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HOW TO: Make Fruit-Filled Bubbly Drinks For Kids To Toast The New Year

Posted By Jennie Lyon On December 29, 2012 @ 12:00 pm In food,healthy recipe,how-to,recipe,recipes,vegan cooking,vegetarian,vegetarianism | No Comments

 
 
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New Year's Eve is around the corner, and you probably have a celebration planned that includes your little ones. Children love to ring in the New Year as much as adults do -- given the excitement of staying up late, the fun noisemakers, and watching all of the countries across the globe commemorate the arrival of 2013 on television, and of course counting down as the ball drops in Times Square!

If your child is like mine, part of the fun of New Year's Eve is staying up until midnight and then toasting the New Year with something bubbly. However, the last thing you want to give your child at midnight is a drink that's loaded with sugar or caffeine! Read on to learn how to make 3 bubbly drinks for kids [5] that will make the toast extra special, and healthy too!
 
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Step 1: Gather Your Ingredients

  • selection of your favorite seasonal organic fruit
  • sparkling water
  • selection of your favorite organic juices (optional)
  • fresh mint (optional)
  • blender

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Step 2: Blend Your Fruit

When choosing what types of fizzy drinks to make, I based my decisions on the fruits and juices that we already had on hand. However, you can use any selection of your favorite fruits and juices. Then, I added a small scoop of the fruit with a couple of tablespoons of juice and blended until the fruit/juice mixture was as thick as a puree.

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Step 3: Slice Your Fruit

I added a small scoop of fresh fruit to the bottom of each mason jar before adding the juice/fruit mixture. I used seasonal fruit including strawberries and pomegranates as well as some frozen fruit that we had in the freezer.

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Step 4: Add the Fizz

Fill each of your glasses or mason jars 3/4 full of sparkling water – I used a selection of berry, orange and lime sparkling water.

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Step 5: Add the Whole Fruit

Add a small scoop of fresh, seasonal, organic fruit to the sparkling water.

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Step 6: Add the Fruit Juice Puree

Top the glasses off with the blended fruit/juice puree – or a little bit of your favorite organic juice.

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Step 7: Try these 3 simple recipes to get you started:

Strawberry Fizz

  • 3/4 c. Berry Sparkling Water
  • 1/4 c. organic strawberry puree
  • 1/4 c. chopped strawberries

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Citrus Mint Fizz

  • 3/4 c. Lemon, Lime or Orange Sparkling Water
  • 1/4 c. organic lemon, lime or orange slices
  • 1/4 c. organic orange juice
  • sprig of mint

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Pomegranate + Blueberry Fizz

  • 3/4 c. Berry Sparkling Water
  • 1/4 c. organic pomegranate seeds and whole blueberries
  • 1/4 c. organic berry puree

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