Soda, I like soda with food, except for breakfast and I never run out. Because I haven't been watching for the "good" sales and I let my supply of soda run low I bought two six packs of 16.9oz bottles of caffeine-free diet Pepsi for $4.50each to tide me over. Running out of soda is not an option for me.
Lately I have been drinking diet 7-Up. I'm a sucker for advertising and all the talk a while back in the coffee shop about and the videos of the old 7-Up commercials I had to have it. Next in the queue is sugar free A&W Root Beer. I like to switch it up. Diet Canada Dry Ginger Ale is a regular for me, I still have a two-liter bottle of that. I also drink my wife's homemade, sugar free iced tea. The tea is weak by design to limit caffeine. She mixes in a pack of Kool-Aid lemonade, so it is like half tea, half lemonade, it is very good!
I also have Food Lion's version of Dr. Pepper, diet "Dr. Perky" it was only $1 for a two liter. I am proud to be a cheap bastard, so I bought it, and it is good! It's not caffeine free so I drink it sparingly. I do like caffeine-free diet Coke, but I don't like Coke Zero or Pepsi Zero, go figure. I love Coke but that has been off my list for many years due to diabetes.
Whatever happened to a case of 24-12oz cans of Coke for $4? That is a rhetorical question, but something I always think of when buying soda.
My wife makes a pot of Columbian coffee every morning. She drinks one cup, and I drink the rest. After that is gone, I drink instant coffee. I have been mixing Maxwell House instant coffee with Aldi's decaffeinated instant coffee, I like it! I have a 24oz tin coffee cup I fill countless times each day. I like the lightweight tin cup for my decrepit hands.
I drink Coffee all day. I like a cup of coffee before I go to bed. It has no impact on my blood pressure or my sleep. Just the opposite for the blood pressure they tell me; it is a diuretic so I must drink other fluids throughout the day. It works for me as they have me checking for signs of dehydration, so far so good. When I don't overdo things, my pain level is low enough to allow me to sleep well.
All the extra fluids weren't helping with my low blood pressure. It kept me active running to the bathroom. Now they think the low blood pressure is caused by fatigue. It's a rare condition, but rare conditions are nothing new to me and I get fatigued easily. The treatment: take a nap as needed. I can do that, and it has been working.
Boy, most of y'all seem to be pop addicts. I am a water addict. Well, being how I dehydrate so easy, Gator Aid too. Don't remember the last time I had a pop. Think 4 - 5 months ago with Mug root beer. Maria is leaning more and more to the water drinking thing, has a can of Coke maybe everyday. Way down from before. Now if I could just get her off of coffee after that 1st pot.
Todd, I must have my soda! I guess you could say I am a soda junkie.
As you said before, you and I have a lot in common. I too must watch for dehydration, but I don't like water! I do drink about 20oz of water when I take my medication twice a day. I think of it as another medicine and just drink it.
falling off the pitched roof is too high. Not to mention my decrepit hands.
