Weight-Loss Tea Talk

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We all know about green tea, black tea and white tea...but...blue tea?

I came across blue tea recently and I am willing to try it soon.
Here's a description:
"A delicious beverage blend made from the flavorful blue heart wood of a medicinally benevolent tree which grows deep in the Peten Region of Mexico and three well known, specially selected flowers.

Blue Tea has a richly flavorful taste, a naturally balancing and restorative effect, a pleasing blue color, and a delightful aroma.

Blue Tea is more interesting than most other herbal beverages, good for the general health, and may be consumed freely.

Blue Tea contains no caffeine or added sweeteners so you can enjoy Blue Tea any time you like ‘ from the first cup in the morning to the last cup at night’! "


~Apparently there is a Chinese company that also sells "blue tea" but it's not the same as the tea above. The Chinese company sells a green tea (Camellia Sinensis) blend that they have named "blue tea". It looks like the name helps describe the blueish flowers and herbs added to the mix. Its a tad different from the herbal blend of blue flowers of the Mexican blue tea.
They describe it as "Natural sweet after taste, very popular green tea of our shop, good for calming relaxing, and anxiety."
You can find their Blue Tea here -->
 
I have found that tea sure does stain my teeth. I use arm and hammer gel in the morning to remove them. It's peroxide based and not abrasive. It's considered a whiting product.

Blue tea. That's interesting. I've never heard of it. Sounds expensive.

After I drink my tea this morning I'm going outside to work until it get's too hot or I get too tired!
 
BigLyn what are you working on outside? Do you have a garden? ^_^

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Tazo has yet to disappoint me. My husband and I went to the grocery store last night and picked up Tazo - Calm. I was skeptical because the second ingredient is hibiscus and I don't like floral teas. But I gave it a try and....ohhhh

I really love it.
I think I'll do a review on it soon.
 
"]BigLyn what are you working on outside? Do you have a garden? ^_"

@ Emerald


No I don't have a garden. I'm building a retainer wall around the far side of my pool. the area around the pool is sloped and on the far side there's a 2.5 ft. high by 104 ft long wall that is currently held in place with rocks and boulders It looked nice but now the critters ( pack rats and pocket squirrels are tunneling into it and have undermined the earth by digging it out and the wall is collapsing. They have also killed many of the plants I have around the pool by tunneling under the plants and eating the roots. So alter i build the retaining wall then I'll pave between the pool and the wall creating more deck space and buy some large pots to put plants in. I also plan to put in more setting areas.

I'm doing this by myself and it's a lot of work but it's also good exercise for me. Each of the blocks are 22lbs and I have to carry each one up and down a few steps then around to the back side of the pool. Because of the pool fence and the steps that is the only way to get them there. When I pick up the bricks I squat and use my arms and legs not my back. I have been working on this 3/4 days a week for about 3/4 hrs at a time. The hardest part is digging out the old wall and removing all the rocks and boulders. I have had to break up some of the boulders with a pick and sludge hammer. I have to then lift them up over the 5 ft. fence to toss over. When I'm done I'll have to remove all the rocks I have tossed over the fence.

This project is going to take me several months. Soon it will be too hot to work outside except when the sun comes up for about 2 hrs. Most likely I'll finish it in the fall. and fall around here is end of November! I have completed 34 ft so far.

I don't mind hard work and love working in the yard. This way I can create just what I want. I had an estimate done and it was $8,000 so I decided to do it myself. I have built retaining walls before. It's coming along nice and I use a level to make sure the base blocks are level.

So in the morning's after I have 2 cups of tea I have been either going for a hike 6-8 miles or working outside. I look at it this way. On the days I hike I'm working my legs and on the days I work on the fence I working my arms and upper body. I have built up some muscle in my legs and I can tell I'm a lot stronger than I was a year ago.

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In celebration of the Royal Wedding yesterday of Prince William and Princess Catherine, shops were selling these souvenir tea bags.

^_^

photo credit:REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett (BRITAIN - Tags: ROYALS ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY)
 
What will they come up with next! LOL

I'm relaxing this morning with my cup of tea. I worked for 5 hrs oustide yesterday and I should have got up early and went on a hike but I was sleeping soooo well for a change that I decided I can take a day off once in a while and just relax a bit. I had to bust up a lot of rock that I couldn't move and today my muscles behind my shoulder blades are sore.
 
Wow, that's terrible/ disgusting. I'm sorry about that.

