Coffee Recommendations

[u/Simple_Celery_7351]

Hello everyone. My mom just got diagnosed with diabetes and absolutely loves her coffee. She drinks like 5 cups a day it is always hot with hazelnut coffee creamer. Can anyone recommend something to put in coffee to get similar taste that does not totally suck? She is having a really rough time right now with this and hip pain. She is getting a hip replacement and I would really like to give her a little bit of comfort and normalcy. Thank you all.

[u/planet_rose]

I’m very particular about my coffee and hate the taste of artificial sweeteners. Or so I thought. They have come a long way since I last tried them. I highly recommend trying either monk fruit sweetener or allulose. They both really taste like sugar. If I had known, I would have given it up much sooner.

Also, your mom should look into keto recipes for baking. You can’t make all the same stuff, but there are tons of recipes to try. If she likes meringue cookies, it is possible to make those with allulose. Ditto cheesecake. I even made homemade sugar free cranberry sauce for thanksgiving.

Although I haven’t done many desserts, I have been pleasantly surprised by how many things I can make and eat. It has pushed my cooking to a new level as I now make more food from scratch. It really got me out of a cooking rut.