Diabetes Blog – Happy-Medium.net

File this one under the category “Things I never thought I’d write about on a diabetes blog”.

If there’s an e-mail I’ve received this year that made me laugh really hard, it had to be the one from a representative for Marshmallow Peeps®. If you’re someone in the ‘States who celebrates Easter, you may have received a peep or two in your Easter basket prior to diagnosis. Or maybe after too… YDMV.

Now the Peeps® people are rolling out marshmallow treats with Halloween in mind. Marshmallow ghosts, pumpkins, and chicks with different flavors and colors. Also, and the reason they wrote to me: They are now producing sugar free Peeps®.

What made me laugh was the fact that someone who makes something so sugary wanted me to write about their sugar free options. And most important… I absolutely hate marshmallow. Marshmallow invokes an almost immediate gag response in me. And they wanted to send me free samples!

So of course, I said yes.

I told them that I just can’t stomach marshmallow, but my wife used to love Peeps® as a kid, so if they wanted to send a few sugar free and non-sugar free selections my way, she would try them out and I would report back.

In fact, we took it a bit farther and waited until we had a big party (Maureen’s dad was visiting), and we handed them out for people to try. These were all people not living with diabetes, so their opinion on the taste of sugar free and sugar laden marshmallow would be important for this taste test.

The verdict: The overwhelming majority of our guests said that the sugar free pumpkins taste just the same as the sugary versions. No difference. Of the sugary things they tried, they really liked the chocolate mousse-flavored cats. They thought those were the best by far. Opinions on everything else was mostly met with “Well, it tastes like a Peep”.

So I’m going to give you the link for the sugar free and the Halloween selections for Marshmallow Peeps®. Here they are:
https://www.peepsandcompany.com/brand/featured-products/new-arrivals
https://www.peepsandcompany.com/search?st=sugar%20free
 
 
Honestly, I wouldn’t usually write about something like this, but it just seemed like a fun thing to do, and we can’t always be super serious. With September just around the corner, whatever your options are for Halloween or for stubborn bouts of hypoglycemia, I hope your upcoming autumn is very nice indeed.

Disclosure: I was given some free samples of Marshmallow Peeps® to try. I did not promise to write anything about it. All opinions belong to me (and my guests).