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04-20-2008, 04:28 PM
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| | | What do you guys drink at starbucks?
What is a good low or 0 carb coffee to drink?
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Pumping with Animas IR 1250 from December 18th, 2006-January 25th, 2007 (I don't like stinging boluses)
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04-20-2008, 05:25 PM
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| | Starbucks is swill! That being said any coffee that isn't charred, um, burnt. um, roasted to the point that its bitter, and has a good flavor you should be able to drink with out sweetener. Personally, I'd start with a mild breakfast blend or drink French Pressed coffee at your locally owned coffee shop or made at home and skip the Starbucks.'
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04-20-2008, 06:17 PM
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| | | My favorite carb free coffee I drink I make at home:
Coffee + 3 packs of splenda + ice + a small amount of vanilla extract.
Everything I drink at Starbucks has plenty of carbs.
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04-20-2008, 06:20 PM
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| | But he lives in Seattle.  You can't go to anything but Starbucks, especially if you're a teen, which I think he is...right?
My kids hang out at Starbucks with their friends, doing homework and drinking coffee together.
My personal faves at Starbucks are the Breakfast Blend, House Blend, Light Note Blend, the new Pike Place Roast (if you like it a little bolder), and at Christmas time the Christmas Blend.
You can also get decaf-nonfat (or soy)-lattes for very little carbs.
Go to their website and they have a nutrition guide, where you can customize your drink there (for lattes, mochas, iced drinks, etc.), as well as a pdf specifically for the pastries at the store you go to. |
04-20-2008, 06:29 PM
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| | | I only went there once, and I can't recall what I ordered at Starbucks at all. Some sort of ordinary, overpriced but decent coffee--and I have traveled around and sampled the great local coffees--Jamaican coffee directly from the blue Mts., Kona coffee picked and roasted that morning, and tasted on the hillsides of Mt. Mauna Kea on the Big Island--so I DO know my coffees! Starbucks did not seem bad at all--I just put in some milk and Sweet & Low--so sue me! I do however remember the searching eyes and the pleased smile of the blind date I was meeting there when she saw me. We talked until the coffe was cold, and then for 2 more hours. We're now engaged... I LIKE Starbucks!
Michael |
04-20-2008, 06:32 PM
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| | | I usually get herb tea. My favorite one there is peppermint. I know, I know....boring.
__________________  Nancy Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular. diagnosed type 1 October 1986
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04-20-2008, 07:32 PM
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| | Since dx, my current *Bucks fave is a venti ice brewed coffee made with non-fat milk and no syrup/sugar... 
I'm sure it's taboo, but I don't do it all that often! (Before dx, I ate their cookies, pastries, sodas, muffins, bagels, and only the wipp-cremed, breve (half-and-half) syrupy concoctions, mistos, lattes, cappas, frappas, etc., etc.) ...So I'm pointed in the right direction now, I guess.
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04-20-2008, 07:48 PM
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| | Just a usual Flat white does me fine, no sugar, no sweetening. 
Having said that, i got hooked on the abnormal but absolutely divine Gingerbread Latte (ewwww i know it sounds weird, but oh so good!) in New York last year. I was bolusing around 3-4 units for just one!
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04-20-2008, 08:08 PM
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| | | I usually get teh iced teas as well... Yea yea, another boring one :P |
04-20-2008, 08:19 PM
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| | OK I have to confess to loving Caramel Macchiato - light on the caramel - fall/winter hot but in spring/summer iced. So far I do well with bolusing 27ish for Tall and 35 for a grande. In summer I have to bolus less because I tend to run low then anyway. I try to stick to no more than once a week! 
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04-20-2008, 08:27 PM
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| | | michael...
cutest story!!! best wishes to you both....don't you just love a happy ending??!!
i don't drink coffee....so now i get a water there and bring a chrystal light lemonade packet.....i used to like the strawberry drinks!
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04-20-2008, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Coppernob  OK I have to confess to loving Caramel Macchiato - light on the caramel - fall/winter hot but in spring/summer iced. So far I do well with bolusing 27ish for Tall and 35 for a grande. In summer I have to bolus less because I tend to run low then anyway. I try to stick to no more than once a week! | I mean 2.7 ish for a tall and 3.5 for a grande!
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04-20-2008, 09:25 PM
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| | Not Starbucks... but, if you want some good coffee... Cafe du Monde coffee with chicory root. Mix in condensed milk or soymilk, perhaps a little stevia, and serve over ice.
I generally avoid coffee, though. I can't speak to the weak toilet water most people call "coffee", but Eddy-strength stuff usually does wicked things to Eddy's blood sugar even when there's no carbohydrate added.
Without extra insulin, hourly increases of 35 mg/dL are common; 55 mg/dL isn't unheard of. If I shoot insulin, it can't be too fast-acting, or I'm likely to go hypo with quickness.
I suppose I could try decaf, but where's the fun in that?
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DXed 2007/04 : presented with advanced-stage DKA, A1c of 12.9%, and BMI of 21.3 kg/m^2
Post-DX A1c : 5.2% @ 2008/04; 5.3% @ 2007/12; 5.3% @ 2007/08
current BMI : 25.4 (84kg on 182cm); want to get back to 23-24
basal : Levemir; 18U @ 0800, 18U @ 2200 (have also used Lantus)
bolus : 1:15 I:C ratio; varying mix of Novolog, Novolin-R, Novolin-N (have also used Humalog, Humulin-R, and Humulin-N)
not a low-CHO eater... not even close!
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04-20-2008, 09:30 PM
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| | | I'm a Caramel Macchiata fan too.
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04-20-2008, 09:31 PM
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| | | White Chocolate Mocha (Cals. 460, carbs. 63)
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