Sassy Water | Skip Soda,
Save Up and Slim Down
By Elizabeth Fairchild, your money-saving news source
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:
- 2 Quarts of water
- 12 Mint leaves
- 1 Cucumber peeled and sliced thin
- 1 teaspoon of grated ginger
- 1 Lemon sliced thin
Instructions
1. Fill up a container with 2 quarts of water.
2. Break off 12 mint leaves and place into the water.
3. Thoroughly wash the lemon rind. Slice very thin and add to water.
4. Peel the cucumber, slice really thin, and add it to the water.
5. Grate the ginger root on the fine section of your grater. Add to the water.
6. 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.
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.
