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I will not live without my morning coffee. And it's got to be fresh ground beans in the morning for me.
I have found the cheapest place to get decent beans is Grocery Outlet. Even cheaper than Costco.
I use a single cup Melita drip cone, and make one giant single cup of coffee. Once in a blue moon, like today, I drink 2 cups. I live alone, so no pot of coffee here.
I make mine at home. I buy coffee only on sale--the big Maxwell House or Folger's French Roast, and then I'll buy some of the more expensive brands, usually a flavor like Hazelnut or Vanilla, once in a blue moon if they are on sale, for a treat.
I do buy another cup of coffee from a deli or a cart when I get to work, and yes, it annoys me that they charge so damn much for it, but by the time I get to work 90 minutes or so after I left the house and my beloved coffeepot behind, I need that next cup!
I buy beans at Trader Joe's or my local grocery. It's not the cheapest but considering what we USED to spend at Starbucks we're doing good now.
I have a coffee maker that I love, thermal carafe, grinds the beans for me, bought it second hand. We used to make espresso with a stovetop euro style espresso maker but got too lazy, still do it here and there though.
I will not live without my morning coffee. And it's got to be fresh ground beans in the morning for me.
I have found the cheapest place to get decent beans is Grocery Outlet. Even cheaper than Costco.
I use a single cup Melita drip cone, and make one giant single cup of coffee. Once in a blue moon, like today, I drink 2 cups. I live alone, so no pot of coffee here.
What do you do?
I too need my coffee in the morning and 2 or 3 cups seem to do it for me. I used to grind the beans myself every morning but then I came to enjoy the complete and utter silence of waking up so early, I decided to forgo the grinding.
I came across what is the best coffee I have ever tasted and it is now my absolute default coffee, bar none. I get it at Costco and it is the Kirkland Signature Supremo Bean Ground Coffee, 48 oz size. It works for me and whenever I have company over they all seem to enjoy it very much.
I find it far more frugal than getting a Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, 7-11, or what have you and it is so much more convenient. They also sell it in decaf if I am having a late evening and a taste for great coffee.
I have a Starbucks about once every two years whether I need to or not. :-)
Seriously, the price makes me just about have a stroke. Not sure if this is the most frugal option, and pretty sure it's not the cheapest possible. But I mix a flavored ground coffee (like hazelnut) from Aldi half and half with Chock Full O' Nuts. I like it.
There is free coffee at work if you get to it fast enough, but it's low-quality bulk ground coffee, and the maker never seems to get washed, so, no thanks. I'll brew it at home. The most cost-effective way for me is to grind my own beans a cup at a time and brew in a single-serving French press. It only gets so frugal when you buy whole bean, but it's a worthwhile expenditure to me.
I have a Starbucks about once every two years whether I need to or not. :-)
Seriously, the price makes me just about have a stroke. Not sure if this is the most frugal option, and pretty sure it's not the cheapest possible. But I mix a flavored ground coffee (like hazelnut) from Aldi half and half with Chock Full O' Nuts. I like it.
I did something similar. The big container of a store-brand French roast coffee was on sale, so I bought it. It's a little bitter, but I won't throw it out, so the next time one of the other brands of Hazelnut went on sale, I bought it and mixed the two. The flavored coffee masks the off-flavor of the cheapo coffee, and the flavored one is kind of weak so the French roast bolsters it up a bit.
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