Cut your calories, improve your health, and still enjoy your favorite sweet treats. The perfect solution to too much sugar and the use of artificial sweeteners, stevia extract is about 200 to 300 times sweeter than sugar, with no calories and a glycemic index of 0. Used by millions of people around the world and deemed safe by doctors and scientists, stevia may be the answer to your sugar woes.

Easily available in supermarkets across the country in a variety of forms including liquid and powdered extracts, there is also information on how to grow stevia in your garden. Over 100 recipes feature everything from desserts and baked goods to salads and shakes. A sampling of the recipes you can make are Cranberry Punch, Lemonade, Cranberry Orange Muffins, Banana Bread, Breakfast Sweet Rolls, and Orange Sherbet.

Stevia is the perfect sweetener for anyone wanting to limit their intake of simple carbohydrates and calories naturally. This book is a combination of Rita's two previous cookbooks, Baking with Stevia I and II, along with new and revised recipes.