I've made my first batch of ice tea for the year and I'm really pleased with it. Low calorie this time around, too (as I used no-added-sugar squash and didn't add any sugar)
 
TEAVANA CORPORATION VOLUNTARILY RECALLS PEPPERMINT ORGANIC HERBAL TEA BECAUSE OF POSSIBLE HEALTH RISK


Atlanta, Georgia – March 3, 2011 – Teavana Corporation today announced a voluntary recall of 2,659 lbs of Peppermint Organic Herbal Tea produced by Aromatics Inc., Basin City, WA, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. Aromatics Inc. exclusively produces and distributes Teavana’s Peppermint Organic Herbal Tea. The recall was as the result of a batch sample testing program by the Company after it received a notification of possible contamination by the vendor, which revealed that the finished products contained the bacteria. The Company has ceased the production and distribution of the product as the FDA and the Company continue their investigation as to the origin of the contamination.

Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis, and arthritis. For more information on Salmonella, please visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Web site at or call 800-CDC-INFO (800-232-4636).

The Peppermint Organic Herbal Tea was distributed nationwide in Teavana retail stores and through mail and internet orders. The Peppermint Organic Herbal Tea is sold measured to customer’s orders in retail stores and sold in 2 oz pre-packaged pouches by mail order or internet. There are no lot/batch identifying markings on the store or ecommerce packaging. Retail store stock was sold between December 4, 2010 and February 16, 2011. Mail order & internet stock was sold between November 30, 2010 and February 16, 2011.

While no illness related to this voluntary recall has been reported to date, any potential health risk is significantly reduced when following the printed brewing instructions on the package or available online.

Consumers who have purchased Peppermint Organic Herbal Tea are urged to return it to the place of purchase for a full refund. Consumers may also contact Teavana Customer Service at 1-877-832-8262 (M – F from 8.30 A.M. until 6:00 P.M., EST) for instructions on how to return the product.
 
Tea and Salmonella are not two things I ever thought would end up in the same sentence. But bacteria can find its way anywhere. I'll stick to Tazo-Refresh for now. It's a close second to Teavana's Peppermint. But I hope they bring it back soon.
 
If you're a tea bag user, how often do you use the same tea bag before throwing it out?

- What I've started to do is keep my tea bags in an airtight container in the fridge after steeping so that I can use it at least one more time that day. I find that I can get at least two steeps out of every tea bag. Others can go further but I don't like to have the bag for too long. I toss it at the end of the day or after using it twice.

I'm a loose leaf drinker mostly. But hat can be less convenient at times. I don't save loose leaves in the fridge though.^_^
 
I only ever use tea- leaf or otherwise- once. I find the quality is significantly less on the second go, and will only do it when I'm desperate. But that being said, tea might be much cheaper in the UK than the US.
 
I'm looking into seeing if this is an okay practice. I'm trying it to see how it works and looking in to see if it's safe. I've only been doing this for a week now.

If I find that it's not safe to do this I'm going to stop immediately!

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Amy the teas that I buy, loose or bagged, are able to be steeped more than once. (Except when I buy White tea but I don't usually buy that).

The loose that I buy regularly ranges from $6/2oz to $12/2oz
 
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If they're designed to be steeped more than once, that's ok I guess. I've never heard of such a thing.

Do you use boiling water on your tea? (That's standard practice in Australia and the UK) If so, I imagine you'll kill most things.

And wow, you pay a lot for your tea. I pay at most 3 pounds (about $5 US?) for 4.5oz, and most of my tea is cheaper than that (about $3.30US for 5.3oz).
 
Yes when using tea bags it's always boiling water that I use.

I really don't think keeping them in an airtight container in the fridge is a big deal though. Hmm.. I wonder how freezing them would workout. LOL
I'm always experimenting. That's the scientist in me.

When I buy tea bags it's about $4.

UPDATE:
I've been looking around all morning and even though I've never heard of this being done it seems that other people do this as well. They say sometimes their tea is weaker the second time around though. But I don't have that problem.
 
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I was talking about loose leaf tea. :eek2: I haven't bought teabags in ages, but... let's see. A brand from the supermarket that I'd actually drink. 80 teabags for about $2.60 US, we're talking about (there are more expensive ones, but if I want better tea I don't get teabags, frankly).
 
Yea the loose I get from Teavana.
$6/2oz to $12/2oz

I've splurged once on an $18/2oz but I have never done that again lol
That was just way too much in my book.
 
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