I’m pretty sure that I’ve talked about my love for Thug Kitchen before…if not on here then most definitely on facebook and twitter. I love straight talking when it comes to food…you know, I think that’s where a lot of our problems around food stem from – it all suddenly got so fucking complicated.
This week’s Thug Kitchen is all about coffee, iced coffee actually.
Which is perfect timing because I promised that I was going to put my recipe for home-made frappuccino’s.
I absolutely LOVE a Frappuccino from Starbucks, but they do absolutely nothing for my waistline or my purse (seriously, £3+ for an iced drink is scandalous). But I’ve worked out a way of creating my own frappuccino which is just as tasty, lower in calories and well, a hell of a lot cheaper.
As ThugKitchen says…money doesn’t grow on trees – but coffee does.
And it’s pretty simple too, in fact, a lot simpler than standing in line and ordering from Starbucks.
I usually make 1 x 500ml with this recipe…(if you’re not drinking it straight away, you need to store it in something that’s going to be easy for you to shake – because it WILL separate – I use killer jars) it’s the PERFECT breakfast smoothie…
1/2 cup of STRONG coffee (use about two scoops per 150ml of water). Make this a few hours before and leave cool (or leave overnight so its ready to be thrown in the next morning).
300ml of unsweetend almond milk
1/2 a frozen banana
Small squirt of honey (optional)
Throw in the cold coffee, almond milk, banana and honey (if you want it a little sweeter) and blend baby, blend.
And you’re done. It’s really THAT simple. Approx 82 cals.
Love it. I reckon this will get me many brownie points at home in this weather.
it’s lovely. I’ve been making it the night before and having it for breakfast. I didn’t want to scare people but I usually chuck and handful of spinach in if it’s my breakfast smoothie as it’s the perfect green smoothie really- just not green 😉
Love this! Coffee has become my last vice and I just hate paying the coffee shop the inflated prices. Will be getting started on this right away!