Dad's Lime Slush

This is my dad's famous Lime Slush. He serves it during the Christmas season, and we all can't get enough of it. My friends now love it too, but I don't necessarily keep it exclusively for the holidays. It's good!

3 C sugar
8 C hot water
Limeade can, mixed according to directions

Dissolve sugar in water. Add limeade mixed with water. Mix well. Freeze in clean gallon milk containers (or other containers you can cut open). Don't forget to leave room to expand! It can take a couple days to freeze, so plan accordingly. Let thaw for about an hour before serving. Cut open the top of your container, "cut" the slush to make it slushy. Add 7-up and serve.

*I discovered that the big Pampered chef mixing pitcher is really good at this - it just barely fits the entire mix inside, but does a great job at mixing very efficiently. It eliminates the annoying and messy "going from pitcher to pitcher to mix the 2 pitchers of juice equally" process.

*One batch makes a full gallon plus about a half gallon too. You could also freeze it in ice cube trays - but I think that's a pain and you know you're going to want more anyways - but it would make it really easy to have a 1 person serving sometime when nobody else is around!