coffee

jamacianredhair

I'm pretty good about weighing and measuring everything I eat or drink. Well I was until I fell off the wagon, but that's another story...

Anyway, I have never weighed or measured my coffee until this morning. What I always thought was around 50 calories is actually over 100! Most days I have at least 2 cups...

Creamer is killing my coffee vibes right now. Does anyone use a low calorie creamer that tastes good? Currently I use International Delight sugar free hazelnut. (I just free pour it until I get a nice color.) ahhh this sucks...

amtyrell

Coffee has like 5 calories . It is the add ins that make it high in calories. Can you slowly move to drinking coffee black?

Joanna2012B

Have you tried using less creamer? I personally use milk in my coffee and have since reduced that. Or you can just fit it into your daily calories.

JeromeBarry1

Black coffee has zero calories. If you can get the individual tubs of creamer, try an office supply store, the hazelnut has 30 calories in an individual 11 ml tub.

jamacianredhair

I used to drink it black. I may switch back, or try milk. I got used to flavors but there is flavored coffee I could try.

jamacianredhair

Yea I had thought that maybe the individual cups would help with my heavy hand lol

snickerscharlie

jamacianredhair wrote: »

I'm pretty good about weighing and measuring everything I eat or drink. Well I was until I fell off the wagon, but that's another story...

Anyway, I have never weighed or measured my coffee until this morning. What I always thought was around 50 calories is actually over 100! Most days I have at least 2 cups...

Creamer is killing my coffee vibes right now. Does anyone use a low calorie creamer that tastes good? Currently I use International Delight sugar free hazelnut. (I just free pour it until I get a nice color.) ahhh this sucks...

First off, try reducing to only 1 cup a day. That way you can have that 1 cup exactly how you like it without it costing you an insane amount of calories by having 2 0r 3 of them in a day. I used to be triple-triple kinda gal, 3 cups a day. Reduced it to two, then to 1, and then *very gradually* started cutting back on what I put in that one, too.

Today my morning coffee has stevia in it and a splash of light cream and it tastes good!

robm1brown

Speaking as a Brit (or maybe just an ignoramus) what is creamer?

OliveGirl128

A high quality coffee doesn't need a bunch of add-ins, and even though it costs more, you'll save money from not having to buy flavored creamers and such so it pretty much evens out.

I went from dumping gobs of calories into my store brand generic coffee grinds, to grinding my own beans of a high quality (Haitian) coffee and the only thing I add to it is a bit of splenda.

tcunbeliever

International Delights is a non-dairy "cream" with flavor added...kind of like a substitute version of a latte or cafe au lait with syrup flavor...

fritch_gets_fit26

I used to use sugar and cream in my coffee, and it is startling to see how many calories there are. I just started using less and less...I would get the pre-measured cups (like what they have at restaurants and gas station coffee bars) and that was all the creamer I could have...now I drink it black with only 1 packet of splenda...it is much lower in calories (I think about 15 calories)...which is great because I tend to drink about a pot and a half a day.

YvetteK2015

jamacianredhair wrote: »

I used to drink it black. I may switch back, or try milk. I got used to flavors but there is flavored coffee I could try.

I never used to be able to drink my coffee black, ever. But I bought my own coffee syrups, sugar free. One day I just decided to try black coffee with a sugar free syrup. I was actually surprised just how good it was. So now I can drink it both ways. On days I'm not hungry, I add milk. On days I'm a bit more hungry, I drink it black with syrup.

ijsantos2005

I use half & half. 40 cals for 2 tablespoons

laurenebargar

I've been slowly cutting down what I put in, I used to have three creams three sugars, now im down to one cream one sugar! I'd like to eventually drink it black, but who knows if I will ever get there.

lauracups

I over loaded my coffee with cream and sugar and just decided one day to switch to black never went back. I love all the different notes and flavors naturally between sumatra and Italian dark roast and Fall Blend green mountain, etc. I equate it to the enjoyment between Pinot and Shiraz. Give it a go:)

savithny

robm1brown wrote: »

Speaking as a Brit (or maybe just an ignoramus) what is creamer?

For some reason Americans got into having cream (or half-and-half) in their coffee instead of milk. You can get little tubs that are a couple of tablespoons of cream, and restaurants tend to use thiose. There's also the abomination that is powdered creamer. It actually gets called "coffee whitener" because its often non-dairy. I call it "coffee paint."

(I grew up putting milk in my coffee and that's what I prefer).

Loug1983

savithny wrote: »

robm1brown wrote: »

Speaking as a Brit (or maybe just an ignoramus) what is creamer?

