Thread: Looking to make my own stevia blend....

Hi everyone, first, glad to be here, lots of great information.

Now, what I am doing and hope to do, with this post.

I plan to start a new diet, good old new years resolution.

First, that means cutting out pop (soda) which is hard for me, I love the stuff.

Here is the solution I am working on so I can keep drinking my pop:

1. Kool Aid (love all the flavor varieties, if only they had a cola flavor )

2. What is pop or soda with the fizz? To fix this, I plan to get one of those machines to make soda at home, I am not sure if I am allowed to say the brand name or not, so I won't. But what I will do, is not get any of their soda flavors, and just use their machine to carbonate my own water to make fizzy kool aid with.

3. (this is the one I could use help with). I will be using PURE stevia (again, I won't say the brand). I want to make my own stevia blend, so that it will mix, cup for cup, like sugar when I make my kool aid. I want to add flavorless things, and healthy things. So far I have came up with a fiber powder (not listing the brand name), and a probiotic powder.

The fiber will help me feel more full, thus eating less, and will also keep you regular (can't believe I just said that). The probiotic stuff will help regulate your digestive system, the same benefits of yogurt.

So, if I could get the above blend just right with the sweetener, I would have a 12 oz glass of soda, with about 10 calories, and 4 carbs, for about 50 cents cost to make... without the harmful artificial sweeteners used in diet pop you buy and no high fructose corn syrup. A normal can of pop has about 200 calories and 50 some carbs.

My only concern is too much fiber. Is there anything else with perhaps a different health benefit that I could mix with the stevia and probiotics and fiber, that would lessen the amount of fiber I would have to use to make it measure cup for cup with sugar?

If anyone has any input on this project, or wants to share their own stevia blend for kool aid, I would LOVE to listen and hear it.

Thanks in advance

wowie, not the most talkative bunch here huh?