While eating my lunch this afternoon I was treated to a Kool-Aid commercial. Did you know that for the same price Kool-Aid goes three times as far as soda? I didn’t. Do you know why I didn’t?
Because I couldn’t care less.
According to vons.com, the ingredients of Kool-Aid’s Sweetened Tropical Punch Drink Mix ($4.19 makes 8 quarts) are: Sugar, Fructose, Citric Acid (Provides Tartness), Calcium Phosphate (Prevents Caking), Artificial Flavor, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Artificial Color, Red 40 Lake, Natural Flavor, Red 40.
Prevents caking? That is not a good sign. Well at least it’s kosher…. Because for some reason that’s important.
So for $4.20 you can get two gallons of ADD inducing, sugar-filled, artificially flavored beverage.
Or you could drink water, which is…. free.
Or you could get around 4 black teabags and make a gallon of sun tea, which is…. about 50 cents a gallon.
Or you could get a lemon and some sugar (the amount which you can control) and make lemonade, which is…. between pennies and $1 a gallon depending on where you get your lemons.
Or you could get a couple limes and some sugar (Again, it’s up to you how much your children bounce off the walls)….for nearly the same as the lemonade.
While Kool-Aid may go farther than soda for the same price (which I really think depends on the sale you may find), it is certainly not the healthiest or frugalest way.
And do you really want to digest something that’s designed to prevent caking?
