The Beverage Desert

[foxgrrl]

Why is it so hard to find something to drink? Oh yeah, because I don't want to drink:

• Tap Water
• High Fructose Corn Syrup
• Aspartame (NutraSweet)
• Alcohol
• Milk
• Caffeine
• Excessive amounts of Sugar

Dear Lazyweb: What kind of drinks can I put into my body? Note that most fruit juice available in the United States is fortified with High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Update:
Ok, small amounts of Caffeine and non-HFCS sugar are ok. I just don't want a lot of those most of the time.

Comments

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Assuming you like citrus juices:

Buy a juicer. The fancy automated kind are cool, but expensive and unnecessary; I got ours secondhand in a hardware store for less than $20. It's manual, works with a crank, and will probably outlive all of us.

Buy oranges, or grapefruits, or lemons, or limes, or tangerines, or whatever strikes your fancy. (Some kinds of oranges are better for juice than others, but it's a matter of taste. I find that smaller oranges tend to produce more juice per unit volume than larger ones, and tastier besides.)

In the morning, slice a bunch of $fruit_of_choice in half and make juice. Six oranges is approximately one tall glass of juice. Or, if you want, go nuts and juice several kilos of fruit at once; store the resulting juice in an airtight bottle.

Mix with sparkling water if you want a juicy soda kind of thing.

I recently found out that "not from concentrate" juice is usually stored for a really long time before it even gets to the store, so it's not really all that fresh in the first place. When it comes right out of the fruit, though, you know exactly where it's been. :)