Joy Filled Eats Natural Sweetener
Looking for an all natural and economical sugar-free sweetener that actually tastes good? You need to try my natural sweetener blend! I’ve found that by using a combination of xylitol, erythritol, and stevia I can save money while enjoying a low carb sweetener that tastes just like sugar.
Joy Filled Eats Natural Sweetener Blend – Xylitol, Erythritol, & Stevia – Low Carb, Keto, Trim Healthy Mama, Diabetic Friendly, Sugar Free
When I started the Trim Healthy Mama diet I was leery about all the recipes using stevia because I have never liked it. All of the grocery store varieties and even the flavored liquid drops have a bitter aftertaste to me. In the past when I stopped using sugar on the South Beach Diet I used artificial sweeteners to replace it. Over the years I’ve read more about the negative effects of artificial sweeteners and I knew I needed to give stevia another try.
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I heard that the Trim Healthy Mama Gentle Sweet natural sweetener, which is a blend of xylitol, erythritol, and stevia, was a game changer so I thought I would give it a try. It really changed my perception of stevia. It had no aftertaste or bitterness.
Because we have a strict food budget I became determined to come up with my own blend of erythritol, xylitol, and stevia. I try to save as many pennies as I can when I shop. Making my own sweeteners, baking mixes, seasonings, and cooking from scratch saves the most.
These Tagalong Cupcakes are one use for my sweetener. Don’t they look yummy? They are sugar-free! But you would never know. Even my husband who isn’t a dessert guy loved them.
You can now mix up your own sweetener that measures just like Gentle Sweet. If you are on a tight budget this helps with this way of eating immensely. I use this sweetener in all my dessert recipes and I’ve subbed in it recipes from the Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook like the Trimtastic Cake.
You can make everything from Sweetened Condensed Milk to Caramel with this recipe and more.
If you grind this in a food processor it works great as a low carb powdered sugar. It is the best out of the low carb and keto sweeteners!
Ingredients in Joy Filled Eats Sweetener
Xylitol is a natural sweetener. It is a sugar alcohol made from birch trees or corncobs. It has 40% fewer calories than sugar and is a 7 on the glycemic index (white sugar is a 64). Please note that xylitol can be fatal to dogs so don’t share treats containing xylitol with your furry friends.
Erythritol is a sugar alcohol like xylitol. It occurs naturally in some fruits and vegetables It has zero calories and no impact on blood sugar. It is produced from glucose by fermentation with yeast.
Stevia is a plant discovered in South America. To make stevia powder a water extraction method is typically used. Stevia is 100 to 200 times sweeter than sugar so a little goes a long way.
Where Do I Buy Sweetener Ingredients?
My natural sweetener recipe is easy and economical. There are many choices on where to order the ingredients from. And I’ve used several brands of these products successfully.
I personally order the ingredients for this natural sweetener from amazon, walmart, thrive market, and iherb.
Thrive Market: My Thrive Market Coupon works on everything from sweeteners and baking supplies to vitamins and beauty products! Thrive has great prices on coconut products, spices, organic health items, baby food, and more especially since they often will email codes for an additional 25-30% off your entire order. Head over to this post to see more of the latest deals at Thrive. My favorite deal is always getting Lily’s Chocolate Chips for $4 a bag!
iherb:
If you are ordering from iherb you save $5 with my link. Generally, you can get the ingredients to make for under $8 a pound. Free shipping is on orders over $20.
I ordered the ingredients from iherb with free shipping. They have a lot of products that work for Keto, Low Carb, and Trim Healthy Mama eating plans. Other products they have that are compatible with THM are oat fiber, psyllium husks, whey protein powder, coconut flour, almond flour, etc. etc. This link takes you right to iherb so you can start making your own sugar free sweetener! Just put each ingredient into the search bar and add to your cart. It’s cheaper to buy the 2.5 pounds but they also have 1 pound bags if you’d like to go small before you commit to a huge bag. It is very very easy.
Amazon:
With free one day and two-day Prime shipping, Amazon is where I order from most often. I can consistently get xylitol and erythritol inexpensively. I buy the largest size stevia and it lasts me about 2 years. And I bake A LOT.
