I've been aiming for awhile to cut sugar out of my diet when I'm not consuming it in the form of deliberate junk food such as dessert. The primary source of unintentional sugar in my diet right now is probably the vanilla almond milk my household uses in coffee and cereal. It has 17 grams of sugar per cup, which is kind of a lot for what it is. I've started mixing it with unsweetened vanilla almond milk, which reduces the sugar by approximately half (Simran didn't seem to notice), and I had exclusively unsweetened almond milk in my Cheerios today and didn't much notice either. It makes a difference in the coffee though.
I made raw date syrup awhile back, but I didn't use it up before it went bad. Today I'm trying something new. I'm aiming to make coffee creamer without making a separate date syrup. I like that this should also add a serving of fruits to my morning coffee. I currently aim to eat at least seven servings of fruits and vegetables per day because health, and it can be difficult if I don't have at least a couple with breakfast.
My first attempt at coffee creamer is about as basic as it gets. I put 10 pitted medjool dates in a high-speed blender with 4 cups of my store's generic unsweetened almond milk, let them soak for 10 minutes (I'm not sure 10 minutes was long enough to matter), and then blended them completely. After I try it in my coffee tomorrow, I'll adjust sweetness level and plan for making other variations (I definitely want to make one with pumpkin puree and spices). The consistency seems good.
[Edited 5/3/2015: It's a bit cloying. I think I might need to use fewer dates or more almond milk. When I finish using this batch, I'll try it with 5 cups of almond milk and keep the dates the same.]
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