Cucumber Melon Drink
Summer time is the best time for refreshing beverages. Drinking enough water is so important all year long. I am a big believer that if you drink enough water, you will feel SO much better and avoid lots of headaches and other unpleasant health maladies.
Even though we drink water 98% if the time, sometimes it’s nice to change things up  and mix up a concoction. We love Mint Lemonade, Raspberry Peach Iced Tea and flavored water. Flavored water is a really easy way to add some flavor and eye appeal to the most basic beverage. We love adding berries, mint and citrus to water and this time I decided to use a combination of cucumber and melon.
If you’re not a fan of regular water and it seems too boring and plain for you, give this a try. If you just like delicious, thirst quenching drinks, this one is perfect for you too.Â
Ingredients:
1/2 English cucumber, sliced
1/2 honeydew melon (about 2 1/2 -3 cups thin slices of melon)(WITH the juice)
6-8 cups water
sugar to taste, optional
Instructions:
Scoop the seeds out of the melon.
Cut wedges of melon and use a vegetable peeler to to get long strips of melon. Do this over a bowl, so you can save all the juices that will drip off when you are cutting into the melon. 
Place the melon strips, with the juice into a pitcher. 
Add the slices of cucumber. 
Pour in the water. Add sugar to taste, if you want to make it sweet. Serve immediately or store in the refrigerator up to 24 hours.Â
- ½ English cucumber, sliced
- ½ honeydew melon (about 2½ -3 cups thin slices of melon)(WITH the juice)
- 6-8 cups water
- sugar to taste, optional
- Scoop the seeds out of the melon. Cut wedges of melon and use a vegetable peeler to to get long strips of melon. Do this over a bowl, so you can save all the juices that will drip off when you are cutting into the melon.
- Place the melon strips, with the juice into a pitcher.
- Add the slices of cucumber.
- Pour in the water.
- Add sugar to taste, if you want to make it sweet.
- Serve immediately or store in the refrigerator up to 24 hours.
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Oksana
Thanks for sharing. Anyone who has never tried adding natural flavor to their water should make it. You will not be disappointed. My husband and I first experienced this kind of drink at a lovely hotel, they made a huge thing of this and put it in the lobby for the guests. My husband and I kept coming back for this water, it was soo good. What they also did was add ice in there too. Melon and cucumbers were the most flavorful I think and our favorite. Then there was strawberry one, lemon, and many other combinations they did.
Tallya
Yum! I love the thin strips of melon in there, so pretty! Thanks for the idea.
Katy | Her Cup of Joy
This drink looks wonderful! I can drink water all day without any flavoring but always love any healthy drinks!
Courtney
Does this only last 24 hours as in freshness? Or is it mean to leave for 24 hours for it to infuse then drink it?
olgak7
No, it will stay fresh for several days. The 24 hours is for the drink to infuse, however, you can drink it much sooner, but the flavor will be a lot more pronounced if it has time for all the flavors to infuse.