Sugar Free Peeps

[jmc_bks]

I saw sugar free Peeps at the grocery store last weekend. They stopped me cold. How do you make sugar free Peeps? I thought marshmallow was just processed sugar, more or less.

On the other side of the Peeps display nestled a variety of Mary Sue easter treats, including vanilla butter cream eggs and pecan caramel logs. Mmmm. I don't jones for Mary Sue candy during the year, but when it starts appearing at the grocery store, I have a hard time resisting. In fact, I have to just avoid that aisle of the store in order to leave without purchasing vast quantities.

On the reading side of things, I don't have much to say.

• I started Demon Night but couldn't get into it, kept getting interrupted. I've set it to the side and will pick it up when I'm feeling better about reading.

• Found a copy of Elizabeth Elliot's The Scoundrel. Everyone seems to love her historicals, but it didn't work for me. Wallbanger because the hero was an @ss, the heroine was a Mary Sue (not the good kind mentioned above, either), the plot was riddled with cliches.

• Read and liked Drew Zachary's The Painted House, which was sweet, if a little bland in terms of plot/conflict.

• The Ties That Bind anthology had one story I liked (friends to lovers) but was otherwise forgettable.

 

Comments

[tinyluv.livejournal.com]

sugar free peeps? That sounds sad.

I forgot to post on your Favre thread but I was in deep mourning. I almost cried watching his retirement press conference yesterday.

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

I was near tears as I watched, too.

And I wonder if Aaron Rodgers is going to turn out to be like Ryan Minor (who? the guy who took 3rd when Cal Ripken's streak ended) or like Steve Young following Joe Montana.

[tinyluv.livejournal.com]

It's hard to say. He certainly proved himself competent during the Dallas game. I guess we'll see next year. I am trying to prepare myself for the huge shock it will be to see someone other than no. 4 under center.

How DO they do it?

[jperceval.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that Peeps are coated in colored sugar!

Re: How DO they do it?

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

Colored Splenda? But I think Splenda cooks differently, so would it work for the marshmallow body?

Semi-related: check out the Post's 2007 contest for Peeps Dioramas (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/07/AR2008020703805.html). (Courtesy of Baltimore Snacker.) (http://thebaltimoresnacker.blogspot.com) ()