From flavored water to smoothies, summer drinks are colorful and beautiful to serve, ready in a minute, sipping all day
When it is hot you have to keep your body light and hydrated. The rule is: drink a lot.
In the desert the Bedouins drink hot drinks to fight the heat, but let's be serious, who wants to drink hot tea in the summer?
So here are our proposals for soft non-alcoholic drinks to sip at any time of the day and to take with you in a thermos.
Flavored water
L'flavored water is a summer classic. Very easy to prepare and delicious to sip.
You can decide how to compose it, with fruit and aromatic herbs you prefer.
You can immerse directly in the water pieces of fruit and sprigs of herbs, obviously after having washed everything with extreme care, or you can prepare some ice cubes with fruit and herbs inside to always keep the water fresh.
The sugar not needed!
Here are the combinations that we recommend:
– cucumbers, lime and mint
– blueberries, peaches and rosemary
– oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit
– raspberries, basil and lemon.
Cold coffee
If the amount of coffee daily equals three cups, pour the three cups in a thermos with ice and sip them for the hours to come a bit like Americans do.
You will certainly have plenty of energy throughout the day, as well as being super hydrated.
Don't sweeten the coffee, at least flavor it with cinnamon and if you want to stain it, prepare some cubes of frozen milk. That of almonds it is excellent and naturally sweet too.
If you just can't help but add sugar, go for it a spoonful of maple syrup and no more for the whole drink.
Iced tea
Why don't you prepare the homemade iced tea instead of buying it packaged?
It can be prepared in a few minutes and can be flavored in many ways.
First of all you can mix different qualities of tea that you like, like a vanilla tea with an orange tea and a cinnamon tea, or a lemon tea with a black tea, for example.
Then you can flavor it like water with fruit and aromatic herbs as well as adding lots of ice.
There is no need to sweeten if you add aromas, also because sugary drinks do not help fight the heat, on the contrary they make the situation worse and strain the intestine.
Savor the taste of natural iced tea and slowly, like sugar-free coffee, you will get used to it and never go back.
Smoothie
They are gods pureed frozen fruit mix similar to slushes and super refreshing, but unfortunately they are to be consumed immediately because they then lose consistency and become simple fruit juices.
To prepare the smoothie you have to start from a frozen fruit base so we suggest you always keep strawberries, berries, sliced bananas, a chopped avocado, mango pulp or other fruits with a soft consistency in the freezer that can be blended for become a kind of ice cream.
In addition to these iced ingredients you will need a part of milk, better if vegetable and a tablespoon of coconut butter or peanuts to give softness to the smoothie.
Celebrities love smoothies made only of green ingredients such as spinach, kale, cucumber, lettuce and avocado and they always add a portion of protein powder and algae, also in powder.
These green smoothies they seem to be super energetic and very hydrating. A must try!
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