Oh, I'm fine with just splenda, it's what I normally use, but I figure if I were giving up sugar, that sweetness hit on my tastebuds would be just as bad.

try to eat mostly dark chocolate for dessert.

I generally find dark chocolate too bitter, EXCEPT for the wonder that is dark chocolate with pieces of crystallized ginger in it. That stuff is magic.

I've been cutting way back on sugar as well. I read that the average person gets 40% of their sugar from beverages. I switched to diet soda 15 years ago and lately I've cut way back on lemonade and various TJs juices and drinks that have lots of sugar.

What non-sugary drinks to folks have at home? I'm getting tired of water.

I do have sugar in my coffee, and in the occasional cup of English style tea, but every other soft beverage is without sweetener of any sort, and my alcohol consumption is rare and spotty, anymore. With the wheat intolerance, most breads, cereals, and desserts are out, anyway, though with the discovery of quinoa pasta I can have mac&cheese again, occasionally. I buy dark chocolate based on sugar content. Valrhona is fine, Newman's Own is not, because the amount of sugar is nearly double. And even Valrhona has differing sugar levels.

Sugar subs like Splenda or sugar alcohols destroy my gut, so I've reduced and not replaced actual sugar. We don't buy enough prepackaged food to encounter HFCs. I'm aware sugar's an inflammatory, but so's nearly everything else we consume, except for bushes. So I cling to my little bit of sugar.

I like Blizzards. They're soft-serve ice cream in a blender with stuff like oreo cookies or heath bar or brownie bits.

I was going to propose that Steph pick up two Blizzards and meet me at work at 1pm (when I have lunch). But then I remembered that Cincinnati has a place called Putz' Creamy Whip that I've never been to, and now I'm thinking road trip. Because PUTZ' CREAMY WHIP.

I do not want a blizzard, but I just had rhubarb yogurt.

My drink of choice at home has become water with a squirt of one of the more tart Mio (or similar) flavor things.

I drink my coffee (and tea) black or with cream and splenda. And when I say cream I mean heavy cream, not any of this half and half nonsense.

But when I want a cookie, or a piece of cake, I go ahead and have it.

Mmm, dark chocolate.

Sorry, tommyrot, I mostly drink water so I don't really have good recommendations. I consider diet coke an indulgence, beverage-wise. That True Lime stuff is mighty tasty, maybe try some of that?

What non-sugary drinks to folks have at home? I'm getting tired of water.

I have a SodaStream machine that makes my water fizzy. That's pretty much all I drink other than my morning trough of coffee. (Fizzy water > non-fizzy water.)

tommy, I drink mostly water--filtered tap water kept at near-freezing by our excellent fridge. Occasionally, clear soda. Even less occasionally, locally bottled, no-sugar-added, no HFC cranberry juice cut half with clear soda or water. And because OJ rips me up, once in a while I'll have OJ/mango juice, no-sugar, no HFCs, cut half with clear soda. Boring as hell, but I'm used to it. The rare pitcher of iced tea is unsweetened and unpolluted with lemon. And I do have an occasional glass of clear soda with a twist of lemon--but in order to be able to drink it, it requires a pinch (literally, a pinch) of sugar in a 12 oz glass to mitigate the lemon bite.

Mmm, fizzy water.