Best choice brekkie in Starbucks
Yesterday morning I had a dilemma – rushing for a long train
journey and having not had time for breakfast. What would be the
healthiest option to keep me full until lunchtime?
Under the pressure of a
quick moving queue, I failed and went for a soya cappuccino and a ‘healthy’
granola bar – as soon as I took a bite I knew it wasn’t the healthy choice.
So what would’ve been
the best brekkie option?
- Starbucks porridge – 244 calories (204 with soy milk) and very berry or dried fruit compote (avoid the honey or maple syrup)
- Natural yogurt and a fruit salad – 215 calories
- Buttermilk pancakes – 227 calories
And what to avoid:
- The granola bar (grrr) – 390 calories (25g sugar!!)
- Luxury fruit bread – 481 calories (39g sugar – that’s around 10 tsp!)
- ‘Skinny’ lemon and poppy seed iced muffin – 399 calories and 49.6g sugar – 12.4 tsps!
- Sausage buttie – 449 calories, 22.1g fat (almost a third of your recommended daily intaken and almost half of your recommended saturated fat intake).
And drinks?
The best
Skinny/Soy decaf cappuccino – 70 calories, 0.1g fat
Green tea – 0 calories, 0 fat
Breakfast tea w.skimmed milk, 0 calories, 0.1g fat
The worst
Grande latte made with whole milk – 223 calories, 11.5g fat
White chocolate mocha with whipped cream – 500 calories,
22.1g fat, 58.6g
sugar (that’s 2 mars bars!)
