It’s about drinking – clean green drinking. I’m not going to get all tee-toteler on you, we’re all adults here (I think.) So what you chose to imbibe is up to you, but at the Mangum pad we’re going to take a week (well, we’ll start with a week and go from there) to forego processed drinks and get as close to drinking from the source as possible.
Water first. In fact tap water. We’re fortunate to live next to a spring, and our tap water is as clean and crisp as any bottled water you’d find… except for maybe Voss. (But now I’m just being pretentious.) Juices from Fruits. I can’t even fathom how much less sugar I would consume if I was squeezing my own oranges every time I wanted some OJ. So for the challenge, I’ll forgo picking up my gallon of pasteurized orange juice from Costco and take advantage of my juicer and blender. I’ve been a little addicted to OrganicAndHappy on Instgram; she has some amazing recipe ideas! Syonara Soda! Not that we drink a lot of pop around here; but carbonated beverages will be off limits (unless we borrow my mother’s SodaStream and make our own concoctions.)
We’re not going completely off the grid. I plan on keeping our milk delivery (glass bottles from a local farm). It’s still pasteurized, but at our house a four year old without milk just seems silly…and buying a cow to milk ourselves seems sillier (my husband is still protesting urban chickens, so I can’t imagine a cow in our backyard!)
Ideas for green drinking:
Grinding your own coffee, and making sure it’s organic and free-trade Cutting back or foregoing alcoholic beverages unless they’re local mircrobrews or locally sourced Giving up individually packaged juice boxes and opting for refillable water bottles instead
These are just a few suggestions for greener summer sipping. What are you willing to try, or already doing to drink clean and green? Image via Chang Qing
