Day Thirty-Seven

Today went fine.  Had fried eggs and fruity oatmeal for brunch, and beef teriyaki for dinner.  I put stevia into the beef teriyaki instead of sugar, and, of course, used brown rice.  

 I made "chocolate mousse" from the sugar-free desserts cookbook.  It called for three drops of liquid stevia, which I bought at a nature food store yesterday.  I tasted it and it was still very bitter, so I added three more drops.  That didn't seem to improve it at all, so I ended up adding probably ten or fifteen or twenty drops.  It was still bitter.

 The confectioner's Swerve I'd used in the frosting yesterday had made it too sweet, so I added first one teaspoon, then another, of that.  It was still bitter.  I don't get it.  It had a good consistency, but tasted bitter.  I whipped some sweet cream to top it with to help cut the bitterness, but my children still wouldn't eat it.  I had initially followed the directions exactly, so there was no reason for it to not work out.  Sigh!  I think maybe the woman who wrote the cookbook has not had sugar for so many years that she no longer knows what sweet is?  Anyway, I will have to figure out how to tweak that one, too.

 At my brother's house for his monthly get-together, I brought a savory nut-and-pretzel mix.  I checked the label and it did have a little bit of sugar in it, so I didn't have any.  I had some watermelon and water.  Frosted sweet rolls were served, and I would have liked to have one, but I didn't.  Then my sister's son brought in a tray of chocolate donut-like things shaped like bunnies.  They were really cute.  Also off-limits.  That's okay.  I had cake and mousse today, and still haven't had any sugar.

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