I like cappuccino drink mix and Gatorade fruit punch.
I buy twelve pounds of cappuccino mix at a time, off of eBay.
I used to get Gatorade at walmart.com, but I think they just discontinued it.
I'm thinking of trying Kool-Aid.
Which inexpensive drink mixes do you like, and where do you buy them?
wow the sound of it alone, brr…
is this list of ingredients a bit similar to your cappuccino mix?
Ingredients: Sugar, Creamer (Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil [Coconut, Canola, and Soybean Oils], Corn Syrup Solids, Sodium Caseinate [Milk Derivative], Dipotassium Phosphate, Sugar, Whey, Maltodextrin, Mono- and Diglycerides, Silicone Dioxide, Sodium Silicoaluminate, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Soy Lecithin, Colored with [Annatto, Turmeric], Artificial Flavor), Sweet Dairy Whey, Nonfat Dry Milk, Instant Coffee, Artificial Flavor, Cocoa (Processed with Alkali), Sodium Aluminosilicate (to Prevent Caking), Cellulose Gum, Salt.
dang, it seems it is just three/four ingredients one could actually want for being good for us:
Instant Coffee, Cocoa, whey and Turmeric
But the first two are heavily adapted from original beneficial form, maybe the whey and Turmeric as well, IDK.
The gatorade fruit punch, LOL at the wallmart listing:
Contains no fruit juice
Fruit juice flavor
heheh
I like home brewed Iced Tea. I get 100 Golden Tip tea bags from my grocery for $0.79. I use 10 bags/gallon. Cut open the bags and dump into coffee pot with a coffee filter and brew. Use about 1 cup sugar to a gallon. Pour brewed tea in gallon container and ad sugar, dissolve sugar into hot tea and top off with cold water. Chill in fridge. Lemon juice to taste but most of the time I don’t. Think its about $0.20 for a gallon to make including the #4 filter. May be too strong but ad ice to a glass or use less bags.
Stupid cheap lemonade. Bottle of lemon juice from Dollar Tree. It costs a dollar. Don’t take much but ad juice to gallon of water to taste and again about 1 cup sugar. Cant be more than $0.15 a gallon to make.
Wow, that is cheap!
My cappuccino is $2.45 per gallon and my Gatorade was $1.60 per gallon.
Actually my cappuccino doesn't list the ingredients in the auction or on the bag or box.
As you can tell, I'm not a health nut. 
I do drink a lot of orange juice, if that's any consolation.
Yeah, cheap.
I just can’t drink plain water. It needs caffeine and sugar in it.
Don’t like lemonade much but it is a something different on occasion.
Also drink too much coffee and always make my own. My grocery house brand French roast is good. Still comes in a Big can that hasn’t been downsized. Cheaper than the red or blue and 30% more. For a $5 starbucks I get a pot a day for 2 weeks, half and half and sugar included.
I like natural yoghurt mixed with cold water
Easy digested too, no problems for lactose intolerant
Start every day with a mug
1 table spoon of instant coffee
1 table spoon of honey
A splash of water to mix it
Fill with milk
Like Bailey’s without alcohol, nice.
17 grams of freshly roasted coffee beans (from a local roaster or bought online)… grind and immediately make espresso, then add some milk and a bit of sugar. Repeat in the afternoon.
When I was working in the office, I would brew green tea. A couple of individual tea bags in a cup of hot water to make a strong tea. I would fill my 30 oz Yeti with ice, and pour the hot tea in. The ice would melt and dilute the tea, then I would add one of these Wal Mart orange drink packets to sweeten. It added just enough flavor and sweetness to make the tea enjoyable for me, as I normally don’t like plain tea of any sort.
Sugar free Sweet Tea from Walmart, about 83 cents per gallon. Try various Crystal Light and Great Value flavors.
If you don’t mind sugar then just brew your own sweet tea, for cheaper tea look for a Middle Eastern grocery store that sells bulk tea.
Not sure what’s worse… sugar or aspartame in that sugar free sweet tea. 
For those looking for sugar alternatives, try raw unfiltered honey.
Solid post!
I will be trying both of these. :+1:
Yeah ice tea rocks!
We dump some herbs in it while mixing the tea, honey and icecubes
Specially a bunch of mint, keeps the ice in the pitcher as well
This cost a little more than most iced tea recipes, but it has therapeutic qualities not found in the others, it is recognized as a cure for boredom and sexual indifference to one’s spouse.
Texas Tea recipe
2 oz tequila
2 oz rum
2 oz vodka
2 oz gin
2 oz bourbon whiskey
2 oz triple sec
2 oz sweet and sour mix
Coca-Cola
Fill a 1 gallon pitcher with ice. Add all the ingredients except the coca-cola. Stir, then add the coca-cola and stir again. Pour into your favorite glass with ice and enjoy.
I eat with and drink mostly:
1) (tap)water, never bottled
2) milk.
These are my most common drinks.
Third is coffee OR UN-FLAVORED Green Tea
Can´t eat ~anything with alcohol OR lemonades (red wine makes a small exception).
Sweet drinks are not for me…
But when I drink alcohol, sugar goes better.
One cheap (this is very relative, but cheap here) is to get low-alc cider from Sweden and then obtain high-alc booze from Estonia and mix them :zipper_mouth_face:
Regular cider here is almost 3EUR/can and by mixing you can get it to aboutz 0.6EUR/can.
Wife drinks most of them, I prefer beers but can have one every now and then.
Mmm, I like limeade. Squeeze 1 whole lime into a bucket, add anywhere from 0 to 2tsp of sugar, fill to the brim with water.
I like it to be flavored with lime, not so much that I pucker. Same with lemonade, ’though limes can be sweet’n’sour (like grapefruit), whereas lemons are usually just bitter, so I need at least 2tsp of sugar with lemonade.
Hey, I cut sody-pop half’n’half with water, else it’s like drinking kanar, sweet and syrupy, yecch.
So it ain’t cheap, as 4/1buk for limes makes, what?, a quart?, per lime, but it’s good, and natural.
In extreme desperation, I can do ReaLemon or if available ReaLime, but… desperation.
In hot tea, I like slices of lemon, but again, in desperation, a splash of ReaLemon will pass.
Æons ago, if going away somewhere and would be staying in a hotel, a ziplock baggie with tea-mix (Nestea?) would beat plain water. Not by much, but doable.
If you can get to Chinatown or at least an ethnic part of town, pick up some “gunpowder” green tea. Coupla bux for a box, drop a half-spoon of it into a mug of hot water, watch the “peppercorns” of tea unfurl into “spinach” at the bottom of the mug. And enjoy with honey. Or straight.
Oh, let it settle undisturbed, unless you want a mouthful of fines to make you near-puke from unexpected bitterness. Best to use a traditional teapot to decant as needed, and leave the yick at the bottom.
I won’t touch artificial sweeteners. I’d rather slip into a diabetic coma from real sugar than poison myself with that garbage.
It’s finally coming out in mainstream media (’though those in-the-know have known for decades) that artificial sweeteners fool the body with a mismatch of sweetness and calories, that cause people to gain weight. Your metabolism gets fooled, then gets screwed up, then starts packing on the pounds when the clues from sweetness don’t deliver those needed (and expected) calories.
I like honey for flavor, but I’d need so much of it for sweetness that its taste would overpower everything else.
I like adding a packet (maybe two) of honey to a big bucket of hot coffee at 7-11 and the like.
I liked stevia in coffee because the licorice/anise flavor goes nicely (like anisette). Not in tea, though.
Erythritol is nice, and has no aftertaste. It’s closest to real sugar in use and taste.
H20
Mixes great with scotch and whisky