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Larry LaMere[_1_]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:23:32 -0500, wrote:

>I am on a very tight budget and do whatever I can to save money. In
>the summer I used to drink lots of sweetened soft drinks, but they can
>get costly. Rather than drinking them, I switched to these powdered
>drink mixes that come in a jar. These are the pre-sweetened ones you
>scoop into a cup (or larger container) add water and stir. This stuff
>is good, and saves money. However, to save even more, I switched to
>cool-aid where I add my own sugar. This saved even more, but I live
>alone and dont care to make a whole pitcher full at once. If I do, I
>drink the whole thing right away, and I know that all that sugar is
>not the healthiest. Thats when I discovered making my own powder.
>
>I just took one of the plastic jars from the store bought pre-mixes.
>Put in the dry cool-aid, add the amount of sugar they require in the
>instructions, cap the jar, and shake well. Now I can take a scoop of
>this powder, put it in a cup, add water, stir, and I have an instant
>ONE CUP of drink.
>
>I have also switches to doing this with iced tea. Rather than buy
>sweetened iced tea, i just get the unsweetened instant tea. Put some
>in a bottle, add sugar, shake and I have my instant sweetened tea to
>make by the cup. I found that adding a little lemon cool-aid adds
>that lemon flavor to the tea.
>
>I like to experiment, and found that mixing this stuff with seltzer
>water makes a good drink. Of course this adds to the cost, but I had
>several bottles of seltzer water that I bought long ago, and could not
>drink that stuff plain. Now I found a use for it.
>
>Just thought I'd pass this on....

Yep I do about the same thing. If you want to cut down on the sugar use a nutra-sweet
clone. 5 packets to a Kool-Aid packet works for me. You may want to adjust up from
there I like it tart.