Title: Summer drinks
Course: Grades Instructor - DO NOT MODIFY > Section: Types of Chocolate and Production > Forum: Discussion #2: Summer drinks and snacks

For college students Kool-Aid probably isn't your favorite summer drink anymore. What do you drink to refresh yourself on a hot summer day? (No alchoholic suggestions. Please!)

Something I really got hooked on because my Mom likes it so much is Ice Tea. All you need is a large mason jar (1 qt.) with a lid and some tea bags. Fill the jar with water, preferably distilled water, hang 3-4 regular or 2 large Lipton tea bags over the jar's lip in the water, seal the top and put it in the sun for about 4 hours. If you use distilled water you get a crystal clear tea. Put the finished tea in the refrig until cold and serve with a slice of lemon over the lip of your glass. I always try to make 2 jars at a time if there's room in my refrigerator. The tea goes down fast and you never know when the next sunny day will come around.

I really like to make Smoothies on a hot day. You can buy a mix at the grocery store, and some packets are for individual servings which is handy. The store mixes tend to be sweeter because they have a good deal of sugar in them.

I just like to toss some strawberries, some milk, a teaspoon of sugar, and several ice cubes into the blender and mix. The ice cubs make it colder, but a little more watery as well, so sometimes I add a scoop of ice cream to thicken up the mixture. Cold, creamy, sweet, and strawberry flavored. Great!

I also like ice tea, and sometimes I will mix it with lemonade. I prefer the raspberry lemonade. It has a 'dark tartness' about it.

Well, I usually stay in doors on hot summer days.  I love the air conditioning and I'm not much of a nature lover.  As a result, I drink hot cocoa all year long.

Lemonade is my favorite summertime drink.  Although my mom never let us have sugar, my grandmother (my dad's mom) always used to sneak it to us as kids!!!

Chocolate milk!!! That’s my favorite thing on a hot summer day to cool me down. I always opt to have the skim milk variety because I like to watch my figure. Vampires are immortal but we still struggle with obesity.

I agree with Count Chocula, chocolate milk is a great summer time refreshing drink!!! I always forget about it because I use regular milk to dip my cookies in.

Kool-Aid is my thirst quencher in the summer but I tend to not drink too much of it. It’s not the amount of sugar that bothers me but the color it stains my fur because it’s hard to drink without it getting some on my upper lip. Then I end up with a Kool-Aid mustache that is not pretty!! Red or purple don’t mix well with blue. Sometimes it takes a couple of days to get it out!!

Wow! There are a lot of milk drinkers in this class!!! I’m the same way!! I do enjoy regular 2% though. I’m not too worried about the extra calories and I really enjoy the creamier taste compared to skim milk.

Maybe I’m the only one that doesn’t’ drink milk?! It could be my aversion to cookies and the fact that milk doesn’t taste that good with fruit salad.

I love ice tea.  It has to be sweetened, of course, but it is definitely my favorite in the summer time.

I love a fresh squeezed glass of juice. It doesn’t matter what kind as long as it’s fruit juice and not vegetable juice.

I love milk too!!!  It's the best thing in the world on a hot summer's day!