McDonald's Coffee Gift Baskets for Christmas

As the Christmas season approaches, the recurring conundrum of what to get for relatives, friends, and coworkers continues to challenge us.  Solutions that offer a variety of choices to suit different tastes are the McDonald’s Coffee Gift Baskets. Each gift package includes: A 15oz mug 2oz of each:  French Vanilla, Kenya AA, Decaf Colombian Supremo, Chocolate, and […]

Something You Can Do with Starbucks Burned and Bitter Brew

Most people are unaware that caffeine evolved to help protect plants that produce it from microbes and insects.  For this reason, caffeine serves as a powerful insecticide when mixed with the soil in which plants are growing. So, if you are stuck with some the bitter brew or burned ground beans that Starbucks sells, you can pour […]

Looking Good with Caffeine!

“It is better to look good than to feel good,” Fernando Lamas said on The Tonight Show in the disco days of the 1980’s, a line made even more famous by Billy Crystal, who repeated the quip on Saturday Night Live. Fortunately, with caffeine, you don’t have to make that choice.  We all know that caffeine makes you […]

A Better Work Day: Using Caffeine on the Job

Cooks and servers, scientists, sales representatives, nurses, writers and editors, executives, teachers, and engineers were some of the workers who say they work better after drinking coffee, according to a new national survey commissioned by Dunkin’ Donuts and CareerBuilder. In a national survey of over 4,000 people, nearly 50 percent said that their job performance suffers […]