Going sugar free is a very personal decision, one I wouldn't ever try to force on another person. For that reason, I am sensitive to my family being negatively impacted by my journey. There will be obvious positive benefits to my family. Being raised on good healthy food and with exposure to a varied whole foods diet will no doubt give them the healthy start that has been shown to lead to healthful eating later in life. What I don't want is for my children to be those college freshman that fill their college dorm room with Cheetos, Twinkies and Fruit Loops to make up for lost time. I don't want them to feel denied.
With these thoughts running through my head I decided to make cookies*. Do you know how torturous it is to make cookie dough and not taste a single morsel? Not to lick your fingers? It was hard work. I think I actually took a couple deep breaths as I was forming drops of dough on the cookie sheet. Phew! I made it. Once the cookies were baked the temptation was so much easier to resist.
Everyone was happy with the results. The kids, stoked to make and enjoy cookies. Brian, happy to have an excuse to make an afternoon cup of coffee to enjoy with his treat. And me? I resisted temptation and proved I could be sugar free and not deprive my family an occasional sweet treat.
* I've been making whole wheat sugar free pumpkin muffins for my children lately. That recipe calls for one cup of pumpkin, and a regular can holds a convenient one and a half cups. What to do with that other half a cup? I found a recipe for pumpkin cookies that I halved so we only made about 10 cookies total. Perfect. And it was whole wheat flour and low sugar. A good fit for my standards. I think this will become a regular routine - muffins and cookies from a can of pumpkin.
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