The weather is
changing to that lovely autumn weather here, and that just begs for a hot
drink. Both of my kids love all sorts of hot drinks, even coffee, so we
improvise a bit to make things more kid friendly (for them).
Not being big caffeine
drinkers anyway, we keep decaf in the house (we drink ½ caff., but there is
always 100% decaf available). The kids love the taste of coffee, but we’re not
too keen on them having coffee as a drink. Thanks to many shopping visits to Trader
Joe’s, the kids have become fond of “coffee milk”.
Coffee milk really is
nothing more than a tiny bit of coffee (with whatever sweetener you desire) to
a disproportionate amount of milk. At Trader Joe’s, I tend to do something like
a 1:4 ratio of coffee to milk. Enough for the flavour, but also always a
drinkable temperature for them.
At home, we use a
Keurig with a refillable k-cup. I make a single cup of decaf coffee, split it
between two mugs, and add milk. Since this is 100% decaf, I’ll do a 1:1 ratio.
We also add stevia powder at home since they really don’t need a bunch of
sugar. On the rare occasions they get sugar, we just stir that in before adding
the milk so it dissolves better.
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