I like to eat meals with my characters, and on my younger aged characters I have no choices for drinks. The only drink under the food catagory is alchoholic drinks! I don't count potions as drinks. Why can't I drink water? Or milk? Or juice?

Why would you want to when there is an ample supply of mead? I know that's what I'd drink if I could get hold of enough.

But you could just RP (some people will say pretend) that you fill up a water skin in the various streams dotted around.

Can you still name potion?
I might just make health potions and name them juice