Hi Melissa

You really aren't eating THAT much sugar, and hardly any processed junk, so you're not doing too badly at all. What works for me when I want to cut back is to eat more fruit. My vice is candy after meals so it's easy for me to satisfy my sweet tooth with a bit of fruit after meals.

You seem to bake a lot which is probably where lots of your sugar's coming from I would guess. That's a pretty easy substitute - just reduce the amount of sugar in your recipes, up the fruit content etc. You can do it gradually too, a little less each time.

Maybe try the same with your fruit spread - personally that already sounds really sweet to me even without the added sugar, but you could try

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homemade "spread" (spread=1 can peaches (in lite syrup, drained - even though you drain it, you could elminate sugar here by buying it in juice rather than in syrup), pureed +1 can mangoes (in lite syrup, drained - ditto ), pureed + 1/4 cup sugar+1 T arrowroot flour (to thicken)+ginger+cinnamon, it ends up kinda runny, thus the "spread")I would work on slowly eliminating the sugar from this recimpe by using just a bit less everytime. You could also up the ginger and cinnamon a bit too which always tend to make things taste sweeter on their own

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plain bagel with Peter Pan honey creamy peanut butter - try buying unsweetened peanut butter, or better yet, natural peanut butter (just peanuts, no hydrogenated oil or sugar) and more of my homemade "spread"

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