Any Coffee drinkers on Dialysis?

[hurlock1]

I have never paid any attention really to the way coffee tastes. I drink it like medicine. I don't use surgar or cream, or milk I drink it black. If it's yesterday's coffee, I heat it up in the microwave. No matter what, I have to have it. Number 1 to help promote peristalsis and no. 2 to be awake. My wife uses creamer, and sugar. Kinda' makes it like a sweet hot coffee shake. I don't use it as a beverage. I use coffee like a drug. When I was young my mother told me that coffee was good with out any additives. . . I've been using it the same way ever since. I tried to "not drink" coffee when I first started dialysis, because of the fluid intake, but I found that I was more miserable due to the lack of coffee than I was due to the X-tra fluid. Oh wel, 8)l Ah'mona die someday anyway.

[BigSteve]

Has any one tried the new McDonald's coffee drinks? One review in the Los Angeles Times called them
"caffinated milkshakes". I get a whole bean decaf coffee from my local coffee store. (not Starbucks)

[dwcrawford]

I've tried those expensive ones from Whole Foods and Central Market.  Better than Starbucks for sure.  But not for the budget conscious.

[Chris]

Has any one tried the new McDonald's coffee drinks? One review in the Los Angeles Times called them
"caffinated milkshakes". I get a whole bean decaf coffee from my local coffee store. (not Starbucks)

I have since it's way cheaper than Starbuuck's. Not a big fan of them. I can just go down the street to my hospital or library and get better coffee for the same price and size that is freshly made.

Haven't tried Starbuck's coffee since they reformulated the roast of the beans. I couldn't stand their decaf coffee taste unless I was getting a latte with flavor added. My favorite is Dunkin Donuts decaf and for $2.12 I get an extra large cup (24 oz) which helps get my fluids in for the day I need. Mc Donald's decaf would be my second choice, but theirs is more expensive for just a large and I get less. Theirs is only 20 oz. I would like to go back to caffinated coffee, but my transplant center say's not to because it works the kidneys harder and raises the blood pressure. However the more people I ask post transplant, the more I think my center is alone on that since the people I have talked to haven't had to switch to decaf.

I'll drink coffee anyway I can get it. I switch between cream/sweet n low, sweet n low only, and just plain coffee. It's just my first cup as a kid was cream and sugar (drank my mom's Mc Donald's coffee while staying with her at ork  , then her chocolate milk shake too  Then she told me to go downstairs and play in the arcade    Arcade = Game Room pre 1990's before pc games. We had to put quarters in machines or tokens to play video games, pinball machines, or the indoor bumber cars.

[cherpep]

I LOVE Dunkin Donuts coffee. 

[dwcrawford]

I just love Dunkin Donuts....

[Tinah1968]

I Love Fresh made Coffee

[dwcrawford]

and ice coffee, and coffee ice cream, and mocha and chocolate pie with ground coffee......

[Hanify]

And no, Starbucks tasting bad has nothing to do with your tastebuds - they just make sh*t coffee.  I'm with Hurlock on the coffee issue - if you love your coffee it's worth a bit of discomfort!  And Chris I forget you're so young!  I'm not that much older than you (45) but there was no McDonalds when I was young.  Can you imagine it?  Ha ha.

[dwcrawford]

But there was a Jack in the Box....

[hurlock1]

But there was a Jack in the Box....

I grew up with Jack in the box! There's been no J in The B here in Albuquerque NM since we moved here in 2002. BUT! right down the street They're building one! Yumbo Yacks! Jack in the box greazy tacos. Thank heaven for small favors. It may Kill me, Jumbo Jacks and J in the B Tacos but I love'em. Can't wait. We didn't have MickeyDs until 1975. I didn't like them. At that time, a Burger King Whopper with cheese was $.45 Coffee at a burger joint or even a coffee joint just doesn't seem right to me when I can make a whole pot of FOLGERS at home for less than half of what a small cup at the coffee joint charges. Forget it.
jmz

[dwcrawford]

lol.  I like those JinB tacos too.  Weird because when you look  inside them they look pretty disgusting.

