Posts by rustedsyringe

All I ended up with was some peanut dust.

Wikipedia just told me this about Splenda:

"Energy (caloric) content

Though marketed in the U.S. as a “No calorie sweetener,” Splenda products that also include bulking agents contain about 86% of the calories as the same mass of sugar (331 calories per 100 g vs. 387 calories per 100 g for sugar).[9] However, since Splenda is about 14.5% as dense as sugar, a given volume of Splenda has 12.4% the energy of the same volume of sugar.[10] When sucralose is added to commercial products such as diet drinks, the bulking agent is not present and no caloric energy is added.

Although the “nutritional facts” label on Splenda’s retail packaging states that a single serving of 0.5 gram (1 teaspoon or 5 milliliters) contains zero calories, Splenda actually contains 1.66 calories per teaspoon.[11] The individual, tear-open packages are 1 gram servings which therefore contain 3.31 calories. Such labeling is appropriate in the U.S. because the FDA’s regulations permit a product to be labeled as “zero calories” if the “food contains less than 5 calories per reference amount customarily consumed and per labeled serving.”[12] Because Splenda contains a relatively small amount of sucralose, little of which is metabolized, virtually all of Splenda’s caloric content derives from the highly fluffed dextrose or maltodextrin bulking agents that give Splenda its volume. Like other carbohydrates, dextrose and maltodextrin have 3.75 calories per gram."

That slightly confuses me, but what I'm getting from it is that Splenda legally has no calories but realistically does. Or maybe it said that we can't use Splenda's calories? Whatever.

Duurrrrrant. But I'm getting out of this ridiculous town in a couple of months.

meal 1: 1 cup kashi go lean, 1 cup plain silk, apple, black coffee

meal 2: 1 tbsp peanut butter, 1 slice whole wheat bread

meal 3: turkey sandwich with mustard on whole wheat bread, grapes

meal 4: 1 cup organic pinto beans, chili seasoning and louisiana hot sauce, broccoli stalk

meal 5: 2 tbsp peanut butter, 2 slices whole wheat bread

meal 6: 1 1/2 cup kashi go lean, 1 1/4 cup plain silk


& there, i'm done for today! about 1600 calories total.

I love peanut butter and just seeked out a low-calorie alternative today. I came across Better 'N Peanut Butter. Look that up. The only bad thing, it seems, is that it is expensive! Of course I am going to order some soon, though.