So, are you a Coffee/Tea Drinker? Iced, hot, anyway you can get it?

If so, read on.

Note: This post is something of an intermission…a break from the mind numbing, over-thinking I usually do here…I know you’re all heaving a sigh of relief!

While I’ve discussed my coffee addiction in the past it mostly has been about how I’m always spilling it! This is about how I am enjoying it when I’m not spilling it!

Several months ago I was invited by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, the company behind Keurig, “an innovative single-serve brewing system, and a family of coffee, tea, and beverage brands in K-Cup portion packs for use in Keurig brewers” to be an “ambassador” for them.

At first I was going to decline their offer which included a Keurig coffee maker and regular shipments of coffee for one year in exchange for writing four blogs about my experience. Don’t get me wrong, I am definitely a coffee drinker, and lover, but the thought of one more machine on my counter and the extra money that would be required to keep up with the sure-to-be-expensive little K-cup portion packs after the free samples were gone, was not an appealing one. I asked myself, do I really need to this? Furthermore, I am committed to writing the truth and nothing but the truth (at least from my limited perspective) here and this blog will never be about pushing products even if I’m writing it from a cardboard box in homeless-ville.  My twenty something sons pushed hard for me to go ahead ~ it’s free Mom! what do you have to lose?? Counter space!

Well, I succumbed, as I often do to child pressure. And I’m here to tell you that I have not only been pleasantly surprised but I have become a huge fan of this brewing system and their coffee. Not only do I love it, but I have to beat back everyone in the house, including guests, to get a get a cup for myself once in a while. Sounds like an exaggeration, but trust me it’s not! I’ve decided to leave a little bowl by the machine now for donations to keep up with our habit. I’ll tell you why I like it.

First, it’s the best thing in the world to have a really hot, really fresh, really good cup of coffee any time I want it and to be able to choose the exact flavor, roast and variety I feel like drinking at that precise moment. I don’t have to see what everyone else wants when I make a pot, I don’t have to drink coffee that’s been sitting on the brewer for 30 minutes and I don’t have to clean the pot! All I have to do is pop in a K-cup portion pack and push the button and I’m good to go.

In addition, you can brew a whole lot more than coffee. You can make regular tea, herbal tea, hot cocoa, sweetened ice tea, iced coffee and I’m sure I’ve left something out. I’ve figured out that it’s about 50 cents a cup, so when I drive past Starbucks because I prefer to make my own at home I’m really happy that I get to save $4.00 too. I also think that in the long run it may not be any more expensive than any other comparable coffee system because there is never any waste. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve thrown out at least one cup of coffee because it was old, cold or left over. I also doubled checked with Green Mountain Coffee about the environmental aspects of the process and I was satisfied. (If you want to know what they are just ask me.)

Green Mountain Coffee is also really good coffee. I had never had it before. You can follow them on Facebook. The company offers a variety of other brands too and they send me samples of those every now and then. Right now I’m trying out Tulley’s. They’re on Facebook too.  I like it, especially the Italian Roast.

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The bottom line is, if the things I like about it are something you would like, it’s worth the investment. The system comes in a variety of sizes, from the individual to the corporate and the coffee can be purchased locally or online.

In appreciate of your indulgence I have a COUPON for FREE SHIPPING for you and one for $1.00 off coffee. If you let me know, I will put you on a list to receive any additional offers as I receive them.