Janet wheres your cookie recipe?

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Originally Posted by DianaB

I've bought some sugar free melting chocolate and sugar free oreos to make Oreo truffles with cream cheese......they were a hit last year so I'm trying a sugar free kind this year.

Diana, sugar free things are sometimes really great - but be careful (in terms of your diabetes). Often times sugar free food has as many (or almost as many) carbohydrates as the same item with full sugar. Look at the label for the number of carbohydrates, just because it is sugar free, does not mean it is carbohydrate free and carbs are what make your blood sugar go up. Just because it is sugar free doesn't mean it won't affect your blood sugar.

I only know this because with Gary's insulin pump, we have to put the number of carbohydrates into the pump each time he eats. So we are constantly reading labels. I was shocked to see many sugar free food having the same number of carbs as the same non-sugar free food.

Of course this isn't true about all sugar free foods, but the message is to read the label.