Make Your Own Coffee - Save A Grand!

[howisavemoney]

I love my morning cup of joe. But, I won't pay for it anywhere. I buy my coffee beans at Costco and I grind them myself. It works out to about 27 cents per cup of coffee if you add in the creamer and sweatner.

Now, if you buy that same cup at a coffee store you will spend $3 to $4.

Save Money - Make your own java! This simple act can save you $1000 per year -- 365 days x $3 per day = $1095 per year! Please make your own coffee!

Rob

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

How much does your cream and sweetener cost as packaged? Twenty-seven cents per cup sounds higher than I would have guessed.

[Aleta]

I like to make the cappucinno coffees. I buy the expressso coffee and make it in an expresso machine. I bought that thing 14 years ago and it has paid for itself many times over. Anyway, I make the coffee, scald whole milk, add 1/2 milk to my cup or more, add the coffee, sugar, whipped cream, shavings from chocolate and cinnamon powder sprinkled on top of the whipped cream. I add a straw and it is really a hit. Those drinks cost a bundle at the coffee shops and are so easy to make.

[Plassky]

so how much is it costing people to drink a cup a day at a starbucks or other coffee shop?

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

Hi, Plassky. Welcome! Yours is a new face here today, isn't it? At my neighborhood coffee shop the least expensive coffee is $1.50. I think the prices go up to about $4.50 a cup. However, I think one can get coffee at the drive through of various fast food restaurants for $0.90 to $1.30. Really I do not think that most coffee in the mornings is bought at places like Starbucks or even the individually owned coffeeshop where I sometimes go.

[markusk]

Yes...coffee. A topic near and dear to my heart.

Just moved to the Bay Area, where Costcos sells 2.5lbs of "Seattle Mountain Coffee Beans" for for $7.99. It is freshly roasted -- they roast it right in front of you in the store and the bag is warm! The 2.5lbs of beans lasts about 1 month, and makes about 60 cups of coffee. Also at Costcos is "Coffeemate Creamer" (1 quart, 3 in a pack) for $8.59. Each quart of the creamer, which is sweetened, is enough for about 16 cups of coffee.

So each cup of coffee for me cost about 31 cents.

Of course you have to take into consideration of the cost of Costco membership, cost of the coffee grinder, and the cost of the coffee maker we use at home. Not sure how to calculate that all in.

Back East, we belong to BJ's and their store-brand coffee beans cost $11 for 2.5lbs.

And the local food trucks back East in the city had good coffee for 75 cent for a large.

I miss Duncan Donuts coffee -- they are not around in N. California. Blueberry iced coffee was the bomb! But a medium cup cost $1.64.

[leggzz66]

I use instant coffee. creamer and sweetnlow.
i buy mine at walmart, the coffee is under 4 dollars
the creamers is almost 4 dollars
n the sweet packets are 100 pcks for 1 dollar.
I go thru 2 1.00 packs of sweetner and 2 bottles of creamer and one instant coffee,
around 13 a month and im golden.lol
i drink alotttttttt of coffee, but like i told my doc, thats between me and my pancreas! lol

[leggzz66]

I got my freebies on ground coffee here in the mail recently. dh loves it. i get them just for him.

[mom-from-missouri]

I don't drink coffee--but I do make my own hot cocoa mix. Its much cheaper than buying it-esp those single serving pouches.

[mackybethsmommy]

I make a cup for myself in the morning at home. When I get to work I buy my first cup for .25 and get free refills. So I don't think it's any more efficient to make it at home and bring it with me. Probably cheaper to just get it from work.

[Tree0164]

I agree making your own coffee at home is much much cheaper. Going out for coffee is a treat for me.

I make my husband a cup of coffee for his car ride. He can go down to the cafe at work at coffee is $2.50 for a Starbuck type. They also have one of those pod coffee markers in his office. I know that those can be pricey per cup, but it is better than paying a ton.

