Frugal summertime refreshment drinks

[Kaleva]

Black Tea

A box of 100 black tea bags from Family Dollar costs $1.00. I put 12 bags in 1.5 quarts of boiling water, let sit for awhile, remove bags an pour the tea into a gallon container partly filled with ice. I top that off with cold tap water and add a couple of good squirts of RealLemon Juice. An 8 oz. cup costs about a penny.

Homemade Gatorade

1/8 cup sugar
1/8 cup ReaLemon Juice
2 Tablespoons of honey
1/4 teaspoon of sea salt
6 3/4 cups cold water divided

Instructions

In a saucepan stir sugar, ReaLemon juice, 3/4 cup water, honey, and sea salt over medium heat until the sugar, honey and salt dissolve.
Pour mixture into 6 cups of cold water.
Shake to combine.
Chill mixture in the fridge until ready to serve.

Homemade Gatorade with 100% juice

Ingredients

1 cup 100% juice
2 Tablespoons honey
¼ teaspoon sea salt (I use Redmond)
6 cups cold water

Instructions

In a saucepan stir juice, honey, and sea salt over medium heat until the honey and salt dissolve. Pour mixture into 6 cups of cold water.
Shake to combine.
Chill mixture in the fridge until ready to serve.

[donco]

1. I drink

lottsa water.

[cilla4progress]

2. Soda stream with

ANYTHING amps up the fun:

Juice
Vodka
Canadians whiskey
Captain Morgan’s spiced rum!

[dembotoz]

3. hmmmm interersting

have you tried it with green tea
supposed to be better for ya

might try to modify to half gallon size....
more fridge friendly
does the salt serve a purpose other than taste?
I try to limit my sodium intake with possible.
when i bake bread i generally reduce the salt by about a third.
Seems it does something with the leavening so it needs some salt.....
was raised in a sodium restricted household....grand father had heart problem.
so we just never used salt growing up.....

[Kaleva]

4. There are recipes that use green tea

The sea salt is to replace sodium and other trace elements lost when engaged in sports or hard physical work.

[dembotoz]

5. Recipes right on the tea bag