Natural Food Coloring

OK, I was in a bind.  My three year old as been complaining that all the other kids in his preschool class get lemonade, and he only gets water.  I've asked the teachers not to give Noah the artificial HFCS with red dye #40 brand name pink lemonade they serve.  He already brings his own snack because of his severe life threatening allergies.  But like his older brother, even if he didn't have the allergies, I'd still pack his lunch and/or snack to keep it all natural.

I don't think children should r food with lots of "non-food" ingredients in it.

Anyway, so I recently started sending in my own lemonade in a bottle for him.  Only problem is, he wants pink lemonade, not yellow.

OK, how can I turn this pink.  My Whole foods all natural food coloring is dried up so not working (I'm thinking brown lemonade is just NOT appealing...)

So I think....what's red in my kitchen?  Strawberries!

So I take a couple of strawberries, blend it up very fine (I have a magic bullet but a food processor would work), then strain it into a cup.  I pour this liquid into his lemonade and bingo!  He had pink lemonade.  Actually, he hasstrawberry lemonade - yum!

The whole process took me less than 2 minutes.  More clean up?  certainly!  But my child is going to school chemical free - and that certainly is sweet!