Sports drinks are awesome. They have electrolytes and sugar and quench that thirst. Gatorade's pioneered the field and is now everywhere, but why pay them a ton for what is just salty sugary water with artificial flavoring?
So stop dropping all that money on the glorified bottled water and make some on your own! You could end up paying up to 90% less.
While this isn't a perfect Gatorade recipe that will taste exactly like Gatorade since matching their artificial flavors is impossible, it will be just as effective.
Did I mention that this stuff has electrolytes? Oh, man, does it ever have electrolytes.
If you want to skip to the recipe, go here.
So stop dropping all that money on the glorified bottled water and make some on your own! You could end up paying up to 90% less.
While this isn't a perfect Gatorade recipe that will taste exactly like Gatorade since matching their artificial flavors is impossible, it will be just as effective.
Did I mention that this stuff has electrolytes? Oh, man, does it ever have electrolytes.
If you want to skip to the recipe, go here.
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Signing UpStep 1: Why to do it
Buying a pre-made sports drink is practically the same thing as buying bottled water since a sports drink is mostly water with some sugar and a tiny bit of other stuff added.
Let's do a quick breakdown of why you shouldn't do this:
- You can get perfectly good water from the tap. The stuff you get in the store is just coming from someone else's tap anyway.
- If your tap water tastes bad, get a filter. It'll pay for itself, trust me.
- It takes a lot of gas to move all that heavy fluid around the country. More waste and more emissions.
- Even if you don't care about the wasting of fuel and the extra emissions, do you really want to pay for it?
By the way, you aren't drinking bottled water either, right? There's just no good reason for doing that unless you're too lazy to chill water by either putting it in the fridge or adding ice and that would just be sad.
Let's do a quick breakdown of why you shouldn't do this:
- You can get perfectly good water from the tap. The stuff you get in the store is just coming from someone else's tap anyway.
- If your tap water tastes bad, get a filter. It'll pay for itself, trust me.
- It takes a lot of gas to move all that heavy fluid around the country. More waste and more emissions.
- Even if you don't care about the wasting of fuel and the extra emissions, do you really want to pay for it?
By the way, you aren't drinking bottled water either, right? There's just no good reason for doing that unless you're too lazy to chill water by either putting it in the fridge or adding ice and that would just be sad.
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I really like the recipe :)
Again,nice recipe :)
Let's all just say "thank you" for the recipe and then write in with any helpful adaptations we've come up with. Show a little resourcefulness.
I'm very excited to find this recipe and a little mad at myself for not having thought of it. I'm going to use the juice of two lemons instead of the koolade because I find that drinking lemon water regularly makes me feel good. Don't know why. Someone told me to do that once, and I did, and it worked, but I wish I'd been paying more attention initially.
*hand movements*
Quart/litre water
1 c. orange juice
2 Tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda