BEWARE, what follows is a piece of my mind(Yikes!) Anyone could make anything taste good by adding a ton of butter and/or cheese, or sugar! In the old days I would probably have eaten cardboard if it had enough butter and cheese on it! Ok, maybe not, but doesn't it always seem like when you eat a taco or enchiladas, it didn't have enough cheese on it? Or you melt a bunch of butter over your veggies and it all sinks to the bottom? And that oatmeal could have used just a bit more sugar? At least it did for me...
Get to the point, you say? Here it is...when your taste buds are used to that sugar and fat, you just want more and more. If you start to season your food and experiment with different spices, you don't even notice that you didn't put any cheese on you enchiladas or tacos(honest!)
I know some people are not a fan of artificial sweeteners, but if that is the case there is an all-natural sweetener called Stevia you can try. I personally am a huge fan of sucralose(Splenda is the name brand.) I even feed it to my kids, shocker, I know. I have been warned in the past to avoid aspartame because it can irritate my epilepsy and I can have more seizures, but seeing as though there have been no studies(yet!) to say that Splenda is bad for anyone, I don't mind my kids having it. They do not even notice the sugar missing.
As for butter, we use the butter sprinkles(such as Molly McButter) and there are now two brands of spray butter that have 0 calories for 5 sprays(I Can't believe it's not Butter and Parkay.) So this is my challenge to you...try these substitutes and you will be amazed!
