Coffee Mate Sugar Free Pulled from Shelves – Ruins Test

Well that’s just great. Here I am trying to do a test between alternatives for Hazel Nut Coffees and one of the sources where we were getting a test item from decided to not carry one of the very things we wanted to test. This was the Coffee Mate Hazelnut Cream coffee creamer (liquid) that was sugar free. Mind you, they still have the regular and fat free but have decided to nix the sugar free version.

Now how do you (including the folks at Nestles) expect us to include them when one of our test categories was the ease in finding the product on a regular basis. This is one thing that has shed a bad light on our supplier Safeway at Powers and Constitution ( in Colorado Springs,CO) . Now what to do? I guess we will have to drop this from the list by forfeit. We will continue to test the other alternatives.

By the way we have decided to start the 11 Day Diet program to see if this really works or not. So not only has Coffee Mate been taken away from us in sugar free version. It has been written off the list because of the fact that the fat free version contains sugar.

So any ideeas others than to go to another store? Help…Please?

Hazelnut coffee, creamer, or syrup ?

The quandary begins! Looking at all the varieties of coffees, creamers and syrups that are hazelnut flavored there are just too many choices! Is this flavor really that popular to block out the actual flavor of the coffee base behind it? What’s the deal here? Why hasn’t there been an actual coffee that tastes this way with the additional ingredients added? Can you actually go buy hazelnuts and grind them into the coffee with using artificial additives?

So, The thing here is that three things will be tested. 1. Artificially flavored Millstone Hazelnut Cream ground coffee 2. Coffee Mate no sugar Hazelnut cream in liquid form 3. Hazel nut flavored syrup. The flavored liquids will be added to Folgers Columbian ground coffee as the base. But here is the kicker, I will try to find hazel nuts that can be ground with a Columbian roast whole bean as the final test!

The contenders:

Left to right: Millstone Hazelnut Cream flavored coffee, Coffee Mate no sugar Hazelnut flavored Cream (liquid), Torani no sgaur Hazel nut flavored syrup, Folgers Columbian.

This is the test and I will share results at a future time. I will also see if I can find those elusive hazelnuts at a health food store.

Cups up!