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Healthy Sweeteners

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Xylosweet Xylitol Sweetener  25% Off

The Perfect Sweetener!

I've been looking long and hard to find the ideal sweetener! When I gave up sugar a few years ago, I thought fruit would be enough to take its place, but there are times when a cookie sure hits the spot. I have experimented with all the natural sweeteners on the market and Xylosweet is the winner!

Xylitol is an amazing substance! It is made from birch trees (and other plants). 25 years of medical research has proven that xylitol is effective in preventing and healing sinus infections, ear aches, sore throats and bladder infections, because it creates a slippery surface that bacteria cannot attach to. This works in the mouth as well, preventing tooth decay.

From a dietary standpoint, Xylitol enters the cells without the need for insulin, making it safe for diabetics and hypoglycemics. It has a glycemic index of just 7, compared to sugar's rating of 100. Best of all— as far as I am concerned—is that it sweetens food without an aftertaste, and is cup-for-cup the same sweetness as sugar, so you can use your favorite recipes. That is a huge benefit, because you will be able to replace sugar in your family's diet without changing the foods they love and are familiar with. The only thing xylitol won't do is crystalize, so you cannot use it to make hard candy. It is also not recommended for sugar-laden drinks such as Koolaid.

The only downside is that xylitol is a bit pricey . . . but I try to offer my family treats sparingly so it is certainly doable. I am just thrilled to have a healthy sugar-free cookie without an aftertaste!

I am offering a 1 lb. bag so you can try it out and see how delicious it is, but buying the 5 lb. bag is the most economical. 100% xylitol - Pharmaceutical grade. We have made a big bulk purchase so we can offer you the least expensive Xylosweet on the market!



Diane's Sugar-Free & Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies

1/2 cup butter or coconut oil
3/4 cup xylitol
1 egg
1 tablespoon molasses
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 1/4 cup oatmeal
1 cup grain sweetened carob or chocolate chips or raisins
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Put oatmeal in a blender and process until smooth like flour. Cream butter or oil, xylitol, egg, molasses and vanilla. Stir in flour, oatmeal, salt, baking soda and baking powder. Add chips or raisins and nuts. Form small balls and flatten onto a cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 minutes. Makes 2 dozen healthy cookies.

Free Sample(limit one per order)
1 lb bagOur Price $7.99
5 lb bagRetail Price $27.95Our Price $23.99

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Sparx Healthy Candy 

Hurray! Healthy sugar-free candy you can feel great about giving to your kids. I am not a candy-dispensing mom, but there ARE times . . . like while you are waiting in a dentist's office, on an airplane or during church for a fussy toddler. They are little so you can dispense them as needed. Sweetened with 100% xylitol, these candies are naturally colored, yummy, and good for kids' teeth! They are also rich in healthy calcium. Yay!

Colorful 3 1/2" tube contains zillions of candies . . . (too many to count!)

Ingredients: xylitol, gum arabic, natural flavors and colors, calcium, magnesium and beeswax.

Berry flavor includes: blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, and strawberry
Citrus flavor includes: lemon, lime, orange, and tangerine
Fruit flavor includes: apple, banana, grape, and peach

Berry Our Price $1.49
Citrus Our Price $1.49
Fruit Our Price $1.49

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Spry Chewing Gum 

This yummy gum is healthy, sugar free, and actually has the benefit of reducing tooth decay—that's hard to beat! Big 3 1/2" tube contains 30 pieces.

Flavors—
Spearmint: The most popular flavor, minty fresh taste!
Peppermint: Pep up your mouth with icy freshness.
Cinnamon flavor: Delivers a blast of yummy cinnamon flavor. My favorite of all the flavors!
Fruit flavor: Bursting with the flavor of fresh, crisp fruit.

