Tracking calories for weight loss, I realized that milk is “heavy”, and I poured a lot of it into my coffee. Now I can think of better use for these calories (in solid form) in my <2000kcal deficit plan.
I drink a lot of coffe and tea and use a lot of milk. It can be around a whole litre of milk per day. I switched from oatly barista (610 kcal per bottle) to Alpro almond no sugars (130 kcal per bottle). Is it as tasty? No, but these 500 kcal extra calories are enough for a whole meal and it helped me lose weight without giving up on my coffee habit.
Heard THAT!
Even veggie milks seem so high in Kcals, altho getting -plain- veggie milk without sugar does help from that standpoint.
When I make coffee these days, I just use some of the powdered stuff. As a non-coffee connoisseur, it’s ‘good enough,’ and low in
BSkcals, salt, sugar, etc.Another substitution I’m head over heels with is using plain Greek yogurt in place of sour cream and even cheese, to an extent. It’s impressively low in calories, a decently-tasty substitute, and full of nice probiotics for gut, brain, and total-body health. :-)
Soy milk has about half the calories as cow milk (and is friendlier for climate), perhaps that can save your coffee.
absolutely, but sadly it’s much more expensive, at least here in Germany.
@SnorriSturluson @rstein And that’s what I don’t really understand. How can skipping the middleman (or middlecow in this case) make a product more *expensive*??
EU subsidies and competitive pricing stuff happening for cow milk (it’s one of these products supermarkets consider essential and thus they aim to compete with Aldi prices). Also for soy products since they are considered “lifestyle” products producers and stores assume they can make more profit from those.
And here in Germany we have a VAT (MwSt) of 19% on plant milks and 7% on cow milk. Because cow milk is „essential“.
Discounters like Aldi or Lidl are selling soy and oat milk for prices only a little higher than cow milk.
