Sorry to keep asking lots of questions but one of the things that puts me off this is the milk issue. Can I drink my normal English tea with a bit of milk if it’s whole milk or say coconut milk? I don’t think I could do it if I couldn’t have a few cups of tea.
Thanks
Victoria
If you can’t stand heavy whipping cream, then just make sure whatever else you put in doesn’t put you over the 20g carbs. You can have a little milk, I’m sure, but again - be sure you measure carefully so you don’t have too many carbs. That’s the beauty of HWC - no carbs (well, negligible carbs)!
It’s not about what you can’t eat it’s all about how much. Stay under 20 carbs. Heavy whipping cream has about .5 of a carb per tablespoon and whole milk has about .75 of a carb. If you do the math you can have about 1.5 cups of milk a day but that leaves no room for any other sources of carbs (Even the healthy ones). If you want a tablespoon of milk in your tea go for it. Just don’t drink a gallon of milk!
Good luck!
By my arithmetic, 20 g/day of carbohydrate works out to 40 tablespoons of heavy cream or 26-2/3 tablespoons of whole milk. (That’s U.S. measure, though; it would be less in Imperial.)
I don’t advise cream in tea; it’s too rich for the delicate taste of tea. Whole milk is better, but depending on how much you use, you could have quite a few cuppas in a day.
Easiest, of course, if you went carnivore/ZC, because then your entire carb budget could go to the milk in your tea, lol!
Unlike the refined and nuanced tastemaker that is @PaulL, I love me some iced green tea with HWC, a nearly daily mid-morning indulgence.
Whole 4% milk is .75 carb grams per tablespoon. If you have 4 cups of tea with 1 Tbsp of milk each, that’s 3 carb grams. You would have 17 grams left.
If that’s what you need to adopt an otherwise healthy diet, go for it.
Just don’t add the sugar cubes to go along with it.
