New tea purchase

Hannah here!

This winter I spent christmas with my family in Denmark, while I was there one of the things I bought was this selection pack of teas. The packaging is of course in Danish but the name of this selection is 'soul warmer', it includes; green tea with Jasmine, strawberry tea, summer-berry tea, and herbal tea with blueberry. 

I have now tried all of them and the strawberry tea is definitely my favourite of the four. It is also the nicest strawberry tea that I have ever tasted, having a very sweet (non-artificial) and refreshing flavour. 

I would love to see more selection packs of this kind in the UK as I think they are a really lovely way of trying new teas. I also picked up another selection pack called 'Evening calm', although I haven't opened it yet so can't tell you much about it. 

Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed this slightly different style of post! I am a big tea lover so would love to hear if you have any tea recommendations! -H xox

Detox tea review

Hannah here!

This week I purchased the M&S Detox tea, it is a blend of nettle, dandelion, and milk thistle. No to mention it is naturally caffeine free, making it suitable for all. I am a great tea lover and was eager to try a calming and cleansing brew (especially when it was only £1 for 20 tea bags!). I have absolutely fallen in love with this tea and its many health benefits are a bonus. I also find that the milk thistle gives it a slightly sweet taste, which makes it all the more enjoyable. 

Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed this post. I would love to know your thoughts on any great teas that you've come across!
-H xox

Only Water and Tea February.

Jess here,

Recently in a food tech lesson I found out the bad qualities of sweeteners such as the risks of headaches, cancers and mood swings, although it is not 100% proven that these things occur from sweeteners I can't help wanting to test it out.

I have recently been getting headaches and wondering what it could be, although it is only probably stress from school, when I was taught about this I thought to myself  'God I drink a lot of sweeteners.' 

In my house we always substitute sugar for sweeteners, in teas and coffees, diet cola, diet lemonade and no added sugar orange squash so by removing these things from my diet,  could make some impact on my health.  I also never drink enough water, the reason for this is because I would rather have orange squash or another kind of sugary drink but I have recently learnt that most of these contain sweeteners! 

When I mentioned what I had learnt to my parents they were as shocked as I was at the amount of sweeteners we actually drink so we agreed that for the month of February we would only drink water and tea (because non of us could get up in the morning without a cup of it.)

These studies into sweeteners may be wrong but even if they are, only drinking water and tea for a whole month will hopefully have benefits for me and my parents health.

I'll keep the blog updated on how it's going, wish me luck and hopefully only drinking tea and water will do something good for me! 

Thanks for reading, 

-J