Room-temperature water sounds fine to me! I give it part credit for a bunch of pretty good years. Do you read the labels on the Juicy Juice drinks? My tendency would be to not even bother, because I would suspect they had high-fructose corn syrup as first or second ingredient, but perhaps not. Let me know!
Other drinks, hmm. I drink a lot of soy shakes--NOT smoothies made with ice chips or frozen fruit or veggies--but packets of unsweetened prepared soy, usually chocolate. They are made by Revival Soy (avoid the Cappuccino flavor, and their special offers don't list their unsweetened option) or there is a Vega brand from Vegan Essentials. The Revival Soy mix gets added to "milk" or juice. I have found that you can mix it with water by using 6 oz. instead of 8 oz. of other liquids. Both Revival Soy and Vega come in single-serving packets; for the Vega brand you have to find a picture of a $68 or so large canister, but at the purchase point there's a choice of packets or the large container. I use stevia sweetener (is that allowed to say on this site?)
Tea is okay when it's cooled down, you know. I've gotten fond of blueberry tea, sweetened with stevia, which somehow cancels out any acid taste. I'm experimenting with Wulong/Oolong teas, which are more of a hassle than I want, over the long term. A nice experiment, though.
There's soy milk--start slow if you haven't used it before. And I just saw a note that Silk now has soy "nog" in the stores. There are half-coffee/half-soy "coffees," too, as well as 100% soy "coffee." I get good mileage with these, using a French Press coffee maker; another low-acid option is toddy-making equipment. That stores a cold low-acid "coffee" concentrate in your refrigerator, to mix with tap water,or hot water, however you like it.
But I know the dilemma; last week, after a lecture, I was asked along for drinks with the speaker. I knew I couldn't tolerate the icewater everyone was served, and couldn't have a soda of any sort, and for me any juice is pretty bad, too. Finally I asked for bottled water, and then was asked "What brand? Pellegrino?" I didn't know. Someone at the table was nice enough to ask "fizzy or flat?" and I immediately said "flat." That way I got something to drink. I would have been happy with room temperature water!
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