Originally Posted by
Sy Reene
Gatorade is basically Kool Aid with salt and potassium added. Probably not hard to figure out a recipe with a packet or so of your favorite flavor kool aid, some sugar (and/or some maltodextrin instead), some salt, and some salt substitute (which uses potassium instead of sodium).
Okay, so I just wasted a silly amount of time exploring this. My conclusion is that
a) other drink mixes aren't that much cheaper, only maybe 20-40%
b) kool aid has a lot of high fructose corn syrup, make your own decision.
c) the largest savings was sucrose based 50/50 iced tea lemonade powder, but they only had the mix in a huge canister, I don't have the pantry space for that.
d) I'm not hard core enough to start with a 5lb bag of sugar and try to flavor it
For the moment, I've decided the cost savings in switching sugar bases is too small to merit the testing. What I may do however is pre-spike the gatorade powder with measured sodium and potassium salts to save the 60 cents of adding a Nuun tablet to each bottle.
I'll still carry the tablets and probably switch to using only those without the gatorade sugar late afternoon.