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Dollar General sells brand names at a great value price. Right now, Dollar General has a great promotion going on. If you buy three participating 2 liters, you can get a FREE Mars Chocolate FUN SIZE® 6-Pack.

MARS® products at Dollar General include:
– Milky Way®
– Snickers®
– 7-Up®
– A&W Rootbeer®
– 3 Musketeer®
– Sunkist Orange®

My husband and daughter really like Rootbear and A&W Rootbeer® is their favorite brand. They make for deilcious root beer floats.

I find myself shopping at great value stores like Dollar General a lot when I am prepping for parties. I appreciate the variety of products at a great price.

Now that you are headed out to by some 2-liters, I thought I would share with you one of my favorite party recipes, 7-Up® slush. It has to be prepared beforehand, which can really help you out on party day. My favorite flavor  is Pink Lemonade with 7-Up® but you can get really creative. I’m thinking a cranberry juice slush would be delicious too!

7-Up® slush

Ingredients:

• 1 can frozen concentrate drink. Lemonade, Limeade, Orange, Grape, etc
• 7-Up®
• large shallow pan that can go in the freezer, such as a 9×13

1. Pour your juice concentrate into your pan and add 3 cans full of 7-Up®. (Instead of water)
2. Put the mixture in your freezer for about 2 hours. Remove from freezer and break up any ice chunks.
3. Every hour after, scrape up your slush mixture. If you let it freeze hard it is very difficult to scrape into slushie form.
4. Repeat until your slushie is completely frozen (approximately 6-8 hours). Freezing time depends on the size and depth of your pan. I use a 9×13, so the mixture is shallow.
5. Store your slushie mix in a gallon size freezer bag until ready to use.
6. To serve, you can either serve it straight as slush or add some cold 7-Up® in with the slush to make more of a slush drink.