Coffee is an interesting drink. None of us like it when we’re kids (although that may be changing with 5 years olds and their vanilla steamers, no foam please), butas we get older and realize we can get super productive in high school accounting class, or finish a painting in art class in 3 minutes, we begin to explore the coffee shop menu, often looking more for a dessert with caffeine in it than simply a coffee like Grandma makes, strong and black, while she complains about how coffee should just be coffee, not double this, and chocolate that (“It’s called mochagrandmaaa.”).She does have a point however, and that is that coffee drinks are often very far from simply being a little jolt in your morning as they used to be, for 5 cents of course. With lots of added sugars, fats and chemicals to bring forth a certain consistency for the buyer, many of the iced blended drinks are a health catastrophe, and even some of the ‘skinny’ drinks pose health risks in the form of chemicals unabsorbable by the body.
Full fat milk would have been the better choice in all of these drinks if it was unpasteurized and if our cows weren’t eating genetically modified corn and given hormones (both of those pass on through their milk by the way).Here are some of the healthified coffee drinks that we have found to be satisfying for all tastes, and you can impress grandma by the simplicity of your choices – better yet, make here one of these at home, and if you like, try using oat, almond, or hazelnut milk for variety or tastes and textures (slight differences there).Soy is not healthy in any form but its whole pod or fermented form.Don’t consume it – even organic soymilk is very mucus forming.
