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Family Friendly Fridays: How To Make Homemade Soda Pop

Homemade Soda Pos

My Girls’ First Soda Pop

 

Welcome to Family Friendly Fridays! I hope you all are having a wonderful week. 🙂 Today I, well I should say, Kenna, Aubree and I are going to show you how to make a healthier and wonderful soda pop!

Would you believe me if I told you that my girls have never had a soda, pop, soda pop, coke (whichever one you call it) before? Well, they haven’t! They have never shown an interest in it until the other day. One of my girls was invited to a birthday party and they had soda pop there.

When she got home from the party, she asked me if she could try soda pop. I knew this day would come! My husband looked at me and said, “How are you going to pull this one out of a hat?” My response, “Simple, we will make our own!”

Choosing A Flavor

 

So here we are… making our own soda pop! It really is super easy to make and the girls had so much fun making their own flavored soda pop. Kenna chose orange soda and Aburee chose to make blueberry soda pop!  If Brynn was here for this activity, she would have picked strawberry soda pop for sure!

This recipe has so much room for creativity. Choose your favorite flavor and go with it. So here are the simple steps in making your very own soda pop!

The Makings Of Soda Pop

 

Choose a flavor. Anything goes…blueberry, strawberry, raspberry, grape, etc. We used 1 orange per glass of soda for Kenna and 1/4 cup blueberries for Aubree’s soda.

Pick Your Fruit Of Choice

Crush the berries to get the juice out of them. It is best to have your fruit at room temperature, it is easier to extract the juice out of the fruit.

If using a citrus fruit, it is best to squeeze the juice out, not crush it.

    Squeeze The Juices Out of Fruit

Strain the berries removing the seeds and skins. Now dissolve your sweetener of choice (organic sugar, rapunzel sugar, coconut sugar, or maple syrup) in a little hot water. If using maple syrup, you don’t have to dissolve that in hot water, it is fine how it is. We liked rapunzel sugar the best. Sweeten to desired sweetness. We used about 1 tablespoon of coconut sugar in this recipe and dissolved it in about 1 tablespoon of hot water.

Strain Fruit                   Stir sweetener with water to dissolve

Transfer your strained berries or juice to a pint mason jar. Add your simple syrup (dissolved sugar and water mixture) to the jar.

Pour Simple syrup and strained fruit into cup

Add your mineral water of choice. I added about 7 ounces of mineral water. I used Perrier but Pellegrino or another mineral water would work too.

Pour Mineral Water Into Mixture                   Pour Mineral Water Into Mixture

Gently stir your soda. Be careful when pouring in the mineral water, it will fizz up just like soda pop would! My girls loved this 🙂

Stir                   Be Careful, just like soda it can fizz over!

Now add a little ice if you choose and sit back and enjoy a nice glass of homemade soda pop!

Enjoying Their Sodas

 

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Homemade Soda Pos

Family Friendly Fridays: How To Make Homemade Soda Pop


  • Author: Halle Cottis
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Total Time: 5 minutes
  • Yield: 1 Glass of Soda 1x
  • Category: drink
  • Cuisine: american
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Description

Learn how to make your own homemade soda pop that is actually good for you!


Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup fresh berries of choice or 1 piece of citrus fruit of choice.
  • 7 ounces of mineral water
  • 1–2 tbsp of sweetener of choice (rapunzel, coconut sugar, maple syrup)
  • crushed ice if desired

Instructions

  1. See Instructions Above.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 Glass of Soda

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Comments

  1. Rhonda Harader Cain says

    April 6, 2012 at 10:38 am

    I haven’t had soda for 16 months or so & I do something very similar when I crave. Little carbonation. I have used a splash of cherry juice & add lime.

    Reply
  2. Whole Lifestyle Nutrition says

    April 6, 2012 at 10:38 am

    Sometimes I use my orange flavored liquid stevia for a quick orange soda 🙂

    Reply
  3. Michelle Conrad says

    April 6, 2012 at 10:38 am

    This is a great idea! So far my son has not had pop either. But this would also just add a little variety for him.

    Reply
  4. Whole Lifestyle Nutrition says

    April 6, 2012 at 10:38 am

    Michelle my girls had so much fun making the soda! How old is your son?

    Reply
    • Yanna says

      March 10, 2018 at 11:06 pm

      You mean daughter?

      Reply
  5. Michelle Conrad says

    April 6, 2012 at 10:38 am

    He will be 8 on Sunday.

