My Journey Off Coffee

Tea blend updates and more

It has been a week since I had any coffee. The week has been going well. It has been surprisingly easy not to have any coffee at all. Prior to my experiment, I have been having one to two cups of coffee a day.

I have been drinking different types of green teas and herbal teas in the morning. Green teas have wonderful health benefits. They have antioxidant properties and still have some caffeine in them. I’m also working on not having green tea every morning and substituting it with herbal tea mixtures.

A few of my favorite herbal teas include Asian pear, goji berry, mint, pomegranates with wild raspberry and pomegranates with cranberry.

My Sunday treat was a very special herbal mix that was partially made by me. I used Goji berries and those berries were bought in the store. I also used mint that has grown in my backyard. I picked and dried those mints just a few weeks ago. Additionally, I used dried red currants which I picked and dried this summer.

I put about 1 tablespoon of each ingredient in one of my favorite mugs and added hot water. I let it soak for about five minutes and slowly drink the tea. The aroma and the taste were wonderful. The berries give both a tart and sweet taste to the tea blend. I left all the ingredients in the tea while drinking which allowed me to have the berries as well as the tea. My tea “salad”.

The mint leaves will sink to the bottom of the cup after sitting for a while.

Today’s treat is a hot chocolate for the morning which I’m thinking to have maybe once a week to remind me of my coffee. It is a delicious substitute.

For my hot chocolate, I boiled the water, and in the meantime, I placed in my mug one teaspoon of unsweetened…

Related posts:

Chakras are seven vortexes of energies thru which are our body receive information from the Earth, Stars and Cosmos. Those portals are energies are also where we stock blockages, fear, or any…

Classes are about the same as last year and the year before that in terms of rigor, but things feel harder this year because I’m not in the right mindset. The pandemic messed with me mentally and…

This document provides a brief outline of some contemporary issues within the Australian economy complete with statistics and graphs, targeted towards students about to sit the HSC Economics exam. In…