Starbucks - skinny brekkie?

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!)