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Today I bought some Truvia. I put some in my tea and I'm quite pleased. It's sweet, it's yummy. It doesn't taste exactly like sugar, of course, but nor does it have the nasty chemical aftertaste of Aspartame and Splenda.
A ticket to "Gran Torino" and a Dominos sub. "Gran Torino" was a great movie, and the sub was incredible... never going to Subway again!
A ticket to the movie, "Push"
I've been wanting to try that but I didn't see it in the store next to the other sweeteners.
I bought it at Whole Foods. It only recently came on the market, and I think only a few chains carry it.
I purchased a custom print of a painting by an obscure Pre-Raphaelite artist, Frank Cadogan Cowper:
It's called Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI. It's currently on display at the Tate Britain in London.
I have wanted a print of this painting for a long time, but it's not available anywhere, and custom prints from the Tate online shop are prohibitively expensive.
But they're having a sale right now: the price of custom prints has been reduced by 40 per cent, and this brought it within my price range.
I can't wait to get it framed. I know exactly where to hang it.
It's called Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI. It's currently on display at the Tate Britain in London.
I have wanted a print of this painting for a long time, but it's not available anywhere, and custom prints from the Tate online shop are prohibitively expensive.
But they're having a sale right now: the price of custom prints has been reduced by 40 per cent, and this brought it within my price range.
I can't wait to get it framed. I know exactly where to hang it.
Another thing I forgot to mention: you can also simply buy a stevia plant. I used to have one, but my roommate's cat ate it. Keeping a plant is great, because you can just add the leaves to your tea for sweetness. The Truvia packets I think will be more convenient for things like cereal, though, and I'm going to experiment with it as a substitute in baking.
I purchased a custom print of a painting by an obscure Pre-Raphaelite artist, Frank Cadogan Cowper:
It's called Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI. It's currently on display at the Tate Britain in London.
Great painting. You can almost smell the stink of corruption emanating from it.
Just ordered "My Name is Bruce" on dvd
Isn't it? I'm really surprised that it's not better known.
Granted, most people don't decorate their living rooms with the stench of corruption, but still...
Or buy any of the many other brands that are available from health stores and places like Whole Foods... I know when in Washington I saw 3-4 different brands of powdered stevia in packets, along with 2-3 brands of the liquid, and a few of the baking variety.
I grew the plant for a while too, but it's South American and really fussy about colder temperatures. It really didn't like our winter temperature INSIDE the house. If you have a heated greenhouse it would probably be happy.
I would suggest getting a brand or in the format meant for baking. It usually comes in larger plastic jars and says that it's meant for baking. It's often mixed with some other things to try and make it closer to sugar in order not to mess up the chemistry experiment that is baking. I see that Truvia gives some recipes, but then mentions using 16 packets, etc. It's much easier to use a variety you can just scoop out and properly measure.
I also highly recommend liquid stevia for use at home instead of packets. It's actually much more economical than powdered and very convenient. A few drops in a cup of tea makes all the difference. I use the liquid to replace or reduce sugar in anything liquidly I'm making - iced tea, cranberry sauce, etc.
I'm somewhat disappointed by Truvia, as it seems to be getting away from stevia with its flashy packaging and big marketing. My favourite stevia this year came from a local grower with a greenhouse who grinds the leaves herself. She does a mix with cocoa and spices... yum! Products like this and the brands of stevia that have been around for over a decade can be found in most health stores.
And that's my obsess about stevia. I've been a fan of Steve for over 10 years, and am glad some governments and countries are starting to pull their heads out of their butts.
It's was the cumulative nature of the battle that did for me. I didn't have time to recharge between bouts.
Pacing is key...
My latest purchase is a beverage and appies last night after doing a moonlight hike.
Hubby and I bought a brand new car last night. I will get back to you with pictures later.
Hubby, cheap bastard that he is, realized after days of car shopping, that what he wanted was only slightly more in a new car than a 2 year old car with 80,000 miles on it. And he could get all the little extra features he was hot on.
So, last night, we stayed late--were that last people at the dealership, actually--and bought a new, shiny, dark blue 2009 Toyota Camry. They, surprisingly, gave us $700 for my POS 94 Honda Accord that had a busted radiator, bad timing belt, a broken ABS air compressor, hail damage and a bad transmission. That's about $300 more than the junkyard offered.
So now I get the 98 Camry as my car. Yay!
But we're both sort of in shock that we've just, for the first time, bought something (other than the house) that we can't pay off in 6 months. Scary!
Hubby, cheap bastard that he is, realized after days of car shopping, that what he wanted was only slightly more in a new car than a 2 year old car with 80,000 miles on it. And he could get all the little extra features he was hot on.
So, last night, we stayed late--were that last people at the dealership, actually--and bought a new, shiny, dark blue 2009 Toyota Camry. They, surprisingly, gave us $700 for my POS 94 Honda Accord that had a busted radiator, bad timing belt, a broken ABS air compressor, hail damage and a bad transmission. That's about $300 more than the junkyard offered.
So now I get the 98 Camry as my car. Yay!
But we're both sort of in shock that we've just, for the first time, bought something (other than the house) that we can't pay off in 6 months. Scary!
Thanks for the info, Azlynn!
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