PrintWhat do you drink?
I was at the supermarket today, and I couldn't come up with anything to drink with dinner. I had a bit of a headache and didn't feel like having wine or beer, and I've recently decided to try to avoid soda. Ultimately I decided on making some iced tea and flavoring it with some raspberry puree I had in the fridge.
So what kind of soft drinks does everyone drink? Do you make limeade or fruit punch or tea? Do you just stick with water?
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51 Comments:
I enjoy sparkling mineral water. I add lemon and lime. It quenches my thirst!
watchforbears at 12:38AM on 04/09/08
I like Izzy. I tried the Trader Joes version today and it just wasn't as good.
pbisNOTmyname at 1:00AM on 04/09/08
Wine, beer, or water. Soda is way too sweet. Sparkling water tastes metallic and harsh. At an Indian restaurant I once ate at, they put quartered limes and whole mint leaves in the pitchers of water, subtly infusing the water. It was great, but I'm usually too lazy to do anything like this at home.
Nicholas H at 1:00AM on 04/09/08
I very seldom drink soda. I usually drink coffee in the morning and plain water or ice tea for the rest of the day.
Dining out, it's usually beer, wine or a margarita. At home, I'll sometimes have an adult beverage of some sort in the evening, as well. Depends on my mood. In the winter, I might make hot chocolate or hot tea.
When it comes to beverages, I guess I'm pretty boring. Food is much more fun.
dbcurrie at 1:04AM on 04/09/08
Dark beer or red wine depending on the dish at dinner. Coffee early in the day and after dinner. Copious amounts of water all day. I prefer the sparkling variety... Forget the sugary sodas and such the like...
czken at 1:45AM on 04/09/08
I drink lots of water (still, never sparkling), pretty much all the time. I also make pitchers of iced green tea with lemon (sometimes I add purple basil leaves to it when brewing - sounds weird, but it's really, really good!) all year round. For whatever reason, I only make iced coffee when it's really blazing hot outside. I also drink hot tea and coffee - regardless of the weather.
I usually have a glass of freshly squeezed grapefruit juice every morning (at least, as long as grapefruits can be found round here:-)).
I rarely drink fizzy drinks now - used to love Schweppes Bitter Lemon, but I haven't been able to find it in the States yet, so I learnt to do without it:-)
Alcoholic beverages: mostly wine, although I am also partial to Bailey's, Cherry Heering and an occasional bottle of chilled Grolsch. Well, I think I've covered everything:-)
brooke29 at 1:51AM on 04/09/08
With dinner, water and wine or beer.
With lunch or brunch, homemade iced tea (either black, green, or some other herbal tea - I'm a fan of Tazo tea bags) sweetened with an herbal simple syrup (I'm currently obsesso with lavender simple syrup, it was rosemary a while back).
charm city cupcake at 6:41AM on 04/09/08
Water or iced green tea all day. If I'm at work, I'll stop by the cafeteria and get a green tea Frappucino, Tazo peach tea (toooo sweet so I dilute it, but it tastes great), or San Pellegrino orange soda.
This morning feels like a Tazo peach tea day.
Cassaendra at 7:02AM on 04/09/08
I don't drink much soda and find water boring. I make hot African Riobos Tea (red tea) and pour it over ice. It doesn't have caffeine and it does have a ton of anti- oxidants. I think that's why this past winter I never got a cold.
The best place to find it is in the organic section of your supermarket.
joanpieroni2 at 8:15AM on 04/09/08
Brita water
bessfour at 8:31AM on 04/09/08
@Joan I recently tried the Riobos tea too and that stuff is wonderful!
I also drink hot coffee in the winter, but since its starting to warm up a little I dug out my Toddy maker and my iced tea pitcher. I love experimenting with different teas and the differences between hot and iced. Yeah i know, small minds are easily captivated ;)
huney_bumper at 8:38AM on 04/09/08
Coffee in the a.m., water the rest of the time. I don't drink alcohol anymore, so at dinner it's water or iced mint tea, though once in awhile my guy and I will split a fancy root beer or ginger ale. Reed's and Maine Root Co. are my favorites.
producestories at 8:56AM on 04/09/08
Water or iced tea.
crazyspice at 9:01AM on 04/09/08
As much as I know how bad soda is bad for your health, etc there are some things I NEED soda with : pizza, hamburgers, fast food of any kind. And no diet soda won't cut it then, need the full power of the high fructose corn syrup to make the meal complete.....and did I mention it needs to be coke? Sigh.