I have tried all of these brands and just buy whichever is the cheapest on the day I order! No big deal.
Walmart:
Over the last year or so I’ve been buying more and more groceries from Walmart. They offer free shipping over $35 and have many low carb products in addition to having more choices in the store.
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Joy Filled Eats Natural Sweetener - Low Carb, THM, Sugar Free
Ingredients
Weight measurements:
- 16 oz xylitol *** (or allulose)
- 12 oz erythritol (or allulose)
- 2 tsp Better Stevia or any pure stevia extract
Cup measurements:
- 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons xylitol (or allulose)
- 1 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons erythritol (or allulose)
- 2 tsp Better Stevia or any pure stevia extract
Instructions
Powdered Sweetener
- Process the ingredients in the food processor for a few minutes if you are planning on using it in chocolate, beverages, or icing.
Granular Sweetener
- For baking and candy making, you can just mix the ingredients together by hand.
Notes
Nutrition
Please note that xylitol is fatal to dogs so don’t share treats containing xylitol with your furry friends. You may prefer to not have it in your pet-friendly house at all.
I never thought I’d find a suitable sugar substitute, but here it is! My family needs to cut sugar; we’re like those zombie snails (cue the NatGeo video) only we’re controlled by sugar. So far, I’ve made chocolate cake & iced tea, and both were a hit. I’ll be ordering more ingredients & making a bigger batch of this in the near future.
Since this is twice as sweet as sugar and you would use half as much in recipes, does the lower volume of sweetener affect the recipe?
I have not noticed that it does.
Thank you for this lovely treat! Great recipe.
Monk fruit (without erythritol) worked very well in this recipe. I was worried it might make it too sweet but it was perfect exactly as written. 🙂
Love how easy this is to throw together on my scale and then just mix it together in the container I store it in. It does take more work to make it into powder like THM Gentle Sweet, but it is so much cheaper to make on my own that I don’t mind the extra step, and I usually just leave it in granular form for my drinks anyway.
Hi, I was wondering if you have tried using coconut palm sugar in your blend since it is low on glycemic index scale? I was thinking of combining coconut palm sugar with a little bit of stevia since I want to stay away from the erythritol . Any thoughts on this?
I have not, sorry. If you try that combo please lmk how it turns out 🙂
Taryn, I’ve been using this recipe for years now, and love it! <3
Question, have you ever tried making this blend as a liquid sweetener? The reason I'm asking is, it seems like a lot of the time, it turns out gritty in baked goods, even if I powder it in a blender. I do have liquid erythritol, but not really finding liquid xylitol. ::/
Any thoughts? If I did try it, would it mess up liquid ratios? Thanks!!
It does melt. I melt it to use in candy recipes and simple syrup. I haven’t tried using it as liquid in baked goods. I do wonder if the grittiness is just the sweetener recrystallizing? That tends to happen with longer storage if you chill or freeze baked goods.
Love and appreciate you recipes so much!! I have a question about your sweetener. The recipe nutrition says it is 12.4 g of carbs. Is that correct? If so where are the carbs coming from?
I’m on a modified keto diet and this number seems high.
Thank you!
Janet
That is a typo. I will edit. I need to manually subtract the sugar alcohols because my plugin doesn’t do that automatically.
In your Natural Sweetener recipe, you mention it is twice as sweet as sugar.
So if I am substituting this Natural Sweetener for regular white sugar in my other recipes, do I just use one-half of what the original recipe dictates? For example, if recipe calls for one cup sugar, I would use 1/2 cup of your Natural Sweetener recipe.
Yes, that is correct.
This recipe says – 1 calorie per tablespoon……16 tablespoons in a cup…..with xylitol being 500 calories a cup……your calorie count doesn’t seem correct……What am I missing?
1 tablespoon with xylitol and erythritol has 17 calories. Made with allulose and erythritol it goes down to 3 calories. Since I offer so many variations it is hard to list nutrition facts. Most of my readers count carbs and not calories. Sugar alcohols essentially have 0 net carbs.
I have just recently discovered you recipes and have tried many of your recipes with great success! I’m just wondering about the ingredients quantities in your sweetener. Is 2 tsp of Stevia enough with 3.5 cups of the other 2 ingredients? Thanks.
