We drink a lot of water in our house. I mean a lot. When we were still buying bottled water I was buying two 24 packs of bottled water a week.  That’s a lotta water and a lot of plastic to sit in the landfills for 1000 years.

About a year ago,  we invested in a PUR water pitcher.  Not long after we got it I dropped the top and broke it.  Not that it affected the purifying or really even the use of the pitcher, but it did affect the pouring and my spilling.

Since there wasn’t actually anything wrong with the pitcher itself, we did not replace it and would still be using it had I not been asked to review the new PUR Flavor Options recently.

Not A Fan of Flavored Bottled Water

Now,  I must tell you I am not a fan of bottled flavored water and was a little apprehensive about trying it out.  However, when I got a chance to try the Flavor Options out I was pleasantly surprised.  Since the pitcher allows you to control how much or how little flavor you add to the water, I didn’t have to worry about taste overwhelming me. Also, the flavor wasn’t overly sweet (if you don’t hit the button 3 times) and didn’t have the artificial taste so many bottled flavored waters do.

School Lunches

With the addition of a little flavor I have found my girls are drinking even more water than previously and I have started adding a small reusable bottle of the lightly flavored water to KG’s lunches.  She’s drinking it up and always asks for more when she gets home from school!

Filter Life Indicators

What was my biggest pet peeve in the old pitcher design has been eradicated with the addition of the automatic filter life indicator (which is a fancy way of saying a flashing light tells you when it’s time to change your filter.) I cannot tell you how happy this makes me.

I can never remember to change my filter or when the proper time to do it is…or inevitably, we just quit using it or buy a new filter several months later.  The new indicator flashes green when the filter is ok and doesn’t need to be changed, flashes yellow when it’s almost time to change, and flashes red when the time has come for a new filter.

Save Money

FYI: For all you frugalistas out there-You can save up to $600 a year drinking filtered water instead of bottled water!! That’s not a number to sneeze at, we could fund our trip to Disney World I keep telling the kiddos I’m going to take them on.

Community Responsibility

Another great thing about PUR is every time a PUR product is purchased, they donate a portion of their proceeds to Children’s Safe Drinking Water- an organization “focused on reducing sickness and death resulting from drinking contaminated water.”

We all know how important drinking water is to your health and the health of your family and now PUR has made it so much easier.  Not just for my family, but for yours also!

Giveaway

PUR is giving away 1 PUR Flavor Options pitcher to a lucky reader!!

TO Enter:

Head over to PUR and check out all the different flavors available, then come back here and tell me your favorite flavor!

Extra Entries:

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Rules:

• *Contest is open to all U.S. residents where legal under local statutes.
• *Void where prohibited.
• *No purchase necessary.
• *Valid email address required. Entries with email addresses visible to the public will be deleted and are not valid.
• *Valid entries will be received beginning Friday, September 4, 2009 thru 11:59pm Friday, September 11, 2009.
• *Winner will be selected at random based on the list of valid comments using random.org.
• *Winner will be notified via their email address and have 3 days to respond to the email from amanda(at)highimpactmom(dot)com

Good Luck! Happy Winning!

Don’t forget to enter one of our great giveaways we have going on this week!

Disclosure: PUR Water Filtration Systems sent my family a Flavor Options pitcher and two flavors to keep so I could do this review and giveaway.

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