Welcome back to day two of our multi-tasking must-have giveaway week! If you haven’t already joined us on Facebook, please do. We are discussing other must-have outdoor items all week!
What is a Hydroflask?
Hydroflask makes a line of double wall, vacuum insulated, stainless steel water bottles and food storage containers. We’ve had a chance to thoroughly test this awesome product and can say it is the best performing water bottle we’ve tried. It keeps the cold stuff cold and the hot stuff hot! For our full review read Hydroflask – Insulated Awesomeness.
Why is it a Multi-Tasking Must Have?
Plain and simple, each bottle can be used for hot or cold! But what I love are the different interchangeable lids. I can grab our 18 oz. Hydroflask and it can be used as a water bottle, a thermos holding roughly 3 small cups of coffee/hot chocolate, or I can screw on the flip coffee lid and take it as a travel mug.
Another one of our favorite items is the 64 oz growler. It is famous for keeping beer crisp and cold on outdoor adventures but I used it to keep hot chocolate warm for a horde of kiddos on a snowshoeing field trip! Here are some of the ideas we’ve come up with:
64 oz. = 1/2 gallon of milk for the kids
64 oz. = 8 cups of hot chocolate after sledding
64 oz. = 3 Venti Starbucks after a sleepless night (we haven’t yet asked how much they’d charge for filling it.)
64 oz. = 8 8 oz. baby bottles of formula or breast milk for the road
64 oz. = 5.3 bottles of your favorite beer after a long day
64 oz. = how many chilled margaritas?? 
Giveaway!
Hydroflask is giveaway away two 18 oz. Hydroflasks today! Meaning there will be two winners! Yay!
Chocolate milk for my toddler
I’m with you on the smoothies!
Wine at campgrounds with alcohol bans for long weekends. 😉
Smoothies in the summer, hot chocolate in the winter 🙂
I second the idea of smoothies. Iced green tea would also be wonderful to carry around on a hot day.
I like the idea of iced green tea!
Espresso. Lots of espresso.
Definitely for milk.
Wow. Really love the idea of interchangeable lids!
Love filling them up for coffee on the road.
Probably milk. My daughter still takes a bottle and insulated pouches only work so-so.
I would rock ice coffee in my Hydro Flask and for our little guy we’d put in juice. Nothing like cold juice on the trail- so unexpected!
Smoothies, though mine are only moderately fruity. Every morning it is greek yogurt, banana, oatmeal, pb and chocolate chips. Would be perfect in my flask as so one else would know what I am drinking and try to have some!
So going to try that smoothie recipe!
Homemade lattes!!!
A yummy hot chocolate would be perfect on a cold day in the mountains.
tea for when we sell our stuff at the flea market
A little hot coco would be our pick (in the winter) and smoothies in the summer.
hot and cold! awesome!! probably hot chocolate if sharing it wit the kids, otherwise latte for me 😉 in the winter and definitely smoothie in the summer.
i would likely just use it for tea, hot chocolate or miso soup in the winter for my two kiddos and myself, while on the trail. Water and coconut water in the summer, but since you advocate the beer in the growler, I know my husband will try to take it from us and fill it up. Ha!
Smoothies in the summer. YUM!!!
Green smoothies!!
I’d love it for water at work. I hate warm water and I despise a sweating cup at the Nurse’s Station getting all the papers wet!! I’d also love it for camping in the summer for drinking ice cold water or for hiking with ice cold water!!
Too many uses to pick one.
Breast milk for the road?? Brilliant! My husband wants to take both kids on a day hike but we worried about feeding the baby. Great idea!
coffee!
It snowed last night, so I’m going with hot chocolate for family snowshoeing….but raspberry lemonade in crushed ice would be my pick in the summer months!
Water water water! 🙂 I know, boring.
Hot for winter and cold for summer. Great! 🙂
It would be awesome for soup!
I want hot chocolate in my flask!
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Ice cold water to stay ice cold.
Water, Smoothies, Coffee, Tea. Basically Everything!!
All the ideas were great, I’d probably pick smoothies in summer for picnics and hot cocoa in winter. I’m pleased that the flasks are BPA free. I have one already and we LOVE IT!
Water for sure. And I look forward to drinking the coldest water I ever have on a hike.
Water in the summer and hot cocoa in the winter!