When I had my espresso machine, I had two flat whites a day. One for breakfast and the other around 1700.
I would buy a kilo of beans a month for £12 and that would do both my daily double shots and a single for the Mrs.
£100 a month on Nespresso pods is insane!
Yup. I pay £22.50 for 1kg of freshly roasted beans. Each double espresso is about 18g so get about 55 drinks at 41p/cup.
Obviously you can get cheaper beans than that. Once I factor in the free coffee I get in the rewards scheme it’s probably more like 30p.
2 a day… What do you drink in between?
That would be quite an extreme reduction for me.
It’s worth it. I used to drink coffee constantly but I now limit myself to two a day, both before midday (or midnight if night shift).
Nespresso in a morning to take to work, and then one at work when there.
I used to drink a lot more coffee before I got my bean to cup.
I’m not sure if there’s any science to it but i drink smaller cups now and a few less per day. I feel that I’ve more than satisfied my caffeine fix and anymore than that was making me feel like this 
I usually drink 3 - 4 cups a day, I thought that was bad. 
I’ve recently stopped buying Nespresso pods, we moved to the bigger Vertuo pods and I honestly wish we didn’t as we used to buy different brands of the smaller pods.
Unfortunately gave our original machine away and don’t think I want to buy another.
These are what I use as I only drink Americanos or long mug coffees so they do better for this.
But the variety is far smaller than the pods sadly.
I drink roughly the same. I love caffeine, but it doesn’t always play nice we me - I’ve been described as a ‘Duracell bunny’ by people when I’m not caffeinated! So with the B2C, I set strict limits on it otherwise…
I still can’t get my head around the folks that drink coffee to relax and go to sleep at night 
They do make a nice big coffee but the limited variety is what spoils it for me, I’m not massively keen on the Nespresso flavours so when we last ran out I just never ordered any more and went back to using my pour over coffee.
I don’t drink coffee in the evening either, I never wanted to risk ruining my sleep pattern.
The only exception is if it’s been a long day and I haven’t had one in a while, which is rare.
It’s still just super convenient for me in a morning to press one button and get coffee but I do appreciate the extra effort can produce wonderful flavours.
That’s what I loved about the original machine we had, it also had the built in milk dispenser (whatever it’s called) so it really was one button.
Now I’m stuck with a machine in the cupboard and an £80 Aeroccino 4 I never use. 
Exactly why I love our bean to cup over our old drip feed + grind before hand.
I have a bean to cup that’s a one button press, and has a milk carafe.
I would love to have a machine where I grind and tamper the coffee etc by myself, but when considering options I decided that my mornings are hectic enough with the kids etc, so doing that as well would be too much.
So the machine does it all for me with it’s “adaptive bean technology” based on type, roast etc.
Lots of Bean talk in here. Sadly not the type of bean I’m interested in.
Still don’t like coffee.
Does it clean itself? I can’t be doing with cleaning. The Nespresso just requires a rinse of the drip tray and milk frother nozzle each day.
Pretty much yes.
The above literally takes 20 seconds or less and the milk frother is <5 seconds.
The most time consuming (in comparison to the above) which you just set off and can leave is decalcifying. You put some liquid in the water reservoir, trigger the program, and it cleans itself for ~15-20 minutes.
You’re notified of all the above and can dismiss any of them if that moment isn’t convenient and you just need a coffee.
What machine do you have? It sounds rather impressive.
Delonghi PrimaDonna Soul
I was sold on all the types of drinks it makes but they never get used 
So I’d spend much less on a model that just produces good “normal” drinks like expressos and white coffee if that’s more your thing.
Mostly espresso for me. Nothing worse than trying to get through a bucket of coffee.
The fact it’s espresso probably makes 6-8 per day a little less shocking… I’d hope.
In terms of volume of liquid, it’s not much.