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The Southeast is looking at a 97F Saturday. If your family is outside for a birthday party, a soccer game or the last po...
20/08/2026

The Southeast is looking at a 97F Saturday. If your family is outside for a birthday party, a soccer game or the last pool day, here is the short version from an electrolyte company that likes people to make it home fine.

1. Start hydrating on Friday night. Not Saturday morning.
2. Freeze one water bottle overnight. It thaws slowly on the sideline and gives you cold water in hour three, when the cooler is warm.
3. Half a burbo Lemon Berry stick for kids under 80 pounds. Full stick for teens and adults after the first hour outside.
4. If someone stops sweating, they are done. Move them to shade, cool the neck, drink slow.

Save this. Send it to the family group chat. See you Sunday.

Packing lunches again after 11 weeks of 'figure it out yourself, it is summer.' Humbling.What is going in the lunchbox t...
20/08/2026

Packing lunches again after 11 weeks of 'figure it out yourself, it is summer.' Humbling.

What is going in the lunchbox this year:

A reusable water bottle, filled at home.
One burbo Lemon Berry stick clipped to the front pocket. 327mg sodium, no Red 40, no sucralose. Kid mixes it after PE.
A note that says 'drink your water before the juice pouch.'
One actual homemade snack, one store-bought one, no apology.

Day one of school is Thursday here. If you have a lunchbox-packing routine that saved your mornings, drop it below so we can all steal it.

Three things that actually help when the weekend is going to be WARM degrees and your family is outside for 8 hours, fro...
19/08/2026

Three things that actually help when the weekend is going to be WARM degrees and your family is outside for 8 hours, from an electrolyte company that also has to survive Saturday soccer.

1. Drink electrolytes BEFORE you get thirsty. Thirst is a late signal. A stick in the first water bottle of the morning does more work than two sticks at 3pm.

2. Watch the sodium math. Kids do not need 1000mg of sodium in one drink. Adults doing yardwork do not either. 300-400mg with real water works for most people, most of the time.

3. Frozen grapes in the cooler. Not electrolyte-related. Just a good tip.

Save this one for next weekend's forecast.

The great August water-bottle rebrand at our house happens every year.Last year's stickers: peeled off. New stickers fro...
19/08/2026

The great August water-bottle rebrand at our house happens every year.

Last year's stickers: peeled off. New stickers from the school supply run: applied by an 8-year-old with strong opinions about placement. Bottle: rinsed, dishwasher, dried upside down on a towel because she does not trust the drying rack.

Inside for the first day: 20oz water and half a burbo Lemon Berry stick. Half because she is 60 pounds, not a marathon runner. Same six ingredients as ours, no dyes, no erythritol.

What is going on your kid's bottle this year? Show us the sticker chaos.

'My son is 15, 6-foot-1, first year of varsity two-a-days. He came home last Wednesday grey in the face and could not ea...
17/08/2026

'My son is 15, 6-foot-1, first year of varsity two-a-days. He came home last Wednesday grey in the face and could not eat dinner. Coach said he needed more sodium. The stuff they gave him at practice tasted like ocean water and he refused. He liked yours because it does not taste like a punishment. He has finished dinner every night this week.'

We did not build burbo for a stadium light bench. We built it because a kid who will not drink the salt water is a kid who will not drink anything. Then the tomato face happens.

If that is your kid this week, we see you.

The grandparents kept the kids for the day, which meant the pool was open by 10am and lunch was Popsicles and cheese sti...
13/08/2026

The grandparents kept the kids for the day, which meant the pool was open by 10am and lunch was Popsicles and cheese sticks. Standard grandma protocol.

What we sent in the bag with them:
Two kid water bottles, both prefilled.
A sleeve of burbo Lemon Berry sticks with a sticky note that said 'one per bottle, one per kid, after lunch.'
A change of clothes we knew would come home wet.

Grandpa texted at 4pm: 'the pink one tastes great, the kids drank the whole thing without arguing. what is this stuff.'

It is a lower sodium electrolyte stick with no dyes and no sucralose. And apparently a bribe.

Quick one for the burbo family: what is your daily hydration situation?A. One big bottle at the desk, refilled twiceB. S...
12/08/2026

Quick one for the burbo family: what is your daily hydration situation?

A. One big bottle at the desk, refilled twice
B. School and sports shuffle, four bottles going at once
C. Yard work or garage day, sweating through my shirt by 10am
D. Long walk with the dog and honestly forgetting to drink

Drop your letter in the comments. We are cooking up flavor #2 and reading every single one.

The mid-August cookout cooler, real ratio from Saturday at our neighbor Mike's:2 bags of ice18 seltzers (only 6 drank, t...
11/08/2026

The mid-August cookout cooler, real ratio from Saturday at our neighbor Mike's:

2 bags of ice
18 seltzers (only 6 drank, they never learn)
12 bottled waters (all gone by 3pm)
8 beers (they went fast...may not be 100% accurate)
1 sleeve of 14 burbo Lemon Berry sticks in a ziploc taped to the lid, printed sign in Sharpie: 'ONE PER BOTTLE, DO NOT HOARD'

By 5pm the seltzers were still there and the burbo sleeve was empty.

Mike is asking who took the last three. If it was you, come forward.

Why the tagline is 'Nothing Fake.'We read the label on our own sports drink one Saturday and counted five "flavors" we c...
08/08/2026

Why the tagline is 'Nothing Fake.'

We read the label on our own sports drink one Saturday and counted five "flavors" we could not pronounce and three colors that do not exist in nature. So we made the electrolyte stick we wanted for our own family: organic and natural ingredients, lower sodium, throw in some vitamins to stay healthy and get some energy, no erythritol, no Red 40.

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