DIY drink recipes for families

Refreshing and delicious: Simple drink recipes for quenching thirst and toasting on special occasions for children.

Did you know that more than half of all children in primary school don't drink enough? Adequate hydration is so important for mental and physical processes. Mine.

Drink recipes provide a good guide on how to control and positively influence your children's drinking habits. Tired afternoons or even dehydrated kids will then definitely be a thing of the past!

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Drink recipes for thirst quenchers

• Thirst quenchers are refreshingly cool,
• watery and transparent,
• often have carbon dioxide
• and contain little to no sugar.

Refreshing thirst quenchers for summer include, for example, mineral water with colorful inks.

Ice cubes, diluted juice spritzers (preferably made from freshly squeezed oranges, apples and lemons) and homemade.

Drink recipes for filling meals

• Smoothies have a creamy consistency,
• are opaque
• They often consist of dairy products such as buttermilk and yogurt, or of coconut milk, oat milk and frozen bananas and
• They come in all possible colors.

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Smoothies, which are mixed from fruits and milk or plant-based alternatives, also make delicious and filling shakes.

Milkshakes sometimes contain sugar or are topped with high-fat cream (which is perfectly fine every now and then) and are then already a small meal.

Drink recipes for vitamin bombs

There are also several drink recipes with spices and herbs. Besides delicious teas, which children can enjoy as iced tea in the summer, turmeric and ginger are particularly good as vitamin-packed drinks. The bright yellow spice turmeric, for example, can be used to make...

Process golden milk; fresh ginger, in turn, yields healthy results.

Cheers to you - Drink recipes for toasting on special occasions

The thing about infused water is that it looks more exciting than tap water, but only has a very light flavor and tastes good to everyone.

Kids' cocktails – naturally alcohol-free – are also great drinks for summer. And they're not just for kids, but also for adults, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and more. I love fruity kids' cocktails on balmy summer evenings when we're sitting together as a family in the garden, at parties with friends, or at children's birthday parties.

Recipes for drinks for school

Infused water and diluted juices are suitable for this. It's a popular recipe with my kids.

Banana milk. It consists of only three ingredients, tastes wonderfully of banana and milk, and is a smart way to fill up school children of all ages. We often have it with...