my contact requests good coffee.

i can think of the obviuos like creamers (powered-too hot for liquid), flavored splenda, sweet and low to include in the box but what else?

i know junkies always have more ideas.

One thought - our grandson said that when he was in Iraq, they used the hot cocoa mix in their coffee - voila - coffee house supreme mocha latte.  I would make sure that it wasn't the ones that have marshmallows in them - that might make for strange coffee - lol!

Oh, and packages of stir sticks too.

BJ's has a powdered Cappuchino in a can. The brand is Victorian Inn. My nephew and his buddies liked it. Just add water and ice for iced cappuchinos. Good for those hot Iraq summers! You can also send biscotti to dip in hot coffee, so good !

When I went looking for flavored creamers the store had place Stella Dora "coffee cookies" right next to them and they were on sale so of course I had to get those

I printed out the information about the consumers report coffee taste test.

I think I will send them a can of Maxwell House, Folgers, and eight o'clock so they can have their own taste test.  I better remember filters too.

any other suggestions???

You may want to consider adding some local coffee mugs (Roll Tide, I Love NY,etc).   Things do get broken and I'm sure your concact may have the occassional visitor.

Here in the Pacific Northwest, "good coffee" means a dark roast Millstone, Starbucks, Seattles Best, or good Beans that can be purchased in 3# bags at Costco.  If you read the costco/kirkland brands closely some say roasted by Starbucks.  Here a 3# bag of good beans can be purchased for about $13.99 and I recently purchased a grinder at Walmart for $15.00.  East coast people commonly refer to Dunkin Donuts as "good coffee".  :-)

I am posting this site because it has different coffee coupons and some for other soldier friendly items.  There is the now famous Eight O'Clock coffee among them.  It is a site for Ralph's Grocery Store, but they are manufacturer's coupons.  You just check the coupons that you want and print those.

 http://print.coupons.com/couponweb/Offers.aspx?nid=10&pid=13841&zid=de92

In the coffee boxes I've done, I've included:

• Regular ground coffee (usually either starbucks, green mountain or dunkin donuts)
• Regular tea bags
• a box of Swiss Miss
• Sugar Packets
• Equal Packets
• regular coffee mate
• vanilla and hazelnut flavored coffee mate
• plastic stirrers
• Dixie coffee cups with lids

I totally agree with sending coffee filters, but it can get tricky if you don't know what kind of coffee maker they have, between the different sizes and shapes.  Can you find that out/do you already know?

Also, I have put the coffee box together and for a soldier who I knew lived on the airport base and got my mail quickly, I added a couple boxes of Entennmann's donuts and a NYTimes & Local newspaper, so he could have a Sunday Morning Coffee just like home. :)

ETA: I have never sent True Lemon, but I just saw the thread about it, and if you do end up sending tea bags True Lemon and Honey would be a great addition to the box.  Why oh why did I never thing of that--I have True Lemon at home! Duh!