SpearmintOur Price $2.79
Peppermint Our Price $2.79
CinnamonOur Price $2.79
Fresh Fruit Our Price $2.79

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Spry Healthy Mints 

I love these! Pop one into your mouth whenever you need a little treat, without giving in to the sugar craving! Works wonderfully well. And these little candies are just 1 calorie each, plus you get the healthy benefit of xylitol! Natural colors, calcium, magnesium and xylitol. Big 3 1/2" tube contains 45 yummy candies. I'm happy!

Flavors—
Lemon Burst: A citrus zing!
Berry Blast: Delicious sweet berry taste. My favorite of all the flavors!
Pow Peppermint: Pep up your mouth with icy freshness.

Lemon BurstOur Price $1.99
Berry BlastOur Price $1.99
Pow PeppermintOur Price $1.99

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Clear Liquid Stevia  13% Off

Vital for your healthy kitchen! I use this non-flavored liquid stevia daily to sweeten yogurt, whipped cream, smoothies, lemonade, strawberries for shortcake, fruit pancake toppings, berries, salad dressings, and more. Delicious! 2 oz. amber glass dropper bottle.

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Clear Liquid Stevia 

Buy the big size and save! Convenient plastic squeeze bottle dispenses stevia one drop at a time. Keep this handy to sweeten oatmeal, yogurt, breakfast cereal, salad dressing, lemonade, whipped cream, cream cheese spread, and more! 3.3 ounces. More info on stevia. Ingredients: Distilled water, Stevia Rebaudiana, grapefruit seed extract (preservative).

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Vanilla Liquid Stevia 

Yum! Vanilla flavoring plus no-sugar sweetening! I put 2 drops in my oatmeal bowl for the most fragrant vanilla aroma plus just the right sweet taste. 3 drops in a glass of milk makes a wonderful vanilla drink. Use it to sweeten whipped cream, to add flavor and sweetness to milkshakes, puddings, and more. Stevia is zero calorie, zero glycemic index. Since you use just a few drops at a time, this bottle lasts me a long, long time! 1.35 ounces.

Click here for more information on Stevia.

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Chocolate Liquid Stevia  13% Off

Sweeten your milk, water, yogurt, whip cream, smoothies, and more. You can even put a few drops in your water bottle for sweet, flavored no-calorie drinks.

One caution: use very sparingly! Stevia is 300x sweeter than sugar. Just 3 drops added to a cup of milk is enough to make it into yummy chocolate milk that fills the desire for sweets! 2 oz. amber dropper bottle.

Click here for more information on Stevia.

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Chocolate Stevita Delight  13% Off

This fabulous, yummy sugar-free product helps me stay sugar-free. This is a product of Brazil and it is rich, delicious, real chocolate cocoa powder mixed with stevia. Whisk a half-teaspoonful or less into a big glass of milk and you'll have real chocolate milk supreme! Or use in making milkshakes, fudgsicles, and other sugar-free chocolate treats. Ultra delicious! Jar contains 4.2 ounces.

Click here for more information on Stevia.

Click here for No-Sugar Strawberry Chocolate Milkshake!

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Stevita White Stevia Powder 

This super-sweet powder is 100% pure, nothing added! This is the extracted sweetening from the leaves of the stevia plant. It has no calories, no carbs, does not raise blood sugar levels, and has a glycemic index of zero. 1/4 teaspoon has the same sweetening power as 1 cup of sugar. Because you need so very little, a jar this size will last me years!

Healthy Lemonade
Juice 1/2 lemon and pour into a large glass. Add water and a tiny pinch of white powder stevia. Stir well and taste. If you want it sweeter, add a pinch more. Add ice cubes and enjoy! Excellent to break congestion, boost Vitamin C levels in the body, and very refreshing!

Enjoy Refreshing Mint Lemonade too!

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Stevia Shaker Jar  

Put this shaker on the table and let your kids sweeten their oatmeal just by shaking it in, just like sugar. Only this is pure stevia mixed with inulin, a healthy vegetable fiber that promotes good digestion. Mixing it makes it easier to use, as stevia must be used in such tiny amounts. Just a few shakes (1/8 tsp.) equals one teaspoon of sugar-sweetening power, in an easy-to-use, healthy form. Contains equivalent of 230 teaspoons of sugar.

