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Read what it says on the tin.
A couple of weeks ago, I bought a tin of coffee from Costco for a Saturday Club that we do. Bear in mind, that the other lady who also buys things had bought a tin of coffee for the October party, which should have covered it, but when it was opened, we discovered was actually fine ground coffee for a percolator although it doesn’t say that on the outside. Now that’s all very well if you have a coffee machine, or you are happy with floating coffee granules in your cup.
At the club, we have to take large flasks of hot water so that’s not an option. So, she bought some temporary small jars to tide us over.
Cue shopping for the Christmas party (which was cancelled due to snow, but thats another story). I take all the food for the Christmas party home. I had checked the tin to make sure I didn’t buy the same coffee, and I settled on dark roast, find grind (you can see it coming, can’t you).
My mother arrived at my house later that day with another tin of the coffee because she thought that was a good buy at Costco. She never keeps receipts, and I lost the Christmas one in all the madness getting stuff home.
It is a week before we are out of instant coffee and break out the big tin for the house. Yup, you guessed it, coffee grinds, and now we have two huge tins of this at home, and my friend has a tin at her house.
Cue post Christmas sales, and we have had to admit defeat, and now buy a coffee machine for the house. So that has cost us another £20 to buy one that matches the kitchen, and we probably have enough coffee to last us for about 10 years.
We still need to buy more coffee for the club. Third time lucky !!
Do I feel silly ??????
That is the type of thing I’d do and everything from Costco is such a bargain! You can never ha e enough coffee but in this case I think that may be a lie…
On the positive side, my house smells lovely with the coffee pot on so often now instead of instant.