My Cabinet of Discontinued K-Cups | Guest Post
I received my Keurig Special Edition B60 Gourmet Single Serve Coffee Maker as a wedding gift from my parents last year. When I put it on our registry, my husband being the non-coffee drinker that he is was skeptical of its possible use of counter space to actual use ratio. I immediately fell in love with the idea of having the perfect cup of coffee every time I pressed the button. No more stale cups of coffee from the bottom of a pot…no more wasting expensive flavored coffees because I wasn’t as “in the mood” for coffee as I had anticipated…no more playing the how much water should I add game. Nope- A perfect cup every time. Instantly, I stopped purchasing coffee from restaurants or coffee shops. Why on earth would I pay $3+ for coffee when I could pay around 50 cents a cup at home!
I began to sample various flavors of coffee to figure out what my go-to favorites would be. I wished there would’ve been a “K-cup swap” with a friend, but unfortunately I was my only friend at the time who owned one. (This has since changed as I have talked 6 of my friends into buying them!). I started out by buying K-cup variety packs, which helped me narrow down what I didn’t like. Nothing is worse than having 23 more K-cups of something you don’t enjoy! I always give them to my mom now that she has a Keurig now J This sometimes has a negative consequence for me because then I visit her, she only has flavors that I didn’t like enough to keep.
Back to the topic at hand, through many many boxes of coffee, I found that I am absolutely in love with Gloria Jean’s Swiss Chocolate Almond. I ordered several boxes straight from Gloria Jean’s and enjoyed them for a few months. When I attempted to reorder, their website didn’t have Swiss Chocolate Almond as a choice and I began to panic! I did a search online and found that *gasp* Gloria Jean’s had discontinued my favorite flavor! I frantically searched online hoping to find somewhere that still had them and I found Coffeeforless.com. I used their live chat and crossed my fingers hoping that they had several left. Indeed they did and I purchased at least 8 boxes of it.
I would like to say that this was the beginning of my coffee hoarding to save posterity, but alas it was not. My coffee cabinet began around the holidays when I discovered Green Mountain Coffee’s holiday flavors: Pumpkin Spice and Spicy Eggnog. I shuddered at the thought of living without these flavors during the rest of the year and stocked up…a lot. Enough that I am still drinking Pumpkin Spice to this day and occasionally if I’m lucky a Spicy Eggnog pops up into the mix.
I purchased a Keurig K-Cup Machine from a woman on Craigslist for my sister and she included several boxes of coffee. I of course perused through the flavors searching for ones that I hadn’t tried before. I found Bellecino’s Blueberry Cobbler. I loved it…it tasted like I was eating breakfast while having coffee, without the calories of the cobbler! I immediately went online to search for this amazing coffee and to my dismay I found that it was discontinued a long time ago. I found a distributor online and bought at least 8 boxes. Thus my cabinet grows. I currently have an entire drawer of loose K-cups, a carousel, and 2 cabinets full of K-cup boxes. It would be an understatement to say that I love my Keurig.
This post was written by our customer and guest blogger Stephanie R.
Stephanie is a graduate student who loves coffee, movies, television, music and travel. She is from Chicago and two of her favorite things about Chicago are its architecture and cultures represented within it!
