This summer, I decided to quit drinking soda. It wasn’t because of weight, because I was already drinking diet. It was because the acids were starting to hurt my teeth. One day I thought, “Why am I wasting money on a drink without nutrition so my tooth enamel can get all messed up?”
The biggest challenge was finding a replacement. Tea was it. I buy those big family-sized bags of tea, and have found that two of them will make an entire pitcher. I sweeten it just a bit with Splenda, and I’ve got a healthy drink, that won’t hurt my teeth, although it might stain them a bit if I don’t keep on top of my tooth whitening.
Everyone in the house likes to drink it. I make a pitcher of unsweetened, so that people can drink it that way, or add sugar instead of Splenda. It’s taken about ten dollars a week off my grocery bill, which is the sweetest thing about it! And, with all the good stuff in tea, I feel like I’m doing something healthy, a feeling that soda will never give you.
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