Thought you might be interested in the top 9 worst holiday drinks. I have to wonder if Starbuck’s listed nutritional information inside their stores would it cause people to stop and perhaps re-consider ordering that 660 calorie, 22 g fat, and 95 g sugar drink? For me it would!
1. The Worst Holiday Drink
Starbuck’s Venti 2% Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha
660 calories
22 g fat (14 g saturated fat)
95 g sugar
2. Worst Hot Chocolate Alternative
Starbuck’s Venti White Hot Chocolate with whipped cream (whole milk)
640 calories
28 g fat (18 g saturated)
76 g sugars
3. Worst Hot Chocolate
Atlanta Bread Company Tall Hot Chocolate
450 calories
10 g fat (6 g saturated)
230 mg sodium
4. Worst Kids’ Drink
Cosi Kid’s Hot Chocolate (12 oz)
436 calories
60 g sugar
5. Worst Chai Tea
Caribou Coffee Large Chai Tea Latte
420 calories
47 g sugar
6. Worst Latte
Starbuck’s Venti Gingerbread Latte
400 calories
15 g fat
7. Worst Holiday Cocktail
Egg Nog
350 calories
16 g fat
8. Worst Wine
Mulled Wine
265 Calories
29 g sugar
9. Worst Holiday Beer
Samuel Adams Holiday Porter
211 calories
13 g carbohydrates
6% Alcohol
Source: Men’s Health
Wow, sadly I had a desperate desire to have a Peppermint mocha concoction!
Um, why are you reading ‘Men’s Heath’. No Girlz allowed!
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Laoch – resist the temptation
Grandalfe – another boy’s club eh? You know us Girlz…have to get our nose in everything.
I don’t suppose I’ve had any of those! Lucky me! I hate wine period. And for coffee I get Starbucks coffee beans and have them ground.
Brenda
Thank goodness for me – I don’t drink coffee or alcohol, preferring instead to indulge in sweets! But I do have a weakness for eggnog…
Aw heck! I like Egg Nog too (I suppose you’re not supposed drink these things all year around though).
And thank heavens we don’t have Starbucks where I live. Otherwise we’d all be dead by now. In fact, we don’t even have a Dunkin’ Donuts anywhere within 100 miles of my place.
But we can still buy Egg Nog though.
Brenda – I like good coffee but not all that flavored stuff. A sweet tooth is something I don’t have.
Keli – we are opposites, I enjoy good coffee (not flavored with sweet stuff), good red wine and I don’t indulge in desserts or sweets of any kind. Guess I should change that to RARELY on the indulgences. Yet I’m sure if our paths ever crossed over lunch some day we’d get along just fine
Kirk- wow you really are in the boonies! I don’t have a Dunkin’ Donuts either and I hear their coffee is really good! Another weird thing..I am one hour away from the Canadian border and we dont’ have any Tim Horton’s ( a Canadian company) where I live. Yet I go down to Ohio to visit my Dad and they’re all over the place.
While I adore coffee, I don’t like *any* of that Starbucks stuff, and I am not crazy about heated wine–one sip goes to my head.
But sometimes I’ll make homemade eggnog with good rum. I used to always make it, then quit when I realized how bad it is for me.
Then I started up again, I just make half a batch instead the whole thing. I figure, it’s only once a year.
I have a sip or two of egg nog each Christmas. I love it but am fully aware of just how bad it is. I can’t recall the last time I had 8 ounces at a single sitting … but I’m guessing that glass of it had a bit of rum in it as well.
@Cilicious
@Delmer
Eggnog without rum is not worth drinking
wow that is a lot of calories inside. I should limit my visits to starbucks. btw mcdonalds is almost the same. The quality of food is horrible. There are a lot of different greases and thereafter calories.