I love Starbucks and Panera, does anyone have any suggestions on what I can drink/eat there that is low on sugar, tastes good, and is good on protein?

I drink a venti caramel frapaccino lite everyday. It does have protein in it. Not sure how much. Love it!

For starbucks I get the Sugar free soymilk vanilla latte, its really good and no sugar!!! I also get the somilk green tea latte sans the sugar on ice, it's pretty good.

I wonder if the French Onion soup from Panera is a good choice. Skip the croutons and add some unflavored protein. It has cheese that counts toward protein.

Yeah, I eat the french onion soup from Panera--no croutons--all the time. It's a great choice. For Starbucks, I like an unsweetened passion tea lemonade. Delicious and like 35 calories for a tall.

At Starbucks or Panera, get any sandwich and just remove the bread. The bread can fill you up super fast and keep you from getting all that good Protein, almost all the sandwiches have plenty of protein so take your pick. For drinks? Just go for the sugar free syrups and sweeteners, and you can save yourself from most of the sugar found in their drinks. Unsweetened teas are also normally really good.

Edit: I don't know about fraps though. I just avoid them because they make me munchy.

I do not visit either as there are a lot of other places to eat and enjoy a break that give me many more choices with healthy choices.

at starbucks, be careful with the soy milk. starbucks uses a vanilla flavored soy milk and it DOES have sugar in it already. you can get a their syrups sugar free in vanilla, caramel, peppermint, toffee nut and hazelnut plus they have a sugar free mocha sauce now. if you order a decaf skinny latte they can use any of the sugar free flavors i listed plus skim milk to make the lattes. which is less calories then getting a latte with soy milk. also, they do have a passion tea that is decaf and you can get it hot or iced. just remember to tell them not to add the classic syrup (used to make it a sweet tea) or the lemonade and it's not bitter at all but if you need it they also have spenda, sweet and low and equal that you could add to it. the starbucks shop should have a brochure of the drinks offered and what's in them or you can go online to starbucks.com and get the full list of what is offered and what's in all the drinks.

not sure about paneras though.

hope this helps!

The tall latte with skim milk or soy milk will be about the same sugar wise. I like the richer flavor of the soy but skim milk will have a couple more protein. I skip the sugarfree syrups because i dont care for them. Best bet low cal no sugar is the house coffee black. But wheres the fun with that!

At Starbucks you can decide for yourself what you'd like. The good thing is you can always request DECAF and you can also request your beverage SOY or SKINNY.

I drink an iced skinny sugar free vanilla latte daily! Looooove it!

I have had a Venti Iced Vanilla latte everyday (2% milk, not sugar free) for the last 6 months. I am 5 lbs from goal!! yay

I have had a Venti Iced Vanilla latte everyday (2% milk, not sugar free) for the last 6 months. I am 5 lbs from goal!! yay

Yayyy sleeve of steel...I had my venti caramel frap lite almost everyday my post sleeve journey to goal (except 21 days in January).

At Starbucks I have a skinny venti cinnamon dolce latte. It has 160 calories and 15 grams of protein or I have a venti calm tea with half steamed fat free milk. That one is 110 calories and 11 protein.

My GO to Drink right now is Trenti Iced Green Tea, No Classic (Sugar) add 3 Spleanda. I also get that in Black Tea and if you don't want Caffine - get Passion Tea - all No Classic and how ever many Splendas you want.

I work at sbux and these posts are awesome and helpful! Matcha powder had green tea and sugar in it already. Go for nonfat or soy (although our soy has vanilla flavor and sweet), use SF syrups and please go for decaf. I don't drink coffee but if I did I sip 2oz of decaf with cinnamon powder and 1 oz of soy milk. Fraps are made with coffee, whole milk, sugar base, ice and whatever syrup like caramel or mocha, etc. If you want a frap order light those are made with coffee, nonfat milk, light sugar gum base, and any syrup you want preferably sugar free. I drink nonfat milk with protein powder at work. If I feel shaky I have a few sips of NF milk with one pump of chai, I gave up all the other syrups because it's not worth it for me. The rest of the day I drink water. On days off and vacation time I order a trenta tea (passion and green tea with apple juice no sweetener added) instead of lemonade because the acid makes my tummy feel weird. The apple juice sweetens the tea without me needing to add any splenda. I love that tea <3 Definately recommend you all try it. I get 31oz cup because friends and family by now know I can't finish it and I swear I only get 8oz of my drink and the rest everyone else loves it lol