Coffee Shops

Almost everyone likes a coffee at some point in the day and as with most things that are enjoyable if you're not careful you'll end up ingesting quite a few calories along the way. I've made one or two discoveries in my quest for low calorie products that still feel like a treat and some of them are hidden away on the menus as the companies like to push specific menu items that make them the most profit.

I use mainly Starbucks and Costa so I'll list my discoveries from them below, it's well worth doing some digging if you have your own favourite brand of takeaway coffee as the results can be pleasantly surprising; feel free to share you finds with me via the comments.

 Starbucks have a very useful datasheet of their products on their website, the following are my most used:

Hot Drinks:

• Short Skinny Latte: 67 calories.
• Tall Skinny Latte: 102 calories.
• Short Filter (no milk): 11 calories.
• Tall filter (no milk): 16 calories.
• Single Espresso: 6 calories.
• Double Espresso: 11 calories.
• Single Skinny Espresso Macchiato: 7 calories.
• Double Skinny Espresso Macchiato: 13 calories.
• Short Americano (no milk): 6 calories.
• Tall Americano (no milk): 11 calorie.
• Short Skinny Cappuccino: 55 calories.
• Tall Skinny Cappuccino: 70 calories.
• Skinny Flat White (short as standard): 67 calories.
• Short Skinny Caramel Macchiato: 97 calories.
• Short Chai Tea Latte: 103 calories.

Cold drinks:

• Tall Skinny Iced Latte: 63 calories.
• Tall Skinny Iced Cappuccino: 68 calories.
• Tall Iced Coffee (no milk): 3 calories.
• Tall Iced Americano (no milk): 11 calories.
• Tall Iced Caramel Macchiato: 124 calories.

Costa have pretty much the same data on their website which can be exported as a PDF, here are some of my top picks:

Hot Drinks:

• Primo Skinny Cappuccino: takeaway - 73 calories / have in - 63 calories.
• Medio Skinny Cappuccino: 94 calories.
• Primo Americano (no milk): 6 calories.
• Medio Americano (no milk): 8 calories.
• Primo Skinny Latte: takeaway - 79 calories / have in - 70 calories.
• Medio Skinny Latte: 109 calories.
• Skinny Flat White (Primo only): takeaway - 94 calories / have in - 80 calories.
• Primo Skinny Caffe Caramella: takeaway - 134 calories / have in - 112 calories.
• Single Espresso: 3 calories.
• Double Espresso: 6 calories.
• Skinny Primo Caramel latte: takeaway - 108 calories / have in - 98 calories.
• Cinnamon latte Primo Cinnamon latte: takeaway - 110 calories / have in -100 calories.

Cold drinks:

• Primo Skinny Iced Cappuccino: 65 calories.
• Primo Skinny Iced Latte: 98 calories.
• Primo Skinny Iced Caramel Latte: 95 calories.
• Primo Skinny Iced Cinnamon Latte: 97 calories.

So as you can see there are a number of interesting options open to you with these two brands, but I wouldn't suggest you have more than one a day as otherwise you'll be ramping up your calories via drinks!!