I am typically a black coffee drinker. I love coffee, especially my favorite Dark Roast. Though since I have seen some evidence that medium roast, which I do not care for, has higher CBA and is healthier for you; I have been reluctantly switching. I also had a need to get more animal fats (not poisonous vegetable fats) in my diet I decided to make a compromise. Heavy cream (whipping cream) Is a great source of healthy fat. So I came up with the following.

• 2 tbs 100% CACAO (I use Hershey's Cocoa Special Dark)
  
• 2 tsp Instant Coffee medium roast (I use Nescafe)
  
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
  
• 1/2 tsp Ceylon cinnamon (Cassia cinnamon is fine)
  
• 2 tsp Allulose (to taste)
  
• 6 oz Unsweetened almond milk
  
• 4 oz Heavy cream (whipping cream)

Heat up almond milk in microwave, add dry ingredients and stir until completely incorporated. Add heavy cream and stir again, if you are not going to heat it back up (the cream will cool it considerably) then add vanilla and stir. If you are heating it back up to enjoy hot then add vanilla after heating it up.

I only use the instant coffee because I have some to use up. It would be just as practical to use real coffee about 4 oz with 2 oz almond milk. There is also nothing wrong with regular whole fat milk, I just love almond milk. Though never use lowfat milk or lowfat anything. Lowfat products are usually sweetened and you do not need the extra carbs and even if they have no added sugars (think high fructose corn syrup that can now legally be labeled as natural flavoring) the process of removing the fat increases the carbs. Your body should not be exposed to unwrapped carbs. Carbs should be earned by your body having to extract it from fibers or fats. Not just poured into the blood stream (what happens when they are unwrapped). The volume of ingredients is based on the need to fit it in my favorite 12 oz coffee mug. 😉

There are a few vegetable fats that are not dangerous. Cold Pressed Single Sourced olive oil is great. Though if it does not say cold pressed, it is not. Single sourced is important because you do not want a mix of questionably sourced olive oil that may not be what it is labeled as. Naturally Refined avocado oil. If you are using it for low temp cooking or as an ingredient (say in mayonnaise) unrefined is fine. Unrefined avocado oil has an extremely low smoke point and is unsuitable for high temp cooking. Though refined avocado oil has the highest smoke point of any oil we currently use to cook with. If you see some article or cookbook referring to avocado oil as a low temp cooking oil, they are referring to unrefined avocado oil (and should have noted such). Coconut oil is great and coconut MCT oil is a great way to add some healthy fat to your drinks. Cold pressed is important because if it is not cold pressed then chemicals that are known to be hazardous to human health are used to extract the oils from the vegetation. Not to mention that these oils will be made rancid by these chemicals and then deodorized by other chemicals. So you are eating food cooked in rancid deodorized oil, or even worse you decided to use that oil as an ingredient! There are a few seed oils that if cold pressed are healthy though they are rarely found in markets and extremely expensive. Remember, if it does not say cold pressed it is not. Keep in mind that not all seeds and grains can have the oil extracted without a chemical process (think rapeseed oil (aka: canola oil), corn oil and mixed vegetable oil (usually just referred to as vegetable oil). These are toxic and should never be consumed by human beings (or other animals).

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