Mommy Brain Reports – Soda Club & Giveaway!
When Soda Club USA offered us the opportunity to try out their Soda Stream Soda Machine, I was so excited! The thought of making my own soda, and sparkling water was just music to my… umm. tastebuds.. Not to mention the money we could save! I just couldn’t wait for it to be delivered!
The day it arrived, I felt like Santa had come by, only he looked like the FedEx guy… I brought it inside, and while the girls were napping, I opened everything up and took a look at the instructions. Of course, by the time I was ready to try it out, my girls had woken up, and were just as excited to try the Soda Stream out as I was. I don’t normally let the girls drink soda, but I thought this could be an exception. I do like them to enjoy making things and enjoying what they make.Â
I took a look at the nutrition information of the Soda Club Sodas, and was just blown away when I compared them to name brand sodas. I couldn’t believe how much better for you the Soda Club Sodas actually are. Here’s just a couple of comparisions for example:
| Â |
Calories |
Carbs |
Sugar |
Sodium |
Caffeine |
| Pepsi ® |
100 |
27g |
27g |
25mg |
25mg |
| Coca-Cola ® |
100 |
27g |
27g |
35mg |
23mg |
| Soda-Club Cola |
34 |
9g |
9g |
2mg |
15mg |
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| 7-UP ® |
100 |
26g |
26g |
50mg |
0mg |
| Sierra Mist® |
100 |
26g |
26g |
25mg |
0mg |
| Sprite ® |
100 |
26g |
26g |
45mg |
0mg |
| Soda-Club Lemon Lime |
36 |
9g |
9g |
25mg |
0mg |
You can see the rest of the comparisons at the Soda Club comparison page. The Soda Club Sodas are perfect when you’re dieting… even if you drink the regular flavors! The Diet sodas are sugar free, and use Splenda which is actually recommended by the ADA for people with Diabetes. After tasting a few of the flavors, I actually think the diet flavors are pretty good!Â
The machine itself, is very easy to use. All you have to do is screw in the carbonator bottle, and put the cover on the back. When you’re ready to make some seltzer water, or soda, you fill up your 1 liter bottle with regular tap water, or filtered water. Using cold water is recommended. Next, push back the tilt lever and screw the bottle to the nozzle on the carbonator. Press the carbonator button until you hear a loud buzzing sound. Press and release a few more times to carbonate the water to your preference. Press the tilt lever, and untwist the bottle. Tilt the bottle, and very, very slowly add the Soda Mix flavor of your choice. Mix the Soda Mix and water by tilting, not shaking the bottle several times, and let it settle. Enjoy! It’s that easy!
Now, aside from the great flavors, the ease of use, and the great fun you can have mixing flavors, and drinks… You are also helping the environment and saving money! Let me explain!
How you’re saving the environment:
- You are drastically reducing waste from store bought cans and bottles.
- The Machine takes NO batteries or electricity to run, so you can use it just about anywhere!
- A typical family of four (like mine) could slash their soft drink related packaging usage by 90% just by using a Soda Club maker rather than buying cans or bottles.Â
The plastic carbonating bottles are reusable for up to three years, and the Penguin glass bottles last even longer. They are also pthalate and BPA free and recyclable!
The carbonators are cleaned, inspected and refilled when they’re empty with CO2 that is taken naturally from the air. They are reused until they are no longer in good condition.Â
Store bought sodas travel from the bottling plant to the store shelves, typically in trucks that are not very fuel efficient. Soda Club sodas are made with the water already in your home, so you save tons of greenhouse gasses from entering the atmosphere.Â
You have great tasting sodas and seltzer waters, easy to make, and very convenient, and you’re helping to save the environment while you enjoy them! Now, what more could you possibly wish for?Â
How about your very own Soda Stream???? Yes, you heard it! Soda Club USA has offered Mommy Brain Reports one Soda Stream Fountain Jet Startup Kit. This kit includes the Fountain Jet Black/Silver Home Soda Maker, 2, 60 Liter Carbonatores (makes approx 120 liters of seltzer), 2 plastic carbonating bottles, and 3 SodaMix bottles in the flavors of your choice. Each bottle makes approx 12 liters of soda. A value of $134.98 (including shipping)!!!
Here’s how you can enter:
1. Go to the Soda Club USA site. Come back to MBR and leave me a comment stating why you think this is perfect for your family!
2. Go to Soda Club USA. Come back to MBR and leave me a comment stating what 3 flavors you’d choose if you win.Â
3. Subscribe to my newsletter (Link on right sidebar). Leave me a comment stating you did so.Â
4. Blog about this giveaway, linking to this post in your post! Leave me a comment with a link back to your site!Â
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**You must leave a SEPARATE comment for EACH entry for it to count as a separate entry!
