My Keurig

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I love my new coffee maker. It has revolutionized the way I drink coffee. Really, I like it a lot. Jonathon of course has also decided that HE likes it and he has been warned to stay away from my favorites!

Are you wondering what the heck a Keurig is? It’s a single serving/cup coffee maker. They range from $79 to commercial ones for offices and stuff which cost more like $2500. The “lower end” ones are the greatest thing ever for a home coffee maker. This is mine:

I got it at Sam’s for $129 and it came with the machine, 2 water filters, and 90 K-Cups. So it was a really good deal, because just the machine itself was $149 on the Keurig site. You might want to go check Sam’s if you’re interested.

You pop in a pod (K-cup), choose the cup size by pressing a button, and your cup of coffee is ready in less than 30 seconds. Mine has a 48 ounce water holder so I don’t have to refill it more than once every few days. You can use any coffee cup with it. If I have a huge cup, I make a medium Keurig size cup and then a small one, and it fills it perfectly. I just use the same K-cup for both times because I like weak coffee.

There are all kinds of yummy flavors available like Caramel Apple and Chocolate Crunch and Butter Toffee. Plus, the traditional flavors. I love to mix my coffee flavor with an interesting creamer. They also make hot chocolate and tea K-Cups. I have a mandarin orange spice tea one that I am looking forward to trying. We are going to have a lot of fun coffee shopping. You can get the K-Cups at Bed Bath and Beyond and lots of regular coffee places now, too.

If you don’t want to use the K-cup pods all the time, you can buy a My-K filter. It’s a reusable metal filter and then you can use your own coffee grounds in place of the K-Cups.

It’s even faster than driving through Starbucks and costs about 50 cents per cup instead of $3.85! In fact I think I might have to go make myself another cup now. It’s kind of addictive.

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