I quit drinking soda this month because the off-brand soda I like inexplicably stop being sold by every store in the area, probably due to the Iran War, and RC Cola, Pepsi, and Coke all cost the same gouged prices. I could just take the price gouging and buy them anyway, but I’d rather quit consuming it out of spite.
That’s actually great news. Sugar is a hell of a drug and quitting soda is a big step in less sugar consumption. I enjoy water and hot tea usually at work, but my co-workers love soda. One of them got a kidney stone and the doctor told her it’s because you were drinking 5 cans of soda a day.
I think the other bad part is even the no name brands have ramped up prices as well… for a bit it was pretty good, but I feel like a lot of them just ended up pricing themselves the same as they did before, which is like .50 cents less or maybe a $1 less than the main brand. At that point i say its not even worth it and either decide on just buying the name brand cause the savings is dumb or just not buy it again until they lower the price or it goes on a good sale.
I don’t want to create a run on the fresh mint sections of the groceries, but you might try buying a package of mint (generally about $1.65 around here) rinsing it off and putting it (the mint, not the package) in a pitcher of water in the fridge. Zero sugar, fresh flavor, and I generally can refill a 1/2 gallon pitcher of water 6-10 times per package of mint. Toward “end of life” the mint will start to oxidize and make mint tea instead of mint water - slightly different but still nice IMO flavor, the brown coloring doesn’t mean it’s bad (unless it gets CocaCola dark, mine never has gone that far…)
It’s possible to go one step further and to just grow the mint yourself, mint is probably one of the easiest plants to grow.
But please just grow it in a pot and with some distance to other soil in the bottom because otherwise you will have mint everywhere and it will be very hard to remove, it will become a bad weed.
I have planted it two years ago and sometimes if I feel like it I water it and so far it’s gotten pretty big from just some small plants.
I have planted mint here and there around the house, in what has been described as “ideal” sunlit, well drained, regularly watered conditions. So far, it isn’t growing well. Now - that’s the store bought nice flavored mints which, apparently, are a lot fussier. We have some mint-related weeds that crop up here and there, and they’ll grow to bushes 5’ high and 6’ wide if you let them, but I don’t like their flavors as well. But, even after letting a couple of those get really big, they’re not so fearsome to just mow down and keep in check - far less annoying than things like the Camphor trees and Green Briar vines and friends… As for desirable herbs that do grow easily here: rosemary is a big one, that bush right outside the kitchen door always grows faster than we need it to.
Facts.
I quit drinking soda this month because the off-brand soda I like inexplicably stop being sold by every store in the area, probably due to the Iran War, and RC Cola, Pepsi, and Coke all cost the same gouged prices. I could just take the price gouging and buy them anyway, but I’d rather quit consuming it out of spite.
That it’s healthier is just a side bonus.
That’s actually great news. Sugar is a hell of a drug and quitting soda is a big step in less sugar consumption. I enjoy water and hot tea usually at work, but my co-workers love soda. One of them got a kidney stone and the doctor told her it’s because you were drinking 5 cans of soda a day.
Hell yeah. :)
I think the other bad part is even the no name brands have ramped up prices as well… for a bit it was pretty good, but I feel like a lot of them just ended up pricing themselves the same as they did before, which is like .50 cents less or maybe a $1 less than the main brand. At that point i say its not even worth it and either decide on just buying the name brand cause the savings is dumb or just not buy it again until they lower the price or it goes on a good sale.
I don’t want to create a run on the fresh mint sections of the groceries, but you might try buying a package of mint (generally about $1.65 around here) rinsing it off and putting it (the mint, not the package) in a pitcher of water in the fridge. Zero sugar, fresh flavor, and I generally can refill a 1/2 gallon pitcher of water 6-10 times per package of mint. Toward “end of life” the mint will start to oxidize and make mint tea instead of mint water - slightly different but still nice IMO flavor, the brown coloring doesn’t mean it’s bad (unless it gets CocaCola dark, mine never has gone that far…)
It’s possible to go one step further and to just grow the mint yourself, mint is probably one of the easiest plants to grow.
But please just grow it in a pot and with some distance to other soil in the bottom because otherwise you will have mint everywhere and it will be very hard to remove, it will become a bad weed.
I have planted it two years ago and sometimes if I feel like it I water it and so far it’s gotten pretty big from just some small plants.
I have planted mint here and there around the house, in what has been described as “ideal” sunlit, well drained, regularly watered conditions. So far, it isn’t growing well. Now - that’s the store bought nice flavored mints which, apparently, are a lot fussier. We have some mint-related weeds that crop up here and there, and they’ll grow to bushes 5’ high and 6’ wide if you let them, but I don’t like their flavors as well. But, even after letting a couple of those get really big, they’re not so fearsome to just mow down and keep in check - far less annoying than things like the Camphor trees and Green Briar vines and friends… As for desirable herbs that do grow easily here: rosemary is a big one, that bush right outside the kitchen door always grows faster than we need it to.