Sweetener control becomes a lot easier if you elect to add it yourself: For example, to keep my own cravings at a minimum I've moved towards a combination of fr

Sweetener control becomes a lot easier if you elect to add it yourself: For example, to keep my own cravings at a minimum I've moved towards a combination of fruits and individual sugar packets, or more often noncaloric sweeteners, for sweetening. The sugar packets are 5g each(as are sugar cubes), which means you would have to dump eight of them in your coffee to make it as sweet as a 12oz Coke(40g). Nobody dumps in eight sugar packets into plain coffee - they buy a sweetened coffee beverage instead, which is about as sugary as the Coke and costs more to boot. Candy bars and cookies are similarly difficult to portion control, because, again, they're overconcentrated.