Average Jane Makes Coffee

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I’ve switched back to coffee in the mornings ever since my sister convinced me to order the Gevalia coffee pot and Breakfast Blend coffee. I don’t know why I ever hesitated – it was $14.95 for a nice coffee maker and 2 pounds of coffee.

Until I got the Gevalia stuff, I’d had a series of cheapo Wal-mart coffee makers that made absolutely horrible coffee. Rather than trying to solve the problem, I’d just stopped making coffee at home. Now I make a 4-cup pot each morning, which fills up my thermal travel mug and gives me a few extra swigs for home.

Today I carefully wrote out instructions for my husband so that he could make coffee for himself, too. I don’t blame him for not knowing how; I never could figure out the whole measurement and coffee-to-water ratio thing either until I had a measuring scoop and some directions.

In other news, thank you to everyone who voted for my Kaboodle pages! I just found out yesterday that I’ve won a $100 spa gift certificate in their BlogHer promotion. Woohoo! I haven’t even received it yet and I’m already researching local spas and trying to figure out what kind of massage I want to get.

Have a lovely weekend, everyone.

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4 responses to “Average Jane Makes Coffee”

September 9, 2006

Keith

I recently switched back to coffee. I bought a filter maker from Asda (owned by Wal Mart) and it makes great coffee and it was six pounds (less than 12 dollars).
I’ve used Adsa’s own brand dark roast which is nice, but I also tried a brand by Taylors of Harrogate which is their Italian roast and that is superb.
There’s nothing like a good cup of coffee is there ?

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September 10, 2006

The Misanthrope

I recently purchased the Mr. Coffee pod model. It seems to work well with no bad cups and no measuring.

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September 11, 2006

Jane

All of my detailed instructions ended up being for nothing. My husband took one look at them and decided that making coffee was “too complicated.” Per my sister’s suggestion, from now on I’m going to get the coffee pot ready to go before I leave so that all he has to do is push “start.”

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September 12, 2006

Goofy Girl

I LOVE our Gevalia coffe pot! We quit getting the expensive coffee a few months ago (we prefer the local brand – Roasterie coffee), but the pot ROCKS!
We set the timer the night before and have fresh coffee ready for us in the morning. Ah! A simple pleasure.

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