Tagged "beverages"

I had a hard time keeping my trap shut when I heard that Gatorade reps would be on our high school campus handing out free samples to our students during G-week.

Kombucha is crisp, refreshing, bubbly, tangy and leaves you with a feeling of well-being – and when you make it yourself, it can end up tasting even better than the stuff you buy in the store.

For about 15 years, I drank 8 to 14 cans of Diet Pepsi every day, and then for the last few years, I switched over to Diet Mountain Dew and drank the same amount. Now, I know what you’re thinking: Wow, that’s a lot of soda.

Often we buy processed foods out of convenience, thinking it would be too complicated, time-consuming or just plain impossible to make them from scratch. Well as it turns out, almond milk, a processed food I used to buy on a regular basis, is not.

Here’s how I apply the Kitchen Test to these and a few other beverages. Some of them are fairly straightforward, but others have a bit of a gray area, and once again I’ll encourage you to make your own thoughtful decision about where, exactly, you want to draw the line.

What do you recommend for healthier options to replace Snickers, Twix Bars, Cokes, and Slush Puppies?

For the sake of this particular discussion, let’s assume you’re not asking whether or not you should drink milk at all, just that you are a generally healthy adult who likes to drink milk, and you’re wondering about which particular type of cow’s milk is the best way to go.