Starbucks

I can remember 10-cent coffee. Ok I can remember my dad buying 10-cent coffee. I think those days are over but while I was in a Starbucks the other day (my wife was getting her Iced Green Tea) I picked up ”nutrition by the cup." I was not surprised by the number of drinks with over 300 Kcal or even the 2 drinks that are as high as 490 kcal, but I flipped to the back and found how to "order your drink your way" that got my attention. It listed "say hold the whip," well duh, and then explained that you could save as many as 11g of fat, What! It also listed "fewer pumps of syrup" and "skim milk" listing the kcal saving and fat or sugar grams.

This brings me to my 10-cent coffee. Remember when people ordered coffee at a coffee house. Your choices were caf, decaf, of maybe 3 or 4 brewed choices and with that you could add milk or cream, some sweetener and sometimes a little cocoa powder (no instruction manual). I still do that; I'll go from half caf/decaf to decaf to green tea each week. I'll add some nonfat milk or half and half or just drink it black and even with the half and half my kcal is well under 30. That's a far cry from the 550 kcal in a Venti Double Chocolaty Chip Blended Frappuccino Creme (without whipped cream!).

My message please be sure of the kcal you consume when you order the "coffee" drink because it may be a meal in itself.