Bye Bye Dry July.....

It's time to raise a glass and bid adieu to Dry July and congratulate the winners of the 1st birthday competition.

I am breaking the drought with an espresso martini but these last 31 days has put an end to my soft drink habit, I suspect for good. Now with all this new found will power August will be a month of exercising everyday.....well maybe that could wait till September.

The winners of the Big Girls Blouse DVD were Anieweb for correctly answering that Lynne Postlethwaite "works" with Carmel, and Faye who won the Dry July donation round. Congratulations and enjoy your prize.

Thank you to everyone who donated I look forward to the day when cancer charities are redundant because we have found a cure!!

Until then I will leave the link on the site as I'm sure they will accept donations at any time during the year not just July. (June is the perfect time for those tax deduction receipts, just hinting) 

This is a great effort for the first year participation, next year will be even bigger.

There is something in them waters

Day 7 of Dry July, so that's no alcohol or soft drink and so far all is well.

No diva outbursts, no fetal position crying wrapped in a doona but I have been watching Celebrity Rehab so I'm sure I could pull it off if I had too.

The only time there's been any risk of soft drink passing my lips was Friday night when we ordered home delivered pizza, not artisan but the rough processed dirty kind. 
The perfect partner to a bad movie with a bottle of soft drink to cut through all that grease but no I stood strong.

 

Water in all it's many variations has become my new best tasty friend. These are more like experiments than recipes but it's exciting to see what a bottle of water on a window sill can achieve.

 

Most of the variations spring from the idea of ice tea but there are also a couple that are fruit based.

 

My favourite of the moment is plan lemon, so refreshing I may be off the soft drink for longer than just July.

 

Flavoured Waters:

Ingredients

• 1 bottle of cold water (approx. 720ml thanks to the old passata jars)
• 1 tbsp. sugar

 

Variations:

• 2 lemon wedges, or
• 2 rooibos teas and 3 slices of orange/lemon, or
• 1 peppermint teabag and a sprig of mint, or
• 1 earl grey teabag and a lemon wedge, or
• 10 blueberries, or
• A pinch of oolong tea and a lemon wedge 

Method:

• Add sugar to bottle of water
• Mix slightly, does not need to be dissolved
• Add flavouring of your choice
• Sit on a window sill for a couple of hours
• Refrigerate to chill
• Strain before drinking (Although blokes seem to have a thing about drinking straight from the bottle, genetics I guess, with these I'm a bottle drinker)