Hi Everyone,
If you are of a certain age you will recall the August holidays being rife with outdoor activities – climbing trees, picking fruits and eating them to our heart’s content, playing gam (marbles), hop scotch, and running our own Olympic-style races. In between all of these activities, gallivanting, and working up a sweat, we’d pop home, or to our friends’ homes, or some auntie-neighbour’s house and slake our thirst with a tasty homemade fruit drink from the bounty of the season.
Back then, our drinks were always homemade; they came from pitchers and jugs but more importantly we could taste the flavour of the fruits from which the drinks were made. These days, many of the fruit drinks, juices and squashes consumed come from a can, carton, package or bottle. Some are made from fruit concentrates while others are artificially flavoured and coloured. I am not knocking anyone’s choice. To each his own. However, just so that we do not lose our sense of taste for fruits, or the opportunity to introduce these flavours to a younger generation, how about challenging ourselves this August holidays by abandoning the cans, cartons, packages and bottles. Instead, let’s stock up on fruits, and make our own fruity drinks. Bring out the pitchers and jugs along with some glasses or buy some disposable cups. Make the drinks to re-introduce yourself and your children (even the adult ones) to the flavours of fruity drinks. If you are not into fruity drinks yourself, then make them for the children around your area who come out to play.
