can't/won't eat sugar

[OakLeaf]

Can I ask why? Taste or for health reasons? I'm assuming evaporated cane juice is harder to get hold of.

It's easily available in the USA, but it is more expensive than white sugar.

GMO sugar beets are one reason I avoid white sugar, although "pure cane" white sugar is available - the (IMO completely unnecessary) energy involved in refining is another, probably my #1 reason if I had to pick one. And I buy only organic sugar, which although it comes in various degrees of refining, for whatever reason I've never seen it as highly refined as chemically grown white sugar usually is. It's always got at least a little bit of color and flavor.


ETA: Substituting honey means adjusting the liquid content, and since a lot of baked goods recipes don't contain any liquid other than what's in eggs that are needed for binding, substituting honey can get pretty complicated. (Unless you're using a powdered egg substitute, in which case it's easy to reduce the liquid by most of the volume of the honey.) I've never had good luck with yeast and honey, either, although I haven't baked any raised breads in ages.

And as far as baking specifically with raw honey ... is there a point to that?