As part of my “spend less [at Starbucks]” 2023 Goal, I decided to start making chai lattes at home again, by blending the Tazo mix with vanilla almond milk. But when I went to the store to buy the mix, all they had was the “skinny” version.
I was disappointed. My experience is that fewer calories often means artificial sweeteners, and those make me feel icky, and often taste icky to me.
I turned the back over to check the ingredients, and was shocked it didn’t have any – it still has cane sugar in it!
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Note: it does have honey, so it’s not vegan. I call myself vegan, but will eat honey. Therefore, not truly vegan.
Anyway. I was excited and took it home to try and… ended up liking it even more than the regular version. How about that?
So the next time I went to the store specifically to buy the skinny version, and they only had the regular! Ha! Figures! (I ended up ordering more online)
Yay! What serendipity.
I am not sure if I could live without honey, so I feel you on having that as an obstacle to 100% veganism.
Right? It worked out so nice!
Thanks for saying that 😀 I don’t add it to things on purpose, but I don’t avoid things that have that as the only animal product in it!
I’m LOL’ing because I literally just emailed you about this yesterday, then read the post. 🙂
I use Oregon chai mixes – usually right next to the Tazo ones. I’ve tried tea bags and even powders and… the premixed stuff is usually just better! Haven’t tried Tazo so may do that the next time. 🙂 Although I also try to avoid animal products, honey is a hard one to avoid sometimes.
I was laughing when you asked me too! Ha!
I think premixed is better too (obviously, lol). And yes, honey is in a lot! I don’t add it, but if it’s the thing keeping it from being vegan, and I want to buy it and use it, I will.