Before we selected the facility, we ate in their dining room. The food was pretty good. But I have no way of knowing how much sugar was in it. It didn't strike me as particularly sweet. And 1poormom doesn't like sweet stuff, in general.

I tend to shy away from artificial ingredients, or ingredients I need a chemistry degree to figure out. If something should have sugar, then it should have sugar. I figure the artificial sweetener is worse than actual sugar. If I want to avoid sugar, I avoid it (e.g. my soda consumption is way down because I refuse HFCS, so it is self-limiting in the USA since very few sodas have real sugar). I haven't baked cookies in a year or more, though I did some banana bread a few months ago.

Carbs are a problem. 1poorlady is Asian. So rice is a staple. We've reduced it A LOT, but it's still common at meal time.