water bottles

[Guest guest]

As previously mentioned...I've got a bit of a germ phobe worry thing,

hee hee...however, I also hate to just throw those bottles away. I

heard some lady on one of those morning shows talking about it and

only half registered what she said. As I remember, of greatest

concern was keeping water in a water bottle for a long time at room

temp (ie a day or more) and sipping it over and over. If you keep it

cold you are okay. And you can wash and reuse the bottle a few

times. I don't think you can really get in and get them clean though,

so if I do this I don't do it for long. I'm not really crazy about

the sports bottle either - the lids/straws are just impossible to keep

clean. So I end up using disposable ones and recycling...then I don't

feel quite so bad. And as Jiraph mentioned - we also freeze them and

they keep things cool, the kids love drinking that really cold water

too! I did experiment with one of those cooler things with a spout &

cups, but the water had a funny taste coming out of it...I suppose it

would work well for juice, but we limit juice...perhaps iced tea?

 

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