If there's one thing that makes me happy, it's good coffee. But I really mean coffee where you taste the love in every sip. Simon Lévelt has this kind of coffee. It starts with getting the coffee in a delightful Lévelt shop, then smelling the beans, grinding them, and brewing them in my cafetière at home. Pure perfection when you drink it.

Actually, I only have one frustration when it comes to coffee, and that is the packaging. A frustration that my coffee companions at Simon Lévelt are solving from today. I am always amazed by the gi-gantic amounts of packaging material. And honestly: the packaging of coffee really gets on your nerves. Especially when it's vacuum-packed and the filter coffee decides to puff out when air gets in.

The solution from Simon Lévelt reminds me of the street Nørrebro in Copenhagen. Every shop there is equally sustainable, and everyone brings their own containers and bags to do their shopping. Our friends at Simon Lévelt are introducing the cotton coffee bag today, an extra step to make the coffee they sell 100 percent organic soon. With the cotton coffee bag, you can easily transport half a kilo of coffee beans home, where you probably already have a storage tin ready. By the way, bringing your own tin to the store is also allowed.

Extra fun: you get the cotton coffee bag for free when you buy 500 grams of coffee in one of the stores now. Even better: with every refill in your own tin or bag, you get a five percent discount until June. No more hassle with that packaging AND much more sustainable. I love it.

P.S.: I would definitely check Simon’s site, because they not only have coffee and tea, but also crockery that you just drool over.