Vegan Frappuccinos!

Starbucks have new frappuccinos and after an internet search it appears that most of them are vegan. Quarrygirl posted about the change to the method of making frappuccinos in America which has recently moved over to the UK too. The guidance I have seen online suggests you make sure that you check they are making the new frappuccinos as the old ones were not vegan. They previously had a premade base with dairy in it. The light frappuccinos are not vegan and there are issues with the caramel.

"White Mocha and Carmel SAUCE are not vegan (the caramel SYRUP is vegan, just make sure to request, no caramel SAUCE on your soy, no whip, caramel frap)"

My housemate works at Starbucks and I've heard that the new pink jug for the soya milk has caused much excitement :)

Make sure you visit starbucks before the 22nd May as they are doing a half price frappuccino deal between 3-5pm each day. I will be going at some point this week.

Sugar high leads to advent calendars

Advent Calendars!! A bit early I know but as someone who has little experience of chocolate advent calendars I get very excited when I see a vegan one. Last month my mum kindly bought me and my sister dairy free advent calendars off of the veganstore website. They had a deal where it was cheaper to buy them early. So it has been sat on my desk for a while now.

Today, to escape the boyfriends loud music and game playing (well that's the excuse I am using) I went to Starbucks to do some reading for uni. For some reason I do concentrate very well when I am in Starbucks on my own despite how busy it is. I've had a Starbucks card for a while now since I found any extras you choose to have are free, when you pay with it. Which means free soya milk which saves you about 35p. I think thats how much it saves but I haven't paid for the soya milk for a while obviously. I thought I would be adventurous and try a syrup. I had a peppermint mocha that was advertised on the menu as one of the suggested christmas drinks. More Christmas!


I thought the peppermint was a little excessive. I could really taste the peppermint and barely taste the coffee and choc. It was enjoyable but I think if I had it again I would ask for just a little bit of peppermint as I saw them put in a few big squirts of the syrup. The syrup is basically sugar and I'm not great with caffeine so I was definitely on a high after that drink.

The Starbucks I went to is part of a Sainsbury's. I read on the UK part of the PPK forum about Sainsbury's doing a vegan advent calendar by choices dairy free chocolate. I'd had the choices caramel chocolates before and they are yum! After Starbucks I couldn't help going on a wander round the shop and came across the advent calendars that have just been put on the shelves in the free-from section of the shop.

So now I have two advent calendars. Is that overdoing it? Well after years of not having chocolate calendars I feel I need to catch up. Well that's my excuse anyway.