What's Your Daily Coffee Fix?

djoz on 11/04/2025 - 16:22
Last edited 11/04/2025 - 16:23

Hi guys, Coffee lover here – often scouting for deals as I find it insane to pay $6-$8 for a Large Coffee these days.
Here are some of the ways I save on my daily drink. But most of these deals are no longer on offer.

  • [Ongoing] $3 Large Coffee at Hungry Jack's (ongoing offer and also a prize in Shake N Win)
  • [Occasional] Free Medium Coffee at Hungry Jack's
  • [Ongoing] Free Coffee at Maccas with Reward Points – 3,000 points for Small, 4,000 points for Medium, 5,500 points for Large
  • [Occasional] $5 credit at Soul Origin, which you may use to redeem for a Regular Coffee
  • [No longer available] Free Small Coffee at Hungry Jack's (Shake N Win prior to 10:30 AM), but has now stopped since Feb'2025. Last redeemed by me on 31-Jan-2025.
  • [No longer available] $2 Medium Coffee at Hungry Jacks (yep,I know, but can't complain at this price point). Plus, each coffee gets you a loyalty stamp and you get a Large Coffee free after 4 stamps (yes, the free one can be redeemed for Large)
  • [No longer available] Occasional Maccas offers: $2 Medium Coffee, $3 Large Coffee (but they've stopped since Monopoly 2024. It used to be back once Monopoly ended, but it hasn't)

What's the way you save on your daily coffee?
P.S.: I know I can well make it at home as well, but I'm more so asking when I'm out and about, in the mornings or evening.

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Comments

  • pogichinoy on 13/04/2025 - 19:16

    Mocha with 1 sugar from kingswood coffee.

  • gezza90 on 13/04/2025 - 19:29
    +1

    I work from home 3x a week and often drink the following:
    1. Porlex hand grinder Coles Simply coffee beans 1kg ($12), I use Aeropress for the coffee and froth Oat milk ($1.65/L half price) using Nespresso milk frother. Honestly tastes better than most Cafe coffes
    2. If I have back to back meetings, I do a single short Nespresso Vittoria Oro (I get capsule for 18c/ea. Family friend works at Vittoria)

    When working in office:
    1. I take nespresso coffee capsules with me and use work supplied Oat milk to froth milk
    2. I buy $1.50 7-eleven coffee
    3. Once in a blue boom grab a coffee from cafe with a colleague for around $5 bucks

  • Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 13/04/2025 - 20:39

    7/11 Long black when out and about.

    At home, Aldi Brazil on a $3k machine lol

  • pop on 13/04/2025 - 22:14

    Nescafe vanilla latte satchels. Occasionally splurge on a cafe latte

  • V2L on 13/04/2025 - 23:02

    7/11 $2.50 large coffee with app or if using reusable cup

  • Morven on 14/04/2025 - 02:03

    I have a flat white at home from our coffee machine with breakfast, then make another in a plastic Keep Cup, but add cold milk instead of warm. That one goes with me in the car to work, along with my lunch, water and snacks for the day. I don't spend a cent at work. I start sipping the second coffee as I walk from the car to my desk and finish it during a morning meeting. The Keep Cup comes home and goes in the dishwasher overnight.

  • mungas on 14/04/2025 - 07:04
    +1

    I used to always buy coffees at work and shout others (Syd CBD). On reflection, that could’ve gone far to a mortgage. I bought the home setup over COVID and started making coffees at home. Tbh it’s saved me so much over the years, and I enjoy my coffees.

    Suggestion: buy a thermos and make a proper coffee at home and take it with you. My long blacks using Aldi Brazil beans probably cost me $0.60 compared to $5 for a coffee now

    • zfind on 14/04/2025 - 10:24
      +3

      The home coffees win on cost but lose on vibes (I won’t comment on flavour as it’s subjective). Sometimes it’s just nice to hit up a cafe for the experience, feels like a treat.

      • mungas on 14/04/2025 - 12:39

        Absolutely agree on the vibes at a cafe (assuming sit down experience), however I actually enjoy having my coffee with me when I travel. Especially when I'm driving somewhere. Eg taking the kids, in the car to sport, driving to work etc

      • mafmouf on 14/04/2025 - 22:58

        Not just that but the social aspect of it all too. Gotta spend money to amongst it all with the right people.

      • Hangryuman on 15/04/2025 - 13:02
        +1

        'Sometimes it’s just nice to hit up a cafe for the experience, feels like a treat.'

        seems to me there are two types of restaurant goers:-

        those who don't care about decor and will happily go to a grungy run-down decor backstreet hole in the wall place where they know the food is good, cheap and delicious

        those who don't care about the food and will happily pay top dollar at an expensive fancy waterside restaurant where they will feel great spending money even as the waiter places a huge plate with a small brown blob of what looks like a turd and will taste like it, and get told by the snotty waiter that it is 'mushroom mousse' - ooh !

  • pn09 on 14/04/2025 - 07:51

    (1) Pepsi Max - if possible
    (2) Coke No Sugar - if (1) not possible
    Repeat

  • zfind on 14/04/2025 - 10:23

    Aeropress + LimeBlue beans for my drive to work then some moccona instant after lunch 3 days a week then a flat white other two work days plus one weekend day.

