Can anyone recommend a good blender to purchase... Some say the Magic Bullet, some say the Wand, some say just buy premade food...

What's a girl to do??? :huh2:

Gayle was right! I purchased a Magic Bullet several years ago when they were much more expensive and mine did not last that long. The blades literally broke right off the top. I loved it while it worked... it just didn't work that long. I'd recommend going with something else. Just a word to the wise! Good luck!

Here's a post I've written before:

I know many are fond of the Magic Bullet, but I am just not impressed with it's power (or lack of) compared to other blenders out there. Plus it's pretty expensive at $50-$60, the cheapest I've seen it was at Kohl's at Xmas and that was a four hour day after Thanksgiving sale price for $36.

The Magic Bullet has *only* 225W of power.

There is a personal sized blender at Walmart that you can get online that is 350W and is only $18ish, here's the link:

Back to Basics 3-Speed Brushed Chrome Personal Blender Express, BPE3BR - Wal-Mart

I can't find it in the stores, but I did find it online at Walmart and if you're not a Wallyworld fan, here's an msn link with more estores that carry it:

Back to Basics 350-Watt Personal Blender Express price comparison

I just ended up buying a new blender (I needed one anyway) from Walmart, it's an Oster that came with a food processer attachment and a free personal size mix mug (not all the boxes had that, but they do sell those for about $13 or so) and it was $40 (now less than that). It has 450 watts. I do really like it. This is it:

Oster 12-Speed Osterizer Blender With Food Processor Attachment - Wal-Mart

Here's the link to the personal mixer cup:

Oster Blend-n-Go Cup - Wal-Mart

But did you know that if you have a blender that has the screw-off base with the removable blades (screw the base off the jar and take the blade assembly and a gasket ring out for cleaning) that that ring actually fits on canning jars? Talk about nice and small, you could use half pint or pint size jars and not have to worry about buying another blender/mixer at all. I have a bunch of those old glass canning jars with the handle on them they used to sell in the dollar stores, those work great.

Edited May 7, 200818 yr by faithmd
Sorry for all the RED, I cut and pasted this post after doing a search for it using "blender."

WOW- thanks for All the info! I'm still on the fence and I'm really interested now in recipes to put in my blender!!! I'm going to start a new post for that!!!