What's your daily non-alcoholic beverage of choice?

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What do you drink most often on a daily basis?  Water? Lemonade? Iced tea? I always have a drink nearby, most often water usually with splash of lemon or cranberry juice alternated with flavored sparkling water. The day starts with 2 cans of Diet Coke and herbal tea at night.  What's are your daily go to drinks of choice?

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Black coffee or Earl Grey tea with a splash of almond milk in the morning Room temperature water(no ice!) the rest of the day. Very occasionally either a sparkling water or a glass of unsweentened iced tea with dinner. Never soda - diet or otherwise. I have very boring beverage tastes. I'm OK with that.

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I would LIKE to drink chocolate milk, but in reality, my real daily drink is: water -- pure unfavored water.

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Earl Grey or English breakfast tea in the morning, a Diet Coke or 2 in the afternoon, and lots and lots of water. I basically never have [non-alcoholic] beverages with calories - I like to eat my calories.

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Black coffee.

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Black coffee till lunch, then diet coke

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Soup

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I love the no ice water! Well, I don't drink ice in anything and it has to be pretty near room temperature or warmer. It's quite embarrassing when visitors come over and I have no ice or chilled beverages.

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Wow, how did I forget coffee - I start nearly every day with a medium coffee with an extra shot of espresso. When I don't, my brain lets me know with incessant pounding.

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plain water (or with lemon or lime or yes), 100% juice (orange-free, allergic), whole milk (raw or regular pasteurized, never ultra-pasteurized), iced herbal tea in summer and hot herbal tea in winter, and pellegrino when i can afford it. i also sometimes drink coconut water, vitamin water/gatorade, sugarcane juice, and the very rare soda or coffee. i try to avoid caffeine as a rule, and i don't react well to diet sweeteners (used to be kind of an addict, can't do it anymore...), so i usually go for water, fruit, milk, or herbal infusions.

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Bottled water, mineral water, and flavored seltzers are all in my daily rotation. Juices and sodas see absolutely no play in my home.

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Green tea or black coffee in the early morning. And the whole day goes on lots of plain water. Sometimes in evening i would like to have lemonade.

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Coupla cups o'Joe every morning and another in the late afternoon. A glass of milk with breakfast (if I have one), other than that, it's pretty much water from the soda stream all the way. No flavoring.

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Plain soda water is my default - I try to avoid sweet drinks, and I think sugar free pop tastes disgusting, so I bought a soda stream. Coffee in the morning, with liquid non-dairy creamer (coffee cream is pretty much non existent here). In the winter, tea in the evening - oolong, or hojicha, or peppermint, or one of the Carrefour brand herbal teas (peach-blackcurrent, licorique mint, and honey-lindenflower). In the summer, soda water and lots of Japanese barley tea, plus the occasional iced passion fruit green tea from my favourite tea shop. For alcoholic beverages - the occasional evening beer, or scotch, or hot sake in the winter, or umeshu and soda in the summer. But the plain soda water dominates - I go through about a litre a day in winter, two in summer.

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Two cups of tea with milk to start the day. Small flat white or capuccino on the way to work. Cold water from the cooler all day. Mug of tea sometime during the day, usually in a meeting. Diluted cordial in sparkling water with dinner (current fave is lemon and mint). Coffee after dinner. Thinking about this now, it is amazing how little this varies day to day!

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Water and skim milk. Almost exclusively.

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If only...

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water.

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The caffeine headache is the main reason I don't indulge in tea or coffee on a regular basis.

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Since I don't drink alcohol, well it's still a tough question. Meanwhile, I'm in Jakarta, so the answer is avocado juice with palm sugar. Jonathan http://buildingmybento.com http://collaterallettuce.com

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Black coffee in the morning and again early in the afternoon with no sweetener added.

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I broke the habit by accident a few weeks ago. I was awfully sick and didn't want to leave the house and daily store bought coffee is my food allowance since I never eat out lunch. I had a horrible headache for a week on the couch with a stomach virus and now only drink coffee three times a week. I don't notice a difference :)

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Coffee black, ice water and about half a tea spoon of olive juice from the olives I put in my martinis!

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I start the day with coffee but the rest of the day I drink either plain water or seltzer. My current favorite is polar pink grapefruit but being that I am cheap I usually stock up on Zazz, stop and shops house brand, whenever it is on sale. Since they don't make pink grapefruit I usually pick up lime, lemon or plain. Interestingly I also prefer my water room temp or with a slight chill-no ice! I dont drink juice or soda. In the summer I might have the occasional unsweetened ice tea. I do love my own minted lemonade but rarely drink it without vodka, lol!

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Coffee during the day. Water, usually sparkling, with dinner.

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We finally have a freezer with a built in ice machine but for years didn't. It was always a bit awkward if I forgot to pick up ice before folks came over! LOL I also frequently get odd looks at restaurants asking for water without ice. oh well! I like what I like...!