  • COnigiri on 14/04/2025 - 10:42

    I don't mind the coffees at Hungry Jacks. For the size and price, they are decent- at least double the price everywhere else, and at some places, more than double. Plus for every 4 coffees you get one free while at some other places you have to buy 10.

  • R4 on 14/04/2025 - 14:31
    +3

    Yorkshire Gold teabag - about 7c. With some boiling point and milk - 12c tops. Nectar.

    Take away coffee is a gold-plated ripoff.

    • rumblytangara on 15/04/2025 - 11:20
      +2

      Take away coffee is a gold plastic -plated ripoff.

      Bonus microplastics in with your paper cup, sir?

  • TerryJustTerry on 14/04/2025 - 14:41

    Double shot of espresso mixed with ~500 ml of full cream milk (milk provided by work) = Large Iced latte ~$1 ea 5 days a week.

    I have an automatic coffee machine which grinds the beans then spits out decent tasting espresso :)

  • dufflover on 14/04/2025 - 14:56
    +1

    1/day, start of the day. Tried doing more than 1, didn't really like it lol.
    "Cheap" beans (Aldi, Coles, WW) <$20/kg usually. Use to throw in a mid-20's buy like an Inglewood deal or Airjo in the past. Not worth the extra price anymore given I take ages to use them anyway, adds up.

    Thankfully the Sunbeam EM7000 I got in that $400 deal many years ago still going ok. Had to replace the Breville smart grinder once though.

    Pre-WFH being common, a few workmates and I shared a little Breville Cafe Roma. Beans and milk were supplied cos we had office automatic machine but the milk frothing in particular tasted completely crap out of it to the point many colleagues still bought 2 a day from the business park cafes! $$$

  • Cluster on 14/04/2025 - 14:56

    Double shot latte made at home every morning. Coles '10 intensity' coffee beans for $15/kg. Cheap and good.

  • jesho on 14/04/2025 - 16:30

    I gave up coffees for Lent, I hated the idea of being so dependent on something. I just drink tea's, chai's and hot chocolates now.

  • idontneeditbutwhynot on 14/04/2025 - 17:12

    Boss Coffee cans when on sale.. used to pay $5.50-$6.50 a day for a soy flat and now been on the Boss Long Blacks for $2-$2.50 a pop. Easy.

  • dirtybigbjelke on 14/04/2025 - 18:03

    Woolworths have free coffee at Woolworths Metro with over $30-00 spend. Maybe only available/generated at Metro Stores? It is added to your Woolworths Rewards Account. This is a sometimes deal

  • Bid Sniper on 14/04/2025 - 18:26

    Have a coffee machine at home and bought for work, onsale from this site of course. Prices are insane to buy a cup of coffee.

    Work machine was Delonghi for $399, so at $6 a cup, pays for itself in 14 weeks of work, 7 weeks for me since drink 2 cups a day.

  • hopper on 14/04/2025 - 18:45
    +1

    I quit coffee last year, but stupid migraine was back last month and had to start drinking coffee again. Now drinking 7/11 super coffee for $3.
    Planning to quit by April 🙏

    • zfind on 14/04/2025 - 23:27

      Might sound inane but paracetamol might be all you need to knock the headaches off during withdrawal, works for me. Good luck with the quit!

      • hopper on 15/04/2025 - 06:15
        +1

        tired Nurofen but no luck. Will try paracetamol next time it hits me. Thank you

        • zfind on 15/04/2025 - 09:39

          Ibuprofen = reduce inflammation hopefully reducing pain
          Acetominophen = reduces / blocks pain signals.

          If you aren’t inflamed, AM is a better choice. Not a doctor but that’s my understanding.

    • TerryJustTerry on 15/04/2025 - 10:33

      As in you got migraine when trying to quit or a couple of months after quitting?

      • hopper on 15/04/2025 - 11:17
        +1

        Not related to coffee, I get that every time I increase weight, cutting junk food fixes it.

        • TerryJustTerry on 15/04/2025 - 11:36

          Ahh makes sense !

          Why is there a need to reduce caffeine, to avoid extra expense?

          I ask because I go back and forth about wanting to quit myself, but normally settle on keeping it going as it aids productivity (I only have it on work days).

          • hopper on 15/04/2025 - 11:50

            @TerryJustTerry: Trying to reduce weight, since last 10 years 😢.

            • TerryJustTerry on 15/04/2025 - 13:44

              @hopper: That's fair!

              I am too tbh, but found if I added it into my allotted cal/ per day it was easier, I'm 13 kg down but lots more to go!

              Goodluck!

  • love2buy on 14/04/2025 - 19:08

    Dare ice coffee is nice

  • nubzy on 14/04/2025 - 22:35
    +1

    Aldi by far the best readily available beans. Almost always get a bag roasted within the last month. Favourite is the dark roast (shame it went up $3). But medium roast is smoother and I get that for a change sometimes.

    Been through plenty of beans at $40+ per kg and I do not feel they are worth the additional $.

