Hello there!

It's been a while since I showed my face in the community, but I have been absent everywhere on Hive for many days of the week in the past months so please don't take it personally. I'm trying to get into a daily flow again, so far so good for some days.. I wanted to share my recent coffee endeavours with you..

You may wonder why decaf as I always say that I love coffee?

And you are actually correct, I do love a good cup of coffee for sure! The thing with coffee is though that sometimes it gives me some health issues, like a few year ago when I had extreme migraines and weaned myself of coffee fully to then learn that detoxing from it gave me even more horrifying headaches (at the time) but I made it through and didn't drink it for a year (maybe longer, I forgot). My headaches vanished and at some point I started drinking it again when we moved back to Spain.

More and more..

I admit that I loved our new coffee machine with cups a bit too much and sometimes drank too much coffee, combine that with not drinking enough water and you can notice some signals from your body that you should probably change some things. Usually I stop drinking coffee when another health issue pops up to not make things worse because I noticed that caffeine can make me feel worse when I have certain issues. Then as soon as this is over, I quickly fall back into that habit again, lol.

Lack of coffee creamer

That is until there's a lack of coffee creamer which I'm very fond of drinking to make my perfect coffee. The right taste of coffee in a cup, combined with a bit of sugar and the perfect amount of coffee creamer from that certain brand (otherwise I will not enjoy it, trust me I tried them all) and then I really enjoy my cup in the morning. And then I forgot to refill our coffee creamer and it was sold out, oops.

I changed my coffee drinking habit to homemade iced coffee, I wrote about it at the time. This was great, but I got a bit tired of constantly having to prep it in time because it needed time to chill as well before I could consume it and then I went back to a regular hot cop but with frothed milk by our newly bought machine. To be fair, we changed to fresh milk to try this and I admit that it was 100x better than the milk that lasts longer (we always had this at home).

Shall I get used to this then?

Although fresh milk isn't really that much cheaper than my expensive coffee creamer of choice if you like a creamy coffee, I was wondering if I could get used to this way of coffee drinking. I think it's a bit too much hassle as well and decided to just quit coffee for some days when it was 35 degrees Celsius and water was mostly desired anyway. Add to that some health problems for some days, making me avoid anything that could make me feel worse and I didn't drink any coffee for three days.

I realised that I didn't miss it too much

And when I had cravings for coffee again, I used the decaf from l'or espresso, the strongest version they have of decaf cups and noticed that they taste just as good as my regular coffee of choice. They can be a perfect replacement for all the coffee versions I've been drinking. This was surprising to be honest.

I haven't had any caffeine in two weeks now, and the days that I drink coffee, it's just one, with exceptional days where I make two coffee a day with the decaf cups. I'm surprised they taste this good.

Big load of coffee creamer

While the coffee creamer was available again recently, I bought a bunch of these packages to learn days later that my boyfriend enjoys his coffee much more with the frothed fresh milk, lol. This means this creamer will now probably last for months instead of just one month when we both drank too much coffee. It's fine though, as I still love to drink one with creamer every few days..

I never thought that I could turn a decaf into a delicious coffee as well and really fulfil my cravings for coffee. In the end it's another step closer to cutting out some bad habits, I think the coffee intake is really one of these things that needed some attention.

Looking for other decaf options

For now, I'm convinced that the L'or cups (as they are strong in taste) are the best ones out there but I bet there is some cheaper brand out there selling decaf for strong coffee taste lovers like myself that is a bit more affordable. I'm ok buying these for now, as one package lasts more than a week so it's fine but hey, I prefer having options as well.

Today we brought home a box of decaf from Mercadona supermarket and I sadly noticed at home that they are not very strong (6 to be precise) so these will be returned unopened because 6 is not strong enough for me. If you happen to have any tips for strong decaf espresso cups, drop them in a comment please..

I hope you have a lovely weekend ahead, with or without caffeine :)

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All pictures above are my own..