Sometimes a girl just wants a lemon lime soda.  Normally I turn to my Santa Cruz Lemon Lime by to my dismay I was out.  After a few deep breaths I saw that we had a Blue Sky version of my beloved soda.  I’ve had a few Blue Sky products and as a whole, I’m a fan.  But this was no ordinary Blue Sky soda in a can, this was Blue Sky FREE.  What’s the free part you ask?  It means it’s diet.  It’s made with fake sugar called Truvia.  It’s the nowadays “healthy” form of sugar.  Honestly, I’m … Read the rest

Have I ever told you that I love Santa Cruz’s products?  No?  Instead of a long speech on all things Santa Cruz, I can do it in two words:  Organic. Environment Friendly.  Okay, so that was three, but still, I kept it pretty short and to the point.  Santa Cruz is a green company that produces organic juices, sodas, peanut butter, fruit sauces, dessert toppings and I’m sure more items in the future.  To check out more about this incredible green machine of a company click here.

Now, onto their Mango Lemonade Sparkling Soda.  I believe this is a … Read the rest

I’m movin’ on down the Blue Sky trail and trying out all the flavors.  This one was Black Cherry.  And it was delicious.  The thing that I like about this particular brand of soda (besides it being so cheap) is that is has NO artificial flavors.  NO artificial colors.  NO preservatives, caffeine, sodium, GMO, or high fructose corn syrup.  No too shabby, huh?

The ingredients in this can of goodness are: Filtered Carbonated H2O, Real Sugar, Natural Black Cherry Flavor and Citric Acid.  And the taste is really really good.  The cherry flavor isn’t too strong tart or sweet.  And … Read the rest

First off, I have to tell you how much I love this name of soda!  Dr. Becker?!?  I mean, come on, can we get a little more of a knock-off name here or what?  I’m assuming I don’t really need to explain what this natural soda is suppose to taste like.  I’ll just say it sort of rhymes with Dr. Pepper Becker.  Anyhow, I stumbled upon this brand of soda in my local grocery store.  I’ve seen it in several of the local chains here in the Mid West even.  Normally I only try to go for the organic sodas … Read the rest

The Reed’s company has the right idea about soda.  They brew it naturally, with actual herbs and spices.  You won’t find food coloring in any of their sodas.  Or cup-fulls of sugar to enhance the taste.  Or added flavorings.  Or chemicals.  Just pure natural brewed soda.  Imagine that.

This isn’t my first experience with Reed’s ginger brew.  The first one I tried you can read about here.  That one had a little too much bite for me but I was still curious about their other flavors.This one, I think, is totally awesome.  It’s everything I want a ginger ale … Read the rest

It’s soda time again,  get excited!  I’ve decided to move down the Santa Cruz line, seeing how they offer more than a few choices to pick from AND my grocery store always has them in stock.  I’ve already tried the organic root beer and I did like it, it just wasn’t my favorite.  Time to see what else Santa Cruz has for me.  Next up was their organic lemon lime soda.  I’m not the biggest fan of lemon/lime stuff but I was curious.  So why was I insisting on trying this next?  Well, the monkey on mu back, one … Read the rest

There’s not a huge selection of organic sodas in my main grocery store but they had several varieties of the Santa Cruz bubbly beverages.  They sell them separately which is good and bad.  Good if I don’t like ‘em, I didn’t have to spend more money on soda I most likely won’t drink.  But bad if I do, ’cause then I have to make another errand run to get one item at the grocery store — which never happens.  The grocery store is like Wal-Mart, you have all the intentions of picking up one item but you usually walk out … Read the rest

Sometimes, nothing tastes better than a soda.  Truly.  But do I really want to dump 9 teaspoons of sugar into my body for about 20 minutes of bliss?  Not really.  Switch to diet soda you say?  Don’t get me started on how awful aspartame actually is for your mind and body.  Aspartame contains two amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalanine which is joined together by methyl alcohol.  It turns out that methyl alcohol is closely monitored by the EPA.  MA is damaging to your DNA.  Even small doses of it.  What’s a little bit if MA in your body, you … Read the rest