moominmolly | (no subject)

Foods I can no longer eat: Orange juice, grapefruit juice, corn syrup. The first two give me heartburn, and the third makes me feel crappy AND gives me heartburn. Does anyone know of a sugar-sweetened ginger ale?

Foods I find myself eating more than I used to: Cheese, dairy products. Especially, and this is the big turnaround, low-fat dairy products. Rich cheeses are nice, but I prefer things I can eat in slightly larger quantities, like low-fat yogurt or cottage cheese or even string cheese.

Foods I now adore: bananas, Fuji apples. Oh my god, Fuji apples. Every so often, I hear someone say, "wow! I'm not an apple person, but those Fujis sure are good!" and I'm like, "yeah, whatever. Get over it. It's still a goddamn apple". I mean, I like Granny Smiths when

dilletante is willing to patiently slice them up thin for me, and I like baking apples, but I've never been big on just tossing one in my bag and going. That's not a snack, it's an ingredient. But Fuji, oh, bless you Fuji, I'm sorry I doubted you for so long.

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You could always make your own ginger ale. If that seems too much like work, I highly recommend Bundaberg ginger beer. Whole Foods has a corn syrup-free ginger ale on their 365 Organic product line as well.

I'll probably go the lazy route and try Whole Foods, which I probably should have done before now. :) But if I see Bundaberg, I will pick it up!

making your own would probably be really easy. just take some ginger and boil it with some sugar until you have a really gingery syrup, then add sparkling water. once you discover ratios you like you can make a ton of syrup at once. (this is how l and i always have ginger lemondae in the house.) you could also pick up a bottle of ginger syrup and mix it with whatever is your fancy. whole foods and hharvest should both have this in their herbs and supplements sections.

Okay, that actually doesn't sound hard. What do you bottle it in? Does it particularly matter? Could I just put it in a jam jar? Sugar is still mysterious to me.

You can just put it in a jam jar. (I keep mine in reused drink bottles.) Keep it refrigerated and it should last a long time, but don't worry too much about the refrigerated bit if you want to travel with it.