Teatime top tip: reusing teabags

Katgoddess

Debt_Free_Chick wrote:

If you're drinking mint/peppermint tea ... make your own during the summer! Just infuse some mint leaves (chopped) in hot water and leave it stand.

Freeze the leaves and make your own during the winter too!

The Egyptians do it all the time - order mint tea in an Egyptian hotel/restaurant and you get fresh mint leaves in teapot of hot water

My mother does this with lemon balm leaves.

Morrisons own brand herbals teas are cheapish as well. About 70p ish for 20.

Swan_2

ashmit wrote:

Lidl Peppermint teabags are much cheaper than that, about 50p for 20 I think (although I may be exaggerating!) and they are good quality.

I would also recommend their green tea. They used to do chamomile too, I'm still annoyed they stopped.

I'll second the Lidl peppermint tea

don't give up on the chamomile, keep checking for it. I've found that sometimes their discontinued items mysteriously reappear after long absences. last week I got some of their wildfruit instant tea & I hadn't seen it for at least a couple of years

Swan_2

Poppy9 wrote:

Queenie I think we are twins separated at birth. Nice thin china mug for me too. I hate, hate, hate, thick mugs for tea.

Love tap water. Much nicer than bottled water

I think you two have a triplet!

I like my china breakfast cup & saucer for my tea (shaped like a tea cup, but with the capacity of a mug) strong stuff in the morning & lighter stuff as the day wears on. & there's nothing like a tray with your own pot of tea in the evening

I always find bottled water tastes very chemically somehow much prefer tap. for many years I was lucky enough to live in a house that had no mains water, it came from a spring on the hill & was the most wonderful water I've ever tasted. I still get the person who's in the house now to bring me a bottle of it any time they're in town

& I never touch soft drinks unless they have alocohol in them