Summer is time for sassy water
Whether your goal is to cut calories or cut costs, sassy water can help. Plus, it’s light and refreshing — perfect for sipping on the patio on warm spring and summer days.
Save your soda money
If you’re used to spending cash every day on soda cans from the vending machine or bottled juice, sassy water can save you some green. Follow this simple recipe:
Instructions
- Fill up a container with 2 quarts of water.
- Break off 12 mint leaves and place into the water.
- Thoroughly wash the lemon rind. Slice very thin and add to water.
- Peel the cucumber, slice really thin, and add it to the water.
- Grate the ginger root on the fine section of your grater. Add to the water.
- Put the water in the refrigerator and let it get cold. Overnight is recommended.
One batch of sassy water should last you all day. This will save you from needing cash advances or credit cards to cover your drinking habit. Wait, that didn’t come out right.
Health benefits
Prevention Magazine includes sassy water as part of its popular “Flat Belly Diet.” Prevention recommends using this drink as a four-day “jump start.” It is almost free of calories, plus it keeps you well hydrated.
And, though you could spring for the “Flat Belly Diet” book, you could save yourself some cash by just switching from soda to sassy water and incorporating common sense into your diet.
More free diet advice
You could also incorporate these 10 foods, also recommended by Prevention, into your diet:
- Almonds
- Avocado
- Dark or Semi-Sweet Chocolate
- Flaxseed Oil
- Macadamia Nuts
- Natural Peanut Butter
- Olive Oil
- Pistachios
- Sunflower Seeds
- Walnuts
Of course, these foods are meant to be eaten in moderation. Most of them are meant to take the place of something else — dark chocolate instead of regular chocolate, olive oil instead of butter or regular cooking oil, you get the idea. Basically, these foods are good sources of fat rather than bad.
What makes sassy water sassy?
Sassy water was named in honor of its concoctor, Cynthia Sass. She is the nutrition director at Prevention. The magazine also says it is so named because “it’s a heck of a lot perkier than plain old water.”
Other web sites even say that sassy water has an energizing effect somewhat similar to caffeine.
So, if you want to trim your budget and trim your waist, stir up some sassy water.
That doesn’t actually sound that bad. It sure beats Kool Aid, that’s for sure. Ordinarily I’d question the ginger, but I confess a weakness for Ginger Ale. (Although it uses artificial ginger flavor, and it isn’t actually ale. Ale has, typically, less carbonation and has to be brewed at room temperature, and aged at least two weeks, some requiring a in bottle maturation of months to get the full flavor. But I’m getting off topic.) Healthy drinks and foods don’t necessarily have to taste bad.
You are right, I am not very clear with what exactly sassy water is. Who have been helped with it.
Do you strain the ingredients before drinking and do you make a fresh batch every day? How long do you have to drink it before you see the results. Someone said to add an onion and crushed ginger to get rid of bloating, is that correct? Will this help me loose weight, how much in what amount of time?
Is substituting mint leaves for spearmint leaves okay? Could not find fresh spearmint leaves in my local grocery stores.