Non alcoholic drinks - what's yours?

[caziques]

Mine is milk - 55 years and I still drink 2 or 3 pints a day.

Very rarely I'll have a hot chocolate, perhaps some water, perhaps orange juice.

Really don't like fizzy drinks (coke etc), never drank tea or coffee.

Thank goodness I live in NZ, where the "white gold" is the mainstay of the economy - and I do my bit to keep things going.

How about you?

[JFReturns]

This thread might be good for those of us posting in the 'one year without alcohol' thread....

As for me - sparkling water, and lots of it. Not keen on coke etc, and even drinking loads of fruit juice is not good for you! As for milk.... yeah, not as much as you though!

[Ilikebeaver]

Peppermint tea
Water
Grapefruit juice

[calibrax]

I never drink coffee (can't stand the stuff!) and I only ever have tea if I'm having Bovril on toast (better than Marmite), or a full English brekkie.

Until recently I'd go through 3 cans of Diet Coke during the day at work, then in the evening I'd have most of a 2 litre bottle of Diet Coke, and also a pint of semi-skimmed milk.

Now I've swapped the cans during the day for mineral water, I only have about 500ml of Diet Coke in the evenings, and have increased the semi-skimmed milk to 2 pints.

[H_Kan]

Water, lime and soda, ice tea and sometimes fizzy drinks or fruit juice.

[GingerWizard]

sugar free lemonade with orange juice

[dhf]

A Gunner

Half Ginger Beer/Half Ginger Ale and a Dash of Angustoras Bitters

or just Ginger Beer or Ginger Ale or Half Lemonade

Footnote.
Yes i know A.B. has an acholic content but it must be marginal in this mix

[Mobile Chicane]

Milk, yuk. Imagine you're still breastfeeding at the age of 55, moreover from another species.

I recently discovered I am lactose intolerant, which is perfectly fine as I never liked the stuff anyway.

My non-alcoholic drinks of choice are herbal/green tea, or freshly-squeezed juice. I love juice and must go through 4Kg of oranges and 2Kg of apples in a week, quite easily.

[grumbledoak]

If I can be bothered, ginger ale, pomegranate, and a squeeze of lime.
Otherwise just fruit juice and soda.

[chevy-stu]

I think it's advised to be careful how much milk we drink, as I thoughtit was common knowledge that adult humans are actually slightly intolerant to it, all be it at different levels depending on intake and individual.

[AndyAudi]

Skinny Gingerbread Latte every morning at work (they buy the syrup in out of season especially for me).

Edited by AndyAudi on Saturday 4th February 18:34

[jas xjr]

I love mango juice . Best is from a roadside stand in india , where they prepare it in front of you for as little as five rupees , which is so little I cannot work it out . Used to be 80 to the pound .

Rubicon brand is not too bad .available from most supermarkets

[calibrax]

chevy-stu said:

I think it's advised to be careful how much milk we drink, as I thought it was common knowledge that adult humans are actually slightly intolerant to it, all be it at different levels depending on intake and individual.

True, but in the western/developed world it's not all that common (maybe 10% of the population), because we consume a lot of dairy products which keeps us able to digest lactose after breastfeeding stops. But elsewhere in the world where dairy is not so prominent in the diet, it's more like 80% of the population that are lactose intolerant.

[Jobbo]

The only ones I don't get bored with are full fat Coke, and Sainsbury's high juice pink grapefruit squash. The latter is lovely and tart.

[shirt]

fresh lemonade with mint. its only when i look at the sugar content i try an abstain.

also loving a sugar free carbonated vitamin drink called viitaene as i'm too lazy to buy berroca.

[Cheese Mechanic]

Tea, by the Gallon.

Occasionally milk, in summer, Dandelion and Burdock , or perhaps Ice cream soda.

Canot stand cola , about the only drink aside Champagne I cannot stomach.

[Mobile Chicane]

500ml of Diet Coke in the evening is still quite a lot of caffeine to be consuming that late in the day.

How's your sleep?

[Jam Spavlin]

Tea milk 2 sugars. Lime cordial and lemonade. 35p red bull rip off. My teeth are all my own by the way!

[ambuletz]

Fizzy drinks.
I think i drink too much of them. I go through a 2litre bottle in 2-3days. Coke or Irn Bru.
I still wish that coca-cola still sold Vanilla-coke here, I loved that stuff.

[Shaolin]

Fizzy water, ginger cordial with fizzy water, but mainly tea.

As for drinking too much milk and not being good for you, I suspect the OP is ok after 55 years of 2-3 pints a day! Mrs. S. gets through at least a pint a day.