[BigSteve]

I'm older, but I remember McDonalds because some of the first stores were in southern CA.
That was before they hit their first million, and they were still edible.

[kitkatz]

J and B tacos are disgusting! Deep fried everything!  gag! However Jack has some pretty good salads and the double cheeseburger....

[Chris]

I'm not a ice coffee lover. I just believe coffee is meant to be served hot. 


Hanify, at that time coffee was 45 cents to and they only had one size. If you wanted decaf, you got instant Sanka packet. Mc Donalds HQ  I use to live by and their closest restaurant up the road charges a lot more for their food too Maybe because it's in a snooty neighborhood? Mc Donalds on my way to college offers a smal coffee during the fall for 25 cents and I use to show up to class with 4, cheaper than my usual 24 oz Dunkin Donuts coffee.

When making coffee at home though, it never taste like when you buy it from Dunkin Donuts even though you are using the same beans, odd. I have a Foldgers decaf next to me right now though.

[Hanify]

Yum.  I fancy a large latte right now.  Is everyone else seeing Spanish tonight on ihd?  Very cute.

[Chris]

I don't know ow to read or speak Spanish. I took German in H.S. because I knew a certain girl was taking it, plus there was a plan to go to Germany in the spring. Now I can only remember a couple words in German/Deutsch.

I could go for either a rasberry or blackbery latte or a white chocolate rasberry mocha

[RichardMEL]

now you're just teasing us!!!!!

[dwcrawford]

All I want is my one morning cup (mug) of instant coffee.  Black and Strong.

[hurlock1]

Has any one tried the new McDonald's coffee drinks? One review in the Los Angeles Times called them
"caffinated milkshakes". I get a whole bean decaf coffee from my local coffee store. (not Starbucks)

I have since it's way cheaper than Starbuuck's. Not a big fan of them. I can just go down the street to my hospital or library and get better coffee for the same price and size that is freshly made.

Haven't tried Starbuck's coffee since they reformulated the roast of the beans. I couldn't stand their decaf coffee taste unless I was getting a latte with flavor added. My favorite is Dunkin Donuts decaf and for $2.12 I get an extra large cup (24 oz) which helps get my fluids in for the day I need. Mc Donald's decaf would be my second choice, but theirs is more expensive for just a large and I get less. Theirs is only 20 oz. I would like to go back to caffinated coffee, but my transplant center say's not to because it works the kidneys harder and raises the blood pressure. However the more people I ask post transplant, the more I think my center is alone on that since the people I have talked to haven't had to switch to decaf.

I'll drink coffee anyway I can get it. I switch between cream/sweet n low, sweet n low only, and just plain coffee. It's just my first cup as a kid was cream and sugar (drank my mom's Mc Donald's coffee while staying with her at ork  , then her chocolate milk shake too  Then she told me to go downstairs and play in the arcade    Arcade = Game Room pre 1990's before pc games. We had to put quarters in machines or tokens to play video games, pinball machines, or the indoor bumber cars.

Again I have never drank Decaf. What for? To me that's like taking a placebo to cure cancer. I admit I do like the taste of coffee a little, but I drink coffee in the morning to help promote peristalsis. It works most of the time. I haven't drank any coffee this morning and it's twenty minutes and I have to go to dialysis. So, no coffee this morning unless I want to get off dialysis and go to the bathroom about 30 min. after they hook me up. #1 and #2. 

[hurlock1]

All I want is my one morning cup (mug) of instant coffee.  Black and Strong.

Same with me. I need it.

[cherpep]

Got my morning coffee in hand right now, treated myself and got Dunkin Donuts coffee (skipped the donuts, though).  Mmmmmmm Good Coffee!

[Tinah1968]

I actually had a cup of coffee this morning. I love my Coffee it still a little funny tasting but NO HEADACHE! so I will take my chance..

DW 7 Hurlock, J&B tacos were always my Drunk food  ... when I drank back in the 90's.. But not anymore if I looked in it I would be grossed out..

Chris I too think that coffee should be a hot beverage.