The Trekking Pawns Make Homemade Electrolytes: We Actually Did It!
Remember our homemade electrolyte experiment? In our last Trekking Pawns adventure, we discovered that LMNT has a recipe for making its electrolyte drink mix at home. The recipe looked simple enough: salt, potassium chloride, magnesium malate, water, and whatever flavoring we wanted. So naturally, we had to try it. And this time, we're reporting back with the results! Spoiler alert: It was ridiculously easy. And perhaps more surprisingly... 30 servings took up way less space than we expected. 🛒 The Shopping Trip Our mission was to get the ingredients we needed without spending a fortune. We purchased: 🧂 Potassium chloride — 1 kilogram 💊 Magnesium malate — 1 kilogram ⚖️ Digital food scale 💰 Total spent: approximately $70 We did not buy sodium chloride. Why? Because we already had a giant container of Himalayan salt sitting in the pantry from Costco. And honestly, it seemed a little silly to buy another container of salt when we already had enough to season approximately 14...