A good solution to this problem? Legal stimulants, OBVIOUSLY. In other words, coffee. But dang! It's 90 trillion degrees outside, who the heck wants a warm beverage?! That's when you run down to your local coffee shop and spend $4 on an iced coffee beverage. And unless you specify, you usually end up with more than just coffee, too. It's often cream, sugar, syrup, whipped cream, a second kind of syrup drizzled over the whipped cream... Basically, you start off just wanting a caffeinated jolt and end up with a sugar crash and 600 extra unnecessary calories.
Before I go any further, I'd like to make it totally clear that I am madly in love with coffee shops. Local coffee shops and Starbucks. I love Starbucks because, well, the employees are consistently nice, the coffee is consistently good, the wait for your beverage is consistently short, and any other product you walk away from a Starbucks with is consistently of high quality. And I don't feel I should have to explain why I love local coffee shops. They're always just cool.
But I digress. How do you avoid doling out $4 (or more) a day when all you want is some high-quality, cold coffee to kick your dragging self back into gear? Um. Well.... YOU MAKE YOUR OWN. It's pretty dang easy.
Directions
- Go to your local co-op and buy some delicious, fair trade coffee beans. (They don't have to be delicious or fair trade, but I prefer mine to be both.)
- Grind desired amount of those beans to a medium coarseness. If you don't have a grinder at home, every store that sells coffee beans has a grinder. I'm not kidding. Wal-Mart even has a coffee grinder. Wal-Mart also sells fair trade coffee, in case anyone's wondering.
- Pour into the bottom of a French press.
- Pour warmish to hot water over the beans and let sit with lid on (not pressed down!) for at least two hours. I often let mine sit overnight.
- Press the filter down.
- Pour over ice. You can now add all the crap that you want to. Sugar, Splenda, cream, milk, cocoa powder, chocolate syrup, caramel syrup, whipped cream, etc.
- ENJOY and revel in the fact that you just saved yourself roughly $3 or more!
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