Help me love black iced coffee

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  • booksandchocolate12
    booksandchocolate12 Posts: 1,741 Member
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    Why are the only choices "super high calorie" coffee drinks and "black iced coffee"? Coffee (hot or iced) with milk and splenda doesn't have many calories at all.

    A grande nonfat cappuccino from Starbucks has 80 calories.

    You can get a skinny vanilla latte for a bit more than that.

    They have a great website where you can customize your drink and figure out the calories. Use it.
  • pomegranatecloud
    pomegranatecloud Posts: 812 Member
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    Get cold brew iced coffee.
  • llUndecidedll
    llUndecidedll Posts: 724 Member
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    I like black iced coffee, but I don't like how it tastes with sugar free sweeteners and flavorings. I don't know if Starbucks offers sugar free flavorings though. Half a serving of regular flavoring/syrup, a splash of milk, and sugar free sweetener maybe to add flavor to your coffee?
  • maxit
    maxit Posts: 880 Member
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    I don't buy iced coffee out, but I frequently have it at home - brewed black coffee and 4 oz of milk - not a fan of sweet coffee, tho. If I was, then I would use sugar (1 tsp = 15 calories) over artificial sweeteners because I don't like how those taste.
  • astrid141
    astrid141 Posts: 15 Member
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    I think iced coffee/latte is great with a teaspoon or two of honey. Honey is good for you. Plus you aren't getting all the chemicals of an artificial or sugar free sweetener.
  • afatpersonwholikesfood
    afatpersonwholikesfood Posts: 577 Member
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    I get iced coffee with 2-4 individual creamers and 4-6 packets of Splenda depending on size. I can do fake sugar quite happily; I won't give up whole milk or creamer in my coffee, though.

  • giomarine13
    giomarine13 Posts: 10 Member
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    Stevia
  • jen_bush
    jen_bush Posts: 679 Member
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    Just get skinny and add sugar-free syrups - reduces calories so much!
  • VeganRaptor
    VeganRaptor Posts: 164 Member
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    3x sugarfree mocha and 3x sugarfree caramel I've heard is good. If that's a thing.
    We don't have sugarfree syrups at New Zealand Starbucks so I don't know for sure :)
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
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    Black coffee is horrible.

    Sweeteners are horrible.

    Just make room in your calorie limit once in a while for a delicious cold coffee with milk and icecream.

    :)
  • jen_bush
    jen_bush Posts: 679 Member
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    you could always buy your own sugarfree syrup to add to simple skinny coffee :)
  • Etsar73
    Etsar73 Posts: 260 Member
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    What's wrong with just a regular coffee like a latte (skinny)? We don't have many Starbucks here so putting syrup in coffee sounds bizarre to me anyway. If you want a coffee, just have one :smile: I do! Make it small/regular and add a sweetener if you feel the need.
  • cbelc2
    cbelc2 Posts: 762 Member
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    Try an iced skinny latte. I do it in the summer. I do not add anything. It's just skim milk and espresso.
  • foxygirl14
    foxygirl14 Posts: 158 Member
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    I would just get tea instead. Iced coffee is only good with a motherload of soy milk and sugar
  • cbelc2
    cbelc2 Posts: 762 Member
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    Orphia, black coffee is not horrible! I drink it fresh and hot and not too strong. Right now I'm thinking about my second cup. It's all what you get used to. I think putting sweeteners and whiteners in coffee is horrible, or at least it's gilding the lilly!
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,182 Member
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    Glenlivet. And I don't even drink Glenlivet.
  • maddybear
    maddybear Posts: 5 Member
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    If you want to like black iced coffee do a little at a time and ween yourself off of the add ins. I used to get an iced coffee from Starbucks with toffeenut and soy. I gradually changed the amount of pumps and soy milk until I was okay with drinking it black. The soy itself is a little sweet so once you get rid of the syrup there's still a little more flavor to it. You could also switch to the sugarfree vanilla, caramel, hazelnut, cinnamon dolce, or skinny mocha. Good luck!
  • dbhDeb
    dbhDeb Posts: 200 Member
    edited May 2016
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    Torani sell sugarfree ones online and in Kroger/Sams. I've even purchased some at Big Lots on clearance.

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