Mild instant coffee

BlueonBlue

Change your tastes and habits although you probably could find cheaper instant coffee if you look hard enough.

For a start real filter supermarket coffee by weight can be purchased cheaper than £6.50 for 190gm which works out at £32.50 for less than a kilogram.

Using Pour over or a cafeteire and real filter coffee from supermakets can be half of £32.50 and Aldi/Lidl even less again .

You could buy a selection of Waitrose filter coffees for less and possibly ?? even a lower cost specialty brand .

Emmia

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I think it's important to compare the cost per cup/serving of the two different methods. Gound coffee isn't necessarily cheaper than instant.

For example.

Nescafé Smooth 190g jar is £7.50 on Ocado which will make around 105 cups of coffee (1.8g of coffee per serving) so that's just over 7p per cup.

In contrast a 200g bag of Union Roast Cafetiere coffee which is also £7.50 on Ocado will do around 13 cups of coffee (15g of coffee per serving) at a cost of 56p per cup.

The cheapest ground coffee on Ocado that I can see is M&S lazy weekend at £3.60 a 227g bag. Using the same 15g measure of coffee per serving as the Union Coffee above, you'd get around 15 cups from the bag, so just under 24p per cup.

I appreciate that even cheaper ground coffee may be available, but you'd need to find very cheap ground coffee, or use very little of it per serving in order to be as cheap as instant...

The Nescafé I've used as the comparator is not the cheapest instant. I can have a 100g jar of M&S rich roast instant for £1.20 from Ocado, that will give me about 55 cups or about 2.2p per cup.

Whether any of this coffee is smooth enough for the OP is unknown.

luvchocolate

Thank you all for your suggestions.

I have got a mild one at Tesco own brand

Which is fine for me

DiscountDiva63

I prefer Lavazza and Waitrose own-brand, the No1 range is really tasty!

luvchocolate

No Waitrose unfortunately in my part of West Yorkshire 😕