Learned by Quitting Coffee #2

[ducks4you]

NO, NO!!! SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOE!!
Actually, I don't drink coffee after 10:00 AM anymore. I used to drink it all day, but then it started to taste bitter later in the day.
I actually had a big glass of orange juice on Sunday for lunch. Got some good energy from that, too.

 

[seedcorn]

Don't drink coffee after 7 PM. Now dark chocolate can wire me. Love D chocolate. Don't like missing sleep though for it.

 

[journey11]

I adore coffee, used to work as a barista in college and drank it all day long. My husband laughs at me every time I mention that I need to give it up.

I am having a lot of indigestion from it too though. I drank instant for awhile and it didn't upset my stomach for some reason.

DH bought me a Keurig for Christmas under the assumption that if I could make just a single cup, I'd drink just a single cup a day. But the coffee is so good I'm back up to 3 a day! I've tried cutting back to 2, but feel deprived, lol. I don't have much appetite when I first wake up and coffee is my breakfast. I know that's got to be bad for both the stomach and the metabolism.

Chocolate tears my stomach up too. I think I've probably had my fair share of both for a lifetime. Both are incredibly difficult to give up. A psychological addiction, firing the pleasure centers in my brain I suppose.

 

[digitS']

I didn't order the Teeccino, after all.

Instead, I decided to go with something from my childhood . It probably wasn't this brand but Mom drank Postum, which I didn't care for, and a something made with dry figs. I liked that!

The flavor of figs, goes with coffee ! Try them together, sometime. This is my third sampling since it arrived Thursday, now that I'm 4 hours into Sunday ... nearly all of it spent in the Lazyboy . My first impression has been one of sweetness.

It isn't an instant. I put the roasted, ground figs in a teaball, so it's about the same as the Folgers decaf in bags. Steep the teaball in about 1/4 cup of boiling water, remove the teaball, stir in 1/3 teaspoon of Kava caffeinated, fill cup with soymilk, nuke.

You will notice on the bag of Coffig that it should make ummm, 142 cups. That's with a 1/2 teaspoon per. I go for 1/3rd t. Surprising how strongly flavored it is but if reducing caffeine is my goal, I'd be a little disappointed flavorwise with less than an equal amount of Kava. Or, using more Coffig ... I'm up against what @thistlebloom refers to with the substitution away from coffee.

What I forgot to do is grind some beans this morning. I can use this in a regular coffee maker! The richer flavor of the 100% Columbian beans might overcome the slightly fruity aftertaste. Still, the flavor and fragrance go with coffee.

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

So is the Coffig intended as a stand alone beverage, or is it for blending with coffee?
Did you have to order it?

I love Sundays relaxed pace too, which means I usually treat myself to an extra cup of coffee while I sit here at the bar (kitchen bar, not the Past Time bar ) seeing what all of you gardeners are up to.

 

[majorcatfish]

So is the Coffig intended as a stand alone beverage, or is it for blending with coffee?
Did you have to order it?

I love Sundays relaxed pace too, which means I usually treat myself while I sit here at the bar (kitchen bar, not the Past Time bar ) seeing what all of you gardeners are up to.

glad you clarified that..... nothing like having jack Danial's on the breath while teaching the next generation of gardeners ..so you have a bar called past times?
sounds like your a regular...

coffee , Irish whisky what an eye opener ...

 

[thistlebloom]

glad you clarified that..... nothing like having jack Danial's on the breath while teaching the next generation of gardeners ..so you have a bar called past times?
sounds like your a regular...

Not even close. I do drive by it often enough to know the name. It's something of a local joke among those of us who joke about such things.
They must have some kind of anti-gravity system that keeps that swaybacked roof from completely collapsing.

 

[majorcatfish]

Not even close. I do drive by it often enough to know the name. It's something of a local joke among those of us who joke about such things.
They must have some kind of anti-gravity system that keeps that swaybacked roof from completely collapsing.

we have one of those bars around here as well....
when i do drink it's here at house...

 

[digitS']

It's supposed to be stand-alone, @thistlebloom .

I'm not using it that way after trying a sip like that. It reminded me of a strongly flavored dessert! Probably something I'd enjoy more at age 9.

No, I'm still not really quitting coffee.

Steve

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I do not drink coffee after I have had my 1 or 2 in the morning. These are coffee mugs, so really 1 is 1/2 cups. When I went to the hospital Saturday night, my last food at home was around 3 pm when I had some watermelon. I did not get any food until 10 am the next morning with orders of heart healthy diet and no caffeine. I about fainted. I guess the heart healthy was because they were doing heart testing on me and I had a monitor and the caffeine might have messed the test up, but I was thinking they were telling me after I went home NO CAFFEINE. I had my breakfast and really I felt fine. This morning at home, DH had made coffee and I had 1 mug and seem happy with that. I am not going to quit and I have not decided how I feel about all this. My heart was fine.