How to survive as a Starbucksaholic

 

Their Cup sizes:

Short: 8 oz
Tall: 12 oz
Grande: 16 oz
Venti: 20 oz

• 1 pump of sugar free syrup is 1/3 of an ounce. If you buy a gift card and pay for your coffee with that, the syrup shot is free! (Saves 30 to 50 cents!)
• Espresso is usually 1 ounce.
• A Short latte is the way to go with approximately 5.5 ounces of milk
• A Tall latte generally has 9 ounces of milk the other 3 ounces are foam, espresso and such
• A Grande latte generally has 11 ounces of milk the other 5 ounces are foam, espresso and syrup if you chose a flavor.
• A Venti is 14.5 ounces of milk
• A Grande Cappuccino is made of approximately 7oz of milk
• A steamer which is just whole milk steamed with sugar free vanilla syrup
• A latte with whole milk, cold or hot, with sugar free vanilla, caramel, cinnamon dulce or plain. Make sure you tell them sugar free!
• A  Misto –  It depends what size you order. A misto is half coffee and half steamed milk so a medium is only 8 ozs of milk, add the SF syrup and voila!…. yummy!
• Starbucks Vanilla Cream: You ask them for their milk-only drink with whole milk, sugar free vanilla and NO whipped cream.  Simply ask them to froth the milk the way they do with lattes.
• Get a latte…whole milk….sugar free caramel and sugar free mocha…..no whip cream….no foam….and get it hot or cold.   It’s AWESOME!!!
• An iced VENTI LATTE has 12 oz milk and I add WF Choc Syrup to it and it is wonderful!

Remember to tell them to use whole milk (they switched to 2% a little while ago unless you ask) and sugar free syrup!

Over the course of the day while following the discussion I realized that I did not have my daily 1/2 cup of Nespress coffee with a tablespoon of half & half and a small piece (1/4 serving) of chocolate in over 7 days – it’s usually my daily celebration of a day well done after dinner and oddly enough I have not even missed it (up to now). That’s pretty interesting to be happening on a diet I think.

The Accu-Weight mailing list is full of helpful people and ideas. I followed a few of those suggestions and here is what I have found so far.

Got a new item on the “YES can do and it also tastes good” list and that’s SNAPPLE Green Tea Peach zero calorie drink. It does not taste horrendously fake, the peach is mellow and soft but nicely distinct and no hint of bitterness from the tea and it also is not overly sweetened. Perfect.

Also, a big, big winner are the sugar free BASKIN ROBINS Hard Candies. No fake sweetener hint in them! And perfectly 10 calories of which you are allowed to have 6 per day, at any time. And yes, it’s the same logo and the same company which if famous for their ice creams, even though on their own site they only hype the ice cream itself.