Ideas for really nice soft drinks

dandy-candy

Tropical or pineapple fruit juice mixed with lemonade is lovely.

Pollycat

Gingernutty wrote: »

Sainsbug's lime c[STRIKE]a[/STRIKE]ordial with sparkling mineral water. Made up with lime cordial ice cubes.

sweetilemon wrote: »

Mock cocktails are nice for a little one off, same with ginger beer but all night I would stick to sparkling water or diet coke if I wasn't drinking.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ginger Beer. Not ginger ale or wine... beer.

As well as Fairyprincessk's suggestions, I think these are good.

I like a good Virgin Mary, but it's not everybody's cup of tea.

In India, we drink Lime soda, it's fresh lime (at home I use the Jif-type lime if I've not got fresh limes) and soda water. Very refreshing & sharp but you can add sugar.

Just had a look at Tesco online & they do a range of grown-up soft drinks, I'm sure the other supermarkets will do similar.

thriftwizard

Failing two weeks to make your own HM ginger beer, L!DL's cranberry & raspberry (currently on offer at 59p) mixed half & half with sparking water (25p per 2L bottle from L's, as little as 17p from T&sco but not as nice - saltier, somehow) is very palatable.

kathrynha

I buy frozen soft fruit from the supermarket and blitz them in a food processor then poor sparkling water over it as a special treat drink

FairyPrincessk

Many fruit teas say on the pack they can be chilled. I know cold mint tea is very nice. You could also make your own regular iced tea which is far nicer than the kind that comes in the bottle.

peachyprice

http://www.waitrose.com/shop/DisplayProductFlyout?productId=284021

This is a really nice soft drink, very refreshing with a quite unique flavour.

TiredTrophy

We make a mock g and t. ...bitter lemon, tonic, a few drops of bitters and three drops of juniper oil edible grade, on ice with lemon and throughly stirred or shaken. Looks and tastes 'grown up' !

pollypenny

The Belvoir range of cordials is lovely. I've just had lime and green tea with soda water.

Otherwise, I like to add slices of orange and lemon to a big jug of water, giving them time to blend.

meritaten

Elderflower cordial mixed with sparkling water is lovely. looks and tastes 'grown up'.


I make my own 'H2Os', I like the Mango and Apple one so its one third mango juice, one third apple juice and one third still water (from the tap) everybody I have served it to says it tastes identical to the 'real thing'. and I can get the juices for about the same price as one pub H2O and get lots of servings!

allybee101

There are a whole range of more grown up soft drinks available these days- check out the aisle in any reasonable size supermarket. Another vote for the Vale of Belvoir drinks here too - I like the Raspberry Lemonade, but I don't tend to drink soft drinks very often these days. I
generally go for sparkling water with some lemon and lime slices, the slices of fruit add a bit of zing to water.