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Keurig Teams Up With Campbell’s To Offer Single-Serving Soups

NAOW · Vette's SS

Hmm.. I need to see this to understand.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

You get a little packet of noodles. Like mini ramen but they're the chicken noodles so flat. Then you get a k-cup with broth mix. Put the noodles in your cup and the k-cup in. Then you have hot chicken broth that goes into your cup. "Cooks" the noodles and instant cup of soup.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Have you ever used the Gevalia mocha lattes? They come with a packet of "foam". Basically it's powder. You pour the powder in first and then run the k-cup with coffee through. Then you stir and it makes "foam" on the top of your coffee. It's pretty good. I imagine it's the same concept.

NAOW · Vette's SS

Oh, ok, so the broth is powdered? I see. That will be kinda cool.

And no, I've never tried those, but they sounds pretty good.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

You can get the Gevalia at any grocery store. It comes with so many k-cups and then the same number of little packets of powder. You use one of each per cup. They're pretty good but they're definitely not Starbucks.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Oh and yes, the broth will be powdered in the k-cup. Just like the hot cocoa powdered ones now.

Lindley · Guru

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
You can get the Gevalia at any grocery store. It comes with so many k-cups and then the same number of little packets of powder. You use one of each per cup. They're pretty good but they're definitely not Starbucks.

Gevalia is good

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Lindley wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
You can get the Gevalia at any grocery store. It comes with so many k-cups and then the same number of little packets of powder. You use one of each per cup. They're pretty good but they're definitely not Starbucks.
Gevalia is good

They are good. I guess I was just expecting Starbucks when I bought them. Not the same. I still like them though.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

And look! It's a baby Keurig!

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chef · Guru

I could've used that Baby Keurig for awhile. DS got to the point where he preferred his bottle cold so it would've stopped being useful.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

I think the baby keurig is kind of neat. Put the powdered formula in one side, the water in the other, and then you put the bottle down and push a button and perfectly blended formula at the right temp.

chef · Guru

Maybe your friend who's having the baby could use one ... :D

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

chef wrote:
Maybe your friend who's having the baby could use one ... :D

1. They are $170.

2. I'm not thrilled with her right now.

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

This invention is so unnecessary. There is already dried soups in a disposable cup that you add hot water to and you don't need a Keurig, you only need hot water from the tap.

Southern_Belle · Nothing's Impossible

I know what to do_sometimes wrote:
This invention is so unnecessary. There is already dried soups in a disposable cup that you add hot water to and you don't need a Keurig, you only need hot water from the tap.

Yep. Remember lipton cup o soup? Gross! Keurig is also coming out with their version of soda stream. It will be a one cup at a time deal of course.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

I don't see the appeal.

Coffee, soup, all of it, is already so easy to make.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

I don't see the appeal either. First of all, who really wants to eat instant soup besides college students?

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

I can't stand Keurig coffee. The coffee has no flavor at all in my opinion. No time for the oils of the coffee to infuse the flavor. If you want flavorful coffee stick to the drip or get a French press.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
I don't see the appeal either. First of all, who really wants to eat instant soup besides college students?

Me...

flan

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

This just does not seem easier that the cup of soup already out there.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Lawyerlady wrote:
This just does not seem easier that the cup of soup already out there.

I can think of MANY other things I'd rather blow $170 on...

I can buy a 3-pack of instant chicken noodle soup for under $2.00. Dump a packet in a coffee cup, add water & nuke for 90 seconds. I like a cup on cold winter mornings, since I don't drink coffee, tea or cocoa.

flan

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

flan327 wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
This just does not seem easier that the cup of soup already out there.
I can think of MANY other things I'd rather blow $170 on...
I can buy a 3-pack of instant chicken noodle soup for under $2.00. Dump a packet in a coffee cup, add water & nuke for 90 seconds. I like a cup on cold winter mornings, since I don't drink coffee, tea or cocoa.
flan

I really think it is meant for people that already have a keurig. I guess if you didn't have a microwave in your office, your coffee maker can now also make soup! Yucky soup, but soup.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

That makes sense, LL.

DH loves his Keurig, but he would never let me defile it with soup!

flan

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Caitlyn keeps a cup of noodles at work. In case she can leave for lunch.

She started taking a cup with her to school to have between school and practice.

I use to keep a cup with me too.

It's so easy. I don't see the point in a huge machine taking up precious cabinet space.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

It's not a huge machine.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Is it bigger than a cup of noodles?

ed11563 · Guru

Does it provide a 3 day supply of sodium in every serving?

NAOW · Vette's SS

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
chef wrote:
Maybe your friend who's having the baby could use one ... :D
1. They are $170.
2. I'm not thrilled with her right now.

Why? What happened?

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

NAOW wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
chef wrote:
Maybe your friend who's having the baby could use one ... :D
1. They are $170.
2. I'm not thrilled with her right now.
Why? What happened?

