I miscalculated. We go through nine eight oz bottles per year. So savings of like $140 per year. Just checked on Amazon. We bought nine 8 oz bottles last year. Each bottle is $17.50. It costs 1/10th of that to make it homemade.
We use what we use and we sweeten it to a level not any sweeter than a beverage you buy from the grocery, convenience food store, starbucks swetened coffee, etc.. I don't read labels I go by taste and my amazon purchase history. Marketers lie as well.. their serving could be a sip. Do you even drink Stevia?
Someone said one 8 oz bottle of liquid stevia is equal to 6 lbs of sugar. If that's the case between the two of us we consume an equivalent of 6 x 9 pounds of sugar per year, or 54 pounds. I just read the average American consumes 100 lbs of sugar, so if we were average Americans we'd be consuming 200 lbs of sugar per year. But we don't consume ANY sugar per year because we don't buy sugar, nor sugary foods, nor even grains. So between us we only consume about 27% of the average American in "sweetener". So I'd say we are doing pretty well. We use this sweetener for everything in the house. Teas, cold teas, other beverages, low carb treats (e.g. berries & cream), Noatmeal (low carb cereal which tastes like Oatmeal but not made with grains), etc..
