My daughter is a big fan of chocolate...anything chocolate and she is a happy kid (maybe not a happy mom with a hyper kid, but a happy kid none the less)
One thing that I tried was to make different flavored ice cubes. There are so many different combinations that can make drinking special for both kids and adults alike.
Some of the ones that we made include:
Kool Aid - I mixed up a about 2 cups of water with one packet of Kool Aid and added about 1/2 cup of sugar and froze the mixture. Then added a cube or two to water. As the cubes melted, they added flavor and color to her water and she enjoyed watching them melt (though I think she watched them melt more than she drank the water).
Coffee - For adults that like cold coffee (ME!ME!ME!), but do not like the watered down taste of using regular ice cubes to cool it down. Take your left over coffee, let the coffee cool down, and pour it into ice cube trays and freeze. Add to coffee on those hot summer days when cold coffee is on your radar.
Milk Cubes - now this is probably not what you are thinking of. Yes there is some milk in it, but this is really to FLAVOR your milk (I don't give these to my daughter if she is vomiting...not a good idea on a sour stomach either). For my daughter, I took a small amount of milk and added in chocolate syrup and froze them. These can be added to milk for a nice cold treat or even added to a homemade milk shake instead of plain ice cubes or ice cream. I also add peanut butter (warmed first so it mixes into the milk mixture easier) to mine for a peanut butter chocolate milk.
(These are our peanut butter chocolate cubes...these we did over the summer before I did the tip on the scrubbing the stove)
Creamers - Liquid creamer frozen in ice cube trays is another way to add flavor to both milk or cold coffee without diluting the flavors with additional water.
Iced Coffee Mixes - My local store now carries containers of cold coffee, flavored and unflavored (YEAH Starbucks)over in the dairy section. These are also nice to freeze in ice cube trays and add to coffee or milk for additional flavor. This is also a good idea if you do not drink all of the container before it expires (like anyone really does that, but you never know).
Flavored Cubes - My daughter is not a big fan of Pedialyte, but she does like Gatorade and other sports drinks. For me, these are all full of so much sugar that I don't always like giving her them straight. I tend to water them down, which just makes her not happy with mommy. So I came up with a compromise. I take Gatorade, some other sports drink, or Pedialyte and freeze it in an ice cube tray and add them to plain water. It is not as much sugar as having it plain, but gives the water a little more flavor and an electrolyte boost.
The flavor combinations can be endless based on what you like...what flavors would you use?
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