![]() ![]() If caffeine is what you are after, don’t add an espresso shot to your latte just order a cheaper drink that will have more caffeine anyway. They make their iced coffee extremely strong/super concentrated and it has a high amount of caffeine. Starbucks probably makes my favorite iced coffee out there…for sure compared to any other chain. #4 – Order Iced Coffee (or again…an Americano) if you are after a big jolt of caffeine Next time you want to treat your kiddo at Starbucks just get them a puppuccino (ask for a spoon), instead of dropping a pretty penny on those over-priced cake pops. Puppuccinos are a tiny cup of whipped cream that you can order for free for your dog….or your kids. However, I used to order two puppuccinos when I ordered my Americano. ![]() We are currently doing a gluten and dairy free diet for our boys, so right now I tell them all they can have is water (#meanmom). Now (in their ripe old ages of 5 and 3), when I pull up to a Starbucks it’s like they’ve been trained to start pleading for their own treat or drink. When my kids were younger, I could easily go through the Starbucks drive-through without whining for their own treats but then they got older and wiser. # 3 – Skip cake pops and get your kid a free puppuccino! I’m 99.9% sure that whipped cream is free to add on top of any drink, as well! Last, but not least, you can ask for any of those spice/flavor toppings you always see on the condiment bar to be added into your drink for you…cocoa powder, vanilla powder, cinnamon, etc. If you like sweetened drinks, there are plenty of ways to still add sweetness to your drinks for FREE! You can ask to have any amount of sugar packets stirred into your latte (regular sugar, stevia, etc.) or they have honey packets you can request to be put into your drink. I just prefer less sugary drinks, so I find it super annoying to have to pay the full price of syrup when I only want one pump.) However, you can request more or less syrup depending on your preference. (Side note: a tall drink comes with 3 pump, grande 4 pumps, venti 5 and so on. I personally love the taste of coffee with 1 pump of peppermint syrup and 1 pump of mocha, but I never ever order that because it would cost me an extra $1.20 for just two measly pumps of syrup. Starbucks charges you somewhere around $0.60 per syrup used in your drink. # 2 – Skip the flavored syrups and get a free sweetener instead. I skip flavored syrups (see point #2) almost entirely because they are crazy expensive, but if you need that mocha flavor you will at least be saving money on the Americano pricing! Add in caramel and vanilla syrup for a cheap caramel macchiato type drink. You can add mocha in flavoring in and I guarantee it will taste very similar, if not exactly the same, as your regular mocha. Order and Americano with extra steamed milk, then add in any flavor you prefer. Americanos are made with espresso and water, while lattes, mochas and caramel macchiatos (at Starbucks) are made with espresso and milk (plus syrups depending on the drink). Nick and I jokingly refer to Americanos as the “poor man’s latte”, or woman’s in my case. #1 – Order an Americano instead of a Latte, Mocha or Caramel Macchiato. I know it’s way too easy to drop $5-6 on a drink at Starbucks, but I regularly go through the Starbucks drive-through and only spend $2.60 and that can even include a treat for both of my boys! 6 hacks for ordering cheap drinks at Starbucks: The greatest takeaway from my brief 8-month stint there, was learning my Starbucks cheap drink hacks that I still use regularly to this day. I worked at Starbucks up until around Everson’s due date. Lo and behold, a couple days into my training, I took a positive pregnancy test and ended up withdrawing from grad school before it officially began. I was planning to go to grad school and though it would be the perfect part-time, grad school job. I worked at Starbucks starting in the summer of 2012. Do you love getting Starbucks, but hate spending $5+ on every visit? You can spend less than $3 at Starbucks with my cheap drink hacks. ![]()
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