Re: Loaded brownies and chocolate discussion in general

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Your loaded brownie recipe sounded disgustingly, dangerously fabulous! All

this recent conversation about chocolate has had me drooling with envy!! I

was never a chocoholic as a child or adult. While I've always liked the flavor

of chocolate and if asked to order ice cream, that flavor would have been my

choice, there was never much of an addiction to it like so many people have.

Perversely, once I became diabetic, my interest and cravings for this

forbidden delicacy hit me like a hammer, and I have found myself stopping

and drooling over each chocolate bar, chocolate ice cream, chocolate cake,

or brownie that I see! Fortunately, Breyers makes a 3 carb chocolate ice

cream now that appeases me, and Carbolite makes a chocolate crunch candy

bar that tastes exactly like a Nestle's Crunch bar that I've discovered. It

only

has 1.9 net carbs, or something like that, and is made with sugar alcohols,

which I've found don't raise my BG's at all, so I've been able to indulge this

new passion for chocolate.

I've even successfully converted some recipes by using carbolite chocolates

and substituting Splenda for sugar, so I'm going to see if I can somehow

convert your recipe into something palatable that I could fix for our holiday

treats. I've already found a diabetic brownie mix that I may be able to tweak

enough to end up with something similar to your recipe......if I could only find

a

way to make sugar-free caramels!

Thanks for passing this along, I'm sure others will enjoy it, too!

With love, hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

South Carolina Rep.

SE Regional Rep., PAI

Note: All comment or advice is based on personal experience or opinion, and

should not be substituted for consultation with a medical professional.