AMERICAN MN's- please advise!

[flyingwidow]

Hey!! We're going in a cruise in January and I want to get a friend, who regularly travels to NY to buy some drink powder for us. What are the best brands/flavours? And where can he get them from? Thanks!

crystal light - you can find it in any grocery store. There's a new one called Mio, but haven't tried it myself though.

Thanks! A friend of mine says the pink lemonade is pretty good- any other recommended flavours?

drink powder? wrf?

Logic in the madness. We are not allowed to take fizzy drinks onto the cruise- they want you to buy them onboard or a drinks package. Both extortionately expensive. However they will give you free water- and apparently allow these drink powders to be taken onboard. From what I've read they are like squash in a powder! (Probably laced with sugar and highly unhealthy- but it's only for 4 days!!)

I like the raspberry lemonade Crystal Light. I'm not a fan of Mio...I think it's because there's no portion control, you just squeeze from a little bottle into your glass of water and I never get it wrong. Too weak. Hideously strong. I gave up on it!

Crystal Light is more of an adult drink, although kids can and do certainly drink it. My dd is always begging me to buy Kool Aid which I rarely do.

Crystal Light is sweetened with aspartame, as is Mio. Kool Aid requires the addition of sugar.

Oh! You can get a little canister (probably 12oz) of something called Country Time lemonade. They have a regular and a pink and it's sweetened with natural sugar.

DO NOT HAVE HER GET "TANG". It is beyond vile.

Up there in my first post. I never get it right. Always get it wrong.

In the UK a company called aqua burst makes sugar free drink powder (full of artificial colours, sweetners and other crap) in lemon, apple, orange and strawberry flavours.
The orange is vile, but the others are ok. Great if you don't like water and are travelling somewhere hot. You can buy then online.