Sugar-Free Gifts in a Jar

Every December the jars come out. Cookie mix tied with red ribbon. Brownie mix on the office counter. Hot cocoa by the dozen. And at the end of the table sits the one person who has to say no to every single jar, because every jar is a jar of sugar.

Maybe it is your mother, who has lived with diabetes for years. Maybe it is the friend who cut sugar out and is holding the line. They are not ungrateful. They simply cannot eat what is inside the glass.

This book changes that.

Sugar-Free Gifts in a Jar gives you 75 layered jar mixes made without added sugar: cookies, brownies, bars, muffins, quick breads, pancakes, hot cocoa, coffee, chai, soups, chili, bean jars, seasonings and jars for the special days of the year. Every sweet jar is built from the first spoonful on a sugar substitute. Nothing here is a regular recipe with a note telling you to swap the sugar yourself. The measurements, oven temperatures and baking times are written for the substitute from the start.

And every recipe ends with a copy-ready Gift Tag, written for the person who receives the jar.

WHAT EVERY GIFT TAG TELLS YOUR RECIPIENT

- Recipient Effort: what they add and how long it takes, so nobody opens a two-hour job on a busy weeknight
- You add: the eggs, butter, milk or water that stay out of the jar
- Short, numbered steps with oven or stove times
- How much the jar makes
- A use-by line, dated from the day you fill the jar
- The sweetener inside, named plainly
- The allergens inside, so a gift never becomes a worry

All 75 tags are printed again at the back of the book, four to a page, ready to photocopy, photograph or copy by hand. You never cut the book. It stays whole for next Christmas.

INSIDE YOU WILL FIND

- 14 cookie jars, from chocolate chip oatmeal and snickerdoodles to pecan snowballs and chocolate crinkles
- 10 brownie and bar jars, including fudge brownies, blondies, lemon bars and pumpkin spice bars
- 12 muffin, quick bread and pancake jars, with almond flour options
- 10 hot cocoa, coffee and tea jars, including peppermint cocoa, spiced chai and golden milk
- 12 soup, chili and bean jars with no sweetener at all
- 9 seasoning, rub and dressing jars with no sugar, dextrose or fillers
- 8 occasion jars for Thanksgiving, Christmas morning, Valentine's Day, teachers, birthdays and get-well visits
- Plain-English chapters on building a jar that keeps, what must never go in a gift jar, and how baking without sugar really works
- A Jar Size Chart, Use-By Chart, Sweetener Guide, Allergen Finder and a nutrition panel on every recipe

Only three sugar substitutes for the whole book. No brand names to chase. No candied fruit, no stock powder, no shop-bought creamers hiding sugar under another name.

Whether you are filling jars for a parent, a neighbour, a co-worker, a teacher or a church group, this is the book that lets the person who usually says no finally say yes.

Fill the jar. Tie the tag. Hand it over with your head held high.

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