Thursday, November 19, 2009

Kitchen Gadgetry

The Mister and I made a run to the grocery store last night for a few groceries. Our cupboards are really bare. We haven’t gone grocery shopping since before we went to the Outer Banks, lol. I wish I could figure out why I hate grocery shopping so much.

While we were in the store, we walked past the refrigerator section of coffee creamers. All the pretty bottles!! Outside of a caramel frappacino from Starbucks, I’m not a big coffee drinker. I prefer green or white teas. I’ve tried regular brewed flavored coffees and find them too bitter. For some reason though, I had gotten it into my head that I wanted to try the flavored coffee creamers. We bought a caramel apple flavor and a cinnamon bun flavor and a bag of Green Mountain coffee. Side note:

My Favorite Things From Vermont:

  1. Cabot Cheese
  2. Vermont Teddy Bears
  3. Green Mountain Coffee

We have a coffee maker for guests but the vacation house had this really neat coffee maker that we wanted to get. Considering that our coffee maker gets used about once a year, this is really just indulging our love of kitchen gadgets. This is what we were after:

Brew Station

This is what we got:

Keurig

I love it!!! It’s so cute sitting on my counter. It brews a cup of coffee in three minutes. We also got one of these to go with it:

Carousel

When you register your brewer online, Keurig gives you two free boxes of K-Cups when you buy two boxes plus 10% off your total purchase and free shipping. So, we ordered a variety box of Green Mountain flavored coffees, a box of the Doughnut House Collection by Green Mountain in the Chocolate Glazed Doughnut flavor, a box of hot chocolate for the girls, and a variety box of Gloria Jean’s teas. It was a really good deal and I’ll be able to fill up my carousel. We also bought a reusable filter so that we can use other coffee that doesn’t come in a K-Cup and for loose teas. I love oolong tea thanks to Jennifer.

It’s silly how much I like this thing, lol. I also can’t wait to organize our K-Cups on the carousel. I think I need a life, hehehe.

4 comments:

  1. That's awesome. I've been thinking about getting one for the husband for Christmas. I was wondering how they were.

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  2. Anonymous1:19 PM

    I bought one of these for Mark after I saw one at a friend's house. I'd love to find that extra filter so we could use our own. Mark finds the coffee a bit strong. You'll have to let me know which flavors you like ;-) I did the same deal with registering it. Very cool.

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  3. Pam~~Since we just got ours, I can't give a totally informed opinion but day two and I still love it! It would make a really great Christmas gift for your husband.

    Dana~~We got the reusable filter at Target. They have them in the same aisle as the coffee makers. You can also order one online at Keurig's website if you'd rather.

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  4. Anonymous6:36 AM

    I'll have to check my local Target and see if I can find it. I might have to get that K-cup holder as well, lol.

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