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Sugar free biscuits

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Hi Folks
Does anyone know where I can get some reasonably priced sugar free biscuits for my 89 year old aunty? She is diabetic and I know lower sugar should be ok in moderation but she is adamant that she wants
sugar free and frankly I'm not arguing she is quite formidable!
Thanks
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  • suki1964
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    Why not make some using Splenda instead of sugar. Splenda is heat stable
  • shykins
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    our local poundland had some.
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  • VfM4meplse
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    If you're beyond the point of reasoning, the 99p store has the Gullon brand (light blue packaging). Do warn your aunt that too much Xylitol can be an osmotic laxative, though :o

    Take a look at this thread: http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/sugar-free-and-aspartame-free.66525/
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  • bossymoo
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    Boots also have a diabetic range.
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  • VfM4meplse
    VfM4meplse Posts: 34,269 Forumite
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    bossymoo wrote: »
    Boots also have a diabetic range.
    Where marketing wins over common sense!!

    Boots is supposed to be a beacon of healthcare on the High Street, cobblers to that.
    Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!

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  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    Have you had a look at, for instance, "raw food" boards on Pinterest. Quite often healthy cookies/cakes are featured on ones like that. You still have to differentiate between those that call themselves healthy and you read down and see that one of the ingredients is sugar (or Splenda or xylitol) and those that really ARE healthy - but I've noticed a reasonable number of genuinely healthy type recipes on that sort of Board.

    I guess your relative knows which healthy sweetenings are okay with diabetics (eg out of genuine maple syrup/date syrup/coconut "sugar"/etc)?? - as I'm not au fait with specific diabetic requirements and so am presuming that "no sugar" means exactly that, ie "no sugar".
  • VfM4meplse
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    moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »
    I guess your relative knows which healthy sweetenings are okay with diabetics (eg out of genuine maple syrup/date syrup/coconut "sugar"/etc)?? - as I'm not au fait with specific diabetic requirements and so am presuming that "no sugar" means exactly that, ie "no sugar".
    I doubt it. I am sensing fixed ideas that the OP has to appease rather than negotiate around.
    Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!

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    Hope is not a strategy :D...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!
  • Butterfly_Brain
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    As a diabetic I have been told to avoid diabetic foods because they are expensive, make you run to the loo if you eat too many and taste awful.

    I have never been a biscuit eater but I do like my choccy and I buy the 85% Moser Roth Ginger chocolate from Aldi (New in this year), it is great because it is actually packaged into small bars, so no temptation to eat the lot in one sitting and at £1.19 it is real value :D

    Besides chocolate is low GI and even the hospital says you can allow yourself a small treat once in a while x
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  • jk0
    jk0 Posts: 3,479 Forumite
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    Jacob's Cream Crackers don't have any sugar. I've been eating them for years as sugar gives me zits.
  • Mojisola
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    jk0 wrote: »
    Jacob's Cream Crackers don't have any sugar. I've been eating them for years as sugar gives me zits.

    But they are nearly 70% carbs which is just as bad for a diabetic.
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