>Kombucha is another one I haven't seen mentioned here...you don't really save money in general and decent commercial products you can easily get many places ar

>Kombucha is another one I haven't seen mentioned here...you don't really save money in general and decent commercial products you can easily get many places are as good or better. Kombucha is the exception. I make kombucha at home. The labor is extremely minimal (basically the same effort as making a gallon of sweet iced tea) and the economics absolutely make sense - the cost less than $1 a gallon for me to make it vs $3-5 for 16 oz at the grocery store. Plus I already have pounds of tea at home. The other reasons I make it are to avoid having to haul heavy bottles into the house and because I prefer unflavored kombucha and only flavored ones are widely available commercially.