Wednesday, September 23, 2009

PUR Water Flavors Pitcher: Review and Giveaway

This giveaway is now closed, congratulations to Luv to Save, comment # 41 who said: blog follower as ethelluvtosave at gmail.com Thank you to everyone who entered!
I am diabetic, so sugary fruit juices, sodas, and even carb laden but good for you milk tend to drive my blood sugar levels sky high. So in an effort to maintain good control over my sugars, I often end up drinking a lot of water to stay hydrated. But drinking plain water can get rather boring to the taste buds after awhile.

Then I tried a new product from PUR Water and I am loving their PUR Flavor Options!

What is PUR Flavor Options?
  • PUR Flavor Options is the first and only filter for tap water that lets you add a touch of sugar-free, calorie-free fruit flavoring to your water.
  • PUR Flavor Options was named “Household Product of the Year” by Product of the Year USA in January 2009 and comes in raspberry, lemon, grape and strawberry.

About PUR Water Filtration:

  • Environment & Money: Switching from bottled water to filtered and a reusable bottle can eliminate up to 3,200 plastic bottles and save one person up to $600 annually.
  • Health: The EPA estimates that approximately 20% of Americans’ lead exposure is attributable to tap water. PUR filters are certified to reduce many contaminants, including 98% of lead, 99.9% of microbial cysts and 99% of pharmaceuticals.
  • Philanthropy: With each purchase of a PUR filter, a donation is made to Children’s Safe Drinking Water which has, to date, provided over 1.5 billion liters of clean water to needy children and their families around the world.

What I love about PUR Flavor Options:

  • No calories and no suragr or carbs but lots of flavor.
  • Clear flavored drink, I can drink as much as I want without having to worry about staining my teeth, something I worry about with diet colas and ice tea.
  • 4 different flavors mean I can change and try new flavors all the time.
  • You can switch out the flavor cartridges, just keep the opened ones in the refrigerator.
  • You can decide how intense you want the flavoring to be by choosing how many times you push a button.
  • You add the flavoring only when you want. If you don't add the flavoring, the water you pour out will be pure and filtered, with a great clean taste.
  • Use your own reusable bottle for portability and cut down on wasteful one use water bottles.
  • Inexpensive way to add more variety into the beverages I drink.

Suggestions for PUR Flavor Options:

  • The pitcher is smaller and holds less than another brand of water filtration pitcher that we also own. The PUR Favor Options water pitcher holds 7, 8-ounce glasses of water but it seemed like I had to refill it a lot. BUT on the upside, it actually fit in our fridge door unlike the other brand's. I'd like the option for a larger pitcher as well as the space saving one currently available, cause some of us like big glasses at a time.
  • I liked the lemon flavoring a lot, it tastes like water with a lemon slice in it. The raspberry flavoring tasteed a little bit too artificial to me. But it is still pleasant tasting and a flavor I'd buy again, I just like lemon a lot more.

Overall:

Excellent value for your money that provides a lot of variety. It's good for your health, good for the environment, and the pocketbook. It's a win win all around☺

Win a PUR Flavor Options Pitcher:
Try out PUR Flavor Options by winning your own pitcher, stage 2 pitcher filter, and a raspberry flavor cartridge.

To Enter:
Visit PUR Flavor Options, and look under Why Choose PUR? and tell me which one of the 10 reasons is most important to you or tell me one of your own.

For Extra Entries:
{Please leave me a seperate comment for each method of additional entry}

Publically follow my blog.
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Take the What's Your Flavor quiz on the Pur Flavor Options website, and tell me what your answer is. I'm perfectly peachy.

Open to US residents now through Wednesday October 7 at 12 midnight EST.

Disclaimer: Thank you to PUR Water for providing the review and giveaway products. This review relates my own options, which were not influenced by the company in any way, and experiences. Yours may differ. Thank you to The Product Review Place for helping to connect me with this great company and sponsor!

51 comments:

  1. I like that it keeps your family healthy.

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  2. It is Easy on the Budget. My husband used to buy bottled water and it's not cheap! For a case, we were paying nearly $6...for water!!!

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  3. I'm publicly following your blog, which I love!

