Posts About ‘beverages’

Drinks of Summer: Lynchburg Lemonade

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

I’m planning on writing a series of posts about some of my favorite drinks in the summer.

Lynchburg LemonadeOf course, it is hard to go wrong with an ice cold beer on a hot summer night. But, I like to mix it up and quite often will skip the beer for something else. Then again my fridge is always well stocked with a variety of beers (Sam Adams Light and Corona at the moment).

One of my all time favorite summer drinks is a Lynchburg Lemonade.

I don’t remember where I first came across this but it is hard to make wrong. And yes, you’ll learn that when I give a recipe for a drink there isn’t a whole lot of measuring going on.

  • Take your glass of choice
  • Fill it with ice
  • Fill 3/4 of the way with Lemonade
  • Fill the rest with Whiskey
  • ENJOY!

Honestly it is that easy and these will go back nice and smooth.

My personal choice is to make it with Simply Lemonade (find it if you can, this stuff is amazing) and Jack Daniels. But, I’m sure anything will do.

What is your favorite drink of summer?

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Making Water Less Boring

Friday, May 15th, 2009

I’ve never been much of a fitness freak, but lately I’ve been trying to be smarter about what I’m eating, drinking and doing for exercise. After all I want to be around for a long time to play with my kids and my wife! *grin*

Since I sit at a desk every day, working in a home office most of the time, there is not a lot of getting up and moving around. I bought a water cooler for my office in the hopes that I’d start drinking more water throughout the day. I know this is good for me on multiple angles, but it gets really boring after a while.

Pure InventionsI’ve tried a variety of different drinks, juices and “enhanced waters” that I could find and honestly none of them worked for me that much. I still buy them when I’m out and about instead of a soda, but what to do when I’m at home? Feels like a waste of money to stock my fridge up on these when at the end of the day regular water is better for you then any of them are.

When my company first got approached about working with Pure Inventions I was extremely skeptical. There are a million different things out there that you can add to water. The problem is that most of them have more sugar or other things you might not want to put in your body. Pure promised something that was healthy, no calories, no sugar and all around good for you. (read more here)

Before we took them on as a client (and yes they are now a client), I wanted to sample the product and shortly there after a big box arrived filled with a variety of flavors. Fast forward several months to today and my favorites are their Peach Green Tea Extract and the Cranberry with Elderberry Fruit Extract. I thought the chocolate varieties would hold a lot of promise, but for me personally I’ll stick to the bad for me Hershey’s syrup when it comes to that. *laugh* The kids seem to like it in milk though for a little variety.

I now keep a 32 oz Nalgene bottle on my desk and try to fill it 3-4 times a day and while they are a client of mine, I honestly try to make sure at least one of those full bottles also has some Pure Inventions in it because otherwise I get bored and stop drinking the water. It seems to be working so far. I’m hoping someday they’ll start packing it in plastic bottles (instead of glass) so that I can bring it on the road with me.

Oh and yes, the kids like it too. Dylan likes a few of them, but Emily seems to be really going nuts on them. As a parent ,this is a very good thing because they see it as an alternative to Kool-Aid or soda and I like that since I know this doesn’t have any sugar or caffeine in it.

If you are interested in trying some, use promo code P22FREESHIP on www.PureInventions.com and get free shipping on your order until May 31, 2009.

Have you found any other products that help cut the boredom of water without adding calories? If so, please let me know.

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