Then of course I drink copious amounts of water the next day in a sad attempt to combat the calories when I know it'll be soda again if I have another fast food run. Luckily I eat it maybe about once a month.
jooree at 9:31AM on 04/09/08
Lots and lots of water. At work, I'm a Coke Zero fanatic. At home, I mix Teissiere fruit syrups with water/seltzer. My 2 current favorites are Blackcurrant with seltzer and Passionfruit to which I add some lemon juice wth flat water. I've got a load of their flavors that I mix and match.
chisai at 9:33AM on 04/09/08
All kinds of iced teas and tisanes; a few flavours don't work well cold. I find that herbal or fruity ones work the best.
Lemonade and all the variations: raspberry, cherry, etc.
Sekanjabin - mint-vinegar (or lemon juice) syrup you dilute with still or fizzy water. Very refreshing in the summer.
My grandmother loves iced coffee. I can only do it Thai-style, but she does it black with LOTS of ice.
Orange juice spritzer. Or cranberry juice spritzer, sometimes with ginger ale. If you don't want the sugar, just add some ginger juice to the mix.
morgancain at 9:40AM on 04/09/08
I like to make a drink that is a combination of sparkling water and and juice. I use 100% juice and not the "cocktail" juices. My favorite if cranberry juice b/c it is not sweet. Sometimes add a lemon or lime wedge. Very thirst quenching.
eatmyfood at 9:49AM on 04/09/08
I drink water, water, and more water. Occasionally when I'm thirsty, I'll crave a sip of pop or juice, but with meals, I usually stick to water.
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 11:26AM on 04/09/08
I asked a similar question and have determined that I am the only real drinker on SE. I have coffee every morning, I make green or black iced tea with lemons or oranges and sometimes add mint. I like to also make Boston iced tea - adding cranberry juice. I make lemonade in the summer. I drink lots of juice - orange juice, cranberry juice, pomegranate juice, blueberry juice, grape juice - always 100% juice. I drink apple cider, but I don't care for apple juice I love Coke and am trying to wean myself off of it, so I've been trying sparkling water. I drink tonic water for the quinine. I drink beer and wine on occasion. I drink other alcoholic beverages when partying. I drink hot tea when I'm sick. I might drink broth then, too. You might notice that I didn't mention water. I'm trying, really I am, but I don't like it. I also didn't mention milk which I also am not crazy about, but if I add lots of chocolate syrup and vanilla ice cream, I could easily consume that. I also LOVE those mocca iced coffee bottles that Starbucks sells, but try to avert my eyes so I don't spend my children's inheritance. I could think of more, but my fingers are starting to cramp and I'm thirsty. ;-O
PerkyMac at 11:28AM on 04/09/08
I drink about half a glass of water first thing, then maybe a small oj. Rest of the day I drink coffee, iced tea (black or green, fresh brewed), and lately I make a variety of citrus-ades. Squeeze a few oranges, a lemon or lime, or graprefruit--whatever's around--into a tall pitcher, mix in a bit of simple syrup, and top up with water.
We always have oj in the house but I cant take it as a beverages. The orangeade was such a simple and obvious way to make it into a beverage--something I can drink a tall, icy glass of with a meal--that I can't believe it took me so long to figure out.
Lately we've been watering down our apple juice, too, but that comes in a bottle from the store.
Occasionally we juice carrots and apples--mostly carrots--and we make fruit smoothies almost every day. But undiluted juices and smoothies are more like food to me, and not for thirst-quenching, hydration, or meal-accompaniment.
renzata at 12:02PM on 04/09/08
Wine, beer, water. But sometimes I get this weird craving for milk...must be all those years of being forced to drink a glass of milk with dinner.
embolini9 at 12:03PM on 04/09/08
I drink nothing but Orangina.
unarata at 12:33PM on 04/09/08
@embolini9, the same exact thing happens to me from time to time! It's precisely that - weird craving for milk, and I have to drink at least one full glass of it! It's really funny because nobody I know ever has these:-). While I wasn't forced to have a glass of milk with my dinner growing up, when we were visiting my Gran (every summer), I always had a glass of milk with a biscuit or two or a slice of pie/cake before sleep (I think it was a part of my Gran's master plan to fatten me up, but it never worked:-)). This must be it!
brooke29 at 12:55PM on 04/09/08
I'm down from several artificial sweetener diet sodas a day to about three per week at the office. None at home, though. My plan is to be completely off of the aspartame/splenda train by next month.
