Quoted message said:CheCooks said:What I need are some ideas for something other than lemonade, iced tea, pop
or water for him to drink. He is driving me nuts trying to figure out what
I can buy/make for him. He tells me (and he doesn't know why) that he can
drink lots of water at work, but not at home--we even have a wonderful water
filter! I do not buy pop in my home, and the dentist told him no more
lemonade because it was eating away his enamel. Oh, by the way, price is
involved. He is very tight and won't spend the money that Gatorade, etc.
costs. Is there hope or is my determination hopeless??????
Even with a good filter, trying boiling your water. I have city water
(meaning not a well) and it is fine, but boiling it makes it taste
wonderful. Boil, cool, store in frige in clean container - glass is best.
Whether you boil it or not, you can buy a number of extracts - vanilla,
cherry, banana, butternut, lemon, etc - and add a drop or two to a quart
of water ("to taste"😉.
There are dozens of fruit juices and juice combos. There are lots of
kool-aid varieties - sweetened with sugar substitute. There are lots of
fruit-like products like Hawaiian Punch.
Some of these things aren't good alone, but in a blender with ice and
maybe something like simple syrup or sugar substitute (where needed), you
can have a great summer cooler or a smoothie or a slushy. As well, if you
use an ice cream freezer, you can make sorbet.
You can also mix many of these with selzer water, gingerale, club soda, or
7-up.
One of my favorite juice combos is equal parts grapefruit juice and
pineapple juice.
I don't know what the problem is with "pop", but there are so many out
there now with no sugar and no caffeine. Most of the diet drinks that I
have tried are excellent and I have never been able to taste the absence
of caffeine. I like the black cherry and the root beer. On a really hot
summer day, a glass, two scoops of vanilla ice cream, and a liberal amount
of root beer can be a joy to behold. If the fizz is a problem, open it
and let it go flat.
'Round here, iced tea is the standard, so as long as there is a gallon in
the frige, we are happy campers.
A couple of suggestions from my [censored] side: (apologies in advance)
Send HIM to the store and let him find his own drinks.
If he continues to give you a bad time about what to drink after all the
suggestions from this ng, slap him up side his head.
Elaine, too
