You’ll find that most of my recipes use a sweetener alternative, like Swerve, Truvia, monk fruit or stevia. I have absolutely nothing against sugar and I still use it in certain desserts + enjoy plenty of desserts with sugar in moderation. I choose not to use sugar for certain dessert recipes for a couple of reasons. One, to avoid the insulin spike and sugar crash that comes with. I eat desserts every day and I hate the sluggish sugar crash feeling afterwards! Plus, I have PCOS, so it's important for me to minimize these spikes. Using these sweetener alternatives allows me to do that. Two, using sugar increases the calories. Which again, there is nothing bad about! I truly just enjoy the lightened up desserts and typically would rather enjoy a very large, lightened up piece of cake than a small piece of cake sweetened with sugar for the same calories.