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Fruit Flavored Stevia Drink 

No-Sugar Drink Flavors ("Kool-aid" or "Crystal Light" sorta)

Sugar free? Here's a great way to sweeten things up! Add to a water bottle, and give it a good shake to make a sweet, natural "kool-aid" type drink. The colors are pastel, but the flavor is brilliant! Also works great to sprinkle a little into yogurt to flavor it. Make yummy no-sugar frosting by sprinkling some into a tub of unsweetened whipped cream cheese and frost up some cupcakes! Adds color, flavor and sweetening! It's easy to get creative with this natural sweetener which is zero calorie and zero glycemic index.

Contains stevia, my favorite natural sweetener. Because stevia is so powerful, a powdered mix-in needs some type of base, or you would just be using what fits on the end of a toothpick. The base used to make this stevia-sweetened drink power is erythritol, an all-natural low calorie bulk agent, developed in Europe. It naturally has no carbohydrates, a caloric value near zero (0.2kcal/g), a high digestive tolerance, is rapidly and easily absorbed by the small intestine, does not affect blood glucose and insulin levels, and is non-cariogenic. Gives kids a fun, colored sweet drink without resorting to sugary drinks.

Would you like to try it first, before purchasing a jar? Buy a Fruit Flavored Stevia pouch and taste how delicious it is! My daughter Louisa says cherry is the best! Choose cherry, strawberry, lime, or orange. Sample makes a water bottle full of flavored drink, or sprinkle on other foods as a sweetener.

Click here for more information on Stevia.

StrawberryOur Price $0.69
LimeOur Price $0.69
OrangeOur Price $0.69
CherryOur Price $0.69
All 4 PacketsOur Price $2.49

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Fruit Flavored Stevia Jars  10% Off

My daughter Louisa says cherry is the best! Choose cherry, strawberry, lime, grape, or orange. 2.8 oz jar.

Click here for more information on Stevia.

CherryRetail Price $10.95Our Price $9.99
StrawberryRetail Price $9.95Our Price $9.99
OrangeRetail Price $9.95Our Price $9.99
LimeRetail Price $9.95Our Price $9.99
GrapeRetail Price $9.95Our Price $9.99

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Peppermint Liquid Stevia  13% Off

Drop a few drops into unsweetened chocolate milk or cocoa to make a delicious sugar-free treat! A few drops in your water bottle will make it minty fresh. This is yummy! Ingredients: Purified water, Stevia (leaf) extract, natural flavors, grapefruit seed extract.

Click here for more information on stevia.

Try my favorite milkshake too:

Chocolate Mint Milkshake
2 cups milk
Approx. 2 cups milk or cream ice cubes (just pour milk or cream into ice cube trays and freeze)
2 tablespoons cocoa
Approx. dropperful of peppermint stevia (more or less to taste)

Put milk, cocoa and peppermint stevia into a blender and blend, adding milk ice cubes until smooth and frosty. Serves 4.

(Optional: may use regular ice cubes (made from water) instead of milk or cream ice cubes)

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Lemon Drop Liquid Stevia  13% Off

My favorite treat is 4 drops of lemon drop stevia stirred into a small bowl of plain unsweetened yogurt! Delicious! Makes a refreshing lemonade mixed in water, nice sweetener for herb tea, wonderful in desserts too. Stir into cream cheese for a yummy spread on toast. 2 ounce glass dropper bottle. More info on stevia.

Ingredients: Purified water, Stevia (leaf) extract, natural flavors, grapefruit seed extract.

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Chocolate Raspberry Liquid Stevia  13% Off

Wonderfully delicious taste treat, healthy and sugar-free! Just a few drops sweetens and flavors any food or drink, even water. 2 ounce glass dropper bottle. More info on stevia.

