June 12, 2010
Homemade Chocolate Soda
It’s 90°F here in Oakland. The kitties are lolling around and so are we. Time to break out the soda maker and have ourselves a little treat. And by “ourselves,” I mean me.  Kitties don’t get to have chocolate (tough life) and Michael wasn’t particularly interested. Freak.
Ingredients:
1) Carbonated water (via Soda Club soda maker)
2) Homemade chocolate syrup (recipe posted on My Plastic-free Life)
3) Ice (from stainless steel ice cube tray)
4) Glass drinking straw (via Glass Dharma)
Mix it all up and suck. Awesome, vegan, and plastic-free.
Hi Boots. If you follow the link in the post, you can read all about the soda maker I use.
Where can I buy carbonated water?
Nope, not in any grocery I’ve been in.
Thank you for all the great ideas! I need to stop thinking about it and get a lot of cloth bags for shopping. I guess my main problem with the veggies is that I’m feeding a family of six and I only go to town once a week so I don’t have room in my fridge for everything I need to store. In the winter I keep things in a cooler in a garage but that obviously doesn’t work in the summer. I have been thinking about getting a second fridge but I really don’t want to spend the money to buy it or run it.
I guess I just need my own year round green house!!
Beth, you are fantastic. A true inspiration.
I’m trying to use less plastic. I have a question for you. When you buy out of the bulk bins what do you put the food in? Not the plastic bags they provide I’m guessing? And what about produce? I don’t know what to store my produce in to keep it fresh besides the plastic bags from the store.
Ooh, Lazy Organizer, you have questions and I have answers!
About storing produce, I have a whole post on it: http://myplasticfreelife.com/2010/05/how-to-store-produce-without-plastic/
And I also have a whole list of solutions for how to go plastic-free here: http://myplasticfreelife.com/plasticfreeguide/ #5 on that list explains how to use bulk bins, but read the section above about produce because there is a list of types of bulk/produce bags you can get.