Fruity Tooty

With the weather still pretty warm, we’ve put together some delicious refreshing drinks that are sure to cool you down, packed with some fruity goodness. Enjoy at home or pour into a drink bottle while you’re out there on the road!

Berry Infused Water

Sometimes water can be a bit boring. Try adding some flavour to your water with some delicious fruit. You can use any fruit, but today we’re trying berries!

Ingredients:

Handful strawberries

Handful raspberries

Handful blueberries

One lemon, sliced

Method:

Gently wash the raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries. Slice up the strawberries.

Drop the fruit into a glass bottle or jug a few pieces at a time, alternating between fruits so that they are well mixed.

Fill the bottle to the top with cold water. Leave to infuse for 10 minutes then serve over ice and enjoy! Once the water has all been drunk, you can continue to fill and refill the fruit-filled jug all day long. Keep it in the fridge to keep it chilled.

Wonderful Watermelon

This quick and easy recipe makes fresh and delicious watermelon juice at home with just one fresh ingredient — watermelon!

Ingredients

Watermelon – that’s it!

Method

Cube the watermelon and discard the peel. Put the cut up watermelon into a blender and blend on low speed. Strain through a finemesh sieve and serve cold.

An Aratuna Freighters IVECO X-Way climbs west from Castle Hill on the Arthur’s Pass SH73 in New Zealand. It was heading home to Greymouth with a load of essentials for the people of the South Island’s West Coast.