Cheap Apple Juice Goes Down Down Down…the Drain

Today I threw out an entire bottle of apple juice.

I had wondered why my kids didn’t want juice anymore. Then I went through my own fruit craving period recently and tried the juice myself.

Ick! It had a horrid metalic aftertaste.

No wonder my Future Farmkids — who are thankfully (and cursedly) developing taste buds for fresh, local foods — have been turning up their noses.

I’ll push the apple cider from Hardin’s Family Farm that I bought at the market over the weekend.

I’ve certainly enjoyed my evening cup of hot spiced cider with a pat of butter. At my holiday party, I add more spices and, um, kick it up a notch.