Sweet Substitutions

Hi, my name is Christy and I am a chocoholic.

My love affair with food started sometime around my first birthday and never really stopped. Along the way, I learned how to moderate amounts, but never have really been able to get my mind around the fact that food is nothing more than a fuel that you put in your bodies engine to make it go. I'm not even sure if that is the correct way of thinking.

Food is social. It's emotional. I relate food to holidays and special occasions. I like to have something sweet after dinner because it makes the meal feel "complete". And thats where my little Dove Chocolate Squares came in, a little something sweet to finish off the day.

From the ashes of disastrous banana bread, arises a
new creation! Hail, Honeybread!

I am starting to find replacements for some of those things. Even though this diet won't last forever, I see no reason to not enjoy myself while I am at it. I am cultivating a love for some of the more natural sweet tasting things, including strawberries, apples, pears, grapefruits, grapes, blackberries, and blueberries. Of course, there is also my affectionately titled "Honeybread", which is my banana bread attempt which really didn't turn out well and was only saved by a liberal drizzling of agave nectar. My latest discovery is dried figs, which really taste a lot like fig newtons.

Still, if anyone out there has created a dairy-free, sugar-free, cocoa-free chocolate, give me a call.