[Diabetes-Talk] Things to drink

[Eileen Scrivani]

Hi Terry,

I have given up drinking sodas. I can’t have caffeine or it makes my heart race & keeps me up all night no matter how early in the day I drink it. I am able to drink the Lipton Pure Leaf bottled tea even though its not a decaf beverage. I get the unsweetened variety, but you could add a bit of stevia or splenda sweetener to it.

There are also all types of flavors of teas that are both decaf & caffeinated that you could make yourself & chill in the fridge and add a non-sugar sweetener as you like. Also, I’ve turned to some of the Meo brand water enhancers that aren’t the purest ingredients, but they give a nice taste to my water and they don’t add sugar. I just squeeze the bottle to put a few drops into my glass & stir it in. The water enhancers come in all types of flavors too. 

Then there is the Swiss-Miss hot chocolate packets that are sugar free & have about 15 grams of carbs in a packet if you might like something like that. These are of course a hot drink.

They also sell water pitchers that you can place your own fresh fruit into a reservoir, add the water and let it sit for a time. The fruit adds flavor to the water without adding sugar. You don’t squeeze the fruit into the water. After a few days the fruit gets thrown out.

HTH.

Eileen
From: Terri Stimmel via Diabetes-Talk 
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 9:40 PM
To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind 
Cc: Terri Stimmel 
Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] Things to drink

Hello everyone,


I love sweet tea, and soda. For years now, I have been drinking diet soda.


However, I am starting to cut back, in hopes of eventually not drinking 
it at all.


I would still like to drink tea. Such as Lipton, ice tea. I don't really 
care for hot drinks, because I tend to get way too hot, way too easily.


So if I still would like to drink tea, what could I possibly use to cut 
down the bitterness of unsweetened tea?

Is this even possible?


I do drink water. I also have a couple of those flavor enhancers that I 
use sometimes. And sometimes I drink sparkling waters. The ones that are 
supposed to be calorie, and sugar-free. Also, we drink the 0 callorie, 0 
sweetened coolaide at times.


But are there other things I could possibly drink as well?

I have thought about finding ways to flavor regular water. But I've 
never done this before. So I know nothing about it.


Any thoughts and suggestions are much appreciated.


Thank you,


Terri

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