    I rarely ever buy coffee out and about, such a waste of money at $3.50+ per cup.

    • zfind on 14/04/2025 - 23:26

      $3.50 is cheap, nothing under $5 in Perth, usually over $6 for a 12oz flattie. Still worth it though.

  • PerthMan96 on 15/04/2025 - 04:45

    other then a few instants, i just tried the bickfords iced coffee with milk and now i realise im saving about $100 + on ice coffees for this one bottle of syrup. it tastes the same.

    • zfind on 15/04/2025 - 13:41

      Saw this at Woolworths recently and wondered how it would go, nice to know. Is it pre-sweetened? Natural or artificial coffee flavour?

      Edit: looked it up instead of being lazy - 50g/100ml of sugar, yikes. Also has chicory essence for some reason. But does indicate it’s real coffee, if an extract.

      • PerthMan96 on 15/04/2025 - 21:59

        It taste just like asif i ordered an iced coffee from mcdonalds. 15ml with 250ml of milk and ice:) add some icrecream and you have yourself an amazing drink!

  • 1Kenobi on 15/04/2025 - 10:25

    Northern beaches wood fired coffee beans in home espresso machine no milk is the go

  • BunyipCatcher on 15/04/2025 - 12:58

    I have been using an Aeropress. But am out of coffee. How is everyone getting the beans they buy ground?

    • nubzy on 15/04/2025 - 13:02
      +1

      Grind it yourself, only way to ensure you get fresh and consistent coffee. You can get burr grinders for $100-$200 and for a really good one such as Eureka Mignon Specialita around $600 delivered from espresso coffee shop in Italy.

    • zfind on 15/04/2025 - 13:40
      +1

      Hand-cranked Porlex off marketplace spun by my trusty Ozito cordless drill. Ceramic conical burr, made in Japan. Harder to adjust than an electric but once it’s set you’re good.

  • orangecarpet-22 on 15/04/2025 - 14:03

    Single Origins for $30/kg, go through about 100g per day for 2 people.

    $3/day for lots of coffee, load up on the Boss Iced Long Blacks when around $2-2.50 to have in warmer weather or when out and about.

    Machine was like $450 2 years ago. I look now and it's like $700. Got the tools, and was a barista in my early days so have all the skills necessary.

    I only buy coffee when out on a weekend and it's a social gathering, i.e meeting someone.

  • whitepuma on 15/04/2025 - 15:09

    Daily regular when WFH: 30c-50c per cup
    coffee beans from my favourite coffee shop ($48 per kg), made in a delonghi prima donna elite. Can do cheaper if i bought beans from woolies/coles/aldi, but this is a treat i can afford. 6-10 in a week

    Daily regular when at the office: 30c-50c per cup
    Nespresso compatible pods in the work pods machine. Usually just buy whichever pods are on sale at woolies/coles/aldi. 6 in a week

    Non regular at office: $5 per cup
    On the odd occasion i'll get a coffee socially with other people at the office, i do try to avoid this, but sometimes in my line of work you need to pay for this social aspect. Additionally i don't really drink alcohol, so i take this out of the same budget. 2 max in a week

    once per week: $30-$36 for 2 coffees and brekky for 2 people ($15-$18pp)
    Partner and i have a weekly ritual where we go to our favourite coffee shop for brekky & coffee before work to talk about our week. once a week

    Total spend on coffee in a week: $36

    Could i spend less? yes, i could get rid of store bought as well as the weekly brekky, but these are luxuries my partner and i can happily afford. Plus on an overall household budget level we don't spend much in most other indulgence areas (Holidays, experiences, luxury products, etc)

  • [Deactivated] on 15/04/2025 - 16:54

    Pour from the jar, try to measure a few teaspoons worth and add hot water, then a dash of cold water so I can drink it easier.

  • terriblebargainer on 15/04/2025 - 17:40

    Mocona dark roast most mornings, local cafe 1-2 times per week but I like it with an extra shot so it starts getting pricey.

    Government needs to step in and legislate cup sizes for coffee, because my god is it annoying ordering a large at different places and they are all different bloody sizes.

  • rubixcube28 on 15/04/2025 - 23:21
    +1

    Campos coffee

  • AdrianW on 16/04/2025 - 15:08

    Moccona French Roast.

    I just prefer instant, I've never seen the appeal of spending insane amounts of money on coffee just to get something that (IMO) doesn't taste noticeably better than instant.

  • Bargain434 on 17/04/2025 - 20:25

    Guzman and Rashays had well priced coffees but I am not sure if they are still the same price

  • Ingram on 21/04/2025 - 00:46

    My last two maccas coffees they've noticeably shorted me on the milk. Coincidence or has a new policy been introduced?

  • rodericb on 22/05/2025 - 17:09

    Old Town three in one.

  • AlienC on 24/05/2025 - 02:35
    +1

    I have nostalgia trying Old Town Coffee and good coffee for the first time in Malaysia so I am drawn to that when it is on sale.

    Luckily it is stocked in Coles so I can just grab one on the way home or something but if I am lazy then Amazon AU also has it.

    Both the Hazelnut and Classic is delicious but if I had to choose then Hazelnut.

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