Never heard of Jan's Spicy Sweet Dills so can't help with a recipe. Most prefer one or the other - dill or sweet - so that is how most recipe are based.

But sugar can be added to any dill pickle recipe after they have been fully pickled. Open a jar of your favorite dill pickles and add sugar to taste or I'd read the ingredients on the lable (any garlis or hot peppers etc?) and find one of the dill pickle recipes close to those ingredients. After they have been fully pickled, open and add sugar (white or brown) to taste.

Dave

I have a recipe that starts with a jar of Vlasik Dill Pickle Slices - NO Garlic. ( but I guess any dill pickles would do as long as there's no garlic. Garlic makes the recipe taste awful!)

You drain-off the liquid leaving the pickles in the jar.

Meanwhile you bring to a boil :

2 cups while sugar

2/3 cup cider vinegar

2 Tblsp. pickling spices

Turn off the burner and allow to steep for 15 minutes.

Using a strainer to remove the spices, you pour the syrup into the jar over the drained pickles.

Put on a lid. Allow to cool. And refrigerate for several months.

You might be able to figure out a rough estimate of how much sugar and salt the brand you like uses based on the serving size nutritional information compared to the USDA calorie counter. Most of the calories are going to come from the sugar.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/jans-spicy-sweet-garlic-dill-pickles-699087

This says that 1 oz of this brand of pickles has 40 calories.

330 mg of sodium, which is 0.06695 tsp, it also has 10 g of sugar which is 2.029 tsp.

According to the USDA 2 tsp of sugar has 32 calories and 1 oz of cucumber has 8 calories.

32 calories from the sugar + 8 calories from the cucumber = 40 calories per oz.

Here is a recipe I've made for several years:

Sweet Dills

3- 3 1/4 lbs small pickling cukes

4 c. water

4 c. vinegar (recipe calls for white, I use cider)

3 c. sugar (I use a little less)

1/3 c. pickling salt.

6 Tbls dill seed

Slice cukes into 1/4-1/2 inch thick slices. pack cukes into pt. jars. Add 1 TBL. dill seed to each jar. Heat to boiling vinegar, water, sugar and salt. Pour hot vinegar mixture into jars leaving 1/2 " headspace. Process 30 mins.