Starbucks Savebucks

I'm usually a simple girl when it comes to Starbucks. My staple drink is a tall house coffee. I skip all the fancy beverages to keep the pennies in my pocket and my sugar level in check. I really didn't get the whole "I'm craving Starbucks" thing until I discovered the Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha latte. Since then I've graduated from ordering talls to ordering grandes in complete Starbucks lingo...grande 2 pump (one pump of each) peppermint white chocolate mocha latte with skim milk and no whip...tepid! Yeah it sounds like a mouth full, but it has become my new fave. I'm telling you...it's all about the "timpla". The grandes are served with FOUR pumps of white chocolate and peppermint syrup each, which screams liquid diabetes! And like a crack fein I've dropped close to $50 in the past week to satisfy my unruly Starbucks craving. I felt like I needed to go into rehab in order to have some money for Christmas presents.

Yesterday my sister put me on to Coffee Mate's seasonal creamers and it was game over! No need for rehab LOL. Today, I found it on sale at Safeway for $2.15 which brought it down to $1.15 with my coupon.



The "timpla" is a 2 second pour into a cup of homemade coffee. Save bucks not starbucks! Thank you Coffee Mate...I'm now follwing you on twitter...