The best part is, since you are making it yourself, you can customize the level of sweetness, if you want any at all. This creamer takes but 10 minutes to make, probably even less and you’re left with a tasty coffee treat. Because I needed him to see it was still possible to have a real food version of what you love, with just a little extra work. I did all that and then I followed it up by making him some homemade creamer instead. It wasn’t enough to tell him he was probably consuming more than a day’s worth of sugar in just his one morning cup of coffee or that all of the ingredients listed that we cannot pronounce, are barely even food. But, I couldn’t just tell him how horrid vegetable oils are, especially hydrogenated oils and how they are literally poison to our body. Of course, I tried for like 2 days to not say anything, but like a child holding in a surprise, I just couldn’t do it anymore, I burst open at the seams and had to say something. Goodness!! Wow – where or where do I even start? These ingredients lists are terrifying, at best. WATER, CORN SYRUP**, VEGETABLE OIL (HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN AND/OR PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND/OR PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED), AND LESS THAN 2% OF SODIUM CASEINATE (A MILK DERIVATIVE)***, MALTODEXTRIN, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, COLOR ADDED, CARRAGEENAN, SUCRALOSE, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM (NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENER). WATER, SUGAR, VEGETABLE OIL (HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN AND/OR HIGH OLEIC CANOLA), AND LESS THAN 2% OF SODIUM CASEINATE (A MILK DERIVATIVE)**, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL F L AVORS, CELLULOSE GEL, CELLULOSE GUM, CARRAGEENAN. This is the ingredient list on this well-known, brand name french vanilla non-dairy coffee creamer that Troy loves: I try so hard not to be a know-it-all and bombard people with my thoughts on food, but there are just some things I cannot keep quiet about. (But also you guys, his morning coffee is white) My issue wasn’t in how he takes his coffee, but more in his preferred choice of cream. Troy likes his coffee pretty heavy on the cream, which hey, I get it dude, to each their own. Her husband, my brother-in-law, Troy still had his daily morning coffee, which we have dubbed the “Troy Latte”, as this drink is in a league of it’s own. Late last year my sister-in-law Carrie and her family came to stay with us in California from Kentucky. If I can take the time to explain the effects that the high levels of sugar are doing to their insulin resistance, if I can talk through the reasons why high fructose corn syrup is terrifying and explain the affects this one drink can have on their blood sugar, digestion, mineral absorption and so on, I have a much better chance of getting them on board for the long haul. Why would they? They are both chemically and emotionally attached and possibly even addicted. If I meet with a new client and tell them to stop drinking several Cokes daily, but don’t explain why, I can’t really expect them to want to make this change. I firmly believe that changing diet and lifestyle has to come from a place of both education and confidence. I am constantly asked the question “If I shouldn’t eat this, then what can I have, instead?”. Since I have begun seeing clients as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, I am so grateful for my longstanding experiences with and my love for food.
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