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  4. I have your button on my blog also!

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  5. I gave you a well-deserved award.

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  6. Who knew? I'm perfectly peachy too! Cute little survey!

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  7. I like the idea of it and these are great! Most important to me is the lead,copper,minerials that it filters out.. Next is how many plastic bottles that u keep out of the landfill!
    would love to win this for my daughter in law julie and her family...
    alwaysatryin at gmail.com

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  8. nannato5http://bit.ly/x49TD win pur flavor pitcher! follow and twittered u
    nannato5
    alwaysatryin at gmail.com

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  9. Subscribe to your RSS Feed
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  10. lol..we are all in a peach orchard! i am too,,,peachy peachy
    alwaysatryin at gmail.com

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  11. The number 1 reason, to keep my family healthy!!

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  12. your button is on my blog and letting u know i added you to my post tonight also..
    alwaysatryin at gmail.com
    http://beginanewwithjesus.blogspot.com/

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  13. I took the quiz---my flavor is "crystal clear". That is not very exciting is it?

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  14. "Convenient and Easy to Use"
    Sounds good to me!

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  15. I have your adorable button on my side bar

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  16. I am also a perfectly peach kind of Katie.

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  17. Why choose Pur? Well - we are a water drinking family and I'm not a fan of tap water. Soooo....that's lots and lots of bottled water! Granted we recycle but I would love to be able to save some money and have a Pur pitcher....

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  18. According to the flavor quiz my flav is "Crystal Clear!" :)

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  19. I love that it is certified to reduce twice as many contaminants as Brita!

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  20. I follow your blog publicly (mgonyeo)

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  21. Easy on the budget, we will be saving money on the bottled water and with the flavor cartridges I can get the kids to drink more water.
    karenmed409 at comcast dot net

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  22. following blog publicly
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  23. RSS feed subscriber
    karenmed409 at comcast dot net

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  24. following in twitter and tweeted
    http://twitter.com/karenmed409/status/4442477157

    karenmed409 at comcast dot net

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  25. Crystal Clear on the Flavor Quiz
    http://twitter.com/karenmed409/status/4442477157

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  26. Well, all the reasons are fantastic, but I like that it is affordable and I can buy stuff for like 15 bucks!
    I like healthy water with flavor & so does my 2 yr old. I think this will be great for her - it is like tricking her that it is juice :) without the sugar!!!
    THANKS!
    Jill Kathan
    jillmsu@yahoo.com

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  27. I am following your blog using
    jillmsu@yahoo.com and I am sooo happy I do :)

    THANKS!
    Jill Kathan

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  28. I am now following through your RSS Feed...
    using jillykat07@gmail.com

    THANKS!
    Jill Kathan
    jillmsu@yahoo.com

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  29. I took the Quiz & came out as dazzling rasberry!
    Now, I REALLY want the pitcher & the flavor!!!
    THANKS!
    Jill Kathan
    jillmsu@yahoo.com

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  30. I'am a pre-diabetic and coming from a family of diabetics. I need to drink more water! But plain water gets to be so BORING! I love the thought of having 4 flavors to choose from to make water tasty! This would do the trick for sure.

    Kirsty

    hibbard_k@yahoo.com

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  31. The most important to me is that it keeps my family healthy :)
    luvtosave at gmail.com

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  32. blog follower as ethel
    luvtosave at gmail.com

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  33. email subscriber
    luvtosave at gmail.com

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  34. twitter follower as luv_to_Save and tweeted
    http://twitter.com/Luv_to_Save/status/4516778539
    luvtosave at gmail.com

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  35. I'm dazzling raspberry.
    luvtosave at gmail.com

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  36. thats its NSF certified clean pure water for me and my kids

    jakellcth @ msn.com

    (*sorry posted this first and didnt stay,,not sure why)

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  37. follow on twitter and posted a link

    jakellcth @ msn.com

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  38. Helps keep my family healthy!

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  39. http://twitter.com/tcarolinep/status/4622559584 tweet and @tcarolinep follower.

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  40. My own reason~
    Flavord water in a "cool" pitcher would impress my kiddos and they would surely drink more water!

    Luvdaylilies at bellsouth dot net

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