Super Cool Summer Drinks – Healthy too!
Sizzling summer days call for revitalizing frosty drinks. Here’s a luscious fruit based collection from Rodale, Prevention and Dr. Weil featuring 13 of their healthful summer beverage recipes:
From Rodale, the 7 Best Drinks of Summer include a Metabolism Charger Smoothie, a creative mix of green tea, vanilla yogurt, mango and honey. Their Watermelon Health-Booster Smoothie is packed with phytonutrients, natural compounds that trigger healthy reactions in the body. At the end of a frazzled day in the heat, this drink is an easy snap to prepare. Just toss in chopped watermelon, fat free milk, ice and blend. A refreshing (and slimming) 56-calorie drink.
Prevention highlights 5 drinks to beat the summer heat. With tropical overtones, Passion Fruit-Pineapple Punch blends delicious passion fruit nectar, pineapple juice, lime juice (fresh, of course) and coconut milk topped off with a spritz of lemon or lime seltzer. Basically strawberry lemonade, their Strawberry Shag with a twist of basil can be combined with either vodka and soda water or you can hold the vodka and add a bit more soda water instead.
Dr. Weil checks in with a versatile recipe for a Yogurt-Lime Drink. Ingredients include coconut milk, lime juice, honey, purified water, vanilla and a flavorful combo of spices — cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon. Blend with fresh fruit for a frothy, chunky fruit beverage. Another possibility is tossing in frozen fruit to create a lightly spiced, mellow dessert drink.
What’s your favorite cooling summer drink?
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I make something that is juiced cucumber, a squirt of lemon and seltzer water. It is very refreshing, although I can’t vouch for any health benefits.
Jul.16, 2012 | 7:47 pmTerri recently posted..Visible Monday: The Lake Edition
That’s a new one on me, Terri. but it DOES sound refreshing. Also beneficial in the low calorie department.
Jul.16, 2012 | 10:12 pmThe drinks all sound delicious. My favorite Summer drink is plain old sun tea. Otherwise, plain old water.
Jul.17, 2012 | 7:09 pmSusan Partlan recently posted..My Short Career As a Liar
Almost missed your comment. No internet for over 16 hours yesterday and today. Real fun dealing with Time Warner kid reading from script who didn’t have a clue how to get my service reactivated (once the internet outage was supposedly over) and who suggested I call Apple for advice and who then hung up on me when I told him what I thought of that idea. Thankfully service popped back on few minutes later.
What IS sun tea by the way?
Jul.18, 2012 | 1:50 pmDo you have cable modem service? I usually reboot the cable modem and also reboot the router. Not everyone has a router — it’s only needed for in-home wireless.
Sun tea is made by letting the tea bags sit in water in the sun. It takes hours to steep but it’s really good. I can send you a recipe if you want one
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Jul.19, 2012 | 7:47 pmSusan Partlan recently posted..My Short Career As a Liar
I always reboot and turn modem on and off a couple of million times. Eventually internet seems to pop back up on its’ own.
Love the idea of tea steeping in the sun, but I have lots of uninvited terrace guests: wire eating birds, roosting pigeons, occasional squirrel. Would it work inside? I make ice coffee by letting it steep in cold water overnight. Would that work with tea?
Jul.19, 2012 | 8:45 pm