My little trick for drinking more water

These long, Southern, summer months can be killer on the body.  I generally try to drink the recommended 8 glasses of water a day (and more when I'm outside "glistening" for extended periods of time), but my taste buds get rather bored with the monotony of it.


I've done the apple cinnamon water.  I love it... I really do... and I even add a little honey in, boil the ingredients in a little bit of water on the stove for a few minutes, and then dilute in a pitcher of water.  It's one of the most delicious ways of drinking water, in my humble opinion, but the apples and cinnamon are truly only good for one batch.  You have to toss and start fresh with each new batch, and I don't know if you've priced cinnamon sticks recently, but they are roughly $1 a stick... and that adds up!


I recently stumbled across a recipe for cucumber mint water.  Intrigued, I purchased the ingredients and made my first batch.  Absolutely delightful!  One downside was the cost of the mint leaves as well as the fact that they didn't keep fresh very long.  So, instead, I experimented with mint extract.  In place of the mint leaves, I used 1/4 lid mint extract (aka the very tiny lid on the bottle it comes in) and sliced half a cucumber my mom gave from her garden.  It is seriously the best water I have ever tasted!  I'm drinking an entire pitcher of just the mint cucumber water every day!  Best part is I already had the mint extract in my pantry and the cucumber was free (thanks Mom!).  I feel healthier PLUS I have ah-mazingly minty breath at all times.  Doesn't get much better than that!

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