Recently, our family decided to cut out most of our consumption of processed white table sugar. We did some research on the best substitute for white sugar and settled on honey.
We didn’t face a big challenge for the majority of our store purchases because we don’t buy a lot of sweet foods. We shun processed peanut butter, flavored oatmeal, and other products that hide inordinate amounts of sugar. And soda is never purchased for our home.
We aren’t perfect. We allow our kids the treat of chocolate, or some other sugar laden snacks, from time to time. And we struggle with replacing white sugar in recipes when baking. We keep a small bag of white sugar tucked away for the recipes we haven’t perfected creating with honey. But we are confident that we’ll eventually achieve our goal of ridding our home of white sugar.
For our family, the important part of this decision is to radically reduce our consumption of processed white table sugar and eventually bid its presence in our home a permanent good riddance. It has been an amazingly simple adjustment thus far. We encourage you to give it a try!