I am NOT a coffee addict.

Am not.

But I dare say I might become one.

I do enjoy a good cup of coffee, but caffeine makes me edgy and gives me heart flutters.  I have been known to indulge in a white chocolate mocha at Second Cup, or a French Vanilla at Tim Horton’s… and don’t get me started about the Iced Cappucino!!

Then the other day I read a post at Eco Child’s Play on 5 Ways to Green Your Coffee and I got the itch.

So on Friday I bought myself a french press and some fresh-ground, organic, fair trade coffee.  Not wishing to spoil my organic coffee with hormone-laden cream and chlorine-drenched white sugar, I also got organic cream and fair trade evaporated cane sugar.  Right now I can’t justify the expense of organic sugar for ALL my baking, but just for the coffee?  I think I can swing it.

My justification is that I won’t spend any more money at Tim’s.  Plus, this stuff is better for me, no artificial flavours or additives.  Tastes better too.

And I just love the company — Just Us.  Get it?  Justice, just-us, very clever.  Apparently they are Canada’s first Fair Trade coffee roaster.  The sugar comes from them too.  And they’re located in Wolfville, where I lived for 6 years as an undergrad student and I still think it’s the most glorious place in the world.  In fact, apparently they started up just a year before I moved away… pity I didn’t know about it then!  They buy from co-ops and the company itself is run as a co-op, with employees owning shares.  They have cafes around Nova Scotia.

And they’ve got the greatest phone number… 1-888-not-them.

I’ve started myself off with a bag of French Roast, dark and potent.  I think I’ll experiment with other blends as well.  What I’d really love?  I’d love to figure out how to make my own french vanilla, or white mocha, or mmmmm hazelnut latte… but do it in a ‘green’ way.

It’s been two days, the coffee is delish, and Tim’s is not beckoning.

And I am not an addict.

Yet.

I’ve taken the brew-my-coffee-at-home pledge… have you?

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