Sunday morning, I roll out of bed, the time is 9:50. I grab my backpack and walk out of the door by 9:53. Where am I headed? To get my daily caffeine fix at Starbucks – a glorified crack house.
While in line I groggily rub the crusties from my sleepy eyes and tell the familiar face behind the counter my order even though they already know what I am going to get. Venti Espresso Frappicuino Light is my beverage of choice. I used to buy the Coffee Frappicuino Light, but with age you graduate from coffee to espresso to cope with life and its exponentially increasing difficulties.
You may think a frappicuino, or any other fancy caffeinated beverage is a total diet faux pas, but by customizing your drink with skim or soy milk you save a load of calories. Also by skipping the whipped cream topping you save around 100-200 calories and a whopping 11 grams of fat!
Starbucks is my daily “guilty pleasure” if you can even call it that (my Venti Frap. Has only 170 calories with no fat)! It’s my sweet treat for the day, and it gives me the surge of energy I need to power through the stressful day of a New Yorker…. I’m a Venti Espresso Frappicuino Light. What are you?
XoXo-ALimardi
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