I don’t know where you live but here it is scorching hot. It’s so hot that we are under a heat advisory. We’ve been staying inside, drinking lots of water and trying to stay cool in our little backyard pool.
This awful heat made me think about summer drinks. I admit I am a bit boring when it comes to drinks. Water, tea and occasionally decaf coffee are about it for me.
Because I’m boring, I did a quick search on healthy summer drinks. Here are some ideas I saw:
Mix orange juice with plain yogurt and freeze for a couple of hours.
Crystal light drinks. (I seem to remember they now have one that doesn’t use artificial sweeteners.)
Make ice cubes using fruit juice and put into water.
Iced tea with Splenda or Truvia.
Club soda with a splash of lemon.
I was wondering if you’d share your for a healthy drink that’s not high in calories but tasty enough for the whole family to have as a treat? Diane
One favorite thing here is something I call Sassy Water. Take a gallon pitcher, slice one organic lemon, one english cucumber, an inch of fresh ginger and about 20 fresh mint leaves. Place in the pitcher, fill with water and refrigerate for about 4 hours. Strain and drink- very refreshing !
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One of my favorite refreshing drinks is water with a slice of lime, slice of lemon, and a slice of orange. That’s it!
Another for me was Cranberry juice and just a touch of diet sprite..but since I try to stay away from soda (diet or otherwise) this one I don’t drink so much.
And lastly, I am fortunate enough that I do not like sweet tea so I brew up sun tea with lots of flavored teas for a change of pace
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I have to say that making “Sweet Tea” with splenda vs regular sugar is my favorite summertime drink. I have learned that splenda still carries calories, so you still can’t drink it all day.
Today at a restaurant I saw advertised Ginger Ale with pomegranate juice. If you did diet or low-cal Ginger Ale I bet that would be good!
Thinking of trying that “Sassy Water” mentioned above.
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Coconut water! Mix it with seltzer. Yum. Or mix plain seltzer with some pomegranate juice.
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I’ve been trying to increase my water. Do you know if it is common to swell when you increase your water for a few days. My ankles swelled, but now it’s gone. It did that another time when I wasn’t drinking much water and then increased it.
Here is a link for how I love to drink water in the summer! http://rhondas3boys.blogspot.com/2009/06/boringtospectacular.html
We make a lot of sun tea. I like to squeeze fresh lemon in mine or oranges. Very refreshing!
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Water with cucumber and mint is amazing!
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OH MY WORD that photo looks so appetizing ~ make me want to grab and drink….
Thanks for tips and idea…
I’ve been making iced tea using Celestial Seasonings flavored teas and a little Stevia. My favorites so far have been the True Blueberry and Country Peach Passion!
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all of us (5) drink water
just have gotten the kids (and myself) off the idea that a drink has to have sweeteness to it.
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I know it may sound crazy to some, but all I want when it is hot and I am thirsty is water. Ice cold water.
QVC has a fruit infusion pitcher that I bought and you can use any kind of fruit in it and it will last up to 2 weeks as long as you keep the water covering the fruit !
So far I have just used lemons and limes and it works great ! Think I will use stawberry and lemon next ! I am a true wateraholic !!! I love water !!!
Ice water IS pretty good!! I also like unsweet peach or raspberry tea. And sun tea.
I’m another one who mostly sticks to water, tea, and coffee. My favorite this summer, besides plain old ice water, is an iced green mint tea that is made at one of my favorite cafes. It is perfect as it, no sweetener needed.
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We drink iced green or herbal tea, when I have young kids visiting, they get a little honey added to the tea. In India they drink tea with lots of chopped fresh ginger and mint, it’s fabulous. I also like seltzer with limes and ice. After dinner my husband and I like an occasional decaf frappiccino – I use 3 spoons of decaf, 3 splendas, a little vanilla, some evaporated milk, lots of ice (10-15 smallish cubes) and some milk (real, almond or soy) and whirl in the blender. Makes two really big glasses. The kids used to like smoothies made similarly with some frozen fruit in place of some of the ice and undiluted frozen juice (orange or cranberry) as needed for flavor. I also like homemade very lightly sweetened lemon or lime-aid – I think sour drinks are fabulous, especially when it’s hot. And you can always make frozen pops from blended fruit, with juice and/or plain yogurt to taste. We also love frozen bananas (really 1/2 a banana seems like a serving – it’s much like sherbet.
I am a water person most of the time unless I am having my beloved coffee BUT seeing that crystal light there, how about making that into ice cubes to throw in regular water.. could even mix flavors!
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All good suggestions! I tend to like a little carbonation, so the club soda sounds like my way to go!
When it’s hot I prefer cold water. And some ice tea every now and then. I often put water in the fridge and add some mint to it which makes it more tasty.
I’ve been doing the ice coffee thing this year – the rest of the time it’s water.
I have some limes so will try that this week
Mmm, those sound like great drink ideas. We like crushed ice with juice on top; it’s so delicious!
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One of my favorite drinks, hot or cold is Stosh’s Licorice Spiced Herbal Tea…ooooohhhhhh so yummy. This is my substitue for candy. Here’s a link: http://www.stashtea.com/products/Licorice+Spice+Herbal+Tea.aspx
like others, i like to just add some ginger, lemon, mint or a couple of berries to flavour my water in summer. Or, what I’ve been having recently is grapefruit juice with sparkling water and ice (one fifth grapefruit and the rest water). its super refreshing!