sweet tea without sugar or honey is it possible
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I don't like honey and I want to cut some of my calories out by cutting out some sugar but I don't like regular unsweet tea is there any ideas you guys have of how I can make sweet tea without sugar or honey? I know I need more water trust me, but sometimes I really want some hot tea. Also I don't care for green tea. Someone told me once before to try it instead.
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I've had lemon before. So that I can deal with lol. I like it0
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The only thing I can suggest is to use less sugar (1 tsp) and then let your tea cool some before drinking, which makes the sweet taste stronger because the whole experience is less... hot (SCIENCE!).
Otherwise I just budget some calories for hot tea with milk and sugar.0 -
Stevia in tablet form is totally natural and very good. Splenda is great too. I use both regularly.0
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Try some other fruit flavoured teas or infusions - I like a vanilla rooibos, but there's plenty of honey/ ginger or berry flavoured varieties.
How are you with just a slice of lemon in hot water?0 -
Stevia works well with tea, especially lemon tea0
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I read when I was a teenager that if you can stick out drinking tea with no sugar for 10 days, you won't want it any more. At the time I drank it with two sugars, so I thought I'd give it a go. It actually worked.
However, if that's too much to suffer through, there are plenty of alternative sweeteners out there. In any case, your average tea with 2 sugars is still probably less sugary than a fizzy drink...0 -
I really enjoy an apple tea in a local shop close to my work place. These are the closest recipes I have found to the tea (they refuse to give their recipe out). However the one I drink; has 2-3 fresh pieces of apple in it.
Hot Buttered Apple Tea
Ingredients
12 cups of water
2 Family sized tea bags
½ cup apple butter
Directions
Follow instructions on tea bags and while tea is hot, add apple butter. This smells and tastes so delicious - it is like a warm mulled cider.
Turkish Apple Tea
Ingredients:
Servings:
4-6
8 ounces sliced dried apples
2 cinnamon sticks
4 whole cloves
6 cups cold water
honey
Place all the ingredients except the honey into a saucepan. Bring to a boil then reduce heat & simmer for 15 minutes.
Strain the hot tea into a teapot. Make sure to gently push on the apples to remove all the liquid.
Sweeten with honey, if needed, then pour into tea glasses.
Alternatively, you can also add dried raisins to the water while boiling it for a natural sweetness.0 -
Personally, I think sweetened tea is kinda gross, but if I wanted to sweeten it without using sugar, I'd use stevia. :drinker:
P.S. That Turkish apple tea recipe (above) looks kind of yummy. I might have to try it.0 -
Stevia in tablet form is totally natural and very good. Splenda is great too. I use both regularly.0
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I really enjoy an apple tea in a local shop close to my work place. These are the closest recipes I have found to the tea (they refuse to give their recipe out). However the one I drink; has 2-3 fresh pieces of apple in it.
Hot Buttered Apple Tea
Ingredients
12 cups of water
2 Family sized tea bags
½ cup apple butter
Directions
Follow instructions on tea bags and while tea is hot, add apple butter. This smells and tastes so delicious - it is like a warm mulled cider.
Turkish Apple Tea
Ingredients:
Servings:
4-6
8 ounces sliced dried apples
2 cinnamon sticks
4 whole cloves
6 cups cold water
honey
Place all the ingredients except the honey into a saucepan. Bring to a boil then reduce heat & simmer for 15 minutes.
Strain the hot tea into a teapot. Make sure to gently push on the apples to remove all the liquid.
Sweeten with honey, if needed, then pour into tea glasses.
Alternatively, you can also add dried raisins to the water while boiling it for a natural sweetness.
These look awesome! Thanks for sharing!
I'd use stevia to sweeten anything
Edit: Agave is another option, but if you don't like the flavour that honey leaves, it might not be for you... Stevia is pretty much flavourless (other than the sweetness)0 -
I read when I was a teenager that if you can stick out drinking tea with no sugar for 10 days, you won't want it any more. At the time I drank it with two sugars, so I thought I'd give it a go. It actually worked.
However, if that's too much to suffer through, there are plenty of alternative sweeteners out there. In any case, your average tea with 2 sugars is still probably less sugary than a fizzy drink...
to be truly honest; once you get used to tea without sugar; its really difficult to go back to sweet tea. I stopped using sugar in my tea more than 10 years ago; I kept reducing the amount of sugar in my cup over time and soon I was used to the taste without sugar. Today; with the exception of the apple tea; I dont like tea or coffee with even a quarter spoon of sweetness in it.0 -
Aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet, Canderel), Sucralose (Splenda, Nevella), Stevia (Truvia, Natvia)...
Splenda is my all-time favourite. But each to their own.0 -
I infuse 6 green tea bags in boiling water. I then add about a couple of quarts of cold filtered water, fresh lemon juice and TBS of Stevia in the raw. I put this in a large jug and keep in the frig for drinking all day.0
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Stevia is a good choice. Or you can add sugar free lemonade mix to tea. You can use flavored tea.0
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I agree with stevia but I also like wylers sugar free (they make a sweet peach tea) on the go single packets for water bottles -Good for when you are out and about to get rid of them sweet temptations like pesky sugary drinks. Keeps me on track. I find them for 1$ for 8 at the dollar general store and at the grocery store.0
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I really enjoy an apple tea in a local shop close to my work place. These are the closest recipes I have found to the tea (they refuse to give their recipe out). However the one I drink; has 2-3 fresh pieces of apple in it.
Hot Buttered Apple Tea
Ingredients
12 cups of water
2 Family sized tea bags
½ cup apple butter
Directions
Follow instructions on tea bags and while tea is hot, add apple butter. This smells and tastes so delicious - it is like a warm mulled cider.
I have raspberry butter at home, I wonder how that would taste. I may have to try it tonight.0 -
^This. Except my favorite is NutraSweet.Aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet, Canderel), Sucralose (Splenda, Nevella), Stevia (Truvia, Natvia)...
Splenda is my all-time favourite. But each to their own.0 -
Stevia!!!
I actually have a tea/stevia giveaway on my blog right now :P0 -
Sweet tea, without sugar.
What's the point?0 -
^This. Except my favorite is NutraSweet.Aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet, Canderel), Sucralose (Splenda, Nevella), Stevia (Truvia, Natvia)...
Splenda is my all-time favourite. But each to their own.
I'm a Equal kinda girl.0
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