Cut down on the amount of coffee, tea, juice, milk and soda your family drinks. Kids don't need pop or excessive amounts of milk and juice. They can drink water. Watch your serving sizes with juice. That juice counts as one serving of fruit.
Excessive juice is no better than a melted down popsicle.
Stir coffee or cocoa with a peppermint candy cane. It adds a nice peppermint flavor. Crushed peppermint candies may also be added. Save extra coffee in a thermos instead of making a new batch or buy a smaller coffee maker. No part of this site may be used or reprinted without written permission by the author.