Thu, May-01-03, 11:45
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Posts: 2,018
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 320/220/195
BF:
Progress: 80%
Location: Pensacola, FL
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You can try: Diet Rite, Diet RC, Boylan's Diet Root Beer and Diet Birch Beers. I believe, but am not definite that TAB (made by Coca-Cola) is still sweetened with Saccharin.
But, the only one above I know for sure doesn't have caffeine is Diet Rite. The Diet Root Beer is ok. The Diet Birch Beer is so-so...nowhere near as good as the Dark Red Birch Beers I used to get at Loco's when I attended UCF.
You can also make your own drinks...Try getting some Unsweetened Kool Aid and some Stevia Extract Powder. Check to make sure it has NO fillers before getting the Stevia. When making my own drinks, I would avoid using Sucralose or any artificial sweetener for that matter since they contain carbs.
I read somewhere that Sucralose is 24g per Cup. If it is cup-for-cup equivelant to sugar...that is 1.5g Carbs per 8 oz. of Kool Aid. There is a ZERO carb Sucralose. But, it isn't available (to the general public) in the United States. I believe they use it to make pre-canned sodas such as Diet Rite, though.
Stevia w. No fillers should have ZERO carbs. Also, if it is pure Stevia you should only need 3/16 teaspoon to sweeten a drink. I make little packets of Kool Aid and Stevia to put in my water when I eat out. I only need 1/4 tsp. of Kool Aid/Stevia mix for each 12 oz. of water due to the extreme potency of pure stevia. Also, it is cool to note that each 8 oz. of Kool Aid (mixed) contains 10% of your RDA of Vitamin C. I no longer have any trouble making my RDA...since I began making these.
Last edited by cc48510 : Thu, May-01-03 at 11:48.
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