Hi everyone
What kind of milk can I use 4 coffee?
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Cream
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You could also use butter. Almond or coconut milk have no carbs.
Personally, I prefer to drink coffee black, but thatās me 
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Iāve become used to unsweetened coconut milk.
Alproās coconut milk has rice in it, although it contains less than 5 ml carbs per 100 ml but I have started the lchf diet so am not sure itās approvedā¦
I donāt know about that brand. Iāve used other brands, like Silk, which lists <1g carbs in the unsweetened varieties. Iām sure there are others that are better (with fewer or no additives) around as well.
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I use regular cream
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I think this is what Iāll do. Thanks everyone, you were very helpful
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David_dns https://forum.tudiabetes.org/users/david_dns Type 2
March 12
I use regular cream
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I donāt like dairy milks, so my favorite alternative milk for coffee is unsweetened cashew milk, which is increasingly easy to find and made by the major alt-milk brands. It has a much more neutral flavor profile than almond or coconut (canāt stand coconut milk in coffee personally) and the calories it does have are pretty much all from fat.
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I tend to use heavy whipping cream, when I use any at all. Negligible carbs in the small amount I use (it goes a lot further than half and half or milk). Some people donāt like how much calories are there.
If you arenāt worried about the calories and want an interesting experience, you can try the ābulletproof coffee recipeā
Large cup of coffee
2 tablespoons grass-fed butter
2 tablespoons coconut oil
Blend it with a hand blender til foamy and creamy.
It has about 443 calories, but if youāre like me and canāt seem to eat enough to maintain weight, itās not a bad way to start the morning!
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Can you pleae elaborate on what is a grass-Fed butter?
Itās butter made from the milk of cows that graze naturally on grass rather than being fed grain and manufactured feed.
The easiest brand for me to get is Kerrygold (which is sourced from mostly grass-fed milk) or from local dairies. Just means the milk used to make the butter is from grass-fed dairy cows. It changes the fat composition (grass fed products are higher in Omega-3 as a percentage of fats) of the end product and also tastes better (at least to me). Then again, I grew up on homemade grass-fed butter, so I might just be partial to it.
Kerrygold is excellent butter, I use it in cooking all the time. I donāt know how to find out precisely what itās made from, unfortunately.
My understanding is about 95% of the milk used in Kerrygold is from grass-fed cows. They recently changed the claim it was ā100% grass-fed,ā because there are times of year where some of the farmers supplement with feed. I have zero issues with this personally, although there are plenty of people online horrified by the fact that some Irish dairy farmers might supplement with GMO grains (no idea if thatās true or not).
There is a pretty good reason: The dairy region of Ireland, while fantastic for cattle (as most places in the NW of Europe are), can only support pasture-feeding on grass about 300 days a year. Grass goes dormant for a couple months during the winter, at which time you either destroy your pasture or supplement with something.
Good to know. Thanx for the background.
While I mostly drink herbal teas now and use unsweetened almond milk for various recipes, Iām with the heavy cream folks in generalāincluding crĆØme fraiche and English Double Devon Cream, any of which I use on my daily dose of a small number of blueberries (only fruit I can eat) with flax and anti-inflammatory spicesā¦Lots of good suggestions here. I personally live by Dr Bernsteinās mantra: āThere is no such thing as a free carb.āā¦But that doesnāt work for allā¦
Blessingsā¦do the best you can. Experiment and TestTestTestā¦
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One of the things I love about heavy cream (aside from the fact that it just plain tastes good) is that there are hardly any carbs. A win-win. 
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Iāve been using Fairlife whole milk for about the last month or so and really like it. The carbs are low enough that for coffee I donāt need to bolus. Itās a nice change from almond milk.
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Iāve been interested in this but havenāt seen it around here yet. Is it very expensive? Does it actually taste like milk?