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[moominmolly]

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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[amber-phoenix.livejournal.com]

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.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

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.

[amber-phoenix.livejournal.com]

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.