I've always been a light coffee drinker -- apart from my days of slinging lattes at the local coffee shop, I have never been one who consumes coffee throughout the day, but moreso just as a part of my morning routine. I have often commented that I like the RITUAL of coffee (the smell, the warmth, the pouring it into my favorite cup and curling up on the sofa to read email), better than coffee itself.
Since I'm a morning person to begin with, I don't really NEED coffee to get my day started - but I enjoy it, especially in the spring and fall months, when I can take it on the patio and read in the brisk air.
As I've gotten older, or maybe just more in tune with my body, I feel the effects of caffeine more - so I rarely drink it after my morning cup or two... and never later than 3 PM.
Anyway -- the reason I'm telling you this is because over the past week I've discovered something amazing. Something I think I cannot "unlearn." Half and half.
Hold the phone! Why didn't anybody TELL me that a couple of tablespoons of half and half elevated my boring cup of "regular drip, room for skim" to an indulgent, creamy, rich, sinful morning treat?!
Here's what happened - while grabbing a box of my usual fat free half and half (note: what IS fat free half and half, anyway!? I mean, real half and half is half cream, half non-fat milk, but if the whole thing is fat free, then isn't it just ... skim milk?! I don't get it), I accidentally grabbed REAL half and half. Yup. Real, caloric, fatty half and half. And didn't realize it until probably day 2 or 3 of drinking it in my coffee. I'd just completely cleaned my coffee pot (vineger, the whole bit), due to a big of a drip explosion, so at first I was "blaming" my delicious morning beverage on the newly cleaned coffee pot - but this morning I figured it out.
Half and half, I think I love you.
And I'm certain I have to give you up, for fear that I will be halfway out of my jeans after a few more weeks of this indulgence.
Off and running,
~Jessica
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Well, FF half and half is skim milk with corn syrup and thickeners added to it so that it has that "creamy" mouth feel of regular half and half. Two tablespoons of regular has about 40 calories and 3g of fat. The fat free has 20 calories and obviously no fat. But, the fat free has corn syrup solids and has been processed like crazy to get that creaminess you enjoy. Carrageenan may technically be "natural" but it's really not - you have to do a lot of processing to get it out of the algae it comes from. So, pick your poison - an extra 20 calories and 3g of fat or 20 fewer calories, no fat, but a lot of processed stuff you really don't want to eat. I know which I'd choose.
Ugh,I know which I'd choose now too - but it might mean just going back to plain old skim. Thanks Lora!
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