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Coffee with half and half in the morning. Then it's either plain water or Crystal Light iced tea (always at room temp, never with ice!). With dinner, it's usually Crystal Light iced tea, occasionally Diet Coke. If I'm in a restaurant, it's Diet Coke.

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Black coffee in the morning (one cup only) Water until lunch. A can of pop at lunch or mid-afternoon. Water until dinner. A can of pop at dinner. Water until bedtime. Pop of choice is Coke Zero, Diet Mountain Dew, or Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi. Occasionally, I'll flavor my water with some variation of those individual powder packets like Crystal Light or the packets of Real Lemon/Lime/Orange/Grapefruit. I used to be a big tea drinker, pretty much only like loose teas and my office doesn't have a sink/garbage in close proximity and it just became more hassle than it was worth to constantly clean out my filter. Plus, I have a tendency to get focused on my work and the next thing you know my tea has been steeping for 15-30 minutes and is horribly bitter and lukewarm.

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Water, fresh from the tap, for the most part. I'll drink one cup of coffee in the morning, if it's cold and raining I may make a pot of tea My hot weather stapes are iced tea, limeade and lemonade. Every so often my husband and I will split a can of Coke, because while I like the initial hit of caffeine and sugar, I'm finding I no longer like sweet beverages as much as I used to.

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I almost never drink plain water... On work days I tend to always have some kind of beverage at my desk so my days look like this: 1-3 cups of coffee with sugar and half and half 1-4 cups of various teas (typically earl gray or mint), always with sugar, black teas with a bit of cream Occasionally a fountain diet Pepsi Occasionally water with a Mio added On weekends drinking is sporadic. Sometimes a cup of coffee, sometimes ice water if I'm thirsty, sometimes a maharaja chai, sometimes a limeade.

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Chilled water from the Brita pitcher in the fridge or a Klean Kanteen at work.

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Club Soda

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Black coffee in the morning. If it's a work day (M-F) I have water for lunch most days. If it's not a work day, I usually have Diet Coke with lunch. For dinner, I always have Diet Coke. I always bring a glass of water with me to bed. Obviously, sometimes you just crave water and I always drink some after my work outs, but don't ever measure the amount I consume daily.

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Plain water throughout the day, and 1 cup of tea.

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If I'm out for lunch or dinner, I'll order an Arnold Palmer (half iced tea, half lemonade). If I'm at a Thai restaurant, I'll order for sure that lovely orange iced Thai tea with the sweet milky substance in it (evaporated milk?, condensed milk?) What I never ever do, is get anything with artificial sweetener. Pheeyeew!

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Mostly water but I do have 1-2 cans of Diet Coke in the morning. Also in the evenings sometimes I have some of that zero calorie flavored fizzy water. It's a store brand where a 1 liter costs 69 cents... not sure of it's official name. I like the black cherry flavor.

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Coffee & Chicory in the AM. Water for thirst. Non sweet tea/lemon water with meals. Sometimes Coffee again after supper. Water on the bedside table.

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Two cups of coffee per day: one in the morning and (usually) one after dinner. Water throughout the day. Occasionally a glass of 100% cranberry juice per week and maybe a 16 oz. bottle of ginger ale or some type of club soda or seltzer water. If I go out to dinner, I'll have a unsweetened ice tea.

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Morning...coffee Afternoon or anytime...water, Clamato, or V-8. Hot summer day, soda with a splash of citrus juice or a ginger ale. Between 3:30 and 4:00...tea Once the sun is over the yardarm alcohol seems to find its way in, except for the very rare late night cocoa (although it might have a dram of orange liqueur).

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Back coffee, green tea, tap water, sparkling water.

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Morning: Espresso with a splash of almond milk, later dark coffee with splash of soy Afternoons: Seltzer water with lemon, fresh green veggie juice i make (as a snack), decaf chai tea Evenings: approx 2-3xs a week one glass wine, decaf herbal teas, miso broth

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Unsweetened iced tea with lemon. I go through about two Kong-fulls a day. Has to have lemon, though.

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I love Promised Land's Midnight Chocolate milk. Way too many calories to have often, though. I do buy it when I'm sick, and it's so good that it makes being sick not all that bad.

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I thought coffee was a given, which is why I didn't mention it:)

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Lemonade or herbal tea. Tap water here tastes too gross for me to handle. We don't buy bottled water - that's just too wasteful. We *never* drink sodas, tea, or coffee.

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Sorry for the typo, but thanks for understanding anyway. I do drink chocolate milk when I can, but I probably drink no more than once a week on average. <I do buy it when I'm sick, and it's so good that it makes being sick not all that bad.> I need to consider that. It does sound like something I would love to have when I am sick.

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Usually water or some diet drink. But not always plain water. Sometimes just gotta have a bit of carbonation if I don't have a soda.

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A variety of coffee

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A cup or two of coffee (half caff) in the morning Home brewed kombucha Iced herbal and green teas Real (brand) no sugar lemon, lime, raspberry drinks Occasionally I like fake drinks like cascade stevia drinks or sometimes Mio. I can't do sugary drinks much, makes me feel gross and reminds me of koolaid.

