Today’s feature tip is from Bohemian Revolution with Infused Water Recipes - Refreshing Non-Alcoholic Summer Drinks.

If you caught my tips earlier this year for How To Beat The Soda Pop Addiction–you’ll find these suggestions a great way to increase your water intake while cutting the soda without even missing it:

Spanish cuisine brought us aguas frescas, water infused with fruit juices or juices from veggies like cucumber. They have a very light, refreshing flavor that’s definitely not just water, but they’re not as heavy as a smoothie. The only problem: most recipes load them up with sugar, making them very little improvement over soda (also, the natural sugars in fruit may be less bad than refined sugar, but they’re still virtually empty calories). There are a couple of ways to turn the agua fresca concept into an exciting light beverage that’s health-friendly.

A few of the tips you’ll find:

• You can invent your own recipes for fruit-infused water
• You can also infuse with herbs and even flowers
• If you’re watching calories or carbs (fruit calories are mostly carbs, so it’s the same battle either way), be aware which fruits are more or less sugar dense than others

Plenty of resources and information provided, please check out the site for all the details :). More cool and refreshing summer drink recipes to enjoy: Raspberry Iced Tea Cooler, Homemade Lemonade and Iced Cappuccino.

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