Everyone harps on about how great Green Tea is - packed full of anti-oxidants, a great alternative to caffeine, kind to the skin, used in so many great beauty products... we all know the benefits by now. The trouble is that it tastes, to a lot of people, disgusting. I know that I need at least three lumps of sugar to make it seem worthy of drinking, which that means that all that hard work the green tea is doing is going to be cancelled out by the amount of sugar I am clogging my insides with.
I've been drinking teas like this since I was old enough to be trusted with hot drinks. When I was younger I had eastern European Au-Pairs (foreign students that look after children and do the house cleaning in exchange for staying in your home, you paying for them to learn English at a college and paying them a small allowance) around me for a long time. These were the girls that introduced me to infusions and fruit teas. I've been drinking them ever since.
In a bid to still drink green tea and get my dependency on caffeine to a minimum I have been drinking the below alternatives for a while now and thought I would share them with you. I'm fortunate that the pub I manage also sells these teas which makes staying away from coffee and tea a lot easier than it would be for someone that works elsewhere (also I can drink as many as I want for free!).
GREEN TEA WITH...
Other flavours when added to green tea mask and sweeten the overall green tea taste. Its still there, lurking in the back ground, but mostly it's sweeter and more pleasant to drink. I love these five shown here and also green tea with mango (which I haven't shown here as I have that at home - shamefully when I was bored at work I thought up this post and that was when I took the photos). They're amazing alternatives but if you only try one from this selection please try the green tea with earl grey. The bergamot really comes through, especially with a slice of lemon and a lump of brown sugar.
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FOR A QUICK BOOST OF ENERGY...
These two teas don't even contain green tea but they're great for a quick boost in the morning. I use the lemon and ginger to kick start my metabolism first thing as the spice from the ginger makes me feel wide awake whilst the lemon is supposed to be good for waking up the body. Peppermint tea was something I fell in love with in Morocco - it's supposedly the national drink. I was taught how to brew it properly whilst I was in Marrakech but, mostly because I'm idle, I will use these Twinnings ones to create the same taste. Peppermint is also great for after a heavy meal as it feels cleansing (especially after anything particularly spicy).
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FOR WHEN YOU NEED A SWEET TREAT...
Again, no green tea here, but some amazing teas for when you need something sweet but don't want to reach for a cookie or chocolate bar. These are lovely and refreshing whilst at the same time curing that sugar craving. My personal favourite is the blackcurrant, ginseng and vanilla as ginseng is renowned for being a form of stimulant (a natural red bull alternative) so I know that one cup of this is going to make me wide awake and ready to take on the rest of the day. The blueberry and apple tea was the first fruit tea I ever tried back when I was 8 years old so it's got some nostalgia attached to it (if teas can have that?).
I hope I've inspired some of you to try some new teas. None of them need milk adding so they're perfect for the dairy intolerant among us! Let me know what you think if you try one I've suggested! I would love to hear your thoughts on them.
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