Posted on 04/16/2014 8:22:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
Your coffee maker can now brew your entire breakfast before you head out the door in the morning.
Golden Valley-based General Mills has launched Nature Valley-brand oatmeal thats made in a Keurig brewer a machine that makes single servings of coffee, tea and other beverages using a single-serve capsule or pod (also known as a K-Cup), the Washington Post says.
Heres how it works: Hot water from the Keurig runs through flavor pods (K-Cups) and into a mug filled with Nature Valley Bistro Cups oatmeal, to be mixed with an additional packet of nuts and fruit.
This is General Mills first new oatmeal product since the 1990s. The General Mills blog says it is also the first non-beverage product that can be made in a Keurig, however Food Business News says last year the Campbell Soup Co. announced the Campbells Fresh-Brewed K-Cup packs.
The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal notes that the market for hot cereals is growing faster than traditional cereals, which accounts for one-fifth of General Mills revenue in the United States.
Keurig wasnt involved in the deal patents on the K-Cup technology expired in 2012, so there have been a number of non-Keurig products on the market to use with the brewer, Food Drive says.
The Nature Valley Bistro Cups Oatmeal which are available in brown sugar pecan and apple cinnamon almond can be purchased on Amazon.com and Sams Club stores and will be available in grocery stores later this year, General Mills says.
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Ping!...................
Now you can brew your coffee and breakfast at the same time!....................
If they make a Keurig that cooks steel cut oats, then I might be mildly interested.
I have a Keurig sitting in the garage. Didn’t like it at all. Costs too much and coffee just doesn’t taste like fresh brewed. Takes me 2 minutes to make oatmeal on the stove too. Sheesh.
People really need to slow down a little.
My microwave is almost my wife
So... we are no longer capable of boiling water or using a microwave?
Honestly, instant oatmeal is easier than this.
When my daughter was young I used the microwave in the morning for oats for her. As fast as a Keurig and much cheaper.
There's an app for that....................
I’m waiting for a K-Cup T-Bone..................
I love the K cups but I have to search for them on sale only. I find them cheap in Big Lots.
Next they’ll invent a K-Cup that makes Jello.....................
Better yet, you can just leave the “brew cup” slot empty on the Kuerig and just get hot hater. Which you can then use with instant oatmeal and bypass the more expensive and complicated system presented here.
Big Lots is my grocery store. It’s within walking distance and Wallymart is three miles away...........
That Keurig thing for coffee pods is more of an idiot tax than PowerBall, and makes horrible coffee to boot.
All this talk of breakfast. I'm going to go and make a couple of scrambled egg sandwiches now. With cheese. And mayo.
Cheers!
I’ve been called a “hot hater.”
Oh yummy!!! We have a sailboat and the hot water heater went out. They are expensive to replace. Never use hot water for anything except doing dishes so I just run some water through the coffee maker and have hot water for dishes. Lol
Ingenuity...........
I’ll stick with my daily bowl of Irish steel cut.
Love my keurig. Some have their water temp too hot and get a plastic taste.
You have figured out the key to the Keurig; it is not that difficult to find your favorite coffee, tea, or other K-cups for 40-45 cents a cup. Quick, easy, no wasted half-pots or refrying old coffee. It has actually been cheaper in the long run than our coffee-pot systems that we paid as much for as the Keurig.
Oatmeal is better done on the stove or with instant-add boiling water. I might try the Keurig version but there are other instant oatmeal cups that size out there that work just as well by running hot water from the Keurig into them. I’ve tried a couple, mixed results.
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