Trying to cut back on shopping bills, but what can we substutite Rocks Squash with?

[bytheMoonlight]

DD just drinks milk and water.

DH and I though, used to be really hooked on rubbish drinks like diet coke and low fat sugar but about a year ago we changed our diet and lost loads of weight.

We cook from scratch and eat a lot healthier but we cannot used to drinking water all the time. When out we buy drink water but indoors we like squash and between us we are drinking about 3 bottles of Rocks Squash a week.

This is working out to be quite expensive as we really have to cut costs down to the bare minimum, so what can we subsitute it for that will be cheaper but not full of crap?

Robinsons can't be that bad is it? If you avoid the No Added Sugar one so you're not getting artificial sweeteners. Or Ribena, we get through gallons of it in our house.

basics apple juice diluted with basics fizzy water

does it for me

[ex-Rocks addict]

Robinsons have a new one which I just about tolerate called Be Natural; we get it in Orange & Passionfruit and Apple & Strawberry.

Ribena

the Robinsons's Orange and passionfruit is gorgeous but don't be fooled, it is a very small bottle!

stock up whilst it is cheap?

£1.69 for 5 to 6 litres of juice seems okay to me (much cheaper than alcohol?). Just about 8 pence per 250ml drink? (if I have done my maths correctly).

I tend to buy fresh juice and dilute it 50/50 - so two cartons of fresh apple/orange from the Co-op (not from concentrate) is £2.50, which is dearer than Rock squash but it is fresh, and I think it is worth it. Can you economise elsewhere?

Gradually wean yourselves off it by diluting it with more and more water? I now only put a dash of cordial in my water, and am so used to it like that, if someone else makes it for me it tastes unbearably strong. Means that one bottle lasts for months :)

I've added a 2 Litre bottle of squash to the shopping.

That rocks in Waitrose is very good price! But we don't have a car at the moment and get our weekly shop from Tesco - not sure my budget could do a whole shop from Waitrose

DH wasn't keen on diluting fruit juice

Thanks everyone

Ribena toothkind (or whatever it is these days)?

Or train them to drink water?

Lime cordial with basics fizzy water is yum

supermarket brand Hi-juice squash ( but not the sugar free version).
or
fruit juice cut with water.
or
wean yourselfs off sooooo much squash and keep buying the premium brand but only 1 a week.

to go through 3 a week between 2 seems a lot, we do about 1 a week here for 3 of us, I drink it a pint at a time and boy probadly goes thro 0.5- 1 pint a day.

Any of the high-juice squashes would be good, although not quite the same as Rocks (but NOT the low-sugar versions)

Lidl have their own which is even cheaper than the supermarkets but afaik they only do blackcurrant & apple-and-blackcurrant. Good value though.

Read about the Sainsburys Hi Juice and when they had no Rocks I bought a bottle of the lemon squash - it is absolutely NOTHING like Rocks not comparable in any way, rather bitter and not enjoyable at all. Rocks is delicious but a bottle lasts ages here. I tend to drink tea, water or wine (probably more expensive than Rocks!). Don't know how you get through 3 bottles a week. Do you work from home?

oh we have never tried the lemon. but eg summer fruits is nice, & they do a couple of other mixed ones I think

3 bottles seems easy to get through tbh.

We don't work from home but we do work shifts around each other so always one of us in and out IYKWIM.

I am 32 weeks pregnant and am having one cup of coffee a day atm and no alcohol so most of my drink is squash.

DH drinks 2 cups of tea a day and alcohol on the weekends, the rest of time he drinks squash indoors and water outside.

We tried the Lidl one but I wasn't keen on it.

When I am feeling domestic goddess-esque I make bottles of lemonade and lime-and-gingerade cordial (sugar solution plus lemon juice/lime juice and grated ginger) and keep them in the fridge to be topped up with still or sparkling water.