Hi, does anyone know if you can have sugar free hershey syrup in your ricotta (sp) creme dessert? Also the chips (sugar free)???

I am 5 days into the pase 1 part of SB - 6.5 lbs off...don't want to mess anything up. Can someone help with my question? Thanks. Ali -

Well, Ali, these items are a YMMV (your mileage may vary) issue. The two hershey products may be sugar free, but they contain a lot of sugar alcohol ... primarily lactitol and maltitol, if I remember correctly. Some people have a reaction to most sugar alcohols that is a lot like eating sugar. Blood sugar rises and cravings set off. Also, there is a real laxative effect from most sugar alcohols.

Unfortunately, Hershey discontinued their 1 carb line of products, which had the less troublesome erythritol.

You'll just need to experiment, I suppose. If you get off track, these would be the first items to suspect.

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I have some sugar free chocolate chips... thought I'd use splenda and whole wheat flour to make cookies, but haven't done it yet.. anyone tried it that might have some tips?????

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Ali,
Sorry I didn't see your post until today.
Use unsweetened cocoa powder for your chocolate ricotta creme desserts.
Also, he mentions using 5 mini choc chips in the ricotta cremes in phase 1.
The sugar free davinci syrups are good, but might make the ricotta creme to thin; but worth a try.
HTH

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Have any of you tried the SF Hershey choc. syrup? I got a bottle of it and didn't like it. I don't know if I just got a bad bottle or if it normally tastes like that, but my daughter and I tried it and thought "Yuk!".

I'm not a big choc syrup fan so I can't help you out. I have been allowing myself to have 1-2 of the Hershey's or Russel Stover SF/low carb chocs a day, which has helped me with the sweets cravings.