Weekend Fun

Happy Saturday Thrifties! 

In GoodWill news I purchased a full size food processor for $9.99 this week. Very pleased! My mini was only really useful for one ingredient at a time. (This was more than I would like to have spent, but it was a good design and I don't often see them.)

Also my husband broke the handle off of my GoodWill ice cream maker... which reminds me why I shop thrift again, because he just loooves to break kitchen usefulls.

I was looking into re-uses for Keurig K-cups and it didn't take long to find out that you can re-use them! I'm sure other people are well aware of this fact, but being that there is a hole in the bottom of the cup after one use, I assumed that this is why you buy the "My K-cups". Turns out these were a waste of my money as they take a while to switch the mechanics from regular to "My" K-cups and you can just as easily save and fill the used plastic cups! I won't clog up the blogsphere with directions but if you search "re-use K-cups" there are a lot of results with pics and directions. (I've linked to one of my favourites!)

I had originally balked at the idea of a single serve coffee brewer because it goes against everything I am about as a tightwad. However when I realized I could purchase the single-serve brewer as my husband's Christmas present, or watch him get a drive-thru coffee every morning when he was too late getting up to make a regular pot, the savings do make sense. $0.50 per pod (on sale) vs. $3.00 per cup (approx. Because he also doesn't often get a regular coffee, he buys a mocha usually once he is there.)  I also did my research and settled on a Keurig because it does not use the barcode system and therefore you can use your own coffee. I did skimp a little on the purchase as I bought an "Oster" brand Keurig. It is still endorsed by Keurig and has their logo splashed all over it, and for the most part all the mechanics are the same.

I am currently conducting and experiment to reuse the coffee from the K-cups (what I had been searching for originally). I have opened each one and emptied into a plastic baggie which goes back into the freezer for the next cup. Once I have enough, I am going to make a traditional pot of coffee using the pre-brewed grounds. I imagine I am going to have to use less water or the coffee will be weak, but I will keep you posted. My little brain just can't believe that a quick run through my brewer actually uses up all of the coffee goodness in those little cups.

Until next time.....