For some reason Americans got into having cream (or half-and-half) in their coffee instead of milk. You can get little tubs that are a couple of tablespoons of cream, and restaurants tend to use thiose. There's also the abomination that is powdered creamer. It actually gets called "coffee whitener" because its often non-dairy. I call it "coffee paint."

(I grew up putting milk in my coffee and that's what I prefer).

Also a Brit, so 'creamer' is just cream? And half and half is half cream, half milk?

To clarify, it is a thing to have cream in coffee here, though less common than milk, but we just call it cream.

__TMac__

Let me clarify: Creamer is only the fake stuff. Powdered or liquid non-dairy.

Cream is whole cream. Half-and-half is half cream, half milk.

Loug1983

Thanks, we have powdered milk here, and 'coffee mate' which might be like your creamer, I have never been tempted to try it!

__TMac__

Powdered milk, if it truly is just dried milk, is different. Creamer is almost always non-dairy.

Yes, Coffee Mate is a creamer. You're not missing anything.

emcclure013

I feel you there! I used to "free pour" my creamer too until I realized just how much I was adding in... EEK. Now I keep my measuring spoons next to my coffee pot. 1T on good days, 2T on days I need a pick me up or something sweet. I'm not a huge fan of black coffee by itself.

At my work they don't have liquid creamer, so I've been using a bit of Splenda and powdered creamer. Not quite as tasty, but it gets the job done, and it's quite a few calories lower than the liquid creamer.

ebyrne1996

I switched to whole milk from cream, and now I'm down to using 1%! Probably about 30 calories per cup now! And I buy high quality coffee

RenaPink11

I switched to flavored coffee and just drink it black. I could down some creamer! LOL I have to not even buy it.

Bekahmardis

I tried coffee with milk, then I tried coffee with creamer, and then with other flavorings and I just can't do it. It has to be black.

djslais

yeah, the creamer is a killer. Get back to straight black coffee, like most things sweet, it'll take a bit of time to lose the craving.

savithny

Where I live, the plastic tubs of half and half also get called "creamers" - as in "I put two creamers in my coffee this morning." So half and half is not "creamer" but the little tubs sometimes are. Even though they're not cream OR creamer.

ALthough they also sell non-dairy flavored coffee whitener as a liquid in little tubs, and that would be "coffee creamer." Its even the same brand as the powder.


I hate powdered creamer, and half-and-half is not my favorite. And I know this is regional, because on visits to Canada we often get whole milk in the little plastic tubs rather than half-and-half.

HeidiCooksSupper

I like unsweetened soy milk in my coffee. It's mild flavor doesn't compete so much with the flavor of the coffee.

If you only like your coffee heavily adulterated with a flavored creamer then maybe the problem is the coffee. Experiment to find a roast you like. Most American supermarket coffees are medium roast. I like a darker roast or a blend.

Right now, my go to is a mix of New England Coffee Colombian Supremo and Peet's dark roast. I used to get BiLo's Southern Home "Fog Cutter." To me, both Starbucks and McDonald's burn their coffee. Back in my smoking/drinking days, I drank Medalia D'oro or Cafe Bustelo (both espressos) brewed as a regular coffee. That's hard core.

gamerbabe14

If you have good coffee, you don't need creamer. I suggest investing in an espresso machine (or a Bialetti) and start enjoying stronger coffee with less calories. I am a fan of half and half though when I want a creamier coffee, 2tbsps is 40 cals.

Polo265

I use a tablespoon of half & half. 20 calories.

Monklady123

Yeah, I can relate to the International Delights coffee creamer. And pumpkin spice season is coming soon! ack! lol

That said...I have cut down on mine quite a bit. The first thing I did was actually measure what I was putting in my cup (usually I just pour until the color is right). Well that was an eye opener! Once I knew it was about three tablespoons (yes, really) then I cut it down to two. Drank it like that for a week or so and then cut down to one tablespoon of creamer and then some regular milk. This is how I'm drinking it now and it's good enough.

The other interesting thing I discovered was that I can drink iced coffee unsweetened, but not hot coffee. Same with iced tea. So I've been having my second cup a bit later in the morning and putting it on ice, and that's worked well. The only caveat to that is that it's been 100+ degrees outside so psychologically iced coffee is a good idea even with the AC in the house. But once winter comes...well we will see. lol

ritzvin

Start by at least cutting down on the amount of creamer - 100 calories is at least 4 single-serve tubs worth of creamer. You can try adding a packet of splenda to make up for less creamer.

Or maybe try tea (if you are adding that much flavored creamer, I'm guessing you don't actually like the taste of coffee - and less sugar/sweetener/creamer tends to go further in tea).