22 hydration recipes for people who find water boring
Most people who say they don't like water mean they don't like the nothing of it. These 22 recipes fix that: infused waters, homemade electrolyte drinks, iced teas and hydrating smoothies, none of them more than five minutes of actual work. Every one lists what it does and doesn't give you per serving, worked out from USDA figures rather than guessed — which is how you find out that most infused water gives you almost no electrolytes at all, and which four recipes here actually do.
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Infused water
Water with a personality transplant. Five minutes of prep, then the fridge does the work.
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Cucumber mint water
The one that turns a jug of tap water into something you'll actually finish.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 4 kcal
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Lemon cucumber water
Sold as a cleanse. Actually just a very good reason to keep pouring.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 6 kcal
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Strawberry basil water
Sounds pretentious. Tastes like the best thing in the fridge.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 8 kcal
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Watermelon mint water
Barely a recipe. Empties faster than anything else in the fridge.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 12 kcal
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Orange blueberry water
Looks like it took effort. Took five minutes and a fork.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 10 kcal
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Pineapple ginger water
The one with a kick. Works cold in August and warm in January.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 14 kcal
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Grapefruit rosemary water
Bitter, herbal, grown-up. The one that tastes least like a health drink.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 8 kcal
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Apple cinnamon water
Smells like a pie. Contains no pie.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 8 kcal
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Raspberry lime water
Ready before you have finished answering your emails.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 8 kcal
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Peach thyme water
The one to make with the peaches that have gone too soft to eat.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 10 kcal
Electrolyte drinks
For heat, hangovers and long days. These are the ones that actually replace what you sweat out.
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Homemade electrolyte drink
The one you make when the sports-drink aisle wants €3 for sugar and food colouring.
⏱ 2 min hands on · 28 kcal
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Sugar-free electrolyte water
Same numbers as the sachet. Roughly four cents instead of a euro fifty.
⏱ 2 min hands on · 4 kcal
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Coconut water electrolyte cooler
The balanced one. Coconut water brings the potassium, the salt brings what it is missing.
⏱ 3 min hands on · 50 kcal
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Post-workout hydration drink
The one where the sugar is a feature, not an oversight.
⏱ 3 min hands on · 111 kcal
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Sick-day rehydration drink
Six teaspoons of sugar, half a teaspoon of salt, one litre of water. That is the whole thing.
⏱ 3 min hands on · 25 kcal
Herbal & iced teas
Caffeine optional. It all still counts toward your daily total.
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Iced hibiscus cooler
Tastes like cranberry. Costs about eight cents a glass.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 2 kcal
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Cold-brew mint green tea
Green tea without the bitterness. The trick is never heating it.
⏱ 3 min hands on · 0 kcal
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Ginger turmeric tonic
The golden one. Good drink, oversold supplement.
⏱ 10 min hands on · 25 kcal
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Chamomile lemon iced tea
For the hours when coffee is a mistake and water is boring.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 8 kcal
Hydrating smoothies
For when you would rather chew your water.
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Watermelon cucumber smoothie
For the mornings when drinking a glass of water feels like a chore but eating one does not.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 55 kcal
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Green hydration smoothie
Green, but not punishingly so. The apple is doing a lot of quiet work.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 80 kcal
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Berry coconut water slushie
Two ingredients. Tastes like a holiday, behaves like an electrolyte drink.
⏱ 5 min hands on · 73 kcal
Recipes don't drink themselves
Honk sits in your Mac's menu bar, watches your webcam with on-device AI, and honks until you take a sip. Quiet by default. Loud if you ask for it.
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