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You’ll find that most of my recipes use a sweetener alternative, like Swerve, Truvia, monk fruit or stevia. I have absolutely nothing against sugar and I still use it in certain desserts + enjoy plenty of desserts with sugar in moderation. I choose not to use sugar for certain dessert recipes for a couple of reasons. One, to avoid the insulin spike and sugar crash that comes with. I eat desserts every day and I hate the sluggish sugar crash feeling afterwards! Plus, I have PCOS, so it’s important for me to minimize these spikes. Using these sweetener alternatives allows me to do that. Two, using sugar increases the calories. Which again, there is nothing bad about! I truly just enjoy the lightened up desserts and typically would rather enjoy a very large, lightened up piece of cake than a small piece of cake sweetened with sugar for the same calories.

Absolutely! Feel free to use sugar instead for any of my recipes. The amount used may vary some based on individual sweetness preferences, but for the most part, a measure-to-measure sub works great.

At the bottom of every recipe card (on each individual post) you can find the exact title to input for your search. All recipes start with LFF and then the exact title is specific to that particular recipe. 

“Macros” is short for macronutrients, which is just the protein, carbohydrate and fat composition of food. If you are new to macros, you can read more about it here.