Making the coffee to tea switch. Suggestions?

You can enjoy both. Learning how to actually enjoy coffee for what it actually tastes like will be your problem... And it's not bad at all if brewed properly.

Cold brew coffee is low acidity, very smooth on the palate, and can be easily learned to enjoy without milk because of those two facts. You can brew it at home for cheap, or buy a liter from your local supermarket in the refrigerated isle. I suggest learning how to grind your own dark roast beans and utilize a cheap French press.

Although it's not technically cold brew, if you have a Keurig, start by using a good tasting dark roast coffee pod. Set a mug full of cubed ice under the brewing area and set to the lowest amount of brew 4 or 6 oz. (To account for the melting ice). Use 1 splenda and no milk. Try it. If you like it, you just discovered an easy, healthy, lower acidity, lactose free way to enjoy coffee. If not, you maybe lost 30 cents. Graduate to using no splenda, and you have the health benefits of coffee, with natural caffeine, zero calories, and a completely new respect for coffee as an ingredient.

As far as tea, I only drink tea that tastes amazing. I never force myself to drink bad tasting teas for the fractionally minimal health benefits. Tea intake is not going to make or break you despite the articles about the Japanese living longer simply because they drink more tea.

I love coffee, and like tea pretty well, but not as much. I would never give up coffee (other than temporarily), but when cutting down on coffee sometimes (caffeine), I may substitute teas that have less caffeine. Sometimes I just want an alternative too, and I sometimes find chilled tea more refreshing than chilled coffee.

As for advice, I guess it depends on why you are switching and what you would miss about coffee. Your first post talks about what you put in your coffee, and as a person who loves her coffee black, perhaps I'm just not following, but why would that mean you had to switch to tea. Do you think you would be less inclined to put high cal stuff in your tea?

Love Yorkshire tea (bags). That would be the British formulation, not the dreadful stuff designed "for American tea-drinkers" -- dunno what they were thinking with that. A little splenda, a little 2% milk, and I'm very happy.

I love yerba mate. All the caffeine of coffee, plus vitamins and minerals and some feel good chemicals. It doesn't need sugar or milk, so it's a calorie free treat. I drink the mandarin flavoured stuff, and I love the taste. I also love green tea. I couldn't stand watching my calories being spent on coffee just to get caffeine.

why would you deprive yourself of coffee entirely? just ease up on the creamer. i do flavored coffee + a little truvia + a splash of almond milk. tastes delish. calories so negligible i don't even count it.

Lipton makes a variety of teas, not sure if you have Tetley tea where you are but they have a vast selection of tea. You can also check out David's tea, so many varieties of tea from green, to rooibos. Herbal teas are delicious but they contain little to no caffeine. I started drinking tea with sugar and slowly weaned myself off. Baby steps! Good luck! *Sips apple cinnamon tea - black*

I have English breakfast tea (ie: black tea) every day (with milk & sweetener) but strongly dislike every other kind of hot tea I've tried. To me, that's standard tea. And then if you wanna mess around with that other hippie stuff later, you can .

As for coffee - don't drop it, just figure out how to make it so it's not a sugar bomb. Tons of polyphenols in coffee; it's good for you. Just avoid over-caffeinating yourself, because that's another trap that's easy to fall into (ie: over ~400mg/day).