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Comment on How many calories are in Starbucks French Roast coffee if you drink it black? by One Way

One Way — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:08:20 +0000

Barely any if any at all. Also the nutritional value is very low. Coffee is 98% water. The flavour comes from the ground coffee…Even if some of the grinds DID get in the drink, it wouldn’t really increase the caloric value or nutritional value by much.

Comment on How many calories are in Starbucks French Roast coffee if you drink it black? by sojournsoul

sojournsoul — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:45:45 +0000

An 8 oz cup of regular coffee has 2 calories:

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/cgi-bin/list_nut_edit.pl

Here is the search page for nutritional values for just about any food:

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

Comment on What would I need to set up a coffee bar in my home for a casual get together? by thebabe1

thebabe1 — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:31:12 +0000

All the above plus…

Mr. Coffee sells an espresso make with a milk steamer for about $20.00 at Target.

You can get an airpot there too (pump dispense)…have coffee ready while you’re brewing more. Also about $20.00.

If you buy Starbucks Frappacinos (at the grocery store), mixed with crushed ice (get by the pound at Sonic) and top with whipped cream, that’s a good cold option.

Walmart sells espesso (already ground) for about $7…not kidding. 1 cupful of grounds in the espesso make will be enough for 2 cups (people)

Comment on What would I need to set up a coffee bar in my home for a casual get together? by buddhabeads

buddhabeads — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:49:04 +0000

I’d invest in one of those milk whipper things, they’re very cheap, and you can make lattes and cappucinos with just ordinary milk as an ingredient. If you really want to shake things up, also have some whip cream you can spoon on top, and fudge sauce and/or caramel in a squeeze bottle. Shakers of cinnamon, nutmeg and cocoa powder are fantastic additions as well, not to mention brown sugar and/or cane sugar for more natural options, instead of just white sugar and sweeteners. Have fun!

Comment on Q&A: Need help for a coffee and tea themed Christmas tree? by Nurse Susan

Nurse Susan — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:15:21 +0000

Sew tea bags together with ribbon and hang.
String coffee beans [ easier said than done - need a thimble ]
String sugar cubes
hang decorated [ iced or sugared ] cookies with red ribbons
angels with coffee filter skirts and wings, hung with gold ribbons
flavorings – dipped spoons, cinnamon sticks with striped ribbons, oranges studded with cloves, peppermint sticks or canes tied on with green ribbon
miniature coffee and tea cup/pot ornaments

Comment on Q&A: Need help for a coffee and tea themed Christmas tree? by Roxanne S

Roxanne S — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:38:39 +0000

Maybe coffee cup shaped decorated sugar cookie ornaments. You could somehow use those fancy coffee stickers, like they have at starbucks, that shows the type of coffee bean. I really wish I could come up with a way to do a coffee bean garland. I liked the styrofoam ball idea!! I’ll do that myself!! maybe you could string a series of very small, coffee bean covered styrofoam balls. Good luck and have fun!

Comment on Q&A: Need help for a coffee and tea themed Christmas tree? by bronteheights

bronteheights — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:34:16 +0000

I have seen tea samplers that have each different flavor in a separate package of 5. Get the sampler, tie a red ribbon around each packet and tie it to the tree. You can also get a variety of pretty espresso cups to hang from the sturdier branches. I have also seen “flavored coffee spoons” (a spoon coated with a flavoring that you stir into your coffee) that you could hang. It would be really hard to string coffee beans, but you could glue 5 or 6 of them in a spoke wheel pattern (or stars or flowers), & tie a ribbon through them to hang. Or glue coffee beans all over those styrofoam balls with some pretty beads here and there. Lastly, tie cinnomon sticks together to hang. That sounds so fun, I might do it myself this year. I liked a lot of the ideas above too.

Have fun!
c-ya

Comment on Q&A: Need help for a coffee and tea themed Christmas tree? by vicky l

vicky l — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:51:42 +0000

Is this tree for one night? If so, you could use Biscotti or those coffee flavored swizzle sticks for decoration. Coffee bean garland would be fun, but might be hard to string together. You could take photographs of coffe cups,mugs,and tea pots and have them transfered onto a glass ornament. Check around at craft fairs for coffee and tea themed items, and for people who actually do the image transfers onto ornaments. There are a lot of places and people who will do that. Good luck!

Comment on Q&A: Need help for a coffee and tea themed Christmas tree? by ladybleak

ladybleak — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:30:52 +0000

Take a basket shaped coffee filter, fold it in half, and then fold in half again, cut little shapes out of the side and when you open it up you will have coffee filter snowflakes.

Take a spoon (get a bunch cheap at a Goodwill) and dip the end in glue, and then in white glitter to look like sugar on the end. Attach a ribbon and hang on the tree.

Comment on Q&A: Need help for a coffee and tea themed Christmas tree? by dali333

dali333 — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:44:19 +0000

tea bag ornaments