I've been trying to cut back on my sugar intake, since lately my body has not been able to handle it as well as it used to. My hope with this punch was that it would be naturally sweet enough to satisfy my sweet tooth without killing my metabolism. And it worked, but I won't deny that it might have been because of the sugars that were already in the juice and the fruit. But I was okay with that because my goal here was not to add any sugar to this, but I had no objection to sugars that were already there. If you have qualms with store-bought lemonade, you could probably make this work with homemade lemonade.
Ingredients:
-1 bottle of Simply Lemonade (or lemonade of your choice)
-2 small containers of blackberries
-3 cans of lemon seltzer water
-1 sliced lemon, to taste
Directions:
1. Empty the blackberries into a freezer safe container or plastic bag. Mash some, if not all, of them for better disbursement of juices. Put the blackberries in the freezer until they are cold or entirely frozen. We did this so we wouldn't have to water the lemonade down with ice, but you don't have to freeze the berries.
2. Pour the lemonade into your serving container of choice (we put ours in a drink dispenser)
3. Add the berries
4. Add desired amount of lemon slices.
5. Add cans of seltzer water. We added cans one at a time until we found a punch flavor we were happy with. Feel free to reduce or add cans of seltzer water.
6. Mix and serve.
We saved the Simply Lemonade bottle for leftovers and we had just enough to refill it. It tasted just as good the next day.
