If I'm hungover, then a sugar-free Red Bull will do the trick. If I'm a bit bored, or it's a time of the day, then it's a medium black Americano. And regardless of the time or my plans for sleep, any trip to a restaurant after 7pm requires a double espresso.
(I'm probably going to die quite young. Of stress.)

He grew up on an organic farm, so for his energy drink (the first natural one ever. Worrying, that...) he's made is buttoned up to the neck with ethics. It's Soil Association and Vegetarian Society approved, and the label says that it's minimum 75% Fair Trade "excluding water." And I bet that if they could make Fair Trade water, they probably would have done by now.
The kick comes from guarana and raw green coffee bean extract, with a boat load of pomegranate, ginseng, gingko biloba and other organic goodies to stroke your stressy head while you get hepped up on caffeine. It tastes like a more cerebral Ribena. Half an hour in, and I was quite happily buzzed.

The Scheckters website features lots of people leaping in the air in the manner of excitable A-level students, which I don't particularly understand, but then again I don't jump anywhere due to my ridiculous fear of falling.
On the bright side, at £1.49 this costs the same as most energy drinks and it's all natural and good for you. Banging.
*tentative hand up* Dare I ask why coffee with milk is such an abomination?
ReplyDeleteSara, you certainly may. Something happens to the consistency of coffee - only coffee, tea is perfectly fine - when milk is added. It thickens and distorts the flavour and makes it feel rather as though something deeply unpleasant has taken up residence in your face.
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