"Jerry Avins" > wrote in message
...
> On Apr 20, 10:40 am, spamtrap1888 > wrote:
>> On Apr 20, 7:10 am, notbob > wrote:
>>
>> > On 2011-04-20, James Silverton > wrote:
>>
>> > > There is a rather sensible article available on the Los Angeles Times
>>
(much snippage)

> Some "organic" foods (manure and kerosene are organic) are sweetened
> not with sugar, but with "dehydrated cane juice." The sugar I get is
> mostly in food other people cook. At home, I use less than a a pound a
> year, much of it in other people's coffee.
>
> Jerry
> --


I'm with you on this one. No one needs to use that much sugar, cane syrup
or whatever you want to call it. I've been living in this house for 3 years
and I've only had to buy one pound of sugar. The reason I bought it was to
make simple syrup for my hummingbird feeder.

Jill

"jmcquown" wrote:
>
>I'm with you on this one. No one needs to use that much sugar, cane syrup
>or whatever you want to call it. I've been living in this house for 3 years
>and I've only had to buy one pound of sugar.

I've been working on the same five pound bag of white sugar for the
nearly ten years I've lived here and to date have used less than
half... I use more honey.

>The reason I bought it was to make simple syrup for my hummingbird feeder.

I buy the packets of the "red" stuff, it's pre-measured, it's instant,
and it looks nice... a box of six packets, each makes one liter... I
go through about three liters each summer. For me a big benefit of
the red color is that I can see the level in the feeder from a
distance rather than having to go outside.