Ingredients: Purified water, Stevia (leaf) extract, natural flavors, grapefruit seed extract.

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English Toffee Liquid Stevia  13% Off

Delicious buttery toffee taste with all natural stevia sweetener is wonderful on baked apples, in apple crisp, pancakes, yogurt, in milk, in a water bottle and anywhere else you want a sweet English toffee taste! 2 ounce glass dropper bottle. More info on stevia.

Ingredients: Purified water, Stevia (leaf) extract, natural flavors, grapefruit seed extract.

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Sweet Drops Liquid Stevia  13% Off

Here's a handy sweet and sugar-free treat to enjoy! Sweet Drops contains 4 little handy dropper bottles of stevia sweetener in four yummy flavors: Valencia Orange, Chocolate Raspberry, Lemon Drop and Vanilla Cream. Drop a few drops into your water bottle, yogurt, herb tea, whipped cream, bowl of oatmeal, berries, desserts, or anywhere else you want sweet, sugar-free deliciousness. Stevia has no calories, no carbs, and zero glycemic index. The only healthy sweetener on the market—a natural alternative to sugar!

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Raw Honey  10% Off

Honey has medicinal qualities that make it good for your food storage program. Honey is still used for wound healing today for those who cannot tolerate antibiotic creams. Honey has also been used for centuries as a treatment for sore throats and coughs, and according to recent research may be more effective than most common medicines.* Just mix lemon juice and honey and and take to coat the throat reducing pain and help in healing. A recent study has shown that honey also reduces allergies*.

Grocery store honey has been pasteurized, which cancels its healing properties. Most have sugar or water added to keep the honey free flowing. Raw honey will thicken in time (about 2 months) but it does not effect its properties. It is, in fact, a way that you can be sure you have real raw honey!

Raw alfalfa honey, light amber in color. Has not been heated over 110 deg F in processing. The honey may crystalize, or already be crystalized which happens with all raw honey. The honey can be scooped out for use or melted slowly to preserve its enzymes. To melt again, simply place the container (without the lid) in a pan of water warmed over the stove at very low heat. We place several canning lids between the container and the metal pan. Comes in 5 lb plastic jug containers with a screw-top lid.

(Note: wait until infants are a year old before introducing honey.)

*The Guardian Society 04/12/2007 "Honey 'beats cough medicine'". Click here. *"Inhibitory Effects of Honey-bee collected pollen on mast cell degranulation In Vivo and In Vitro" 2008 J. Med. Food 11(1):14-20

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Suicide by Sugar 

Take a very startling look at our nation's #1 addiction. Sugar is truly addicting, something that I never really believed before, although I think I intuitively knew it. Look what happens when we eat our favorite ingredient: research facts link a range of disorders—from dementia and hypoglycemia to obesity and cancer—to our growing addiction to sugar. Some of this was really shocking to me, such as the fact that in our current medical system, nutritive medical liquids such as IV solutions, Ensure, baby Ensure, and new baby liquids and other things are mostly sugar! The author suggests a cheaper alternative for Ensure: soda pop plus a multi-vitamin, since that is basically the ingredients. Other amazing information will make you think twice about your own sugar consumption—we all want to be healthy! There is a way out of this sugar problem. The author presents an escape route, a sound diet plan that leads the way to good health, along with a number of recipes for sweet, easy-to-prepare, delectable dishes—all made without sugar or fruit. I found this book to be a gem. Paperback, 176 pages.

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The "I Can't Believe This Has No Sugar" Cookbook 

Have a "healthy sweet tooth"! Make Banana-Blueberry Muffins, Chocolate Coconut Cake, Peach Pie, Fudge, Cinnamon Rolls, Raspberry Popsicles, and more! Over 150 sugar-free, dairy-free recipes for great-tasting cakes, cookies, pies, candies, breads, and muffins use only natural sweetening such as fruit, fruit juice, date sugar and other healthful sweeteners. Paperback, 216 pages.

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