How much sugar do you consume?

[floo]

I admit to watching the Jeremy Kyle show whilst eating my breakfast. I watch it out of horrific fascination, but wonder if the people are for real, and not actors. I find it hard to believe that those people are genuine, as most of the people on the show make complete fools of themselves. They must be pretty thick if they can't see they are only there for the entertainment of the public!

Anyway I digress, there was a youngish guy on the show this morning who only eats breakfast cereal, 10 bowls a day, each covered in nearly half a packet of sugar! It works out at a whole wheelbarrow load of sugar a month!!!!!!!!!! The chap has a serious addiction and is killing himself, if he is for real.

I reckon I buy no more than two bags of sugar, a year, if that. It is only used on the rare occasions I make cakes, or on the even rarer occasions when anyone visiting us takes sugar in their beverages. It usually workmen who like sugar in their tea and coffee, certainly not our family or close acquaintances. Most foods contain sugar, even if it isn't obvious that they do, therefore it is unwise to add more.

How much sugar do you use?

[Harrowby Hall]

Like you, Floo, very little.

I gave up sugar on cereals and in tea and coffee about seven years ago. I buy only demerara sugar, about twice a year, and use it for everything. If I require, say, icing sugar, I simply put demerara sugar into my electric coffee grinder and make my own.

[Bubbles]

Like you, Floo, very little.

I gave up sugar on cereals and in tea and coffee about seven years ago. I buy only demerara sugar, about twice a year, and use it for everything. If I require, say, icing sugar, I simply put demerara sugar into my electric coffee grinder and make my own.

 

Demerara?

Brown/golden  icing?

[Sriram]

Are you sure this isn't another of those 'saturated fats' type of  fad?! 

[floo]

Since when was sugar a saturated fat? Of course too much fat is bad for you.

[Sriram]

Since when was sugar a saturated fat?

Eh??

[SusanDoris]

I'm one more of the two (small)( bags of caster sugar a year. I sometimes add some sultanas to stewed apples, rhubarb and  plums.

[Harrowby Hall]

Demerara?

Brown/golden  icing?

It makes a change!

[Harrowby Hall]

Are you sure this isn't another of those 'saturated fats' type of  fad?!

Do they have sugar in India?

Seriously, one of the greatest health threats in Britain today is obesity coupled with Type 2 diabetes - fuelled by excessive sugar consumption.

[Udayana]

TBH it would be better for India economically if, over here, we consumed more sugar - especially cane sugar.

In fact, generally, it is not the packets of sugar we buy that is killing us, it is the huge amounts hidden in processed foods and drinks - even ones that are not sweet.