She has gone off the deep end. And please don't say it's pregnancy hormones. Pregnant women DO NOT make their boyfriends buy houses and cars they can't afford. She has the two step kids, girl 11 and boy 13, and has raised them for the last five years. Her boyfriend is really not involved in their care. She is the parent. They used to live at their grandma's where there was no running water, usually no food, and a lot of drunk relatives. That's why she went and got them. Since she got pregnant they have moved from an apartment to a three bedroom rental house to buying a HUGE two story four bedroom two bath house. They bought a new minivan. She decided that since she lives in a two story house she needs two of everything for the baby so she doesn't have to take it up and downstairs. She permanently quit work saying she's going to be a SAHM. She wanted to go to medical school and has now canceled that. She is going to get a degree in general studies. But not go to work once she does. But the worst of it is she keeps threatening the step kids. She tells them if they disrespect her while she is pregnant she will send them back to live with their grandma. And that if they treat HER baby badly she will send them back. She told me, right in front of them, that she doesn't have to have them in her home and won't put up with them misbehaving. Now the kids are acting out and she doesn't understand why.

NAOW · Vette's SS

Those poor kids. I can see why you aren't happy with her.

Ohfour · Hooker

We are in the Gevalia camp. LOVE it...

We have a Keurig at home. It hates me. Seriously, I can't make a decent cup of coffee. G's is always perfect...:(

We have one here at work, too. I think it makes sense in an office environment...

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

NAOW wrote:
Those poor kids. I can see why you aren't happy with her.

First, I don't know how they can afford all this. She made good money because she was a waitress at a high end steak house. She is blond, petite, and perky as hell. Always smiling and laughing. She loved her job and it showed in what she did. She RAKED in the tips. So now she quit and her boyfriend only manages a fast food place. They are not rolling in the dough. I don't know how they are going to afford all the new lifestyle changes. They also bought new tv's and furniture for the whole house. They have two living areas so they needed to sofa's of course. They decorated the nursery beautifully. I mean, it's gorgeous. The older two kids got zip. Nothing new, and plain white walls. I went over one night to see the place and she said to me, in front of the kids, "These aren't my kids. I don't have to keep them if I don't want to." Up until she got pregnant she always called them HER kids. They even call her mom. Now they're not her kids. And when I try to tell people she's changed they just say it's hormones. No, this is not hormones.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Ohfour wrote:
We are in the Gevalia camp. LOVE it...

We have a Keurig at home. It hates me. Seriously, I can't make a decent cup of coffee. G's is always perfect...:(

We have one here at work, too. I think it makes sense in an office environment...

I actually think they do make sense in an office. People will drink all but that little bit so they don't have to make more. Then it burns on the pot. Gross.

Our library has one. You pay a nickel for each cup you want.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
NAOW wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
chef wrote:
Maybe your friend who's having the baby could use one ... :D
1. They are $170.
2. I'm not thrilled with her right now.
Why? What happened?
She has gone off the deep end. And please don't say it's pregnancy hormones. Pregnant women DO NOT make their boyfriends buy houses and cars they can't afford. She has the two step kids, girl 11 and boy 13, and has raised them for the last five years. Her boyfriend is really not involved in their care. She is the parent. They used to live at their grandma's where there was no running water, usually no food, and a lot of drunk relatives. That's why she went and got them. Since she got pregnant they have moved from an apartment to a three bedroom rental house to buying a HUGE two story four bedroom two bath house. They bought a new minivan. She decided that since she lives in a two story house she needs two of everything for the baby so she doesn't have to take it up and downstairs. She permanently quit work saying she's going to be a SAHM. She wanted to go to medical school and has now canceled that. She is going to get a degree in general studies. But not go to work once she does. But the worst of it is she keeps threatening the step kids. She tells them if they disrespect her while she is pregnant she will send them back to live with their grandma. And that if they treat HER baby badly she will send them back. She told me, right in front of them, that she doesn't have to have them in her home and won't put up with them misbehaving. Now the kids are acting out and she doesn't understand why.

I never understand why when a women is pregnant, all of the sudden they run out and buy a new house AND a minivan. Then, the baby comes, and they spend the next years bellyaching about how they wished they could stay home and be with the baby, blah, blah.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Ohfour wrote:
We are in the Gevalia camp. LOVE it...

We have a Keurig at home. It hates me. Seriously, I can't make a decent cup of coffee. G's is always perfect...:(

We have one here at work, too. I think it makes sense in an office environment...
I actually think they do make sense in an office. People will drink all but that little bit so they don't have to make more. Then it burns on the pot. Gross.
Our library has one. You pay a nickel for each cup you want.

