Does anyone else drink coffee purely for the flavored creamer and sugar?

[tweedlemom]

Seriously, I'm not a huge lover of coffee, but I LOVE flavored creamers! That's the only reason I drink coffee in the first place! Flavored creamers and 3 teaspoons of sugar. Anyone else?

 

[bigbabyblues]

Not only for the creamer and sugar, but I have to have a lot of it because I don't like the taste of coffee by itself.

 

[emer95]

Three teaspoons of sugar? WOW that's sweet!! It made my tongue curl up just to read that!

I have to have flavored creamer, but no sugar. The creamer makes it sweet enough for me. I don't really love the flavor of coffee as much as I love the caffeine and the warm drink to hang onto. I guess I could just have tea instead.

 

[Polyluvr]

My BIG coffee mug holds about 16oz of coffee; and I also use 3 teaspoons of sugar and I love 1/2 and 12

If it's flavored creamer I don't need the sugar

 

[Conservative Hippie]

I like a lot of Coffeemate in my coffee. A lot a lot. I poured out my usual creamer one morning and then decided to pour it into a measuring cup to see....it was 1/3 cup of creamer!! And I would regularly drink 2 or 3 cups of coffee a day - a full cup of creamer. No wonder I was exercising my butt off and getting nowhere. That was 6 weeks ago - the last day I made coffee at home (for just myself). If I want a cup of coffee in the morning I drive 2 miles up the road to the Starbucks drive-thru. A grande latte has less calories than my "usual cup," and I get the calcium and protein from the soy milk too.

 

[bicker]

I love excellent coffee, and for an excellent coffee, I can be very happy with very little sweetening and lightening. However, it is a bit of work, and we're suckers for convenience, in our home, these days, so we do enjoy a moderately great coffee (from our Keurig), instead of an excellent coffee from our regular coffeemaker, but in that case, a small touch of light cream is necessary, and once that's in there, I find that the cream often trumps almost the entire difference between great coffee and excellent coffee.

Incidentally, a "cup" of coffee is generally considered between 5 1/4 ounces (a "small cup", perhaps) and 6 ounces (a "large cup" perhaps). A "mug" of coffee is bigger - often between 1 1/2 and 2 cups of coffee, so you'd expect to use about double the sweetening and lightening. In our "super-sized" world, we now have "large mugs", which are actually between double and triple the size of a "cup" of coffee, so it isn't remarkable to double or triple the sweetening and lightening, as compared to just a "cup".

Having said all that, I tend to use two teaspoon's worth of sweetening per cup, but as little as one teaspoon's worth for an excellent coffee. If I'm lightening with cream, I'll generally need less sweetening; if I'm lightening with skim milk, I'll generally need more sweetening.

We generally stay away from flavored, though I'm not really averse to it. It's a nice change of pace sometimes, but I think if it was the general case, we'd get bored of it quickly.

 

[DMickey28]

I like a lot of Coffeemate in my coffee. A lot a lot. I poured out my usual creamer one morning and then decided to pour it into a measuring cup to see....it was 1/3 cup of creamer!! And I would regularly drink 2 or 3 cups of coffee a day - a full cup of creamer. No wonder I was exercising my butt off and getting nowhere. That was 6 weeks ago - the last day I made coffee at home (for just myself). If I want a cup of coffee in the morning I drive 2 miles up the road to the Starbucks drive-thru. A grande latte has less calories than my "usual cup," and I get the calcium and protein from the soy milk too.

Why not make the coffee yourself and use soy milk in it?

 

[disneyquestions]

I'm so there!!!! I just got this Chai flavor creamer and its so yummy! I put that in there plus 2 splendas (or truvia) and I can drink the entire pot. On the weekends, I use that, and some Baileys too.....


ETA - I enjoy coffee, and will happily drink it with or without the flavoured creamers. Sometimes I like it better without the flavouring, something I need it!

 

[shaylyn]

I put so much half & half and sugar in my coffee that it tastes like a milkshake

Can't stand the taste of coffee, lol.

 

[golfgal]

I can feel my teeth rot just reading about all that sugar (including what is in the flavored creamer).

I don't like any sweeteners in my coffee but I do like cream-but I don't use THAT much cream either. I like just enough cream to make it smooth tasting. If I get Starbucks or whatever, I need at least double the cream I use at home because their coffee is so bitter.

 

[nmmom95]

Looks like I'm weird, because I love the taste of coffee. I use a little bit of plain half & half and no sugar or sweetener at all.

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

Maybe. I can drink coffee w/o the flavored creamers, but I much prefer them to half and half with sugar.

 

[npmommie]

I have to have flavored creamer, but no sugar. The creamer makes it sweet enough for me. I don't really love the flavor of coffee as much as I love the caffeine and the warm drink to hang onto. I guess I could just have tea instead.

This is me, I love the creamer!
I saw a Bailey's Irish Cream creamer at bj's last time I was there, I might get it next time I don't think it has alcohol in it, at least I hope not, LOL.
I also can do 1/2 and 1/2 and sugar.
I cannot drink coffee if I don't have either of those in the house!

 

[Buckalew11]

I drink chocolate flavored coffee with splenda and vanilla caramel creamer (coffeemate). Eileen named it "Candy in a Cup" and that stuck. It looks like a pale tan color.

 

[kirbydog48]

Ick, too many artificial ingredients in those "creamers". I'm all about the coffee. Organic, fair trade, a little milk and maybe a little agave or stevia.

 

[BeefJerky]

I should be ashamed to admit it but I do. I mean, if someone makes bad coffee I give it a kick of this caramel stuff we have. If it is good coffee, then a little bit of milk and sugar.

 

[Conservative Hippie]

Why not make the coffee yourself and use soy milk in it?

I have and it's not quite the same :-/ I prefer espresso and soy milk, but I don't have an espresso machine.

 

[disneyquestions]

Yeah, it is kinda freakie when I put the creamer in, and it fizzes.... like... milk doesn't fizz.... what is in that stuff!?!?! lol

 

[bicker]

Non-dairy creamer is mostly corn syrup solids.