can you find it in the grocery or health food store?

It’s easier than you think, unless you have an addiction to it. I did not. Not that I don’t like sweets, but I don’t overdo it. (Chocolate being a possible exception.)I am a bit…hmmm….radical I guess when it comes to the quality of the food I buy and consume. I am fairly uncompromising in that I prefer organic and fresh whenever possible. I have a few “junk food” kinds of things that I like once in a while, but by and large I eat in a pretty wholesome way.

High fructose corn syrup; one of the world’s culinary evils….

Yes, I use local honey (It’s one of my favorite things in the known universe; give it up? NEVER!), molasses, maple syrup and organic evaporated cane juice in all recipes that call for sugar, unless honey, molases et. al. can be used as a substitute.

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I also occasionally use organic dark brown sugar, and at Xmas time I do make peanut butter balls w/organic everything, including organic powdered sugar, but at least that’s only once a year! I know someone who is so addicted to sugar, and frequently makes herself sick by overconsuming it. It can be powerfully addicting. I read this article once, eons ago, about Peace Corp volunteers in some remote part of Africa. Apparently among the food supply delivered to the PC volunteers were bags of suger. The locals were unaccustomed to refined white sugar, and when some of the children tasted it for the first time it burned their tongues! And yet, here we live in a nation of people addicted to it in various forms. Interesting…......