When life gives you lemons... Make Lemonade (and clean the kitchen sink)!

Summertime is one of those times where you have to make essential summer time drinks like sweet iced tea, flavor infused waters, and my favorite - homemade lemonade!!! One of my favorite recipes is for a Lemonade Punch. We used to serve this every year at our annual 4th of July party! It was always a hit with everyone from the adults to the kids. Just plain summertime goodness in a glass! 

Best Ever Lemonade Punch

1 cup Countrytime Lemonade mix

2 cups cold water

1 can of chilled pineapple juice {46 oz}

2 cans chilled Sprite

Mix all of this together in a drink dispenser and you have a 

great summer time drink for all of your get togethers. I 

always cut up fresh lemons to float in the punch among the 

ice. 


After you have sliced up fresh?  lemons for your punch what do you do with the leftover slices?? Did you know that lemons are an amazing cleaning agent? If you rub lemons over the surfaces of your kitchen sink they will get rid of hard water residue. You can also slice them up and put them down your garbage disposal. The lemons will clean your garbage disposal as well as giving it a fresh lemon scent. 

This week after I used lemons on my sink I decided to go a step further. My drain wasn't draining like it usually did as it was going much slower. I took a 1/4 cup of baking soda and pour 1 cup of vinegar (my other favorite cleaning solution) over the top. If you plug the drain it will bubble and fizz. Scrub it all over your sink and let it it in your sink for 15 minutes. Then rinse with hot water. If I am primarily cleaning the drain I will boil a large pot of water then pour it down the sink to clean it out thoroughly.

Here is my final result....