• Choosing the Healthiest Foods for Your Family

    Welcome! I am a mom of a busy 8 year old and an adventurous 6 year old. I also happen to work for a great company called NuVal. NuVal is a nutritional scoring system that rates foods on a scale of 1-100, based on how nutritious they are. We are implementing NuVal in grocery stores around the country.

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Trade-Up Tuesday: Coffee With Kick

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 06:53 AM

Welcome to Trade-Up Tuesday!  Every Tuesday, I blog about a Trade-Up I’ve made since learning about NuVal  scores and I give away something for free.  Today’s Topic?  Coffee!  Not any old coffee.  Coffee With Kick.  Since I started working for NuVal just about two years ago, my coffee has gotten much darker!  Yes, NuVal is really beginning to take off.  It’s a very exciting time, with NuVal getting national attention in the Wall Street Journal  and on Good Morning America.  But that means that we have been working incredibly hard.  Don’t get me wrong – I’m not complaining.  I absolutely love it.  I’ve just turned up the caffeine level in my brew!

So is this a trade up?  Um, no.  It’s just a really good giveaway – so just go with it!  You see, NuVal is not scoring coffee.  We’re not scoring certain things that have no nutritional value and no nutrition facts panels (like coffee, teas, vinegars, cooking sprays, baking soda, lemon juice, lime juice, plain water, gum and corn starch).  But that doesn’t mean I can’t give it away on a Trade Up Tuesday!

These are two brands that I have been buying recently.  Growing up in Rhode Island and living in Massachusetts, there is a Dunkin Donuts on every corner.  I have a whole bunch of distant family members who work for the company.  It’s part of the culture here.  But as I said, my taste for coffee has changed, so I was so happy when Dunkin came out with Dunkin Dark.  I love it – especially Iced.  This is a good compromise for me and my husband, who does not need his coffee as jacked as I do.

When I worked in Chicago, back in the late 1990′s, there was a Starbucks on every corner.  I would visit the shop in my building every day, but I always went for one of their lighter roasts.  Not these days.  I take it dark, thank you very much.  I recently saw this Morning Joe in my local Stop & Shop and we’ve been brewing it ever since.  Good stuff!

Today’s Giveaway

One lucky commenter will win both the Starbucks and the Dunkin Dark coffee.  Just leave a comment below telling me how you like your coffee (if you like it at all).  Good news – you have all week to enter!  I’ll choose the winner on Monday morning August 23rd.  Good Luck!

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