I don't have Diabetes, yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

EBC Rocks Again

So I went back to the East Brunswick Club on a monday night- last night, and they now have permanent table numbers and the wait for food was under 30 minutes, yay!

The 'chicken' burger with lime mayo is still yummy and I enjoyed the coconut choc cake. I'm really curious about the 'duck' borscht, anyone tried it?

Also, great to see so many of the vegan potluck crew!

Questions

I have have 33 Aussie vegetarian and vegan blogs now listed on the side.

But am I missing any?

Also, where have all the vegan dark choc chips gone?

Sugar Free, Me?

I've had some mystery symptoms recently and while the doctor is pretty sure I just have a virus he has tested me for diabetes and a few other things. As soon as I heard the word Diabetes I freaked out just thinking about how addicted to sugar I am and how much I would miss out if I did have it, like all the sweet things at the potlucks. Considering the vast majority of things I make are packed full of sugar: cookies, cupcakes etc it would be a struggle. I also went on an elimination diet several years ago and went crazy giving up sugar, I was like a drug addict. I couldn't sleep, got shaky and was so irritable that my then boyfriend would get out of bed late at night and make me a banana sandwich so that I could at least get some fructose.

So while I'm pretty sure I don't have it, I thought that I should make more of an effort to make some sweet sugar less or very low in sugar things from time to time. I've done it before, I enjoyed Dr Furhman's Almond Carob Fudge recipe which is sweetened from dates and the Full Meal Muffins which are sweetened with juice and blackstrap molasses. I also made the super fruit tart recipe which is also from Dr Furhman and is sweetened with dates, fruit and juice- the recipe can be found here.

So my question to you, what are your favourite sugar free recipes?

Shakeaway

Want plenty of vegan milkshakes to choose from? Then shakeaway is for you. You can also combine flavours like I did. I chose a combination of peanut butter and chocolate and it rocked, it kind of reminds me of Ferrero Rochers. Here are the vegan flavours available:

• apple
• apple & cinnamon
• apricot
• banana
• caramel popcorn
• choca mocha
• chocolate
• coconut
• coco pops
• coffee
• lemon & lime
• lime
• mandarin
• mango
• maple syrup
• orange marmalade
• passion fruit
• peach
• peanut butter
• pear
• pineapple
• raspberries
• rhubarb
• rock melon
• sesame snaps
• strawberries
• tic tacs orange
• tic tacs peppermint
• tic tacs spearmint
• vanilla
• weetbix

As a massive tic tan fan I'm intrigues by the orange tic tac flavoured one. They use separate non dairy blenders too for the vegan ones. You read about other experiences here and here.

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