Well, if you are an iced tea follower of ours, you’ll like this. If you are a DC or coffee person, bear with me – I found another iced tea trick and I have to share it!
As we’ve discussed, Lori and I both have Keurig coffee pots in our homes (so do Thrifty Nana and Whit). Shaun is the coffee drinker in the family, so he uses it far more than I do – I go for a nice cold can of Diet Coke (or as Special Guest Steph and I call it: DC) in the morning.
I was feeling a little left out till here when Lori told you about the new iced tea with lemon K-cups you can get for the Keurig. Looked awesome, but I have to say, when I checked at Super Target, a box was $11.99. I passed on the purchase, but that started the wheels a-turning in that rusty noggin of mine (it does happen on occasion)…
Could I get me some Keurig iced tea for cheaper than that?? YOU BET!
Our Keurig (Shaun’s Father’s Day present from TN, the girls and me) came with one of the little K-cup reusable filters. I think if you buy them individually, they cost about $20 – infinite coffee usage – probably the THRIFTIEST way to use a Keurig Friends. (Lori and I are planning to do an expose on where the cheapest place is to get K-cups – more on that soon.)
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| Re-usable K-cup filter |
In a previous tea post (remember our ode to the Royal Wedding here and here and here and here?) I talked about how we have a direct source to REAL English tea (via my brother-in-law Rich). Well, I figured that sacrelige as it may be, those tea bags would make GREAT iced tea.
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| The good stuff |
So I tied those two together – I carefully cut open the individual tea bag and dumped the contents into the K-cup filter for our Keurig. I filled my fave iced-tea glass (thanks CH!) to the brim with ice, hit brew for the second-highest size of mug and out the dalish tea came! Fabulous! Just as the iced tea k-cup Lori used here, it came out, melted enough ice to get cold, and was perfectly refreshing and delicious.
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| Cut open |
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| Tea leaves |
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| Filter into the Keurig, my large glass is waiting |
Thrifty Nana was at my house during this experiment, and she suggested I run the tea through one more time, and why not? I brewed another cup (this time I just used a mug) – on the next smaller size cup setting. When I drank down enough of my original glass of iced tea to add more ice and liquid, I did so, using this refill of tea. It was perfect.
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| Piping hot! |
So there you have it, Friends! Keurig iced tea for CHEAP! And FAST!
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| DIVINE! |
What’s better than CHEAP and FAST? Well, we won’t go there for today.
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