Homemade Pedialyte

"Reuse an old 2 liter bottle and help add electrolytes, but with a somewhat healthier twist."
 
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Ready In:
6mins
Ingredients:
7
Yields:
2 liters
Serves:
8
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ingredients

  • 8 14 cups water
  • 1 - 1 12 teaspoon morton lite salt (Sea salt if not Morton Lite Salt. The key is to add KCl not just NaCl. Morton Lite is half and half,)
  • 12 - 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon gelatin powder (Jel-O)
  • 2 tablespoons sugar (If honey is not used, see below, then the recipe calls for 4-6 tablespoons of sugar, to taste)
  • 13 cup raw honey (Do not use honey if this drink is to be served to children under 12 months old)
  • 23 cup fresh lemon juice (about 4-6 lemons)
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directions

  • Heat up 1 cup of very hot water (not necessarily boiling, but pretty hot) in a Pyrex measuring cup.
  • Add the powdered ingredients, stir until dissolved, and transfer to your 2 liter bottle(or larger).
  • If using honey, then pour out your honey into the Pyrex cup.
  • Add honey to the 2 liter bottle, let it pour for 30 seconds, use 1 cup of hot water to rinse out the residual honey from the Pyrex measuring cup into the bottle. You should have a total of 2 cups of water in the bottle along with all of the ingredients sans the lemon juice.
  • Measure out the lemon juice in the mostly clean Pyrex cup and add to the bottle.
  • The concoction will foam up … don’t panic. Stir/shake to mix all of the ingredients. The foam will dissipate momentarily.
  • Add the remaining water (~6.2 cups) to top off the bottle and serve over ice.
  • You may want to stretch this recipe by adding Airborne tablets or equivalent and additional water.

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Reviews

  1. I can't say that I've ever tasted Pedialyt, but I must say that I don't like this mix very much. My 4 yr old son didn't care for it either. We used Celtic Sea Salt, so perhaps I need to cut back on the salt in the recipe. It was very salty. I tried to tweak the taste by adding a bit of sugar, and it made it worse.
     
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