MSE drinks?

LameWolf

Tap water. I actually prefer it (though to be fair, we do have to put it through a Br!ta filter because the water here is scarily hard). If I want a bit of flavour, a tiddly drop of fruit squash serves well.

babyshoes

We have also started buying the 2l bottles of value fizzy water and mixing it with high juice squash. It does taste similar to some fizzy drinks but is much cheaper and probably healthier than cola...

I did cost up a soda stream when I saw one on lakeland (as my folks had one when I was a child) but just the gas refills from lakeland cost more per litre than buying the value bottles - nevermind the inital outlay for the machine itself! If anyone knows of a cheaper place to get them, please let me know.

sistercas

I just stopped drinking it , i now drink water or tea and thats it , i soon got used to it

Popperwell

Drink lots of water, tea, coffee but if I want a fizzy drink I tend to use sparkling water and add squash or fruit juice...or value lemonade.

Or the other night in Tesco's 4x2 litre bottles of a variety of flavours for £2. They will last me for some time. Own brand but similar to Vimto, Dr Pepper and the others are lemonade shandy and Dandelion and Burdock.

Ilona

I get cartons of fruit juice, three for £1, from a cash and carry, and dilute it with tap water. Makes loads of drinks. Also never buy drinks out, take a plastic bottle of own diluted juice.
Ilona

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I have four empty small pop bottles that I use and fill one quarter with fresh orange juice and top up with tap water then put in the fridge a value OJ costs about 60p and I can get at least one and a half sometimes two litres of watered down OJ for that I only like squash or juice if its cold anyway.I also fill empty pop bottles with tap water so they can get really cold in the fridge

Popperwell

Ilona wrote: »

I get cartons of fruit juice, three for £1, from a cash and carry, and dilute it with tap water. Makes loads of drinks. Also never buy drinks out, take a plastic bottle of own diluted juice.
Ilona

JackieO wrote: »

I have four empty small pop bottles that I use and fill one quarter with fresh orange juice and top up with tap water then put in the fridge a value OJ costs about 60p and I can get at least one and a half sometimes two litres of watered down OJ for that I only like squash or juice if its cold anyway.I also fill empty pop bottles with tap water so they can get really cold in the fridge

Yes do a lot of those tricks too...when I go to the theatre(not often)and unlikely to happen much in the future, well anywhere...it is unlikely I will ever be eating out again...so I have a backpack and usually a HM sandwich, some chocolate and/or a snack(crisps)or a banana. And a couple of small water bottles with either tap water in them, possible fruit juice or squash.

Good tips:T

On the new series British Food Rip Off they showed that tap water is as good perhaps better than bottled and even did a taste and it came out top.

lindseykim13

My main drinks are tea and coca cola-i know it's bad for me but hate water!
From experience i would commit to changing just one drink at a time. So just once in the day instead of reaching for a coke have a glass of watered down juice.
By cutting down slowly you won't get too many cravings and at least its a start.

kitschkitty

I've been drinking sugar free squash for years, and agree the 17p fizzy water for a treat.

I find fizzy drinks aren't as thirst quenching as still, and also a bottle or jug of chilled water tastes better than straight from the tap - buy a filter jug if you can afford it and notice the taste of tap water.

Keep a bottle of squash made up in the fridge - it's then less tempting to drink something else.

Best squashes to go with fizzy water (depending on your tastes) are:

Sainsburys high juice (though they aren't that low in sugar sadly).
Tesco double strength concentrate squash.
Vimto squash if like me you love Vimto.
Morrisons "Marshmallow" squash if you like cream soda - as that's what it tastes like not marshmallow!

I never buy cans these days they are really bad value for money, and I never buy cheap cola as it's horrid, I occasionally buy Pepsi or Pepsi Max when it's on offer at £1 a bottle or less (normally to go with JD for hubby) & R Whites lemonade (which always used to be on offer, but never seems to be these days) to go with Pimms.

kitschkitty

Oh, and back when we were really, really skint I would buy 2 bottles of value lemon squash to 1 bottle of supermarket own brand (cheapest non value) mixed fruit, as the cheapest way of covering my squash costs (without dying of boredom at always having lemon) as I think value orange squash is rank, and I don't like blackcurrant squash (but can do other mixed berry/fruit ones).