My non-alcoholic beverages of choice are ice cold seltzer, Zevia cola (stevia, no artificial sweetener), and iced N.O. Brew with soy milk.
Most evenings, I drink way too many vodka tonics and too much wine.
GumbeauxGal at 12:56PM on 04/09/08
I love Dr. Pepper with crushed ice.
I drink a lot of iced Green Tea with lemon. I like regular iced Tea with lemon. I can't stand sweet tea.
I used to drink a lot of Tap Water straight out of the tap or on ice.
I really like orange juice but don't drink it that often. I like it over ice, too.
eatorama at 12:59PM on 04/09/08
Many years ago, before I gave up soda, I met a chef who only drank natural beverages: water, wine, beer, juice etc. Nothing artificially flavored crossed her lips because she felt it had a negative effect on her palate. At the time I considered it kind of snotty and esoteric, but I totally agree with it now. When you get over soda you wonder why you ever drank it in the first place.
SSMom at 1:37PM on 04/09/08
I erradicated soft-drinks almost a decade ago, but when I get a soda craving with pizza usually, I go for the Ginseng Up - their cola flavor tastes amazingly like Coke without any caffeine or artificial ingredients.
Their lime flavor and ginger flavor are also very good - they taste like Sprite and ginger ale.
Otherwise I am a WATER and natural JUICE person - passion fruit, pineapple, orange, soursop, grape, white grape, cranberry, fruit juice mixes... you name it.
Madelyn
KarmaFreeCooking
MadelynRodriguez at 1:40PM on 04/09/08
Coffee
Water
Good ol brewed lipton Iced tea with Lemon
Club soda with a couple drops of bitters
Diet pepsi
lakeloverhh at 3:50PM on 04/09/08
I make an raspberry iced tea and it is great. I got the recipe online somewhere and it uses tea bags, water and frozen concentrated raspberry-ade. My husband even liked it (which is something because he only likes colas and mountain dew).
mommyme at 3:51PM on 04/09/08
Mostly water. Iced. With a shot of cranberry juice, OJ or lemonade.
But occasionally, when the craving hits: Hawaiian Punch
(slinks away in shame)
sixsonnets at 4:55PM on 04/09/08
Water and coffee, an occasional juice (orange or cran-apple). I allot myself two cans of Pepsi or Dr. Pepper every month. It's my guilty pleasure.
MelsDiner at 6:42PM on 04/09/08
coffee either hot or iced in the morning.. water or iced tea throughout the day and evening. I make a new batch ice tea about every other day, usually one black tea bag and two herbal fruit ones. Every once in while I will get a diet strawberry limeade from Sonic, but that's about the all the soda I drink.
Alm25 at 8:00PM on 04/09/08
Mostly I drink water, but when it's warm out, I love to keep cold barley tea and fresh orangeade in the frige- the barley tea is really easy to make and is nice refreshing alternative to just plain water. Fresh orangeade is *delicious* made with juice oranges, leaving in a little bit of pulp. I squeeze in a little bit of lemon in there too sometimes.
hammama at 11:22PM on 04/09/08
I drink a glass of ice water with my dinner. Milk if it's a bowl of cereal.
Lemonade or iced tea w/lemon tastes better during summer.
:-)
paris221966 at 11:35PM on 04/09/08
I just heard from my MIL today, for the first time in over 6 months, so today, whatever it is, make mine a double.
wookie at 1:16PM on 04/10/08
I love beverages.. but I used to drink too much of my calories. So now I stick to filtered water, and a white tea or HK style milk tea with my breakfast.
In the summer I occassionally have smoothie (made from Frappe Freeze powder, milk, ice...better then a Starbucks frap) or red bean ice (with coconut, mango). Sometimes I make ice tea from herbal fruit teas (favorite was blood orange).
And if I woke up early enough on Saturday (rare..very rare) to get my butt to Japantown, I get a bucket of fresh soy milk (no sugar added).
I had a hard to time resisting juices and soft drinks at first. They are free at my office. A fridge full of freaken temptation every time I go to the breakroom. (I don't do diet softdrinks, can't stand artificial sugar, I rather NOT have a soft drink then drink the diet stuff). The only time I drink soft drinks now is on planes.
gnomatic at 1:47PM on 04/10/08
In the morning 2 cups of coffee, with alittle sugar & 1/2 & 1/2.
At work ice water - usually 4 - 6 large glasses a day.
