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You can’t beat the convenience you get from fruit juice boxes — those handy cardboard containers of fruity drinks that fit neatly inside your child’s brown bag (or even your briefcase). But if you think you’re packing a sensible sipper, you might be surprised to learn that the nutritional statistics for these portable thirst quenchers aren’t exactly winning.
For instance, one Mott’s fruit punch juice box (about 6 ounces) is packed with 120 calories (26 grams of sugar), while a Capri Sun Strawberry Banana Fruit Juice Pouch has 110 calories (28 grams of sugar). Toss a Yoo-Hoo Chocolate Drink box in that pail and give them 130 calories, 1 gram of fat and 20 grams of sugar. Considering Coca-Cola has 27 grams of sugar and 100 calories per cup, you might as well send them off to school with a soda. Probably not what you intended.
How can you and your little tykes come to an agreement? Instead of stocking up on fruit juice boxes, which can run you around $3.49 or more for a three-pack, pick up a Rubbermaid Litterless Juice Box at your supermarket (also available at amazon.com).
These plastic containers cost around $3.49 each for the 8.5-ounce version (there’s a 16-ouncer, too) and they’re infinitely reusable, so you’ll save money week after week and reduce waste, to boot. Plus, you can fill it with something a little more nourishing than water, corn syrup and flavoring, like half pure fruit juice and half water, Crystal Light, unsweetened iced tea or zero-calorie water. Stowe it with an ice pack to keep things frosty.
You’ll be so impressed with this luggage for liquids, which is more convenient than your heavy, old-fashioned Thermos, you’ll want to pick up one for yourself (just fill the 16-ounce version with water four times during the day to reach your daily requirement!).
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