

Just be sure to empty the coffee (preferably into a compost pile), then peel off the lid, and recycle the cup. Plus, the cups are made from number 5 polypropylene so they’re relatively simple to recycle if you have curbside pickup. Even if you have two at a time in order to get your day started off, it will still be cheaper than even gas station coffee. Newman’s Own offers four different flavors, including the middle-of-the-road special blend (which also comes in decaf), a darker French roast with a richer flavor, and a lighter Sunrise blend. If you’re only looking to supplement your fancy java, you don’t want something that strikes a balance between taste and cost. Like we said above, K Cups should only be part of your balanced coffee consumption.

This affordable option provides much fuller flavor for not much more cash. Why it made the cut: Truly cheap coffee tastes like an ashtray.

There are cheaper ways to get coffee pods, but it’s hard to match the quality, variety, and ease that comes with the Atlas subscription. It’s also easy to pause or change your subscription if you’re going on a trip of you get a backlog of coffee sitting around because you’re not drinking it fast enough. If you eventually switch off of pods and go to another kind of machine, you can change your subscription over to beans or ground coffee to meet your needs. These coffees aren’t available in stores, so there’s a bit of mystery and exclusivity that comes with your morning cup of joe. We particularly enjoyed the Rwandan grind, but the service delivers a new coffee each month. Each shipment comes with your single-source coffee, a post card from its country of origin, and tasting notes to let you know what to look out for. This coffee delivery service will ship you 24, 48, or 72 coffee pods every two, four, or six weeks depending on how fast you can plow through it.
