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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


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  • 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. Jen@MamaZen 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 🙂

    • hallecottis says

      April 16, 2012 at 6:30 am

       @Jen@MamaZen Welcome 🙂

  2. 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

  3. 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/

    • 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! 🙂

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

    • En/ILOVETOCOOK#KIDS/Shoshie says

      February 17, 2022 at 8:32 am

      That was very considerate of you, Jill.

      ★★★★★

  8. En/ILOVETOCOOK#KIDS/Shoshie says

    February 17, 2022 at 8:29 am

    Hi! My name is Shoshana…, but call me Shoshie. I love to cook. My mom lets me use the kitchen whenever, as long as I clean up. I have tried making my own soda, activating/carbonating it with citric acid, baking soda, and water, flavoring it with things I can put together. I shared this with my little sisters (I am the oldest 10 y.o) and they loved it. I tried your version….. it was amazing!! 🙂 I love it. I just made more and shared it with my sisters. They went crazy begging me for more. What have I gotten myself into………..

    ★★★★★

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