Starbucks

[dragonessa]

Thanks for the tip! I will try this! probably nice and crunchy...

Do enjoy your once in a while health Guiness... (who would have guessed!) I prefer dark beer to light as well, but I havent been able to drink alcohol for several years, so thats out.

[City Girl]

Ah, Venti Iced Coffee with SF hazelnut syrup and nonfat milk, oh how I love thee.

Yeah, yeah, over the caffeine allowance, I know. But I work 12 hour night shifts and therefore think I'm allowed to break that particular rule.

[RedRox]

More than the coffee allowance, it also pretty much uses up your entire dairy allowance in P1! espresso has less caffeine than brewed coffee anyway I think.

[City Girl]

Nah, I only stick about 1/2 cup nonfat milk in the whole thing. Iced coffee is made with brewed, not espresso, and caffeine is the whole idea. (Smiley to represent me and my coworkers at 3 am. We live for coffee.)

[RedRox]

got it. read it wrong and mind jumped to the latte version!

[City Girl]

I will confess to an occasional splurge of a latte on a cold day, just not regularly.

[ladybugnessa]

yeah but if you have the sugar free fat free latte you haven't really done aything off plan just has most of your milk for the day!

[aard912]

The one sb friendly thing is a sugar free nonfat vanilla latte (or hazelnut, they only have two kinds of sf syrup). Just count it towards your 2 cups of dairy a day.

Enjoy!

Does anyone know how to determine how much milk is actually used in a Venti or Grande Latte or a V or G Cappuccino?

Thanks!

[RedRox]

Best bet is to ask them probably! I figure it roughly as:

Tall latte: 12 oz cup, 1 shot of espresso, likely at least 8 oz of milk. (1 cup)
Grande latte: 16 oz cup, 2 shots, likely at least 12 oz of milk (1.5 cups)
Venti Latte: 20 oz cup, 2 shots, likely at least 16 oz of milk. (2 cups)

Probably only a little less for a cap with more foam than steamed milk. Depends on how dry or wet they make it.

[Magna]

Here's a link to a page where you can check nutritional info for Starbucks beverages:
http://www.starbucks.com/retail/nutrition_beverages.asp

Where milk is the only caloric ingredient (e.g., in latte, cappuccino, and caffè misto/café au lait), the calories in a given coffee drink will tell you how much milk is in it.

1 cup NF milk = 86 calories
1 cup 1% milk = 102 calories
1 cup soy milk = 132 calories (4.3g of fat per cup)

And, for comparison purposes,
1 cup 2% milk = 122 calories
1 cup whole milk = roughly 145-160 calories (roughly 8g fat per cup)

[sassypants01]

I love breve latte's! They're made with half and half. Would that be ok?

[ladybugnessa]

I love breve latte's! They're made with half and half. Would that be ok?

fat free half and half is limited to 2 tablespoons per day.

[RedRox]

So a tall nonfat latte is 100 cals, or just over a cup. If you get it with two shots as would actually be appropriate propotion-wise for a latte of that size, you'd probably take up enough room with the "extra" shot to reduce the milk to right at a cup.

Or get a nonfat cappacino and reduce a tall to 60 cals!

[Magna]

Or get a nonfat cappacino and reduce a tall to 60 cals!

Nonfat caffè misto (my favorite - aka café au lait aka cafe con leche) is about the same, or just a bit less. The tall sizes are both 60 calories (probably due to rounding), but a venti misto is 90 calories (about 1 cup of NF milk) compared with 110 for a cappuccino.

Under Starbucks' current policy, if you register your card, you can add syrups for free. I have been adding SF mocha syrup lately - it makes the drink taste quite a lot like hot chocolate.

[RedRox]

I tried the cafe au lait at my fave shop and even made with high quality espresso beans in their $12K single cup brewer, I thought it tasted mostly like milk and not coffee, so I'm back to my skinny caps if hot and skinny lattes if iced.