Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> > On 2015-07-03 6:17 PM, cshenk wrote:
> >
> > > > It's not that I don't know how to sweeten water. It's that
> > > > there are no sweeteners that are safe for me. No clue what a
> > > > mio bottle is and I'm not about to buy any more bottles. I
> > > > also don't necessarily want flavored water. I want water with
> > > > lemon in it. Real lemon. Not the Real Lemon juice. But
> > > > actual lemon and/or lime slices. It's good for the ph.
> > >
> > > Then use Lemons Julie. Pretty simple.
> > >
> >
> >
> > LOL... see how it works. She got you hook, line and sinker. She
> > posed the question. You gave her the time and effort to provide a
> > valid answer and .. bango... the reason it won't work for. It is
> > Julie's MO, and people keep falling for it. She asks for help and
> > then dumps on the good intentioned response.
>
>
>
> Please point out the question! There wasn't one. Nor did I ask for
> help. I am thinking this group is ripe with idiots.

Julie, you posted this:
> We have been drinking lemon water. Alas there are water quality
> problems in this area. The drought has caused a lot of algae and the
> treatment for it is causing the water to taste and smell just awful.
> So I am having to use bottled. I wish there was a sweetener I could
> use. So far I haven't found one. I did buy a bag of lemons and
> another of limes at Coscto.

Hi Julie, for sweeter water, try the mio bottles or if that doesnt fit
the budget, fix a packet of KoolAide with 2 cups water and use a little
of that in a bottle. Use the ones that have no sweetner then add a
little sweetner of a type that works for you. You arent re-creating
KoolAide here but a bit of fruit flavor to the water. At the lightly
flavored water version, that 2 cups from one packet will flavor 2-2-1/2
gallons for most of us.

Carol
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People spent time to reply and you basically pooped on our heads for
it. You just called me an idiot for trying to help you with how to
fruit up some water.


If you do not feel real popular here, you might want to look at your
OWN behavior as to why.
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