In order to take your mind off of the lack of sugar, Tim recommends cinnamon in your morning coffee. While this can definitely be tasty, I’ve found another amazing alternative: vanilla bean powder. Add a pinch of this to your coffee and suddenly you’ve got coffee that doesn’t feel far off from a vanilla laté.
If you get the good stuff, it’s simply ground up vanilla beans. Now don’t get your hopes up: just because it’s called a vanilla bean doesn’t mean it’s a legume. So don’t go nuts and start eating the stuff by the spoonful. Plus it’s not cheap, so you’ll probably want to show some restraint because of that. But as a sugar replacement in your coffee, it’s pretty amazing.
I’ve gone organic and purchased Terrasoul Superfoods Vanilla Bean Powder
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would store bought or homemade vanilla extract be a suitable/more cost effective substitute?
Heya! Vanilla extract is liquid and has an alcoholic flavor to it, which personally I don’t like when used straight up in coffee. The vanilla bean powder is just ground up beans, so it doesn’t have the alcoholic tinge. Just be careful — some vanilla powders are mixed with dextrose or sucrose and that would not be slow-carb friendly.
Vanilla Bean powder is also available.
Example: https://nativevanilla.com/products/vanilla-powder
Thank you for the information