At home - just about any juice I can get my hands on....orange juice is my favorite, but lately I've also been drinking lightly sweetened cherry juice and Calypso lemonades.
I do enjoy ice tea when I get motivated to make it....and the occasional glass of wine on the week-ends.
mepolo at 2:58PM on 04/10/08
btw...what exactly is orangeade....because all I can picture are those large gallons of orange flavored sugar water that my mom used to buy as a treat when we were kids. Thanks!
mepolo at 3:01PM on 04/10/08
Water (mostly water), Diet Fanta, Wine, red wine....
I used to love to drink tea, but in the past two years every time I drink it, I get very sick and dizzy (almost like morning sickness) feeling. Anyone have a clue what this is all about? Could I somehow have become allergic to tea?
jcrisco at 3:43PM on 04/10/08
Certainly not everyday, but I love a muddled fruit and herb drink - usually as a basis for vodka on the rocks put you could substitute seltzer for a non-alcoholic version. Raspberry/mint is great, as is blackberry/basil.
LizNYC at 4:18PM on 04/10/08
Mepolo, orangeade is like lemonade: juice a few oranges (maybe 4 or 5) into a 2-qt pitcher, add simple syrup to taste (or your sweetener of choice, but sugar won't dissolve) and fill the rest with water; serve over ice. So basically it's diluted oj, lightly sweetened.
It's much lighter to drink than straight orange juice, and very refreshing. I'm having some right now (made with a lemon and a lime also).
renzata at 4:50PM on 04/10/08
Hammama, what is barley tea? I know I've heard of it before, but can't think where.
renzata at 4:52PM on 04/10/08
Hey Renzata, you can get barley tea bags in Korean and Japanese markets; you might find them in Chinese markets too (bori-cha in Korean, mugi-cha in Japanese)- they're just big tea packets of roasted barley that you toss into a pitcher of cold water, let steep, and enjoy! It has a lightly roasty-nutty flavor.
hammama at 10:36PM on 04/10/08
I am wondering how the puree stayed mixed throughout the tea. Did you stir it often?
izatryt at 11:32PM on 04/10/08
Thanks Renzata! I drink huge amounts of orange juice...the other night I drank 1/2 gal throughout the course of the evening....I think I have a sickness...lol!
I'm going to make some orangeade this week-end.....it sounds great!
mepolo at 9:44AM on 04/11/08
@Perky, you're not the only real drinker hun, but these days I cant have alcohol, otherwise my list would be coffee (hot or iced) untill noon iced tea of one form or another untill 5 and wine and or a good cocktail till bed time. so untill things even out for me, I'm hoping Perky will indulge in a couple xtra for me ;)
huney_bumper at 9:59AM on 04/11/08
@huney...........I'm laughing because I probably drink less alcohol than anyone you know, other than a teetotaler (wouldn't you think that should be spelled teatotaler?). What I meant by "real drinker" is that I am always thirsty and drink a huge variety of beverages, whereas most of the really good people here mostly drink water. I applaud them for that choice, but I'm always in search of something more tasty, while trying to keep healthy choices in mind. Possibly my medical use of diuretics has something to do with my immense thirst. Anyway, thanks for the giggles. The day I had yesterday, I needed a stiff drink. I did have a beer....does that count?
PerkyMac at 10:28AM on 04/11/08
LOL always as long as it was something good ;)
huney_bumper at 10:44AM on 04/12/08
Renzata....I made the orangeade on Sat....and I loved it! Thank you again!
I added just a touch of my homemade vanilla to the simple syrup, and it added a nice flavor to the orangeade. I made it Sat. night for a dinner party, and we finished it up...it was a refreshing change from some of the flavored waters that are out there. I'm trying to get my friends to get away from the artificial sweetners....the small amount of simple syrup that I added to the orange juice gave it just enough sweetness, without being too much sugar.
I can't wait to try the technique with other fruit juices. :-)
mepolo at 8:53AM on 04/14/08
@brooke29 - I'm so glad I'm not alone on the milk thing! It goes especially well with the hearty dishes of my childhood (pot roast, apple pie etc,) and hey! It does a body good!
embolini9 at 1:00PM on 04/14/08
@embolini9 - that's what I thought when I saw your post! I'm telling you, I hadn't met anybody else with the same occasional milk cravings before, so it made me almost giggly to realise there were other "weird" milk drinkers out there:-)
brooke29 at 1:50PM on 04/14/08