Contest will run from 1 November at 12:01am to 15 November at 11:59pm. You must be a resident of the Continental US or Canada to enter (Sorry, they can’t ship to AK, HI, PR, US Virgin Islands or APO/FPO addresses). Winner will have 48 hours to reply to my email! If winner does not reply, another winner will be chosen at random! Â
Now go check out Soda Club USA!
I really think this is a great idea. You can make soda at home without using all those bottles and cans. You save money by making it at home, and it’s better for the environment. Count me in, as this is a great prize!
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I would love to try diet vanilla cola (I love vanilla diet coke!), diet pete’s choice for my husband, and diet or regular rootbeer for the kids.
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This would be perfect for our family because we do drink a lot of soda. I’m a Coke drinker myself usually and would love to see if the Soda Club Cola could give me the flavor I really enjoy but without as much of the calories, carbs, sodium, caffeine, etc.
I think we would want to try cola (me), rootbeer (teenage son), and cranberry-raspberry (hubby).
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I think we would want to try cola (me), rootbeer (teenage son), and cranberry-raspberry (hubby).
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I would love to try the Fountain Mist, Grape or Lemon Lime. I love the idea of less sugar without artificial sweeteners!
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This is perfect for my family because it saves money, calories, and the environment. Sounds perfect to me
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I just think it would be fun to make and the savings would be tremendous not having to buy soda. Plus the fact I really want one.
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I think would be perfect for our family because it would be better for our budget and our bodies. I love the fact that it is so much better than bottled/canned soda from the grocery! I also love that it is so much better for the environment!
I would choose Cranberry Raspberry, Vanilla Cola and Pete’s choice! Yummy!
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this would help satisfy my craving for something bubbly without all the artifical sugar in regular sodas
i’d like to try root beer, ginger ale, and cola
i’d love to try rootbeer and add cream soda mmm
This would be perfect for my family because we love soda.
This would help us to save money and to have fun as a family making our favorite flavors.
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I would choose Berry, Orange, and Lemon-Lime.
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We try not to let our toddler have soda, but occasionally, when we are drinking it, he insists he needs some too. He’s cut his finger playing with the soda can before, so we’re always nervous to let him drink from the can. This would be a great way for us to drink soda without worrying about our little one getting cut on the can again.
I’d love to try root beer, cream soda, and cranberry raspberry.
I think this is a wonderful idea! We have greadually going ‘green’ to reduce our carbon footprints..and this would be a perfect way to do that…plus no batteries!!! WOW! Those are some of the most magical words a parent can ever hear..lol! Thank you so much for the chance to win this!!!
All of the flavors sound yummy, but I think our family would most enjoy root beer, cream soda, and vanilla cola. Thanks again for such a great giveaway! MMMMMMM!
This is such a neat idea! This would really save us a lot of money, and help us in our efforts to go green here at home!
Wow! This is such an amazing idea! I would love it because I think it would save us a lot of money and it looks like I would be taking in a lot less calories.
Oh, and I think I would chose the ginger ale and cream soda for my husband and the cranberry raspberry for both of us- all caffeine free- wow!
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I’ve seen this before and showed it to my husband, he couldn’t choke down the cost. It’s just a great way to help keep our recycling trips down, we do not have curbside recycling. It allows us to have the soda fix we need daily without the cost and it would be free if I won!!
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Tough decision on the flavors. I guess orange for the boys, dt cola for hubby & dt. dr. pete for me.
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I think this looks like the greatest little gadget! I can see by using this I would not have to lug all those heavy cases of soda home from the grocery store! What a savings to my back! I would love to try all the flavors, but the one that really caught my eye was the Pete’s Choice
I think htat this is a great and healthy alternative to commercial sodas on the market today!! and I would love to drink them cuz they sound so yummy!!
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i would love the cranberry rasberry, the orange and the root beer!
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My husband and I drink a LOT of soda. I’ve visited the Soda Club website before, and it’s intrigued me. They have so many flavors, and it would save us a lot of money in the long run. I guess my only misgiving is whether or not the soda tastes as good as I hope it does!
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I think we would really like to try the Diet Ginger Ale, Diet Root Beer, and Diet Lemon-Lime.
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What a cool idea! I would love to try the rootbeer, vanilla coke and cream soda.yummmmmmm
This is exactly what I need to make my life a whole lot easier for sure~! You see we have to walk up a mountain with all our groceries and lugging Soda is heavy and time consuming. Not to mention I like the idea of saving the environment.
With this amazing machine I could make several liters of soda from just one concentrated bottle which is GREAT!! I can’t believe they have it in my favorite which is cream soda. My family also likes Grape and Cola so they have all our favorites. Thanks so much for sharing.
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We drink soda like crazy, this would be great because it is much cheaper than buying soda!
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Diet pete’s Choice, Cran Raspberry and Rootbeer are what I would love to try!
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