Goodbye Coffee Creamer

I gave up creamer and started drinking it black about 3 weeks ago. I actually don't miss the creamer. It was hard at first but I am getting used to drinking it black now.

Two years ago I used to put 2 sugar packets in my coffee plus quite a bit of creamer. Last year I reduced it to one sugar and by December I quit adding sugar in altogether. Now I'm still working up to taking my coffee black, but I just add about half a tablespoon of creamer.

I use Whey Vanilla protein powder!

I limit my creamer to 1 TBSP per mug of coffee. My mug holds about 1.5 cups, so two mugs is about 3 cups of coffee, and just 2 TBSP of creamer. I used to use coffeemate sugar free vanilla creamer, but I decided I didn't want all of the hydrogenated oils and artificial chemicals, so I switched to a Darigold French Vanilla real dairy creamer. It has a little more calories, but calories don't tell the whole story. At any rate, most days I only have two mugs of coffee, so that is 60 calories of Darigold real dairy creamer. I also add Stevia to my coffee. I just make sure it fits in my daily limits, and its no problem.

I used to use 18% MF coffee cream and then switched to blend (half coffee cream, half 2%) and enjoy it. Its 10 cals per tbs so its reasonable unless you use 2-3 tbs and drink a pot a day. I have been gradually reducing it over time because I used to use 3 tablespoons, now I'm down to 1. Goes great in plain coffee or flavoured and won't break the caloric bank!

Heavy cream for me too. I make it my breakfast mostly....... 4 tbsp heavy cream (200 cals) and 1 oz cheese (120 cals) and I'm good until lunch - fat is satisfying and nothing to be afraid of.

I like the idea of adding some pumpkin spice to it, I have tried cinnamon before and think I will try this too.

I just drink one cup a day with about a tsp of creamer. So it's not bad enough that I have to give it up.

I cannot drink coffee black. To me it tastes plain awful and is just not worth it. What I've tried to do is find the minimum amount of creamer and sugar I can get away and still have it tasting great. I found 1 tsp of creamer and 1 packet of stevia does the trick for me.

You don't like coffee; you like dairy.

Oh yeah, she really loves dairy with a WHOLE TEASPOON in a CUP of coffee. :laugh:

Yes. She does.

On the upside, it's how most people make poor quality coffee bearable, either because they don't know good coffee, or don't care about coffee.

I was in the same boat as you, pouring probably 2 or 3 Tbsp into each mug, and sometimes 3 or 4 mugs a day! Now I have 1 mug a day, 2 at most, and each one has either 1 Tbsp of coffee creamer (not quite as tasty, but passable) or a 10-calorie sugar cube and about 2 Tbsp of half-and-half. Some days I skip the coffee altogether. This has slashed a good chunk of calories each day, for sure! You do adjust too, I bought a tall Starbucks Frappuccino a week ago and was amazed at how overly sweet it tasted to me now. I didn't really enjoy it. (Well...except the whipped cream, I can always go for that.)

Edit: It still feels so weird to be working on the same darn bottle of coffee creamer for about a month (or longer) instead of finishing it off in a week or so, the way I did before!

I actually use a tablespoon and put in some half and half. A lot less sugar/carbs in half and half than milk and a little goes a long way!