Ok, here comes my shameless big company promo. And if you worked with me at Caribou, cover your eyes. I have canoodled with the enemy: Starbucks. It all started because the Starbucks on campus happens to be an ideal location to study between classes. I like quiet libraries, too, but I’m very comfortable studying in busy coffee shops. Especially when I’m wearing headphones, which I generally do when I study. It suddenly dawned on me that Starbucks soy latte’s are way better than any other latte–they must use sweetened soymilk. AND are much cheaper, believe it or not, than the soy lattes sold at the coffee shop in the library where I study.

And they’ve won me over, yet again! On a whim, I decided to try their Green Tea Latte, with soymilk of course. And, oh my word, if that didn’t help me survive finals. It’s addictingly pleasurable. I must warn you, though, it is sweet. And it’s got some caloric density to it. So, if you’re a black coffee kind of person (I go back and forth), this might not be your cup of tea. Oh, and don’t be alarmed. The drink is very green. The green tea they use is actually a powder. It’s a matcha green tea with honeydew.

If you’d rather not spend oodles of your hard earned dollars on a single drink (I was lucky enough to get a gift card from my dear mother), you can buy the concentrate and make your own at home at a much more reasonable price.

Ingredients: An infusion of (water, matcha and other green teas), organic cane sugar, honeydew juice concentrate, natural fruit flavors, gum, Arabic, xanthan gum, guar gum and citric acid.