Reduced Sugar Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

I was looking for a choc. chip/peanut butter cookie and found this one. I made them tonight and they are just out of the oven now. I made a few changes. I added 1/4 cup packed Splenda brown sugar and reduced the Splenda granulated sugar to 1/2 cup, and left out the 4 packets of Truvia as I didn't have that here. I also used just 1/2 cup of the Hershey Extra dark chips and used 1/2 cup of finely chopped walnuts in place of the almond slices. Theses cookies are a real winnner!! I got 48 out of my batch. They were a little smaller, but they did spread and are so good! I am a diabetic and lood for recipes that I can convert from reg. sugars to the Splenda. I would give this recipe 5 stars.

Thanks for the tips, Dianne! I will try these adjustments next time around...and I'm thrilled that this is a recipe that will enable diabetics to enjoy a sweet treat without it wrecking their blood sugar levels.

this advice is from a pediatric, orthapedic surgeon. He has seen bones in children looking like they are the bones of 85 year-olds! The use of artifical sweeteners - any kind - the chemical BLOCKS ABSORPTION OF CALCIUM. This physician is in the Kaiser system and sees dozen of young people actually experienceing "broken pelvics", etc. He said, "tell everybody" - the chemicals "fool" the taste buds into thinking something is sweet - but the chemical in the body blocks the body's ability to absorb any calcium. Getting older, we start to lose bone density anyway! Just quit using any of it, quit buying anything that has any of them in it - go back to sugar, honey, molasses - anything natural! This disturbing fact comes from a man who sees the bones, the living bones of countless young people - his own research concluded the connection.

While I'm at it - it is hypocritical to have high-density caloric stuff in a mixture and then "pretend" to lose a few pounds using an artificial product - the total caloric value of the sugar in these receipes amounts to less than 3% of the total calories anyway. Use real ingredients - teach children to eat less but enjoy real food.

Approved by whom? the ones that sell artificial sweeteners? I do not intend to defend a very smart, intelligent surgeon who sees the effects of calcium deprivation in the bones of the very young! Take the advice if you want or don't - that is up to you - but his advice is more scientific and grounded in reality than "Family Tested"