I don't like coffee one bit, but a friend and his wife, mother and dad, who live with them at this point guzzle it like crazy, and the pod machines are like a paper plate, use it and toss it, they just don't last long. It doesn't help, I would guess, that all 4 of them have their own flavors, etc. I was over there recently, and they had boxes and boxes of pods of all kinds sitting under the counters and in the pantry. $$$
Back when I wasn't trying to lose weight, I was chugging iced tea year round I made in one of the Mr. Coffee machines I had. There was a place that sold bulk tea, and I would either buy it that way, or if Lipton or another brand bagged tea was on sale, I would get it and empty the bags into a Mr. Coffee filter, with a layer about 3/4" deep. What came out was super strong and I would take a 2 gallon pitcher, fill it about halfway with ice, and then dump the carafe into it. The smell alone was fantastic. I sometimes would grind up cinnamon and put it into the filter along with the shredded tea leaves and make cinnamon iced tea. Today, I buy the unsweetened Pure Leaf or Gold Peak in the bottles and add a couple of squirts from a low calorie sweetener. When I hit Culvers, I have the real thing, a small one, once a week. A little too sweet. When the Pure Leaf blue label had the sugar amount dropped for a very short time, it was perfect. Sadly, people cried about it, and back it went to the original sugar level.
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