2011 Year of Pleasures #15

Mio water flavoring
I am such a child about drinking water. A total baby. It tastes like dirt to me, but I know, oh how I know, all the benefits of drinking it, and all the evils it will save me from in the juice and soda I drink in it’s place.

I’m also really sensitive to any kind of artificial sweetener. Every time a new one comes out people swear to me that you can’t taste a difference, but I can. Every time. So that makes just switching to a diet drink impossible.

I saw a commercial for this stuff on TV and hoped it might be something that could work for me, and I really liked it. There is a little artificial sweetener taste, but since you just squirt it into water, you can control the balance of flavoring and I can make it light enough to not notice the sweetener while also making it heavy enough to not taste the dirt.