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Originally Posted by pokie  Cafe americano with a touch of half and half. No sugar, none, never. I do sometimes just drink a nice cup of black coffee. I don't really like Starbucks, I usually go to another local place if I am buying coffee. But ordinarily we make it at home. I grind my own beans and brew in a Cuisinart machine. It make a decent coffee that rivals any of the coffeehouses I've tried and I am certain it saves us a fortune! |
Ahhh - now there's a coffee drinker that I can understand.
I do coffee at home in Yama vacuum maker - like the french press - and grind with hand burr grinder. The local Chicago roaster I order online is Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea. Their signature blend is Black Cat - nice and potent and delicious.
I do Starbucks maybe a dozen times a year and order double short, homo, no foam latte. I couldn't tell you what the carbs are - I guess I haven't learned the value of carb counting, and, as I am usually at Starbucks after breakfast on the way to work and my next hit of insulin is lunch - what can I do? I drink the latte, and... maybe go high for a while.
Oh, well. I guess my manner to manage eating has been learned over the years - that if you eat too much, you MUST eat less next time you eat. The modern way seems to be - do a hit of insulin to match your aggressive eating. I do that sometimes - but not often. I come from the days of one shot lente per day. So, I managed around the testape color - yellow, I could eat, green, I could watch and maybe nibble. I know, I know - you guys think one shot lente was no management and quite impossible - what can I say - it was animal derived lente for 30 years. Now it is designer humalog and lantus for the past 4 years.
as caffeine tends to raise my bg. I have really got into herbal teas since becoming a diabetic and have found a huge selection in different qualities.
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