I don't add sugar to my veggies. I just heat them, whether canned or frozen. I don't put sugar in my cornbread. I am not diabetic, I just don't require that all my food be sweetened.
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I agree Marty, sugar is unnecessary, fattening, unhealthy and addictive.
Marty,
I've been wanting to get this out for a long time. There's a very popular little box of cornbread mix on the grocery shelves. People buy it and love it. It's so sweet, it tastes like cake, not cornbread.
I agree. I read somewhere that they are developing a sweet Brussel sprout!! And I won't start on so-called 'convenience foods' It's amazing the things to which sugar or sweetener is added completely unnecessarily.
Marg from England.
When I was a little kid my Mama made cornbread without sugar. My friends would line up for a piece of her cornbread every time she made it. During my childhood folks had to keep their windows open in the warmer months so the whole neighborhood knew when Mama made cornbread.
I guess I have to put in a dissenting vote here. You don't have to put in enough sugar to taste it in dishes. You need a bit of sugar in tomato dishes to cut the acid. I got that bit of info from a wonderful Italian lady. She put a tablespoon of sugar in her pasta sauce and you would never know it was there. I use a teaspoon full of sugar in my bread. In my mind, without it the bread is bland. Same with salt. I grew up 73 years ago when my mother and Granny baked everything and canned all our winter veggies and fruit, all with sugar and salt. I don't bake them because I can't make edible pastry to save my life but if I could, I would have them on occasion. I have tasted cornbread without sugar but the addition of applesauce and it was good. I have tasted it without sugar and tastes like dust, at least to me. I can't imagine how it would even rise without at least some sugar. All we older generation were raised eating sugar, salt and fats and we are still here and I never heard of all the allergies and other problems we have today.
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