If I bought one Grande Skim Latte ($3.22 in my location) each workday, plus coffee on the weekends, I figure I would spend somewhere between $800 - $1000 a year on fu-fu coffee drinks.  I figure I did this last year.  

So in an effort to cut back, I am avoiding coffee joints when I can and turning to the company coffee. 

Up until sometime during the summer last year, our coffee came in big silver carafes that sat on the countertops in the office kitchens.  Then the big switch happened.  The company switched to Flavia.

Flavia.

Flavia held great promise with each of its colorful, vaccuum-packed individually wrapped coffee pods.  The magic that came with the Flavia machine was undeniable…pop in a shiny pod, press a few buttons to customize your coffee experience, place a paper cup underneath the spout and in a mere 30 seconds, a hot cup of cappucino, Milky Way Latte, Choco, or one of several other varieties of coffee, sat steaming in front of your very eyes!

Maybe I’ve just been spoiled by the coffee joints of my recent memory, but Flavia coffee really loses something along the way.  Maybe it’s the vaccuum packing.  Maybe it’s the sitting in a warehouse.  Maybe the pod-eating machine needs to be cleaned often.  Either way, I don’t like it much.  But Flavia is my coffee future…at least until we hit the Powerball.