooth, not being allowed sweet treats is a bit of a blow. Unless  you are acquainted with the superman of sweeteners: xylitol , a.k.a. birch sugar. Birch sugar is a natural product, even though it can also be synthesized. It has anti-fungal and antibacterial properties (hence its use in toothpaste). It…

Welcome to my site. The reason I started this blog was the desire to share my findings of the past eighteen months since my diagnosis. It concerns food that I may both eat and enjoy under my new circumstances. In the first weeks I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to eat in the…