    Reply
  6. Whole Lifestyle Nutrition says

    April 6, 2012 at 10:38 am

    My daughter just turned 8. Be prepared for him to be a little afraid of the bubbles. My girls were like, “this tickles my nose”, LOL 🙂 Happy Birthday to your son (Easter Birthday)!

    Reply
  7. frugalfarmwife says

    April 10, 2012 at 9:13 am

    That looks so fun! actually looks much, much more tasty than the commercial cokes. 🙂 

    Reply
  8. CarrieCookeRaab says

    April 10, 2012 at 9:30 am

    Halle! Ok, this is over the top amazing!!! Love it! We do not drink soda and sometimes it is hard for our boys to always be drinking “water” when every other kid is drinking sugary juices, soda,etc.  They will be SO excited to hear “we can make soda.”  I can see us making this on a hot summer day! Thanks so much! (the link is working… thx for your patience!) Can’t wait for you to share it with us at Kids in the Kitchen.  Such a blessing you are!!! 🙂

    Reply
    • hallecottis says

      April 10, 2012 at 9:35 am

       @CarrieCookeRaab Heading over to http://younglivingoillady.com/home/kids-in-the-kitchen-link-up-week-9/ now to share with you and your viewers 🙂

      Reply
  9. 16ballsinairlib says

    April 10, 2012 at 5:01 pm

    They are so precious!! We do this alot with limes and lemons in the summer – but use stevia instead…
     
    or you could culture it with kefir grains…
    my hubs makes the most delish grape “soda” with water KEfir grains – and it’s alive…
    blessings!
    http://bit.ly/tjXzWC
     

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    • hallecottis says

      April 10, 2012 at 6:12 pm

       @16ballsinairlib Ohhh sounds good, do you have a post on that?  I’d love to learn how to do that!!

      Reply
    • hallecottis says

      April 16, 2012 at 6:32 am

       @16ballsinairlib you know I am doing something similar with liquid whey and homemade lemon aid creating a natural fizzy and bubbly drink. 

      Reply
  10. itsmelm says

    April 10, 2012 at 7:18 pm

    This sounds like a great idea. I am going to try it with my husband. I have been trying to get him to switch to water from pop or the flavored store water for quite some time.  Thanks Halle.

    Reply
  11. AdventurzNchild says

    April 11, 2012 at 10:10 am

    My kids would really get a kick out of this – thanks for linking with Kids in the Kitchen! 

    Reply
  12. adoctorandanurse says

    April 11, 2012 at 11:15 am

    How much fun is that!  My kids will totally love this.  Healthy to boot.  Seltzer water is a staple in our refrigerator.  Making your own healty soda will be a big hit in our house.  Thanks so much for sharing this fun recipe!

    Reply
  13. [email protected] says

    April 12, 2012 at 8:31 am

    My kids are just beginning to show an interest as well.  I can’t wait to try this with them!  New follower via Simple Lives blog hop 🙂

    Reply
    • hallecottis says

      April 16, 2012 at 6:30 am

       @[email protected] Welcome 🙂

      Reply
  14. Miz Helen says

    April 14, 2012 at 6:28 am

    The girls are just adorable!  This looks like a fun project and a very tasty one.  Thanks for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and come back soon!
    Miz Helen

    Reply
  15. EmilyThompson says

    April 16, 2012 at 4:34 am

    SO FUN! thanks for linking to Tasty Tuesdays… You will be featured in this weeks party! Come check it out Monday night when the party opens. Please grab a NEW featured button. http://nap-timecreations.blogspot.com/

    Reply
    • hallecottis says

      April 16, 2012 at 6:33 am

       @EmilyThompson Thanks Emily for the feature and I will be back tonight to check it out! 🙂

      Reply
  16. nancyb says

    April 17, 2012 at 10:55 pm

    Congratulations!  I featured this recipe as one of my allergy-free favorites!  Check it out: http://www.realfoodallergyfree.com/?p=6593  I hope you’ll come back and share more.

    Reply
  17. naturalmothers says

    April 19, 2012 at 8:31 am

    I love this tutorial and the images are beautiful! You have a great eye! 
    Thanks for sharing this at Natural Mother’s Seasonal Celebration Sunday! x

    Reply
  18. Corey says

    December 23, 2012 at 10:39 am

    Carbonate any natural drink using the My Pop Old Fashioned Soda Shoppe for a penny a glass.

    Reply
  19. Jill says

    June 19, 2017 at 11:45 am

    I am an affiliate to a new company called Sizzle Nutrition and we encourage healthy eating habits. I have a few people in my support group that want to give up soda pop. May I share your page with the business and my Facebook support group? I don’t want to share without your permission.

    Reply

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