Iced coffee fanatic!

(Morgan Michelle) #1

Calling all of my fellow coffee lovers!! One of my goals for 2018 is to be able to enjoy my coffee black, but until then I’ve been playing around with different ways to prepare my coffee! Some days I do BPC, some I do just HWC and swerve, others I do almond milk and swerve. Yesterday I picked up a torani caramel sugar free syrup to add because prior to starting keto I was a HUGE Starbucks drinker in the sense that I’d get the most sugary caramel drinks! The drinks that everyone jokes you for because they are barely coffee! I was THAT girl. What are some of y’all’s favorite go-to coffee concoctions? Ya girl needs help!!

(Jessica) #2

At this point hot/iced coffee with a good drop of heavy cream and I’m happy. I do also enjoy it hot with coconut oil, cream and a dash of sugar free syrup (hazelnut at the moment) and blend it til it’s frothy. That’s a treat though, not a regular.

(Holly Easterling) #3

SweetLeaf makes flavored stevia sweeteners in caramel, vanilla, chocolate, coconut, etc. I add a squirt and blend up my coffee with HWC (or butter if I’m not putting it over ice). Sometimes cinnamon, too.

(Karen) #4

Our local hospital has free good coffee. Splash hwc, vanilla and cinnamon powder, 4-5 packets splenda ( my poison of choice). The also have a weigh in kiosk for a program I participate in. I weigh and get coffee on the way to work. Think it’s Koda coffee.

(Andrew) #5

Powdered Splenda is mostly sugar. By itself it raises insulin…(in pellet form)

It was my fav too

(Karen) #6

Grrrr, and here I thought it was just sucralose.

Splenda zero liquid
doesn’t have these fillers

K

(Andrew) #7

It still raises insulin. It doesn’t raise blood glucose but we don’t care about that. Insulin == fat.

Erythritol is good stuff. No BG or insulin.

(Steve Leverton) #8

Yeah sweetener in coffee is a problem for me and am trying to cut it out completely as well as going to black coffee only over the next few days. I’m pretty sure the Splenda tablets are hindering progress.

(Momo) #9

My go to in the morning:

3 cups strong cold coffee (and a few ice cubes)
1-1.5oz HWC
3 packets stevia/monk fruit or erythritol blend

If I’m needing a sweet fix, add two tablespoons SUGAR FREE HERSHEYS SYRUP! Made with erithrytol, it has only 1 sugar/carb per tbsp - that’s a WHOLE LOT better than the 70+ carbs in the starbies cafe mocha!!

(Karen) #10

Bought some monk fruit drops. Read some bad press on erythritol. Fingers crossed. Thanks for the heads up on splenda packets!!

(Jamie Hayes) #11

I hate to write it, but I think it’s best to re-educate your palate, away from SWEET, from any source.

I’m convinced that one reason people add STUFF to coffee, is that many baristas, restaurants and home coffee makers use bitter beans and make the coffee in a way that creates a bitter result.

Properly made expresso, with the right beans is not bitter at all, and definitely does not require sweetening.

But if you can’t get great coffee, just learn to go with bitter coffee. That’s my opinion anyway.

PS: I’m experimenting with adding a pinch of quality salt to my black coffee, to protect electrolyte balance. I like the flavour too.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #12

I agree. It took me a while, but I eventually weaned myself off sweetener in my coffee, and now the presence of any sweetener in it at all makes it too sweet.

A thing that might help is to put heavy cream in your coffee (not light cream, not half-and-half, and certainly not milk.) The richness of the fat may help moderate any bitterness in the coffee and make it more enjoyable.

(Marie Dantoni) #13

I agree that good coffee is key. I take it with a pinch of salt in the morning. If I drink it more often it messes with my sleep and leads to next day “hungries”. Tea doesn’t seem to have the same effect. I have that with one tsp of truvia and lots of hwc after dinner. Sometimes I add a bit of chai spices, vanilla or almond extract.

(Karen) #14

I’ve heard salt offsets bitter. I’ll give it a shot.

K

(Marie Dantoni) #15

Apparently an old restaurant trick…it helps …and good for keto too.

(Jessica) #16

I agree. I used fake sweets as a crutch at first, but have tried to pull away for the most part. Veggies taste sweeter now and heavy cream in my coffee is plenty sweet.

(Don) #17

Something you might want to consider is cold brew coffee. Most local coffee houses now do this and you can do it at home also. The coffee is much smoother. My favorite coffee place does cold brew and ice for a great drink. Don’t need to add cream or sweeteners at all. I don’t think Starbucks actually makes cold brew but I think the do sell it. Hope this helps.