Help! Clean (or Healthier) Coffee

I make it fit. Life is too short to do it without coffee. I probably have a few more calories per day to spend than you do, but I drink about 275 cals per day of coffee.

I used to load my coffee with cream and sugar. This doesn't work for everyone, but I slowly backed that off and now I drink it black. Wasn't easy, but I just had way too many calories going on there. If you have a really good coffee, it makes a big difference. Otherwise, something zero calorie (personally I hate that taste) or find a way to fit into you day as was suggested above. Can't always deprive yourself. Just might have to make a choice where your calories come from.

I use Stevia in my coffee. Works just fine in place of sugar and there's less aftertaste than a bunch of others out there. My second choice is Truvia, but it's also made from Stevia.

I'm a huge caffeine drinker too, mainly coffee. I have a Starbucks on my college campus that I frequent, and I also love Dunkin' Donuts. Yes, ordering a latte or macchiato from either of these places is calorie heavy, but I found an alternative. Note that I prefer iced coffee over hot all year round.

I make my own cold brew in a French press (easiest coffee process ever and actually saves me time when I'm running out in the morning) I invested in a cute little reusable tumblr. I use an allnatural salted caramel coffee creamer from the grocery store by coffee mate. It's 30 calories a tablespoon (which is plenty for me to get the flavor and sweeten my coffee a bit) altogether this makes my 16-24 ounces of cold brew a day not that big of a deal in my lifestyle. I can take the calories and sugar for it just fine. Also saves me money. Less calories and cash from a coffee shop.

Hope that helps!

I like sugar free syrups. Torani, Da Vinci, and Jordan's Skinny Syrups are all good brands. You can usually find them at Ross or any of those discount department stores.

I think stevia (and monkfruit) are derived from plants and are not artificial sweeteners. Maybe try one of them?

I drink two cups in one big cup in the morning with a tsp of brown sugar per cup and a 1/4 cup of hint of honey vanialla almond milk per cup.

So 2 tsps + 1/2 cup hint of honey vanilla almond milk this comes to about 64 calories. So that's 32 calories per cup of coffee and its really good and plenty sweet for me.

I no longer use creamer- most are so high in sodium. I do use more sugar than I should, and milk. But because of kidney stones I am supposed to eat a lot of calcium, so I don't worry about the milk. I should cut back on sugar, but for now I just fit it in.

I use 1tsp sugar and about half a tsp of cocoa powder (Trader Joe's). It's not super sweet, because I don't like my coffee sweet, but the cocoa helps cut the bitterness. Total of about 25 calories per cup.

I also try to buy organic coffee when I can. Apparently they spray the conventional beans with an antifungal before they come into the US.

I add an ounce or two of almond milk and liquid sweet n low. Pp is right though...somewhere like Community Coffee....which I know is mainly just down here (LA)...is delicious black.

Iknewyouweretrouble wrote: »

I read this as clean and yes i would recommend ORGANIC coffee only, read about the farming and chemical planting it's quite eye opening. anyway aside from that, flavored black coffee- not flavor shots, flavored brew.

You don't need organic. I would say one is more likely to get some illness from stuff on the stylus or keypad of a credit card machine then from farming chemicals.