Works for Me Wednesday: Easy Lemonade
I came across the Works for Me Wednesday carnival through Gray Matters and decided to throw my link into the ring.
I don’t know about you, but I get really sick of drinking plain water. But aside from the occasional natural soda, I don’t let myself buy packaged beverages. I make a pitched of iced tea sometimes, but that takes foresight, because the tea has to brew and cool. So I’ve found a way to make lemonade that’s almost “instant” without lots of packaging, expense, or calories.
These measurements aren’t exact, because I just kind of throw it together.
In a 32 ounce reused glass juice bottle I mix:
- 1/4 cup of lemon juice — Santa Cruz Organic lemon juice is my favorite.
- 2-3 tablespoons of Agave Syrup
- Fill to the top of the bottle with water. Shake, and enjoy.
If you use bottled lemon juice, it’s just as easy as making lemonade from a mix, but there are no icky ingredients.
Go check out what’s working for everyone else.
May 14th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I love making the same lemonade, but I use Stevia (herb sweetener) instead of agave (I love agave too). Yum!
xo,
Corinne
May 14th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
perfect timing! we’re about to have a heat wave in these parts (starting tomorrow) — and nothing cools you off better than lemonade (well, maybe a slip n’ slide)
May 14th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
I’ve been making lemonade this way since I was a kid. Only I used real sugar as a kid. I’ll try it with the agave.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:36 am
I actually tried to squeeze enough lemons to make a pitcher and I will never do that again but I never thought about using bottle lemon juice.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I decided to give up juice this month, because my favorite beverage is laden with HFCS. I’ll give this a go, and maybe invest in that citrus juicer I’ve been thinking of for so long…
BTW - I just made a pitcher of sun tea, and it’s delicious. I mixed regular tea and fruit tea and left it in the sun for 2 hours, just like my mom used to do.