Everyday Systems

When I was a kid my parents never brought soda home. We drank milk and water (and Kool Aide I guess), but never soda. We did sneak dad's Kahlua. (I sswear this was anew bottle?) But enough of that.

When I was 16 I picked up a job at Burger King and my Coca Cola love affair began. To this day, 29 years later. I've tried diet, but yuck!

So, I have started a new approach. Club Soda. It has now calories, no sweeteners, low sodium, tastes like poo, but it has fizzle. And apparently I like fizzle because my Cola habit is giving way to Club Soda.

Give it a try, you'll get used to it.

O43

"Vintage" brand flavoured seltzer is our fave..
Lemon lime, cherry, orange...etc...
Good stuff!
Debs

Good substitions... find something you like and you'll get used to that in time and love it! Then years from now you'll have a regular loaded cola and think "yuck!" I did!

My sister adores Coca-Cola. I just think it's so NASTY! What is it that people like, because, to me, it tastes awful.

I quit cola a couple of years ago and I've never gone back, never even craved it. As a teenager I used to drink a blend of Diet Pepsi and orange juice -- it looked like dirty dishwater! Then later I switched to sugar Coke because Nutra-Sweet gives me a horrible headache.

I switched to green tea, which worked really well as a substitute because it has about the same caffeine content. Lately, I've also been drinking lime-flavored sparkling mineral water from Whole Foods -- it gets me through the late afternoon slump, when I formerly would have snacked. Refreshing for the summertime too.

It does work to change your habits. I switched to skim milk years ago and now whole milk totally grosses me out.