Category: healthy weight loss

Dirty soda is made healthy with tea. What about a blueberry green tea like this one that that has strawberry and rhubarb flavors infused? Oh… and coconut cream (healthy fat) that dirties this beverage. This could be an elevated virgin drink you pour in a celebrational glass.

The pretty white is coconut cream that’s a healthy fat (MCT). If you’ve heard of MCTs, they help convert fat into energy and support metabolism.

They’re a natural energy boost that help you wean off energy drinks and old habits you no longer need… from cramming hard or finishing projects that tested you!

A cream soda is a good way to infuse new healthier habits, and one I dreamed up from a not-so-healthy, sugary cream soda can past.

But with a splish dash of coconut (milk) and a splash of fizzy seltzer water, or gut healthy prebiotic or probiotic soda, is going to be better for you than regular sodas.

The difference between prebiotic or probiotic sodas, is feeding the good bacteria gut fiber (prebiotic) or adding more good bacteria (probiotic).

Both are good for you and your gut where most your happiness is.

…And a better healthy low-sugar habit. That’s good if you’re learning the ropes to calm your sugar cravings which btw helps overall healthy and weight.

And a good switch off artificial sweetened diet and regular sugary sodas if that’s your daily rhythm… I did that in my 20s when regular and diet can sodas were the rage (and still are today!).

They were complimentary in the office I worked in and gave me the daily energy push I needed.

…so I couldn’t say no (I thought).

And the healthy alternative was water. Still is.

But water as the drink of life lacks taste.

(Not to mention, it’s a tad boring compared to tea-fruit’s juice-soda variety. Where whole fruit is naturally an anti-inflammatory choice, and you can choose an anti-inflammatory tea).

So I gradually switched from breakfast can sodas to coffee for morning. And then tea in the afternoon.

Those were quiet options back then (without coffee shops everywhere other than diners and convenience stores).

Coffee wasn’t yet touted as healthy like it is today, and where easy home making coffee cold brew is my jam.

But over the years, coffee and tea helped me gradually wean off diet sodas.

…And if you want to be healthier too, a modern dirty soda is how you can make a micro-switch habit to add in more healthy drinking ingredients to your overall daily consumption habits, where the body keeps score.

These are the ingredients I used for my blueberry healthy dirty soda tastes:

…Oh, and like a healthy smoothie you make, you can’t go wrong with your mixology skills.

Like, you can’t add too much or too little. Because naturally, you’ll adjust the liquids because your taste buds (or someone else’s taste buds) will tell you so.

And if the fruity foods and beverages you add in appeal to you, they will be great in a mixed soda mocktail like this virgin dirty soda.

Whether you choose strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, cherry, or lemon flavors as your favorite now… or a vanilla tea instead of a blueberry twist one. Either way, is up to you! And it’s more than just a soda.

…And with drink in hand, you can let it help put a smile on your face to commemorate this season of your life. Or use tropical fruit flavors in season to remind you of a swoonworthy  summer holiday place to get out of wanderlust feelings that can strike at any moment of the day.

…Like a lower calorie Virgin Pina Colada (without heavy cream) can.

And if you’re wondering if you should strain the healthy fat from the cream soda, my two cents is don’t bother, as that’s what makes this drink “dirty” and fun.

Some like to make a bigger head (foam), that you can do with a frother tool like you would use for making home cappuccino foam.

And if you’d rather have your soda less cloudy, or more clear and clean, then you can add no-fat milk to your soda tea juice. It’s a good way to get Vitamin D and minerals into your day. And green tea has L-theanine that’s healthy good especially for longer term focus.

And a great way to get your wildly superfruit berries in!