Right, not even day 1 yet and I've hit my first hurdle with water - it's so boooooring!!
I have a fundamental problem with water - its very nothingness, its clear, anodyne, safe, nothingness. It makes me gag. Ok, the ultimate in 1st world problems - taking issue with my clean, safe, readily available, free water which is literally available from within my own home, and perhaps most pleasantly, doesn't give me cholera. I get it. But for the purposes of my privileged, frivolous, easy, Western life - I have problem with water boredom (pun intended).
This is not my first experience with ingesting the stuff. I've always resolved this horrific ordeal by adding some sweet sweet sugary sweetness in the form of dilutey juice (or squash, as I believe it might actually be called) - but really, in the pursuit of a healthy lifestyle, I shouldn't be having squash every day, especially given the monumental amount of water I'm allocating myself to drink (2l per day. Ahem.)
So what are my options?
Infuser bottle - I loved the idea of this until I realised what I loved was the gimmick, and not the reality. The reality being that I'd spend an afternoon researching infuser bottles on Amazon, a week making lists of water-infuse recipes, a few more weeks waiting for delivery, a frustrated hour waiting in line in the queue for the Post Office when I inevitably miss the delivery, a happy excited hour when I unpack the box and marvel at my brand new shiny toy, and then 1 day of using it before realising I can't be arsed to cut up a bunch of fruit and herbs every day just to have a drink.
Sugar free dilutey juice - I think these may contain aspartame, artificial sweetener, which I'm to avoid.
Add cucumber - I love cucumber, which is weird as it's basically the food equivalent of a jellyfish, consisting mainly of - water. And I am yet to find something involving cucumber which I don't enjoy - cucumber sandwiches (so blandly delicious), cucumber sticks (superior to the carrot stick - controversial I know), cucumber gin (god I'm going to miss you, Hendricks *sob*) - and yes, I can identify cucumber-y water when out at restaurants which provide it in response to my standard "tap water, please" order (a girl has a budget. Valar Halifaxis.)
I'm meeting a friend for a brunch and shopping day in Hammersmith tomorrow so will have a search for nasties-free dilutey juice and see what I can find.
I have a fundamental problem with water - its very nothingness, its clear, anodyne, safe, nothingness. It makes me gag. Ok, the ultimate in 1st world problems - taking issue with my clean, safe, readily available, free water which is literally available from within my own home, and perhaps most pleasantly, doesn't give me cholera. I get it. But for the purposes of my privileged, frivolous, easy, Western life - I have problem with water boredom (pun intended).
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| WATER WHY U SO DRYYYY |
So what are my options?
Infuser bottle - I loved the idea of this until I realised what I loved was the gimmick, and not the reality. The reality being that I'd spend an afternoon researching infuser bottles on Amazon, a week making lists of water-infuse recipes, a few more weeks waiting for delivery, a frustrated hour waiting in line in the queue for the Post Office when I inevitably miss the delivery, a happy excited hour when I unpack the box and marvel at my brand new shiny toy, and then 1 day of using it before realising I can't be arsed to cut up a bunch of fruit and herbs every day just to have a drink.
Sugar free dilutey juice - I think these may contain aspartame, artificial sweetener, which I'm to avoid.
Add cucumber - I love cucumber, which is weird as it's basically the food equivalent of a jellyfish, consisting mainly of - water. And I am yet to find something involving cucumber which I don't enjoy - cucumber sandwiches (so blandly delicious), cucumber sticks (superior to the carrot stick - controversial I know), cucumber gin (god I'm going to miss you, Hendricks *sob*) - and yes, I can identify cucumber-y water when out at restaurants which provide it in response to my standard "tap water, please" order (a girl has a budget. Valar Halifaxis.)
I'm meeting a friend for a brunch and shopping day in Hammersmith tomorrow so will have a search for nasties-free dilutey juice and see what I can find.
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