Your cheap summer accessory – club soda
July 7, 2009 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Doing it Yourself
Club soda is actually a thrifty fix-it all year long, but it’s especially good in summer. Here are some ways to use inexpensive club soda during the hot days of summer.
Help pool bound hair. Club soda has the power to help neutralize all that chlorine, or at least minimize the damage it does to your locks. Rinse with a couple cups of the fizzy stuff after each dip in the pool.
To make a drink – duh right. BUT really consider it. You can make healthier and lower calories fizzy beverages with club soda and lemon, or juice, or some tea that cost less than other fizzy drinks. You can also make a cool soda pop version of a more expensive float for the kids with club soda. Mix a little powdered kool-aid, some sugar, a scoop or two of ice cream, and club soda together for a colorful and bubbly float-like drink.
At the beach house, use club soda to open shelled fish – clams, oysters that are tough to open. You’ll need to soak the shells in club soda for about 15 mins or so and they should open easier.
On the big camp out, whip up a batch of flapjacks with club soda instead of water or milk (you can half it even) for fluffier cakes. You’ll impress everyone – double points if you manage over an open fire.
Make sparkle jello for the kids. If you add club soda instead of plain water (during the cold water step of making jello) it’ll create a sparkle effect. It’s summer – why have dull jello?
And your bonus use – which is not summery at all, but super funny… (via here)
“Make a poor man’s lava lamp. Fill a glass with Canada Dry Club Soda and drop in two raisins. The carbonation will cause the raisins to repeatedly bob to the surface and they sink again.”
