Powdered Drink Mix
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Powdered Drink Mix
When I was a lad (yes I know we're talking a lot of decades) I am sure I used to buy a powder that you added to water and it made a fizzy raspberry drink. This was around about the time of 200AD issue 1 which I've still not forgiven Mum for throwing away.
I'm after something similar for bikepacking to take the edge off chlorine/filtered water. I do not want any of that ridiculously priced energy powder guff. Just some sachets of something to add a bit of flavour.
Any ideas?
I'm after something similar for bikepacking to take the edge off chlorine/filtered water. I do not want any of that ridiculously priced energy powder guff. Just some sachets of something to add a bit of flavour.
Any ideas?
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Re: Powdered Drink Mix
Do you mean nesquik?
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Nah that was for milk!
quiz question: can you name ALL the Nesquik flavours that existed?
quiz question: can you name ALL the Nesquik flavours that existed?
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tang-Orange-St ... B019CFDYYC
As you say they're all ridiculous 'energy' drinks and hyper expensive.
Then again the above one is: US made, amazon bought, apparently posted from S Africa! Where's my morals when I need a drink .
Wonder what dehydrated ground up fruit would taste like when reconstituted?
As you say they're all ridiculous 'energy' drinks and hyper expensive.
Then again the above one is: US made, amazon bought, apparently posted from S Africa! Where's my morals when I need a drink .
Wonder what dehydrated ground up fruit would taste like when reconstituted?
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Strawberry, banana, chocolate and one utterly vile one I can't remember
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Nearly there but I'm after individual sachetsRIP wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:21 pm https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tang-Orange-St ... B019CFDYYC
As you say they're all ridiculous 'energy' drinks and hyper expensive.
Then again the above one is: US made, amazon bought, apparently posted from S Africa! Where's my morals when I need a drink .
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I don't know quite what you mean, but it sounds a bit like the stuff you used to get in army rat pack? I'll see if i can get hold of some for you, if not, people often buy the ration packs for stuff and flog the sundries like the drink mix.
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Edit was it egg and milk?Dave Barter wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:21 pm Strawberry, banana, chocolate and one utterly vile one I can't remember
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Half a High5 tab? I know it falls into your "ridiculous energy drinks category" but you can probably eke them out like junior aspirin doses ;-)
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Er, decant into little pots?Dave Barter wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:22 pmNearly there but I'm after individual sachetsRIP wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:21 pm https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tang-Orange-St ... B019CFDYYC
As you say they're all ridiculous 'energy' drinks and hyper expensive.
Then again the above one is: US made, amazon bought, apparently posted from S Africa! Where's my morals when I need a drink .
Blackcurrant Nesquik wasn't nice at all.Utterly vile one
"On April 1, 2013, the official Facebook page of Nesquik USA posted a photo on their page depicting a broccoli-flavored ready-to-drink flavour of Nesquik. However, upon closer inspection of the photo, there was a notice in the lower-left corner that it was not an actual Nestlé product. Nesquik USA announced later in the same day that it was an April Fool's joke".
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Re: Powdered Drink Mix
Creamola Foam?
Now available as Krakatoa Foam https://www.scottishretrosweets.com/swe ... mola-foam/
Not really any cheaper than some of the budget sports isotonic drink tablets though.
e.g. https://www.decathlon.co.uk/electrolyte ... 86782.html
Now available as Krakatoa Foam https://www.scottishretrosweets.com/swe ... mola-foam/
Not really any cheaper than some of the budget sports isotonic drink tablets though.
e.g. https://www.decathlon.co.uk/electrolyte ... 86782.html
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Robinsons squeezy squash? Ultra concentrated, think the bottles are 50ml and make loads...
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How about this Dave - twin-use, in the best BP spirit.....
https://www.your-pharmacy.co.uk/lemsi ... d-0148917
Er.... raspberry, mint choc chip, that nasty blackcurrant one... erm....
https://www.your-pharmacy.co.uk/lemsi ... d-0148917
Er.... raspberry, mint choc chip, that nasty blackcurrant one... erm....
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You've got me going now. Fairly sure we had vanilla, and I'm pretty convinced there was orange for a very short time. I'm trying to bring the taste back to mind now. It must have been a bad as the blackcurrant. I mean, citrus in milk? Urk.
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Re: Powdered Drink Mix
It's an option. I definitely remember these things added a little fizz.
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You're description seemed to me to be of Creamola Foam.
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some options, though the fizzy aspect is limiting:
- diarrhoea (had to type that out a couple of times before it looked right ) relief sachets might work
- vitamin c effervescent tablets?
- squirty squash, as mentioned above
- high five or nuun tablets, on offer they're not bad value
- cold infuse fruit tea bags
- crystal light sachets
- diarrhoea (had to type that out a couple of times before it looked right ) relief sachets might work
- vitamin c effervescent tablets?
- squirty squash, as mentioned above
- high five or nuun tablets, on offer they're not bad value
- cold infuse fruit tea bags
- crystal light sachets
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Another for Cremola Foam but dont think it was available in England - never saw it once I moved here
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You could use Dioralyte, pretty much the same as electrolyte drinks but not as expensive, flavours are subtle though. Dioralyte Is just salts to help with the dehydration rather than a cure so it’s no going to bung you up, well worth using when it’s really hot, the other option if it’s for a filter is an additional carbon filter, used to have a bottle with one built in, an additional bonus they can potentially remove some of the dissolved nasties which make it past the element.
Ooo look what I found, filter and carbon in one by MSR
https://www.exxpozed.eu/msr-thrulink-in ... nt=1345215
Ooo look what I found, filter and carbon in one by MSR
https://www.exxpozed.eu/msr-thrulink-in ... nt=1345215
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I was reading one of Ben's as crystal meth ... that'd take the edge off.
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Ah Creamola Foam, happy days! People at school used to bet that you couldn't eat a teaspoon of it, drink some water and keep it all down. Oh, the hilarity...
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I see the Sanza online shop sells Raro which is a powdered juice drink from New Zealand, used to buy it when I lived out there.
https://www.sanza.co.uk/New_Zealand_Cordial.asp
https://www.sanza.co.uk/New_Zealand_Cordial.asp
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Hmm butterscotch angel delight
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Dave, was it a different flavour of this?
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