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Giveaway & Review: Keurig Coffee Maker

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Photo by Once & Forever

Photo by Once & Forever

I love my coffee. Love, love, love.  I think it’s genetic. I come from a family of coffee lovers~well except my brother Doc. We always say that we don’t fully trust anyone who doesn’t drink coffee.

Lately the coffee from my pot at home it hasn’t been tasting so fantastic.  I’m not sure what the reason is. Have my tastebuds changed? Is there mineral buildup on the pot? Is it just the cruddy bargain basement sale coffee I’ve been drinking?

I keep finding myself doing the totally un-frugal thing and, *gasp*, buying coffee out.

Yes, I know. After all I’ve written on how that can dribble your money away.

So enough was enough. I needed to change something. I had owned a espresso/cappuccino maker back in the early 90’s, but honestly I had barely used it. It just seemed like too much effort. The regular coffee pots didn’t seem to brew right, even when I tried different brands of coffee. I started researching different options. The one that jumped out at me over and over again was the single cup coffee maker.

I balked. After all, a single cup anything doesn’t sound very frugal.  And did it even taste any better?  Although I don’t mind spending money on an item that I will truly use regularly and contributes to the quality of my life, I don’t like buying an item when I’m not really sure I’ll use it.

So I wrote the kind folks at Keurig and explained the situation to them, and asked if there was any way I could review the Keurig Coffeemaker and give one away on my blog.

Keurig Platinum Brewer

Keurig Platinum Brewer

They agreed, not only sending me one of their Keurig Platinum Brewers (valued at $169) but also 4 boxes of the coffee K-Cups.  They also  generously offered to give the same to one of my readers.

In order to give you the full flavor of my Keurig experience, I made a Whrrl story.  Don’t worry, by clicking through you do not have to create an account or anything~it’s just a very slick & easy way to do a slide show of pictures & text! Just click on the picture below and a new window will pop up with the review:

Long story short? The Keurig makes an great cup of coffee~although in using the same exact brand of coffee so did the standard pot. The Keurig coffee was much hotter & retained it’s flavor longer. The coffee is more expensive than standard coffee, but at about $.54 a cup, it’s still much less expensive than the coffee shop alternative.

Now, on to the giveaway!

This giveaway runs from today, August 1st through Midnight EST August 8th.

To enter you need to go to the Keurig site and check out all the different kinds of K Cups (coffee, tea or cocoa).  Come back here and tell me in the comments which kind you like the most.

This giveaway is only available to folks in the US (sorry!).  My family members, as always, are not eligible. Sorry Mom!

But wait! There’s more!

There are additional ways to enter once you’ve completed your initial entry (each requires a SEPARATE COMMENT or it doesn’t count).

#1 Subscribe to Frugal Upstate or let me know if you already are.

#2 Subscribe for the joint newsletter Lynnae from Being Frugal.net and I publish over at Frugal Coast2Coast under the “Never Miss a Show”

#3-Tweet about the giveaway sending folks over to the review.  Use this link: http://budurl.com/b3x6

Good luck!

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Comments

  6. I personally love breakfast blend anything. The green mountain breakfast blend in particular looks good. Would also like to try the new iced tea k cups! As an iced tea nut I think I am even more picky about that than my coffee, lol.

  7. When I worked we had this kind of machine instead of the regular coffee pot. I like Breakfast Blend in the Green Mountain.

  15. I have to say that I LOVE my Keurig single cup coffeemaker. However, I have an older model so am I still in the running? I used to go to a coffee shop that I thought had the best coffee. But since I started drinking my single cup Keurig I no longer go out for coffee. By having a single cup, it is always fresh and hot. I find that I drink less coffee because each cup is so good, I drink it slower. My favorite is French Roast. On occasion, I’ve tried some flavored coffees like pumpkin in the fall. It was good and also they have a coconut flavor that is good. But I always come back to French Roast.

  17. Hot Cocoa K-Cups by Green Mountain sounds like a perfect fit for me. I’m not a coffee drinker, but I love hot cocoa. My oldest daughter loves cocoa too, so this would be a great giveaway for us to win.

  21. I had one of the Green Mountain hot cocoa K Cups while visiting my brother and his new Keurig and loved it. So many other possibilities sound great as well.Thanks for the opportunity.

  24. I didn’t know they had iced tea… I want some of those! I wish the Keurig people would listen and make sugar free cocoa! Please!

  25. My niece has a Keurig coffee maker and I love it! I would love a Keurig. My favorite K-cup coffee flavor so far is Green Mountain’s Wild Mountain Blueberry!

  27. My favorite would be expresso blend and french roast by Green Mountain.My coffee pot doesn’t work like it use to.I would love to try.

  31. We had one of these at my old job, and I LOVED it. The white hot chocolate is my favorite!!

  36. I am the biggest coffee junkie so many, many of the K-Cup flavors sound so super delicious! I have been hearing really wonderful things about the coffee from The Coffee People so I will say my favorite K-Cup choice is Wake Up Call Coffee by Coffee People. Now doesn’t that sound heavenly for the first thing in the morning! I have been dying for a Keurig brewer so thank you for the chance to enter.

  39. I am now subscribed to your blog through email. I am looking forward to receiving them!

  42. I am now subscribed to your Frugal Coast to Coast newsletter (BTW – your link above for this didn’t work just so you know, I found it by searching on google) But, I confirmed my subscription and am looking forward to receiving that too!

  46. I would love the Kona Blend Coffee by Timothy’s

    I also love that it only makes one cup because while I like Coffee, My husband doesn’t drink it and I only drink 1 cup, so I always end up wasting so much when I make a pot.

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