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So ever since childhood I've been raised on soda. In the past months I've made strides to the point where the only soda I even drink maybe once a day has no phosphoric acid and uses sucrolose. Right now I mostly drink Crystal Light drinks I mix up in a pitcher. My only issue with them is I'd rather avoid aspartame but it seems to be the only sweetner they use. Still, it increases my water consumption a lot.
So my question is are there any easily made sweet drinks out there that while not necessarily healthy, won't eat holes in my brain either? Or am I going to have to keep cutting back to where I'm drinking just water?
Edit: To clarify, I need a drink that uses an artificial sweetner that isn't aspartame and won't destroy my teeth.
So my question is are there any easily made sweet drinks out there that while not necessarily healthy, won't eat holes in my brain either? Or am I going to have to keep cutting back to where I'm drinking just water?
Edit: To clarify, I need a drink that uses an artificial sweetner that isn't aspartame and won't destroy my teeth.
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Tastes like sugar.. doesn't have the nasty effects. You can make your own drinks with it and use it as a replacement for sugar when baking.
And I guess I should have made it clear, I need something to replace the sugar I was getting way too much of.
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Anyways, cutting back to just water isn't a bad idea at all, since it will probably break the feeling that you need something sweet to drink. Try it for a month - just 4 weeks, it's not so long - then see if you still feel the need to have sweet drinks. I used to drink huge amounts of cherry coke and dr pepper, but I'm basically a black coffee, green tea and water guy now (okay, honestly, I just switched caffeine habits). If I feel the need for a sweet drink, I take one glass of coke light. But 99% of the time, water is fine for me.
I have never tried to brew my own or anything.
EDIT: And to be helpful, even though it contains asper, Arnold Palmer's Low Calorie. five cals a glass. Best tasting stuff ever.
...I need to stop drinking so much coke.
Go to the grocery store and find this stuff called Naked Juice. Don't buy it, but look on the bottle at the fruit combinations listed for each bottle. Now run over to the produce section and stock up on fresh fruits. Assuming you have a blender at home start making you some smoothies. They taste wonderful and are full of added benefits such as necessary vitamins, minerals, and fiber. I also toss in some grapefruit juice with mine to thin them out. Makes them last longer and you get vitamin C which will be found predominantly in citrus. Healthy and delicious. Some people add yogurt but I'm not one of them.
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Right, thread solved. I'm getting some fruit.
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Do you mix the tea with the carbonated water?
If not, would that be tasty or just offensive?
Otherwise, I'd stay away from most sports drinks, as they have a lot of sugar in them.
Oh, and frozen fruit and veggies are often fresher than the unfrozen.
The lowest dosage of aspartame that have been shown to cause any sort of problem is 20mg/kg of bodyweight. Assuming you're drinking 2 quarts of Crystal Light per day, you'd have to weigh 105 pounds for you to be hitting that mark.
though in powdered form it is difficult to dissolve in liquid, so you might be stirring a while.
apparently there is some controversy about it (which i did not know about until i looked it up on wikipedia just now, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia)
I second the use of stevia. It has been used in South American for centuries and in East Asia for a few hundred years to balance blood sugar (glucose) levels. This is amazing! An all-natural plant-based sweetener that balances your blood sugar! Unheard of! And quite unlike all of the chemically altered artificial sweeteners, like high fructose corn syrup (found in soda), aspartame, sucralose, and soon to be wide spread as well, neotame.
Drinks sweetened with stevia or agave nectar would be the way to go! And this may be a stupid question, but why don't you just drink 100% natural or organic fruit juices? They are really sweet naturally.
Quid, why do you think that you need an artificial (chemically altered) sweetener? You just need a substitute for refined sugar and the high fructose corn syrup (the devil) that they put in sodas. Stevia and agave nectar are both all natural, healthy, and plenty sweet!
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Seconded. However, make sure you get a quality blender. I have broken many a cheap-o blender with frozen strawberries - I ended up getting an industrial strength monster.
http://www.crystalgeyser.com/juice_squeeze/cgw_js.html
These are delicious, 70% fruit juice, carbonated, sweet, and fairly healthy.
Also, fresh mint adds nearly nothing to the caloric load of a beverage and has a sweetening effect. I really like Metromint but it's stupidly expensive ($2.50 for a bottle of water? fuck that) and you can make the same thing with filtered tap water, a tea infuser, and fresh mint from the grocery store.
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First, get your ass one of these...
Hamilton Beach iced tea maker - much easier to use and clean than the Mr. Coffee version. You'll need about one small bag of ice a week if you drink as much as I do and you don't have an ice maker or want to be constantly making ice.
And then hit up Adagio Teas and get some of the fruit flavored tea. The mango, peach, and strawberry I have tried, and when made properly is sweet enough to drink without adding anything (although a teaspoon of sugar, at only 15 calories, makes it even sweeter). One 8oz tin makes a fuck-ton of iced tea. The stuff is good hot, as well. Better than anything else I've had (although the Earl Grey from Adagio, strangely, is not very good).
EDIT: Tea also has some health benefits. Sure, you may look like a pussy if your friends find your stash of loose leaf peach tea, but fuck 'em. It's good.
I drink Sprite Zero if I'm really craving a soda.
That being said, having some now and again will NOT kill you. Considering how much you drink now or have in the past, a can of pepsi every so often isn't gonna hurt, or pack on the weight. Hell, buying a case now and then isn't going to hurt. Overall, you've drastically cut down what you're consuming, and that's the biggest part.
Sure, you can try and "replace" your soda with a sweet drink, with other forms of sugar, or sugar-substitutes, but you haven't done much except replace what's filling your cup. It's probably just as bad, sometimes according to what study you read, worse.
So take the one guy's advice, and try to get off the stuff completely for a month. Yeah, caffeine withdrawl sucks, but stick to drinking tea or coffee with as little sugar you need to consume the stuff. You can get over the caffeine addiction pretty easily, just takes willpower, and for myself, that's the entire reason for wanting soda. Not the flavor or sugar, just the caffeine. If i get it somewhere else, water is fine for me.
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Unless its Crystal Light Iced Tea.
If you mean those sweetened ones, they're not much better for you than soda. Still a lot of high-fructose corn syrup, though they're damned tasty.
I've found these flavored waters that have zero calories and are really tasty. Not the ones that have a bunch of sucralose in them, but different ones that aren't even really sweet. Know how when you stick a lemon slice in water it gets a faint lemon flavor? Imagine that, but with all sorts of different fruits. Can't remember the brand, but those things are yummy and healthy.
honestly anything will give you cancer if you eat/consume enough of it, i would just stay awy from regular soda, that will kill you way faster than artificial sweetner
Anyways, I would love to start making fresh fruit drinks. But... where the hell do I start? Orange juice/lemonade is pretty obvious, but is there a fairly cheap way(equipment wise) to make things like apple juice, etc?
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