Yeah, I snack on too many raisins & salty peanuts.
There is just something about the taste of eating
a raisin/peanuts mix:-)

I tried the sugar free jello & smushed-up carrot thing
a few minutes ago & it tastes just fine. I find that carrots
are the most filling for snacks. I think this jello/carrot
combo will be even better. I suspect that there are
other such jello recipes that will have virtually no calories
and be filling at the same time.

BTW - Nick (my grandson) shot a small deer within the
first hour. A "really" nice old 10 or 12 pointer came by, but in our
excitement, we bumped the .243 against the deer blind roof &
spooked him. He slowly walked into the brush, Nick never
got a shot. He can't wait to go again. He was so excited, it
really was a great memories for both of us.
The deer too, I guess.

Gene

My grandma makes jello with finely diced celery and carrot every time our
family gets together.  It's not my favorite, I like fruit better - but it
tastes ok.

det

Or make your own flavors by using unflavored gelatin and adding your
favorite flavors.  Here's part of a column I wrote a decade ago.
Depending on your dietary perspective, substitute sweeteners for sugar
(I mention Equal in it, but I'd probably use 1/2 each, Equal and
Splenda now.) or whatever else would work for you. The idea remains.

<<<<<<<< begin quote >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Gelatin comes in various forms but we're using the powdered,
unflavored stuff you can get in the supermarkets and bulk food stores.
 We're going to make four flavors of gelatins from scratch: Lemon,
Orange, Stupid-flavored juice drink gelatin and a very adult Wine
gelatin.  If you want more intense flavors, a teaspoon or two of
readily available extracts will certainly do it.  In it's simplest
form, it may take 10 minutes to whip up a batch and it's hard to mess
it up.
    Time out here for unflavored gelatin facts:
*  One packet weighs about 1/4 ounce and is a tablespoon.
*  One packet will gel from 1 3/4 to 2 1/2 cups liquid.
*  For molding and blocks, use less water so it's more solid.
*  To use, pour packet over cool liquid to soften and dissolve by
adding boiling liquid, stirring until clear.  Or, pour powder over
cool water, let soak and microwave to near-boiling, stopping to stir
until fully dissolved.
*  Calories - one packet runs around 30 calories.  One cup sugar is
about 770 calories.  One packet artificial sweetener runs about 4
calories, and to my taste, Equal brand tastes best.  Your call.  You
can substitute packets of artificial sweeteners for sugar but be aware
that the total volume of dessert will be much reduced.  A little trial
and error here.  For my taste, 8 packets of sweetener substituted for
1 cup sugar.
    That means a 2-cups-liquid, one-packet gelatin recipe can, in total
calories, range from a low of about 80 calories (one packet, 8 packets
sweetener, low-calorie liquids like lemon juice, flavored waters or
extracts with water) to a high of over 900 calories (one packet, a cup
sugar, sweet juices).

        LEMON GELATIN
Ingredients: 8 servings
    2 packets or 2 tablespoons unflavored gelatin
    1 cup cold water
    2 1/2 cups boiling water
    1 1/4 cups sugar or equivalent sweetener
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    1 cup lemon juice
    grated rind of 1 lemon
Method: Pour the gelatin onto the cold water and let soften for a
minute or two.  Stir into the hot water to fully dissolve.  Add
remaining ingredients, pour into bowl or mold and chill for at least 3
hours until set.

        ORANGE GELATIN
Ingredients: 8 servings
    2 packets or 2 tablespoons unflavored gelatin
    1/2 cup cold water
    1 cup boiling water
    1 to 1 1/2 cup sugar or equivalent sweetener
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    1/3 cup lemon juice
    3 cups orange juice or dietetic orange-flavored water
    grated rind of 1 orange
Method: as above.  Sugar varies depending on how sweet the juice is.
Try the kind with pulp in it.

        STUPID-FLAVORED JUICE DRINK GELATIN
    This will work with any fruit juice (except fresh pineapple which
prevents jelling; canned will work), fruit juice drink, fake fruit
juice drink or nowhere near fruit juice drink.  Imagine a layered
dessert that looked like this: fake blue raspberry, puzzling green
Gatorade, purple Hawaiian Punch, store-brand white grape, mostly juice
red grape juice cocktail, chemistry set pink lemonade and actual
orange juice.  Hey, hey.  Watch the language.
Ingredients: 8 servings
    2 packets or 2 tablespoons unflavored gelatin
    1/2 cup cold water
    1 1/2 cups boiling water
    1 cup sweetened fruit juice
    2 tablespoons lemon juice
    sugar or sweetener
    cut up fruit (optional)
    Make a few strange layered desserts like these and you'll be the hit
of the 9-year-old social set.  They'll think you're most cool.  And,
yes, they're saying that again.

        WINE GELATIN - FOR GROWNUPS
    This will still have alcohol in it and will make your ears get nice
and warm.  You might want to keep it away from the kids.  The
sweetness of the wine will determine how much sugar you'll want to put
in.  Taste as you go.  Have a designated driver.
    I got the original recipe for this one in the 70's from friends named
Tom and Vickie Powers who said it was an old Victorian secret recipe.
 Since she gave it to me and since she said it was Victorian, I named
it Victoria's Secret.  Oh, stop.  It was well before I ever heard of
them.
Makes 8 servings
    2 tablespoons gelatin
    1/4 cup cold water
    3/4 cup boiling water
    1/2 cup or more sugar or equivalent sweetener
    3/4 cup orange juice or dietetic orange-flavored water
    6 tablespoons lemon juice (optional)
    2 cups semi-dry or sweet wine
    grapes
For interesting variations: make half the batch with red wine and half
with white - fill wine glasses half full of one until lightly set,
then add the other for a two-color dessert.  Or, fill the glass
halfway and let it set, drop in a grape and fill the rest of the way
with gelatin mixture - the grape will appear to be suspended.  Pretty.
 Serve with a nice dab of whipped cream.
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Extracts work wonderfully. You can make root beer or licorice or any
other flavor for which you can find extracts. Chocolate.

And you can make fizzy ones. For an example, here's Diet Coke.
Dissolve the packet of gelatin in a little Coke (like maybe 4
tablespoons, heated) until it's fully in solution. Chill (but don't
freeze) the rest of the Coke in the freezer while the hot portion
cools. When the hot Coke is room temp, stir it into the very cold Coke
from the freezer. Chill to solidify. It will still have a little of
that fizzy tingle that the soda has. Or substitute flavored carbonated
waters or whatever you like.

The fizzy one can have other stuff incorporated, as well, but it needs
to be very cold but not frozen. If you freeze the carrots or whatever,
when they thaw, they'll "purge" liquids and mess up your pretty gelatin.

Pastorio