Convenience vs savings:
I love convenience. When Mary and I were married, way back in the olden days of 2010, she introduced me to the Keurig Coffee Maker, and their K-Cups. It was the solution to the problems I had been fighting since I was a young man, the problems of bitter coffee.
Since I was a young man, I had solved this problem by taking leftover coffee and refrigerating it. I wish I could say I invented cold coffee, but I learned that off of my late wife's grandmother, a German immigrant. She would make a pot of coffee, serve one or two cups, and put the remainder in a recycled pickle jar and store in the refrigerator.
This would explain my peculiar behavior of taking the left over coffee at large church functions, poring it into quart jars and refrigerating it. Beth Wade Kathy Brinkley Tedrick
I also learned how to get the freshest cup by being the person who makes the pot of coffee for the third shift from Mike Wade. He would always make a fresh pot when he was ready for a cup, and as the Mr. Coffee was dripping into to the Karafe, he's place his cup under the drip point, and get the freshest coffee possible. It was also strong enough to knock your socks off.
Which brings me to shakes. We have been using Glucerna shakes for some time as a partial meal replacement for Mary. She likes having one morning and evening when she takes her pills. The chocolate flavor helps her down her daily regimen of numerous pills, but sometimes there is not enough shake to help with all the pills.
Enter Chef Mike. I started with adding a little milk to a shake poured into a large glass root beer mug, but then I added some flavored yogurt to increase the volume.
Several renditions later, I am now making a large shake in the morning, enough to help both morning and evening, and I add a powerful probiotic, Stonyfield Yogurt. We have been able to cut back on both the expensive shakes and expensive supplemental probiotics, saving over $100 per month.
Add this to the fact that Mary prefers inexpensive home cooked meals and the savings are adding up.
God is good.
I love convenience. When Mary and I were married, way back in the olden days of 2010, she introduced me to the Keurig Coffee Maker, and their K-Cups. It was the solution to the problems I had been fighting since I was a young man, the problems of bitter coffee.
Since I was a young man, I had solved this problem by taking leftover coffee and refrigerating it. I wish I could say I invented cold coffee, but I learned that off of my late wife's grandmother, a German immigrant. She would make a pot of coffee, serve one or two cups, and put the remainder in a recycled pickle jar and store in the refrigerator.
This would explain my peculiar behavior of taking the left over coffee at large church functions, poring it into quart jars and refrigerating it. Beth Wade Kathy Brinkley Tedrick
I also learned how to get the freshest cup by being the person who makes the pot of coffee for the third shift from Mike Wade. He would always make a fresh pot when he was ready for a cup, and as the Mr. Coffee was dripping into to the Karafe, he's place his cup under the drip point, and get the freshest coffee possible. It was also strong enough to knock your socks off.
Which brings me to shakes. We have been using Glucerna shakes for some time as a partial meal replacement for Mary. She likes having one morning and evening when she takes her pills. The chocolate flavor helps her down her daily regimen of numerous pills, but sometimes there is not enough shake to help with all the pills.
Enter Chef Mike. I started with adding a little milk to a shake poured into a large glass root beer mug, but then I added some flavored yogurt to increase the volume.
Several renditions later, I am now making a large shake in the morning, enough to help both morning and evening, and I add a powerful probiotic, Stonyfield Yogurt. We have been able to cut back on both the expensive shakes and expensive supplemental probiotics, saving over $100 per month.
Add this to the fact that Mary prefers inexpensive home cooked meals and the savings are adding up.
God is good.
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