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Sugar-Free Cooking With Stevia: The Naturally Sweet & Calorie-Free Herb (Revised 3rd Edition)

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This is the only book that gives a choice between using stevioside and stevia blend, (stevioside with a filler). I like using the stevia blend rather than pure stevioside because it is easier to measure.

I even made a cheese cake so good my hubby couldn't tell it was sugar-free!

I ordered 3 Stevia recipe books, and this is the most disappointing out of all of them. If you are simply looking to replace sugar with stevia, this book's for you.
The pros are:
It has a bunch of recipes, more than the other books.
It gives you amounts for 3 different types of stevia (not the liquid) so you are not expected to purchase a certain type to make the recipies, unless you only have the liquid.
Most recipes do not contain other sources of sugar as some stevia cookbooks were reported to do.
That's about it for the pros.
I would think most people using stevia are also looking for healthy. If they were simply looking to cut the sugar from their diet, they would be using some sort of sugar alcohol which is much easier to come by, in lieu of the stevia. This book simply replaces the sugar with stevia. He recommends to use margarine in most recipies without thought to the hydrogenated oils. He uses processed refined flours, no whole grains. He does have a few recipies with hidden sugars like his Instant Cocoa Mix which contains powdered nondairy creamer, this can also have hydrogenated oils in it as well as the sugar. At least one recipe called for molasses. To use this cookbook in a healthy way, you would have to modify almost every recipe in one way or another. I haven't made anything from it yet because I'm not up to the task of trying to alter a recipe in the way this book needs.

My child was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes in the mid 1980's. I heard about STEVIA at about the same time and was appalled that we couldn't readily buy it here in the U.S. When we could try it, we used my child's blood glucose meter to compare the readings against natural raw sugar and honey. Her blood sugar spiked upward with the sugar and the honey. There was no change with the sweetner STEVIA. It has opened up a world of fabulous food without the worry!! It allows for more food choices because in the food exchange program, we don't have to swap out another carbohydrate to use the STEVIA. It doesn't change when heated, and it goes a long way because of it's concentration. This is the ultimate sweetners for all consumers! Plus, it has all the other health benefits that are too numerous to mention. The recipes are fabulous...I serve them to friends and NO ONE can tell the difference. Buy this book...tell all your friends!

I am still working with the recipes in this book but overall, I have been pleased...especially with the conversion chart. I believe this is worth it. I am a low-carber and I'm told that Kirkland has also come out with a Low-Carb stevia book.

The nutritional data is for the entire batch of whatever you are making. On a dressing it says it is 1018 calories per serving, but if you look up the ingredients it is for the whole recipe. So for the dressing, you have to divide by 8 if you use 2 Tablespoons on your salad, which ends up being 127 which is alot better than 1018.
There are good recipes, just you have to do extra math to find out how much calories, fat, carbs, protein, etc you actually eat.

If you use stevia, this book is a must. I am not a great cook, but the book makes it easy.

I enjoyed looking through this book, the recipes look good.
It was well organized with a good selections & a conversion chart, however I am alergic to wheat & gluten so it didn't help me but I would highly recommend this book.

This is a wonderful cookbook designed for using stevia. Stevia is a product that is actually ground-up leaves from the stevia plant. It is 300 times sweeter than refined sugar.

I am so glad to have this book because I want to use natural ingredients.

This book conatains a lot of great recipes for those who can not have sugar. I not only purchase this book for myself, but for a friend too.

Because I'm a sugar addict trying to break the addiction. When I started learning about Stevia, and how you can still have sweets without it jacking up your blood sugar, mood, and general health, I was overjoyed. But after trying a few of the recipes I'm selling my cookbook and chunking my stevia. Maybe I'm using the wrong kind or something, I don't know. All I know is that it doesn't taste anything like it's supposed to, and I'm a decent cook.