Yes, stevia is very potent.
Hi, how much monk fruit required for this recipe? I have made other cookies similar to yours but no success story here . Thank you for sharing your recipe, I can’t wait to make them .
Most monkfruit is mixed with erythritol. Using it in this along with powdered stevia might make it too sweet. Which one do you have?
I am having a hard time seeing your recipes due to add pop up in the middle. I close them out and they come back! What is the difference between measurements and cup measurements?
Hi Stacey, a simple way to see recipes without ads is to navigate to the print view. You won’t have to print the page. It is just a simpler page. You can make this either by weight (if you have a kitchen scale) or measuring with measuring cups.
I have been attempting to keto but everything was so confusing. So many different sweeteners every recipe calling for a different one. This flour that flour oh my it was exhausting. This I can do! Love being able to mix up cookie/cake mixes to have on hand. Thank you for sharing your knowledge it has certainly helped me!
Geeze, the sweetener issue in this cookie is beyond confusing! I just wanted to find a GF cookie to bake for my friend. Cooking and baking are not intuitive for me. Can I just use plain old refined sugar? If so, how much.
Hi Marye, I’m not sure which cookie recipe you are referring to. But you should be able to sub sugar for my sweetener. Most of my readers are also low carb, not just gluten free, so that is why I have a sugar-free sweetener recipe.
My family loves this sweetener blend. Even my husband is who has not always been on board with alternative sweeteners will often reach for this instead of sugar. I did have to find the right brand of xylitol so that it wouldn’t have a cooling affect. XyloSweet is our favorite combined with Now brand erythritol, and Better Stevia.
I have major digestive problems with sugar alcohols. I am very interested in this recipe, but am concerned erythritol and xylitol will cause issues for me. Do you have any thoughts?
With the additional of stevia you use less sweetener total. You could even try adding more stevia and using less sweetener. That can work in most recipes. Things like candy and icing are trickier.
try just Allulose and Stevia. Or, also Monk Fruit. Monk Fruit with taste a bit like brown sugar. I think there is Golden and White…White won’t taste like brown sugar. None are sugar alcohols.
Like you, my guts are absolutely wrecked by sugar alcohols. I also don’t like Stevia. As a result, a lot of experimenting landed me on Monk Fruit extract (liquid) sweetener. It’s gotta be pure (no sugar alcohols) or I get massive abdominal pain. For at least two years I’ve been using Now Foods Certified Organic Monk Fruit Liquid. It’s super expensive, but I figure it’s cheaper than sugar>diabetes>heart attack. 🙂
Some non-sugar sweeteners are good in some things and bad in others. I find this stuff is quite good in coffee, tea, and candy. There are some brands that make really good chocolate and caramel with the stuff. The best example I’ve tried is ChocZero’s Keto Bark, Dark Chocolate Almonds with Sea Salt. Expensive, again, but cheaper than a heart attack.
Hi,
Thank you for this recipe. I cannot consume erythritol as it gives me vertigo and I do not use xylitol as I have fur babies. Will it work as well substituting allulose for both erythritol and xylitol? Would I use 3.1/2 cups + 4 Tablespoons of Allulose? Would I still use 1/2 cup of the sweetener (Allulose and Stevia) to replace 1 cup of sugar? Which pure Allulose brand do you recommend?
Thank you 😊
Yes, you can use all allulose plus stevia. Yes, to those measurements. I just buy whichever brand is the cheapest on amazon. I haven’t noticed a big difference.
This is my go-to sweetener now!
Thanks!
Is the stevia in liquid or granular form? I am looking forward to trying this blending of more natural sweeteners!
Thank you!
It is powdered.
Thanks Taryn~ was just getting ready to ask, but figured I’d read through comments to see if someone already had. =) Bingo! I’m attempting homemade chewy caramels- again- after stepping away from many previous attempts. It’s been elusive, trying to get the right temps/times/blend of ingredients. Any tips on chewy caramel, which I hope to coat in white/milk/dark chocolate? Thanks, in advance, for any further info you may have~ if not, that’s okay too, of course. Such a great website, find myself coming back here often~ appreciate all that you share here. =) Samantha in AZ