As for the cost, I agree. I wouldn’t pick these up until they are on store shelves here. Really, I am just lucky to be trying them early, as I’ve been told that they are trying to get on store shelves up here in the great white north.

I have tried the Splenda flavour things as well, and while they are better than the Aspartame laced drink mixes, they only come in Tea flavours, which are all a little off, and aren’t really a direct competitor to a product like Trim Water.

As for the environmental impact. I guess there really is no way around that except to pipe Trim Water or a similar product to my home. Though I think that might be a bit excessive as well.

Today I will be doing the taste test, and let you know how it goes. Feel free to express yourself however you like. I actually hadn’t thought about the cost or the environmental impact before.

As for their website… well, I agree with you there. Flash should be used sparingly. But other than us expert web citizens, who else really knows that?

I’ve never been a fan of flavoured water - $2.50 (for a case of 12) for 591 ML seems on par with the other drinks in class. I couldn’t find shipping cost - the shipping part of their site says “Put here your Shipping & Returns information.”

So, I guess they weigh about as much as water, so 12×591ml = ~7.0 litres, and water weighs about 1 kg per litre. Shipping from bloggingweight.com to me (in Ottawa) would range between $15 (3-4 days) and $29 (2 days) per case, raising the cost per unit to between $3.75 and $5.00 per can.

For that price, I’d rather just drink filtered tap water, I think. Might be better to sell the flavouring in packets (not unlike the Splenda flavour packets - which I admittedly haven’t tried).. Especially when you think about the environmental impact of shipping water all over the place.

I didn’t quite intend to be quite so negative, but.. I guess its one of *those* days. :-/