So..Just Curious
June 13, 2009 by Marye Audet
Filed under Coffee
Think of this as a late night chat, sort of informal and nothing big. How addicted to coffee are you? I mean, how much coffee does it take you to get through a normal day?
How Much Is Enough?
Right now my coffee consumption is down. It tends to be in the summer. Marc likes iced coffee a lot but I never really developed a taste for it. So, I am on the ice water side of the year. I drink (and this is the straight up truth) about 2 1/2 gallons of ice water a day in the summer. I go through about 2 1/2 lbs of ice a day. Not just any ice either. It has to be specific ice with a specific texture, and right now only one store is carrying it.
Now you know why I have to work at home.
But I still like my coffee in the morning. I drink about two cups before I switch over to ice water. I enjoy a glass of sweet tea in the afternoon but I can’t drink gallons of it the way I can drink pots of coffee in the winter time. That’s probably a good thing since I definitely don’t need that much sugar.
I would probably drink more coffee if we used the air conditioner but the idea of a 120 degree drink on a 110 degree day when it is 104 degrees in the house is not so appealing, you know?
So. Coffee? How much? Be honest.
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**raises hand**
For me. I LOVE coffee. And I like it strong, very strong. I don’t like flavored syrups or creamers, or anything in my coffee. I like coffee flavored coffee, black. Now that’s how I feel about it. I used to be the guy who could have the dbl espresso after dinner and still sleep just fine an hour later.
Problem is HBP and the caffeine. Can’t have it anymore. So, I still drink about 3/4 pot in the morning before work of decaf, but that’s about it. For as much as I love coffee, I have to limit my intake of it. I did enjoy the Dominican’s native brew tho while on vacation. That was a nice treat, but only a cup per day.
BTW, I am with you on the H2O daily intake. I down the stuff.
It depends. My consumption is up since reading so much about the health benefits of coffee for women. 6 cups [6 oz cups] a day are linked to lower risk of all sorts of scary problems.
My cups are in the 12 oz range and I drink 3-4 through the day. IF I don’t forget where it is sat. Tend to be forgetful.
Iced tea is about a gallon a day [or more]. Big family though. We use all kinds for our iced tea -green, black, and herbal.
I drink 2 cups usually, though sometimes its about 2 1/2 sometimes it’s 1 1/2. That said my cups are mugs from Starbucks. They aren’t 6 oz or 8 oz cups. I have them because they have the smoothest lip of any mug I have found. I’m very tactile about how the cup feels and how the rim feels to the point that my kids and husband think I am nuts. I drink coffee more or less first thing in the morning. Then it’s water for the rest of the day.
I just measured. Ihe mugs I use hold 1 1/2 cups or 12oz each.
After reading the previous comments I am totally embarrassed by my coffee habit. I make an 8 cup pot every morning. I usually drink all of it and then I make a 6 cup pot in the early evening. The only other beverage I drink is water and a lot of it at room temp. I’m attempting to quit smoking so my coffee habit should naturally decrease. I would like to get my coffee consumption to about half of what I’m currently drinking.
Nothing to be embarrassed about..that is my intake in the winter time!
I’m one of those people who drink coffee all day long. I need about two cups to get me going and to my computer so that I can work in the morning. Then I need a steady dosage of coffee the rest of the day again. It slows down mid afternoon, but after dinner, I’m definitely making another pot of coffee. I really don’t count how much it is, but I’d say it varies between 3-8 large cups a day.
Yep..Mike I am like that in the winter but not so much in the summer. Sipping a 20 oz cup now, probably will have one more later. Of course…maybe I should ask about the size of the cups people are using.
It doesn’t matter what size cup I use. I drink a pot a day. maybe another cup or two after dinner on the bad days. When I was in high school I did all my homework at the hours everyone else was sleeping and was drinking like 3 pots a day, but it caught up to me and now I have to be careful how much I drink or I have to eat almost as many Tums as coffee.
Kimmy
that tends to be me in the winter but not so much when it is 100 plus. we dont use a/c
I make a 4 cup pot of coffee in the morning and that’s about it. Sometimes I’ll drink one 12 oz cola in the afternoon, but I’ve been trying to cut out that sugar. (But I did like that Pepsi Throwback they had out…)
Kathy I love the Pepsi Throwback.