I’d rather have it without either milk or cream. A drop or two of brandy is good though. 
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Since nobody’s mentioned it: Land O Lakes Mini Moos.
Some people say they’re wasteful, but my experience was they were less wasteful than a small carton of half&half.
And yeah, nobody touched the Coffee Mate and I don’t blame them.
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That’s what I use. I wish the individual pods had expiration dates on them since only the box does. When I have loose ones in a bowl I sometimes test them in my morning coffee to insure that they haven’t turned. I guess I could write a date on them when I put them in the bowl, but I’m usually not that detail oriented.
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This is what we do, too. We provide a “welcome pack” of food and beverages, including a carton of milk and coffee for the week (locally-grown in St Lucia in case you coffee snobs were wondering). But no cream(er).
In almost eight years of doing this, only a handful of guests have asked to be sure there is cream(er) in the welcome pack. If they ask, we add it.
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haha, my husband teases me about this. when travelling in rural Australia i remain foolishly optimistic that i’ll get a decent coffee.
well, while we are splitting hairs… soy milk is bean juice, NOT milk. ha.
back on topic:
we put milk in glass jars in the fridge (usually gin bottles). We used to do cartons/bottles of milk but got sick of the plastic waste. Sometimes we put in almond milk in a tetra box, (a small one) but where does that end? Almond? soy? oat? macadamia? coconut? there’s a lot of alternate “milks” out there and I don’t want to start catering to every tiny group. If a guest mentioned it beforehand we’d be happy to provide them with whatever they requested.
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I agree. I wouldn’t expect anyone hosting me to do it (we use oat milk) so I don’t intend to myself.
I think they’re horrible and wouldn’t touch them with a bargepole @shinylizard
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Brilliant idea. Thank you.
Edit: In fact, now the idea has been mooted, I think that I should tell guests that we are vegetarian and therefore have vegetarian (and some vegan) products in our own home and they only have to ask if they need any.
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Some of those allergies are so severe that the person doesn’t have to ingest the food to have a reaction, all that has to happen is that a utensil that has some peanut butter or shellfish juice on it grazed their plate.
When my daughter and son-in-law owned and managed a big restaurant, a woman once told the server she was highly allergic to shellfish, and the server said she would alert the kitchen staff. The woman was served her meal, whatever it was (not shellfish, obviously) started eating, and went into full-blown anaphylactic shock, the ambulance called.
Then she tried to sue them. She lost. She was an idiot- you don’t go to a busy 300 seat restaurant which has an extensive seafood menu and expect that the kitchen staff, frantically pumping out meals, can make sure that nothing that has touched shellfish touches your plate.
If I was so deadly allergic to shellfish, or whatever, I certainly wouldn’t be going to restaurants which have such things on the menu. There’s plenty of places that don’t.
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Not so fast.
Every school child knows that “according to the FDA or Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act [FDCA] the definition of milk is of a substance that is produced from a ‘lacteal secretion.’” But Webster’s defines milk, in a secondary definition, as “a liquid resembling milk in appearance.” Since nuts don’t lactate, how did the Courts resolve this conflict??
On May 24, 2017, the United States District Court Central District of California decided on the Cynthia Cardarelli Painter et al., v. Blue Diamond Growers et al., case. https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memoranda/2018/12/20/17-55901.pdf . This highly charged farmers dispute at the district court level was won by Blue Diamond Almond Growers, the court agreeing to dismiss the dairy milk industries’ suit.
Websters dictionary notes that a secondary definition of milk is a byproduct of a plant.
The source for all this? Attorney Frederick Penney Tries To Understand The Milk Wars
But your point is well taken!
Well they changed the definition of “vaccine” to appease a powerful group too.
And it’s not long before “woman” has no definition. Clown world has not peaked yet.
My dad is an old farmer, what can I say, he pointed out many years ago that these companies are hijacking a best selling product, to help sell theirs, by lying. What was wrong with “juice”? Anyway, he also thinks skim milk is for pigs (cos that’s who used to be fed that until it was marketed to dieting women), and he also thinks lamb shanks are ‘dog food’. 
We ran lambs for many years and I could never convince him otherwise, no matter how skilled i think i might be with a crock pot. He’s a wonderful old timer, i’ll miss his ilk when they are gone.
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WAWA. Or so I’ve heard.
Home share host. I tell them before they arrive that I have half and half in the fridge and many are very happy with that. Longer stay guests have always gone out to buy their favorite flavored creamer or arrived with it if they’ve driven down.
I do ask so I can get them a small starter creamer. I tried the Mini Moos but hated the plastic and chemical party.
Can’t stand that stuff.
My daughter LOVES Buc-ee’s. I’m baffled.
You might want to get a bottle of Buffalo Trace’s Bourbon Cream. It’s the most amazing, decadent stuff on the planet. In your coffee, in root beer (just try it), over ice, over ice cream, in hot cocoa…
we put milk in glass jars in the fridge (usually gin bottles).
I like your style!
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Good to know for my east coast trip in Aug.
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Wawa isn’t in Kentucky yet. You’ll have to make do with Buc-ee’s in Richmond, KY.
A high school friend’s daughter is hooked on Wawa coffee. When she was living in Hawaii (with some of the best coffee on the planet at her doorstep), her Mom would bring an extra suitcase full of Wawa coffee beans to her.
Completely baffled me.
I’m glad to read that you’re going to the concert and found a nice place!
That’s the Oct trip. In August I’ll be in Baltimore, Philly and DC and will be driving in MD and Philly.
I’m going to multiple concerts on multiple trips.
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Thanks for the tip!
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I don’t understand. Why would home share hosts be able to offer decent coffee and real cream and entire home hosts not? How does housekeeping figure into it?
For remote hosts like me we would have to pay a cleaner to go buy stuff and restock. I know I wouldn’t be able to do it.
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Well, they could pick up a little container of cream on the way to the cleaning job. Takes 5 minutes to stop at a convenience store.
Yes, if a host is remote, then it would be a hassle. But if a host lives not far from the rental, even if they have a housekeeper, other supplies have to be bought anyway, right? TP, paper towels, soap, etc. Or like I said above, “go buy stuff” just entails a 5 minute stop at a store on the way. Obviously not doable if the rental and the housekeeper are out in the boonies, though.
In any case, I’m not saying all hosts should provide this, but if one advertises that they provide coffee, some cheap coffee packets, a Mr. Coffee machine, and some powdered chemicals don’t count as coffee for most coffee drinkers.
This is what hotels provide in hotel rooms so hosts follow suit. For a long time I didn’t have a coffee maker, just instant coffee. I’d joke to the guests that it was just emergency coffee…“I need coffee to go get coffee.” Now that my prices are 50% higher than back then I’ve upgraded my offerings.
This falls into the category of all hosts being different. It’s hard on hosts who only offer one thing to compete with hosts who provide several things.
I try not to put anything flammable in my coffee. LOL. (Coffee-mate is flammable.)
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