The great ‘Cheap cuppa’ hunt: Your top (PG?) Tips to bag cheap tea

caitybabes

sackcloth wrote: »

Hang on, do the Sainsburys basics really taste okay? I'm currently down to the Red Label but wondered if it might be worth dropping another level. As someone mentioned, it is only 28p...
Sackcloth

I am a Twinings Everyday Tea lady (I stock up when it's bogof) and decided to try the sainsburys everyday tea out of interest. It is drinkable, certainly, and if times were tough I'd probably buy it. However, in my opinion it's not nice enough for me to drink everyday as I really do appreciate my cuppa.

mippy

Tosquito wrote: »

Having tried almost every type of Supermarket Brand Earl Grey Tea,
I can honestly say that Twinings is awful, Morrisons and the Co-op are not great either,
M&S is rather good and Sainsburys is good too.

Reason for not liking any but the last 2, is the after taste that you get from the other brands.
How the tea tastes comes above price any day.

This may only be helpful to any Earl Grey Tea Drinkers.
But it can't be just me that drinks it.

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I concur - Sainsbury's do the best Earl Grey, with Clipper running a close second (though this is hard to get hold of). I haven't been to Asda for a bit but last time I did their Earl Grey came in £2 bags of 25! We get Twinings EG at work and it barely tastes of anything.

My tip if you like nice tea is to invest in a strainer or a 'tea ball' and leaves. It works out a lot cheaper. Whittards used to be great for teas but they seem to have moved more into china these days.

Tesco are selling their own brand normal tea at 99p for 80 bags at the moment.

1carminestocky

Justamum wrote: »

It depends on how strong you like your tea! I like mine relatively weak, and find there's too much tea in a bag for me so it's a waste. I have a smallish pot with a tea strainer thingy in it. I use slightly more than a level teaspoon, fill the pot with water, stir it, pour out a mug then top the pot up and stir again, then take the strainer out. I get two mugs of tea for one teaspoon of tea. I drink tea all day long and one box lasts ages.
Works out much less than basics teabags at .35p a time! And that's using PG Tips loose tea!

How much does 1 teaspoon of tea weigh, though? And how much does the loose leaf tea cost and weigh? Reason I ask is that it would appear that 250g of PG Tips costs approx £1.50 and 80 Basics tea bags cost 28p so you would need to get over 400 cups from that 250g of loose leaf tea to compete on price with 0.35p per cup. That's 200 teaspoons which equates to just over 1g of loose tea per spoon? That can't be right.

andy2004

If you rearrange the letters in Vin Diesel it reveals his credo: "I End Lives."
or "end is vile"

Justamum

1carminestocky wrote: »

How much does 1 teaspoon of tea weigh, though? And how much does the loose leaf tea cost and weigh? Reason I ask is that it would appear that 250g of PG Tips costs approx £1.50 and 80 Basics tea bags cost 28p so you would need to get over 400 cups from that 250g of loose leaf tea to compete on price with 0.35p per cup. That's 200 teaspoons which equates to just over 1g of loose tea per spoon? That can't be right.

My scales won't weigh the amount in one teaspoon. However I've just found 57 teabags left over from when my mum was here. I've opened them up and the tea in them weighs 195g - so 80 would weigh approximately 275g. I drink tea all day - finish a pot then fill it up again - I must drink about 8 pots of tea a day (I'm constantly rushing to the loo ) but 250g lasts me months. I prefer to use loose tea because I can control exactly how much I use.

By the way, the quality of the tea in the bags is not as good as the loose tea (going by visual quality anyway). Far paler, and with quite a few bits of stalk or something in it (Tetleys bags).

JayD

I drink Instant Tea - both Brook Bond and PG make this.
I prefer the versions that do not have whitener, that are just freeze dried tea granules.

You make it the same way as instant coffee so you can have your cuppa as strong or as weak as you like without waste.

It is also far less messy, with no dripping, soggy tea bags to dispose of and has all the flavour of these premium brands.


It is far more economic than tea bags - it pays for itself over and over.

Justamum

Justamum wrote: »

By the way, the quality of the tea in the bags is not as good as the loose tea (going by visual quality anyway). Far paler, and with quite a few bits of stalk or something in it (Tetleys bags).

I'd hate to know what's in your value bags!!!

1carminestocky

andy2004 wrote: »

If you rearrange the letters in Vin Diesel it reveals his credo: "I End Lives."
or "end is vile"

Too true. There are some very funny ones here (although some wouldn't be suitable to put in my sig on here, of course!)

http://4q.cc/index.php?pid=top100&person=vin

Sorry about the 'off-topicness', peeps.

rosy

Tescos are doing quite a few lines at half price ( discontinued ) just now - mentioned elsewhere on MSE, can't find the thread, sorry! In my store they are all grouped together and among the products on offer is PG Tips loose tea, long sell by date. Also loose Yorkshire tea. ( I know this is a tea thread but loads of ground coffee and coffee beans too).

*lou_lou*

I like a cup of Roibos now and again...cheapest i've found it is Lidl-think they do 20 bags for about 80p. -much better than Tetley's £1.70 odd for 25 bags-rip off!!!