I drink coffee in the mornings, used to be 6:1 ratio of decaf to caffeinated, decent coffee. We switched to Folgers for pricing when coffee prices started rising, then they kept going up, so I switched to half decaf (decaf costs 50% more than the regular) and half regular. The last time my husband bought coffee, one can of decaf and one of regular, it was $37 . That's $444/year!

I decided to try to switch to tea - box of 100 Lipton tea bags was less than 5 bucks - and the first morning it was OK if a bit weak, though I got a little nauseated. Chalked that up to not having eaten yet, and tea not killing my appetite the way coffee does. The next morning, I doubled up on the tea bags, and omg, for 15 minutes I was SURE I was going to throw up.

I did some research and apparently some people react that way to tea on an empty stomach, which makes it a no-go for mornings for me.

What's left? I remember that my older sister went through a period of time where she just had hot water, though don't remember why.…