Fun with Club Soda and Baked Beans

Today's offering isn't like the usual entry, but I think you'll have some fun with the info, and you can't be healthy if you don't have a little fun once in a while, right?

First off, here are a couple of fun things you can do with a bottle of club soda...

• You can make fluffy pancakes, waffles, and matzah balls if you substitute club soda for the liquid normally used in the recipes?
  
  
• Wanna make a poor man's lava lamp? Fill a glass with club soda and drop in a couple of raisins. The carbonation will cause the raisins to repeatedly bob to the surface and then sink again.

Never drink soft drinks because they're full of sugar and additives and Lord knows what else.

• If you miss soft drinks, try adding a little club soda to freshly squeezed or extracted fruit juice for a low-cost and healthier beverage.

Finally, a tip from my childhood when we were very poor.

We never could afford bubble bath products, so Ma used to serve a big pot of baked beans for Saturday evening dinner.

That way we children had Saturday night bubble baths every week of the year, just like the Vanderbilts.

Chet Day
Editor, The Health Circus
http://chetday.com