A nickel? Each K-cup costs at least 50 cents.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
NAOW wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
chef wrote:
Maybe your friend who's having the baby could use one ... :D
1. They are $170.
2. I'm not thrilled with her right now.
Why? What happened?
She has gone off the deep end. And please don't say it's pregnancy hormones. Pregnant women DO NOT make their boyfriends buy houses and cars they can't afford. She has the two step kids, girl 11 and boy 13, and has raised them for the last five years. Her boyfriend is really not involved in their care. She is the parent. They used to live at their grandma's where there was no running water, usually no food, and a lot of drunk relatives. That's why she went and got them. Since she got pregnant they have moved from an apartment to a three bedroom rental house to buying a HUGE two story four bedroom two bath house. They bought a new minivan. She decided that since she lives in a two story house she needs two of everything for the baby so she doesn't have to take it up and downstairs. She permanently quit work saying she's going to be a SAHM. She wanted to go to medical school and has now canceled that. She is going to get a degree in general studies. But not go to work once she does. But the worst of it is she keeps threatening the step kids. She tells them if they disrespect her while she is pregnant she will send them back to live with their grandma. And that if they treat HER baby badly she will send them back. She told me, right in front of them, that she doesn't have to have them in her home and won't put up with them misbehaving. Now the kids are acting out and she doesn't understand why.
I never understand why when a women is pregnant, all of the sudden they run out and buy a new house AND a minivan. Then, the baby comes, and they spend the next years bellyaching about how they wished they could stay home and be with the baby, blah, blah.

I guess you didn't read. She QUIT her job permanently and pretty much dropped out of college.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Lawyerlady wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Ohfour wrote:
We are in the Gevalia camp. LOVE it...

We have a Keurig at home. It hates me. Seriously, I can't make a decent cup of coffee. G's is always perfect...:(

We have one here at work, too. I think it makes sense in an office environment...
I actually think they do make sense in an office. People will drink all but that little bit so they don't have to make more. Then it burns on the pot. Gross.
Our library has one. You pay a nickel for each cup you want.
A nickel? Each K-cup costs at least 50 cents.

I don't think they're doing it to make money. There are people that hang out there all day. I'm sure they take advantage.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
NAOW wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
chef wrote:
Maybe your friend who's having the baby could use one ... :D
1. They are $170.
2. I'm not thrilled with her right now.
Why? What happened?
She has gone off the deep end. And please don't say it's pregnancy hormones. Pregnant women DO NOT make their boyfriends buy houses and cars they can't afford. She has the two step kids, girl 11 and boy 13, and has raised them for the last five years. Her boyfriend is really not involved in their care. She is the parent. They used to live at their grandma's where there was no running water, usually no food, and a lot of drunk relatives. That's why she went and got them. Since she got pregnant they have moved from an apartment to a three bedroom rental house to buying a HUGE two story four bedroom two bath house. They bought a new minivan. She decided that since she lives in a two story house she needs two of everything for the baby so she doesn't have to take it up and downstairs. She permanently quit work saying she's going to be a SAHM. She wanted to go to medical school and has now canceled that. She is going to get a degree in general studies. But not go to work once she does. But the worst of it is she keeps threatening the step kids. She tells them if they disrespect her while she is pregnant she will send them back to live with their grandma. And that if they treat HER baby badly she will send them back. She told me, right in front of them, that she doesn't have to have them in her home and won't put up with them misbehaving. Now the kids are acting out and she doesn't understand why.
I never understand why when a women is pregnant, all of the sudden they run out and buy a new house AND a minivan. Then, the baby comes, and they spend the next years bellyaching about how they wished they could stay home and be with the baby, blah, blah.
I guess you didn't read. She QUIT her job permanently and pretty much dropped out of college.

I know. That is even DUMBER!

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

Well Keurig as hit it's market limit so they are trying all sorts of new stuff Unfortunately all the "new" stuff is already invented or is not appealing. To heat up homemade soup takes only a matter of minutes on a stove top or in the microwave, if you want high sodium in your soup, microwave the instant stuff in your $50 microwave, no need to spend over $100 on a keurig.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
I know. That is even DUMBER!

She has surpassed pregnancy dumb at this point. Her b/f is salaried so he can't work OT or anything. I know she raked in the money in tips. DN worked with her for awhile and she never made the tips my friend made. But seriously, she's got everything it takes to be a successful waitress.

chef · Guru

NJN: Sounds like she's hopped on the crazy train. Yikes!

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chef wrote:
NJN: Sounds like she's hopped on the crazy train. Yikes!

Pretty much. She really wanted to be a doctor and is super smart. She would have made a good one. She's cute and perky. She's like four foot two. Seriously. Once she came over and took her shoes off and I yelled at SS to pick up his tennis shoes. That's how tiny she is. She's got pretty blond hair and blue eyes. She's like the stereotype of what you would want in a waitress. Looks, personality, and hard worker.

It doesn't look good for her now. I think in the end she may end up doing damage to her relationship and end up single. Then it will be almost impossible for her to go to med school.