The ALEX water bottle comes apart for easy
cleaning—or to fill with Halloween or Christmas
candy as a gift. Photo by River Soma | THE
NIBBLE.
There’s something truly new in water bottles: ALEX. The patent pending technology is a leakproof silicone seal in the middle of the bottle that allows you to take the bottle apart for a thorough cleaning.
With their small mouth openings, most reusable water bottles require special cleaning tablets; bottle brushes aren’t that effective. Bottles can build up unhealthy bacteria and odors.
Now there are no more worries about what lurks in that reusable bottle. You can wash ALEX in the sink or pop it into the dishwasher.
Since you can clean ALEX thoroughly, you also can use it to carry iced coffee, juice or other cold drinks and powdered drinks. (Hot drinks aren’t recommended because the bottle isn’t insulated.)
ALEX is made of premium grade stainless steel and is 100% BPA Free.
And here’s another benefit: For traveling, you can unscrew the center and nest the bottom half into the top half.
ALEX stands for “Always Live Extraordinarily.” Figuratively, ALEX stands for making sustainability simple. Fifty percent of the steel is recycled and the strap is made from recycled water bottles.
Help keep those 38 million annual unrecycled water bottles out of the landfill and waterways. ALEX is available in two sizes—20 ounces and 32 ounces—and three colors: black, white and stainless steel (silver). The black and white versions have a choice of contrasting-color silicone bands.
We love the rich color that burgundy-and-white radicchio gives to a salad. But it can do so much more!
We’ve got recipes for Bruschetta With Radicchio di Treviso Tapenade, Mushroom Risotto In Radicchio Wrap, Radicchio Pizza and more.
Radicchio—Italian red-leaf chicory—is a healthy food: It’s very high in antioxidants and full of vitamins A and C and phosphorus (the latter needed for healthy bones and teeth, energy, mental alacrity and more).
October 25, 2010 at 2:52 pm
· Filed under Coffee & Tea
Wake up to coffee and coffee accessories
from Folgers! Photo courtesy Folgers.
What’s the best part of wakin’ up? To some, it’s Folgers coffee in their cup. Five lucky winners will have plenty of the popular coffee if they win this week’s Gourmet Giveaway. Folgers is giving away five of their Home for the Holidays gift baskets bursting with coffee and coffee accessories.
Each basket contains:
Folgers Classic Decaf – 11.3-ounce
Folgers Classic Roast – 11.3-ounce
Folgers Special Roast – 10.3-ounce ground coffee container
To Enter This Gourmet Giveaway: Go to the box at the bottom of our Gourmet Coffee Section and click to enter your email address for the prize drawing.
After entering our giveaway, head on over to Folgers.com between now and the end of November to enter their second-annual “Home for the Holidays” Contest, where five winners will receive a seven day, six night trip for four to travel back to their hometown.
