On the natural Peanut Butter Cookies:

1 1/4 cups "Whole Wheat" flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup "Smart Balance" Butter (has good fats comparable to NPB)
1/2 cup Natural Peanut butter (I use Smuckers NPB)
1/2 cup "Splenda"
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
(I took out Brown Sugar in this recipe (bad crap).

On the issue of Sweetness. In this area we have to make a choice among a set of reletively bad "sets of products": Refined white sugar and artificial sweetners. If you research Refine White Sugar, you learn rather quickly this is a bad item to consume. The same thing can be said of artificial sweetners of any type. Therefore, I believe one has to make a choice among a bad set of choices and weigh the differences and then see if the one chosen is beneficial or detrimental to ones diet goal. For this, I chose Splenda. In breif, this is how I view the matter.

I usually have two 'cheat' meals a week and they are almost always in a social setting. It's important to me to have a couple meals and drinks with friends. If I'm right on for 40 meals a week, I'm just not going to worry about 2 of them being less than perfect.