Sugar Free Challenge 2 - Saturday

[Cooper27]

We've made it through another working week! And it's a bank holiday to boot at least where I am!

With lockdown, Saturday has turned into our treat day, where we'll have a slightly more special meal planned, so we have something to look forward to.

We've had Italian night, afternoon tea, cinema night, cocktail night and so on. It was fine when we thought this pandemic would be a short lived thing, but now it's become a habit, and a sugarry one at that.

Despite doing this challenge last week, and avoiding sugar on Saturday, my body is still desperately expecting its Saturday sugar hit (actually even more so this week).

Last week I opted for raspberries, but I really want your ideas for sugar free treats again this week!

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I’ve 2 punnets of raspberries and one of strawberry so those are my sweet treats for the weekend.

Fortunately I do like savoury snacks and make cheese biscuits and these are typical of what I bake:

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I’ll try and make some others this week.

Savoury cheese biscuits.

[Cooper27 Administrator in reply to Hidden]

I like savoury things too

I may try some blueberry scones actually!

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Hey blueberry scones they sound really good Cooper27 😊

[Rachmaninov2 in reply to Hidden]

The savoury cheese biscuits sound and look very tasty Jerry, and I imagine they could be very moreish too. Thank you for this recipe. 🙂

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Hey you’re welcome Rach and they easy to convert to vegan. 😊

[Rachmaninov2 in reply to Hidden]

I’d hoped that would be the case Jerry, thank you for letting me know. 🙂

[Dovedale4 in reply to Hidden]

The cheese savoury biscuits look delicious, Jerry. I love 'crunchy' cheese flavours and can't resist. Very fond of cheese scones too. My grandmother used to bake them regularly and they disappeared very quickly! Thank you for the recipe. I will give them a try, but am not very good at baking! 😊

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Thank you Dovedale4 my gran was a great cook and I have fond memories of her cakes and scones.

I’m sure that yours will turn out fine, 😊

[Rosepetal60 Gluten Free in reply to Dovedale4]

Have you got a food processor, they are very helpful when making Scones

[Dovedale4 in reply to Rosepetal60]

Yes, I do have a food processor. I wouldn't make cheese scones but would like to make the cheese biscuits that Jerry mentions. I would have to make some and freeze most of them because, living alone, they would go stale. That's the reason I don't bake very often, I don't want to put on weight 😊

[Fran182716 Prediabetic]

One of my favourites is mixed berries, dollop of full fat Greek youghurt or whipped cream, with high cocoa dark chocolate shavings. I use a cheese grater !

[Cooper27 Administrator in reply to Fran182716]

That sounds delicious

I've been mixing freeze-dried blueberry powder through Greek yoghurt this week. It's extra delicious

[Fran182716 Prediabetic in reply to Cooper27]

Never heard of freeze dried blueberry powder, where can you get that ?

[Cooper27 Administrator in reply to Fran182716]

I think this bag came from Amazon, but you can buy from a few places. You can get raspberry or strawberry powder too, which I think I've seen in Waitrose.

They do appear quite sugar/carb dense when you look at the label, but you use a tsp at most. A bag lasts a really long time.

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Well these are really nice with yeast extract. 🙂

[Cooper27 Administrator]

You can mention brand names Matriarch, as long as you're not trying to sell the product

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Marmite has traces of gluten as it’s made from spent brewers yeast so I eat an alternative but you either love yeast extract or you hate it and I love it. 😊

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Hi Cooper27, thank you for continuing raising our awareness about sugar. 😊🙏 My sweet treat for this weekend is mixed fruits smoothie blended with my favorite Greek Vanilla yogurt. 😋

Have a wonderful weekend! 😊🙏🌺

[Cooper27 Administrator in reply to Hidden]

That sounds lovely

[Cooper27 Administrator]

We managed to achieve quite a feast in the end. It was a taco evening, complete with homemade corn tortillas and salsa Verde

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Sweet tooth for me which is hard because I've got diabetes type 2!!! xx