[leggzz66]

Originally Posted by mom-from-missouri

I don't drink coffee--but I do make my own hot cocoa mix. Its much cheaper than buying it-esp those single serving pouches.

whats your recipe?

[LivingAlmostLarge]

Try not drinking coffee? Drink water it saves lots of $$$

[poundwise]

The title to this thread is a bit misleading. I thought it was going to share info about producing your own coffee.

I wouldn't do it, because I neither garden nor drink much coffee, however, it would seem like an interesting undertaking.

[mom-from-missouri]

Originally Posted by leggzz66

whats your recipe?

I buy cocoa and powered milk in the bulk.

I have a oatmeal (round) container that I mix up about 1/2 cocoa powder, and 1/2 powered milk and sugar to flavor in. Then I shake. Al I have to add is hot water. I started doing this years ago for camping trips and continued it at home-easier for the kids as they don't have to scald water.

[leggzz66]

Originally Posted by mom-from-missouri

I buy cocoa and powered milk in the bulk.

I have a oatmeal (round) container that I mix up about 1/2 cocoa powder, and 1/2 powered milk and sugar to flavor in. Then I shake. Al I have to add is hot water. I started doing this years ago for camping trips and continued it at home-easier for the kids as they don't have to scald water.

that sounds awesome! I used to use choc syrup and dry milk to make fudgecycles cause you can get the choc syrup in sugar free, great diet choc fix.lol and now im diabetic so even more reason to start making them again this summer. Ive seen sugar free baking chocolate also, wonder if that will make a good choice. Just add my sweet n lows. lol

[Sporkman]

The convenience factor is hard to overlook, however...

[leggzz66]

Originally Posted by Sporkman

The convenience factor is hard to overlook, however...

I see your point, if your busy, your busy, hubby likes that i make stuff just for his pail for work though and only occassionally, like pay day, buys one on the road to work, cause he goes to the bank and has like a half hour to get to work(18 miles away), by the time he gets up and goes and does what he needs to do. It wouldnt be so bad except, the walmart by his shop is not a super , so its closed when he gets off work at 6 am. So he keeps his sleep schedual on Fridays and stops one day a week, i dont mind that tho. His work would be dangerous if he was not sleeping regular.

In case it gets asked later, he is on a paint crew, that does barges for the govt. Even last night, he had to go to the er, cause his paint gun shot off in his hand(he wasnt hurt tho, thank God). They had two deaths at that shop, one in that dept for that reason, it shot and entered the paint in the blood stream, it killed him. Its dangerous enough being fully alert. Your prolly thinking how could that happen with a paint gun, but they are not that which the public uses. They are very powerful pieces of equiptment, one that takes 3 men to operate(one on back of line is actually holding 2 parts, one hand on paint hose and one on air for hubbys suit,not including that he works in full climbing gear, so he dont fall off the barge. Like a firehouse, it has extra power then what we can get at a store.

[St. Theresa]

I work at home, so this isn't really an issue for me, but still, I never go anywhere without my coffee. I have several travel mugs and great cup-holders in my car. I use flavored creamers, so I don't need sugar, because the creamer is sweet enough. I stock up on coffee and creamer when they're on sale. The cream doesn't go bad for a long time, unlike most dairy products.

And I never throw unused coffee away. If there's still coffee left in the pot from the day before, I microwave it in a cup for about a minute. Tastes perfectly fine.

[snafu]

Lately we have had a traffic jam due to the car line-up extending down the road blocking a lane on a v/busy thrufare linking the ring road hwy. This is all for a cuppa joe @ Timmy's [Tim Horton's].

I don't get it! They line-up to pay $ 4.50 for a smallish paper cup of ordinary coffee when it is so simple to pour a measure of quality coffee into the top + 4 cups of water into the side of a good coffee maker the night before. In the AM just flip the switch and get on with your morning routine. The whole house will smell divine, you can pour a grand travel cup [these are free promo items everywhere] jazz it with whatever cream, sweet chocolate, cinnamon etc. you prefer .

Cost is under a buck a mug even when you prorate the cost of machine and fixin's