Mocha!

As with everything in life, I started taking my Mocha break when I needed it most, handling a young toddler and being pregnant.

This is my break in Browns Cafe. The mocha is weak in coffee, as I am trying to be good to the baby, less caffeine kick and made with skinny milk. I do need to take more calcium but I can only digest so much milk as it does give me the most irritable bowel indigestion. Bloating is much worst with this second baby. I am not sure why is that but if you can see from my face, I am deeply bloated and I got like 3 weeks or so to go.

The chocolate muffin is gluten-free and what this means is there is only a small amount of white flour in the recipe. Usually they use almond meal, which is more expensive than flour but taste just the same. Can be a tad dryer than usual cakes and baking goods. But Almond meal has added calcium, vitamins and minerals.

I can opt to see rice flour as well but almond meal is best.

Going gluten-free for me , means reducing the bloating. I am not sure about the calorie intake but it does help a tad bit in adding more goodness to my usual wicked treat.

The mocha helps me to kick me back into alertness and lift my mood. Coffees in Melbourne is wickedly good. Hand roasted from Arabian beans, it does have a distinct aromas and the milk here tastes better than anywhere else.

So much so, Starbucks can't even survive the very fussy Melbourne taste for good coffee. Apparently, coffee in US is quite ....tasteless, bland and too commercially run.

Beg to differ for me, IF I ever get to go to US anyway!

hahaha....