Mint Punch

[muck_a_luck]

Possible alternative for homemade coffee drinks...

Mint Punch

1 jar mint jelly
3 c boiling water
1 c pineapple juice
1 c orange juice
1/2 c lemon juice

1 pint ginger ale

Melt jelly in water. Cool and add remaining fruit juices. Just before serving, add gingerale.

To drink this by the glass, you can keep the fruit mixture in the refrigerator for several days, mix with gingerale on a per glass basis, to taste.

Comments

Beverages

[neonach.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Substitute.

But I don't see and caffine or refined sugar items on the list of ingredients!

Does sound good!!

I have been very good over the past few days, and only had two HM WCMs.

When I weaned myself off diet coke earlier in the year, I used iced pink grapefruit tea. Used to make a jug up before I went to bed (sounds familiar, somehow :) ), and stick it in the fridge in the morning, then it was there anytime I needed it. It has a slightly bitter taste, and totally did the trick. Just before Christmas, I ordered a DC out of an old habit, but hated the taste, so I guess it worked!

PS What is Mountain Dew?

Re: Beverages

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

Not substitute so much as alternative. Recognizing lack of caffiene. That was kinda the point... ;)

I'm proud of your restraint in regards to the HM WCMs! *snortle*

Mountain Dew is a lemon/lime type soft drink that is v. sweet and has the highest caffiene content of "normal" soft drinks (as opposed to Jolt Cola, and similar, which just flat advertises themselves as a caffiene vehicle). There are points in the day when I've had too much and start to feel like a caffienated hummingbird! Mountain Dew has 55 caffiene units in 12 oz. and coffee has 135 units in 8 oz. I found a comparison chart here. And in the process found a frightening number of sites about Mountain Dew... The Internet is a very weird place. So anyway, not as bad as coffee, but I probably drink more than most coffee drinkers drink coffee.

Re: Beverages

[neonach.livejournal.com]

On the subject of HM WCMs, it did occur to me (duh!) that the effect wasn't quite as strong if I only used a small mug, and not the huge cappachino mug I had been using, so now I can have one as a treat and not become totally hyped up. Just a little hyper instead!

And how weird! I thought that fruity drinks would have way less caffine than coke (not that I think for a moment that they've ever even seen a piece of fruit!). So Mountain Dew has more caffine than Diet Coke!

Re: Beverages

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

Becoming a little caffienated hummingbird this very moment! But I was thinking, I can have the equivalent of 6 cans of Mountain Dew and still not get as much caffiene as somebody who has three cups of coffee a day. And that's not totally off what I drink.

Don't drink coffee. It's starting to sound like very scary stuff!