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Java in the morning Some sort of fruit juiced midday (today was mango) Green tea or ginger tea sometimes after dinner I always have water in the car

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Me too, just plain water most of the time...

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i fill up individual glass bottles with weak green tea and keep them refrigerated. during the day i can pull out a bottle at a time and carry it around with me. the bottles that starbucks uses have a wide enough neck so that they can be effectively cleaned in my dishwasher which makes them ideal for this purpose.

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At the office it's nothing but dark roast coffee and water. At home I don't drink caffeine after dinner, though I may treat myself to a cup of Irish breakfast tea if I get home early. Otherwise I rely on the Sodastream to supply me with sparkling water and doogh. I also drink a fair amount of rose water lemonade, sometimes sparkling, but usually still.

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OJ for breakfast, then it's iced tea the rest of the day.

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Half OJ/half water at breakfast. Unsweetened decaf iced tea to take to work. Sodastream Fizzy water with no flavors the rest of the afternoon and evening.

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My favorite is either Coke or Dr. Pepper. I try to limit these to meals out or one if I have to go to the store. Can't keep it in the house. Otherwise it's water, occasionally sweet tea. I constantly have tea made but usually the man drinks it.

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I always feel like I'm making an odd request that somehow creates extra work for someone. It really doesn't but I still feel guilty.

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I actually realized I was drinking all of my calories awhile back. I completely cut out soda. I started eating SO much more. We realized that instead of eating, I'd fill myself with carbonated soda. Which meant I was getting plenty of calories but almost no vitamins or minerals.

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Yea the odd looks are quite common. I have to insist I want no ice and room temperature if they have it. Sometimes like at Starbucks with the ice coffee it's already chilled before they even add ice.

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Great that you figured that out and made adjustments.

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Me, too! Exactly. I love skim milk SO much. Plus coffee in the the morning, with coffeemate at home, black elsewhere. I really like some other bevs, and drink them occasionally, but in reality this is the norm.

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Jakob Kronung coffee and tap water.

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One travel mug of coffee in the car, and one regular cup at work. (Or two regular cups in the library with my wife on weekends.) Then mostly, ice water for the rest of the day.

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Sugar free cappaccino in my Bubba travel mug in the a.m. then Diet Coke at work Crystal Lite (Raspberry Ice) at night

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Usually one cup of coffee with breakfast. Several bottles of water (I fill a bottle from the water fountain) during the day. Seltzer with meals. And occaional drinks of fruit juice or V-8 V-Fusion.

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Water and hot black tea. Done.

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Our water is bad, too. We rent an RO Filter that dispenses great water at the kitchen sink.

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Water, water with cranberry juice, starbucks skinny peppermint mocha or tea either black or green

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A serious question - Avocado makes juice? I would think it would make mush.

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Coffee in the morning, sometimes milk or wine with dinner but water all day long from the time I get up to the time I go to sleep. I drink a ton of water. I grew up in the desert Southwest so it's a deeply rooted habit. I do enjoy hot tea and chai but those are occasional things. I ferment both water and dairy kefir so a little of those each day, too.

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Same here. The world's two most popular beverages.

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Lemonade from a lite lemonade mix. sometimes I have a cup of tea.

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Freshly ground & brewed strong hot coffee Then I usually switch to water, sometimes sparkling, or cold, unsweetened green tea.

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Iced tea- plain black or green, preferably mtcha. NO FLAVORINGS AND NO SUGAR. Some lemon in black tea is okay, though. I really hate the iced tea that tastes like Dentyne gum. It does neither product justice.

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Everyday, 1 cup of coffee, cream-no sugar, in the morning then water or watered down cranberry juice. After dinner ice water. Always iced water in a Tupperware tumbler. OCD much? Occasionally, diet soda, flavored seltzer, English Breakfast tea or hot cocoa or OJ with weekend breakfasts. Milk with cookies or brownies. Summertime: diet lemonade or iced tea, V8. Very rarely, full blown Pepsi. Nectar of the Gods.

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Pellegrino with fresh lime…all day long. Champagne with dinner, most nights.

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Primary fluid intake: Water! No need for ice, chilled from the refrigerator door is just fine. Coffee: But not just "any old" coffee. For sixty years now, I have started the day with coffee made from freshly ground beans that are not ground until the water is about to boil. For the last decade it has been coffee brewed by the espresso method, a 10 ounce portion, with a nice thick layer of crema on top of my coffee mug, currently being brewed from arabica beans from the Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia. YES! I admit it. I'm a coffee freak! Carbonation! Either soda water or cans of soda, diet only because I can't handle corn syrups, most especially HFCs. Oh, and teas...! Most often matcha, but I do love the great teas of the world, hand picked leaves, special aging, then to brew it in a special teapot one or two cups at a time and relish the pure flavor. Sadly, with age tea bags are creeping into my life. <sigh> Please, lord, do NOT let the Kuerig curse overtake me!!! (okay, no offense! To each his/her own. Peace!) :-)

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