Starbucks is Mean.
They are always tempting me with those big, fat blueberry muffins, but the muffins aren’t vegan. Eh, store-bought pastries often look better than they taste, anyway. Luckily I have my own muffin-esque recipe that is insanely-delicious, not to mention healthier than the Starbucks pastries:
It’s everything you’d want from a warm blueberry muffin. However, I should cut the Bucks a break. After all, they do sell vegan Frappuccinos now. First step Frappuccinos, second step blueberry muffins. (Props to anyone who picked up on the Miss Congeniality reference.)
Blueberry Muffin in a Bowl
(See “Variations” below for flavors!)
- 1/8 to 1/4 cup nondairy creamer (I use Silk)
- 1 serving cooked bulgur or oatmeal (See: How to Cook Bulgur)
- sweetener of choice, to taste
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- fresh or frozen blueberries, post-blending
Make sure to cook your bulgur or oats with salt. (I use 1/4 tsp, and it’s important to put this in before cooking the grains.) Once cooked, put the bulgur or oats in your blending gadget, such as a Magic Bullet short cup. Add everything else (except berries) and blend! Now add in some frozen blueberries, or any other fruit, nut butters, chocolate chips, etc.
Variations I’ve tried:
1. Strawberry Shortcake (add frozen strawberries pre-blending)
2. Chocolate Cream Pie (see optional ingredient, above)
3. Cinnamon-Raisin (add cinnamon and raisins, post-blending)
On a cold day, nothing’s better than a blueberry muffin in a bowl. Except… a blueberry muffin in a bowl that you don’t have to leave your house to buy.
Do you like Starbucks?
People seem to be very passionate about Starbucks. They either love it (Fun coffee drinks! Passion Tea!) or hate it (Over-priced! They’re everywhere!). The company has multiple facebook fan pages, but there’s also an entire website, ihatestarbucks.com, dedicated to all things anti-Starbucks. In any case, I owe Starbucks for a lot of good memories. In high school, it was the place to hang out. Oftentimes, we wouldn’t even buy anything. Horrible of us… and now I’m wondering why they didn’t ever make us leave!
Haha! I have to go check out that website! I don’t hate Starbucks, but I wish I could afford to go there everyday! 😉
I absolutely love putting blueberries on oatmeal 😀 Recently, I’ve been coating my fruit with cocoa powder before eating it, it’s something I think you’d like! I made a post about it a few days ago, feel free to check it out 🙂
Just saw your post! It looks like an insanely-delicious idea!! Thanks for sharing, girl!
I like Starbucks. I don’t drink coffee or eat pastries every day, but it is still a nice place to hangout and catch-up. Plus, I always have giftcards to Starbucks, so I feel like I am getting a present whenever I purchase a drink.
Gotta say… not a big fan of the ‘Bux! Never really was in HS either, but that might just be because I don’t enjoy coffee. And you are right, it’s way way pricey. Not my cup of tea (ha! or coffee?)
I like it, used to love it, until I started having issues with milk. I like lattes or their oatmeal for a quick breakfast when traveling or in a pinch
I do soy lattes now there maybe twice a month.
LOVE LOVE Starbucks. Yes, I am a snob! 😛
i want to like starbucks! i really do :(. but my eating disorder says a BIG no to any drinks with calories :(. i have the worst time trying to convince myself that it’s ok to consume any calories in beverage form. does anyone else have this problem? or has anyone overcome such a problem?
every time i see people with chai lattes, peppermint lattes, or even regular lattes, i curse my ED and feel very sad that i can’t experience the joy while drinking something yummy that others get to experience.
but on a more positive note, your photos look superb :).
I don’t tend to drink my calories, either.
I’m… well, I’m not ED but I’m disordered in my handling of calories after losing a lot of weight and maintaining a year. There’s a lot of hard stuff going on for me – though it pales compared to what a lot of other people deal with.
I honestly prefer eating solid food rather than drinking things, even if they are tasty.
I like to get the most bang for my caloric buck – I will have a vegan frap after a marathon or really long run when I need sugar – but that’s rare.
Know what saved me? Unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze. It’s only 40 calories a cup and I can make lower calorie cocoa, smoothies, Katie’s agar pudding, etc. and get the good vitamins and stuff in the milk without all the added sugar calories. And having a safe drink makes me less obsessive and doesn’t set me off.
Also, stevia is my BFF. Being able to bake and eat desserts helps me feel normal and keeps me from swinging too far into ED thoughts.
Even if I wasn’t a little disordered, I’d pick the unsweetened almond milk – it means I can have a bigger portion! I’m very strange in that I count calories but I love big servings of food(!). I eat a lot of veggies and such so I can feel full and like I ate enough without it being triggering.
Maybe start small by making things at home with the almond milk and using stevia to sweeten and see if you do alright with it? Then move up to other things as you start to heal the behaviors? I’m trying to stop eating so low in my calories and lighten up on myself. Starting small with just a hundred or so extra calories a day and going to go slow to avoid triggering panics. I also am trying therapy starting next week. I hope it helps.
I hope things work out for you, too. Therapy might be useful, too. I think ED is very rarely about food/weight at the core…
I’m still dreaming about the banana blended oatmeal, I believe you called it Creme Brulee oats… yummm
Hehe this one? https://lett-trim.today/2008/11/26/two-for-one/%3C/a%3E%3Cbr /> I think caramelized-banana oatmeal is my favorite :).
I hate it when I get sucked in by tasty “looking” pastries only to be disappointed in the end! 🙁 I’m sure your blueberry oats were anything but disappointing…and I love your pink flower in the background! It really makes the picture POP!
I seriously used to be addicted to Starbucks…like at least every other day. Then I moved to a local coffee shop 2 minutes from my house. I went there so much that they didn’t even have to ask what I wanted. But it just got so dang expensive. I actually don’t drink nearly as much caffeine as I used to and I’m perfectly happy with my one cup black with cinnamon each morning!
Starbucks sharbucks.. to me.. its all the same… and i dont regularly even drink coffee… they make a mean light coffee frap though 😀