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What do you sweeten/lighten your coffee with?

micbegin
micbegin Posts: 9
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I really like the flavored creamers, but at 4 or 5 cups of coffee/day (some decaf) that adds up to over 300 calories and God knows how much sugar and processed junk!

What do you use?
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  • cmeade20
    cmeade20 Posts: 1,238 Member
    skim milk
  • BaristaX
    BaristaX Posts: 151 Member
    I use blue agave nectar and unsweetened almond milk
  • Grissay
    Grissay Posts: 112 Member
    1/4 cup of almond milk and stevia! 10 cal a cup, woop!
  • indigenousnudity
    indigenousnudity Posts: 21
    Heavy cream and almond milk, sometimes a packet of truvia.
  • PinkEarthMama
    PinkEarthMama Posts: 987 Member
    Whole milk and chocolate syrup.

    It's worth the calories!
  • jdploki70
    jdploki70 Posts: 343
    I'm bad at these things. I drink my coffee black. Confuses the hell out of the baristas...
  • dshalbert
    dshalbert Posts: 677 Member
    Splenda
  • tiffyree
    tiffyree Posts: 18 Member
    Sugar Free Torani syrup (like what they have at coffee houses) I think meijers or any large grocery store has it
  • Shock_Wave
    Shock_Wave Posts: 1,573 Member
    Fat free or not sweeet cream,vanilla, or I am trying the limited edition Almond Joy but its not very good like the candy bar is. BTW I only drink 2 cups of coffee some times 3 max.
  • nekoxvampyx
    nekoxvampyx Posts: 163
    splenda
  • sensationallysassyt
    sensationallysassyt Posts: 52
    I use Sugar Free French Vanilla creamer as well as splenda~~~~Yummmmm
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    Honey. About a tablespoon or sometimes a teaspoon if I don't want it too sweet.
  • kaji13
    kaji13 Posts: 172 Member
    I'm bad at these things. I drink my coffee black. Confuses the hell out of the baristas...

    Haha me too!
  • russeljames
    russeljames Posts: 103 Member
    yack urine
  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
    1/8th cup skim milk and a splenda packet. Gotta be good coffee though. No Folgers.
  • shani251
    shani251 Posts: 145 Member
    i take my coffee with a single little glug of 2% milk, no sweetener. if i MUST have sweetener, i use molasses in with the milk - oh nummy!
  • stitchinhippie
    stitchinhippie Posts: 55
    I use Sweet Leaf Sweetener (basically just stevia) and a little light cream
  • luviedovie
    luviedovie Posts: 32
    i use just original coffee mate which is sweet enough so that i dont have to add any sugar. I believe they also have sugar free hazelnut flavor which is super sweet and 15 calories a serving and delicious!
  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
    Hazelnut creamer and stevia.
  • myfitnessnmhoy
    myfitnessnmhoy Posts: 2,105 Member
    I'm bad at these things. I drink my coffee black. Confuses the hell out of the baristas...

    Doesn't it, though. I'm actually confused at some restaurants as to how I order a coffee without anything in it. "Regular" coffee at Dunkin Donuts yields you something with enough creamer and sugar in it that I swear the laws of physics are being violated. "Black" will usually yield you 8-10 scoops of sugar, and "nothing" and they'll look at you oddly and hand you an empty coffee cup.

    I just make it at home and bring in a thermos. Cheaper, better coffee, and I don't have to learn a different language for every coffee place I (used to) frequent.
  • twinmama1987
    twinmama1987 Posts: 566 Member
    i dont put sugar or sweeteners in mine.. Sometimes I will use a couple TBSP of coffee cream or a few tsp of powdered whitener. I drink 1-2 cups/day.
  • IndyInk
    IndyInk Posts: 212
    Sweetener: Stevia. Took a while to get used to it, but it works now.

    Creamer: I use organic half and half, which is about as skinny as it gets for me. I also make flavored creamer out coconut milk, vanilla, cinnamon, Stevia, and organic half & half. It has more calories than store-bought flavored creamer, but fewer chemicals.

    Remember, if you reduce your creamer, reduce your coffee a bit and it'll taste right again.
  • 10acity
    10acity Posts: 798 Member
    I've only been doing it with iced coffee, but my new favourite thing is just some skim milk & cinnamon. Yum!
  • summer8it
    summer8it Posts: 433 Member
    4oz of unsweetened vanilla almond milk and two packets of Stevia in the Raw. 20 calories a cup, and provides a good chunk of my daily calcium.

    What I really love to do is to whip the almond milk with a milk frother (currently using a $2 one from IKEA), which makes it all fluffy like the steamed milk on a cappucino. Feels far more indulgent than it is!
  • suzannelmartin
    suzannelmartin Posts: 11 Member
    Sugar Free French Vanilla creamer and one sweet n low
  • rachmaree
    rachmaree Posts: 782 Member
    I love it black :) Only if it's good coffee, though
  • cmoon00
    cmoon00 Posts: 18
    Silk hazelnut soy creamer and one packet of Stevia. Only adds about 20 calories per tablespoon of Silk.
  • vallemic
    vallemic Posts: 278 Member
    Try it black... It's not that bad!
  • freedski1
    freedski1 Posts: 65 Member
    1/4 to 1/3 c almond or rice milk (depending on the mug I'm using) and 1/2 T agave nectar, or liquid stevia (about 4 drops). Unless it's Dark Matter coffee, in which case I drink it black, no sugar.
  • jshashaty
    jshashaty Posts: 33 Member
    You can use Truvia Sugar. It;s a calorie free sweetener.
    Jackie
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