Healthful and Delicious Tea

I never used to drink sweet tea, and neither did I drink coffee. The one drink that my mother made was the 60’s stand-by, sugar water called Kool-aid. I never liked it much; I wanted pop instead. “Pop I will not buy you,” my mother always said. So pop became for me a kind of treat- something other than kool-aid for a beverage sweet. As an adult in my later years because I wanted to be healthier, I found tea was the best alternative for me. I still hate the taste of coffee. One year I went crazy and I bought chamomile, dandelion, peppermint, licorice, green, and quite a lot of other types of very tasty brands. How nice it feels to have a cup of warm tea between one’s hands. Sometimes I use stevia as a sweetener for tea. That’s because stevia is the best one calorie-free. However, nothing beats the taste of tea that is with honey laced! Boiled water with tea and honey I sometimes put inside (does this sound funny?) a tall container like a plastic bottle I carry. It’s good for any drink, whether juice or dairy. Once tea has cooled down, it’s so convenient to carry it around. I drink it at the place where I teach. So nice it is to have it within reach. So pleasant is tea’s flavor. I ought to drink it more. But when I’m late for work, I have to leave the door with bottled water or a second drink I like called Bai. Tea, however, is the very best. Here’s why. Antioxidants are what a good tea contains. Good blood pressure and cholesterol also it maintains. Best of all, I drink it before I go to sleep. Two bags of tea together in the boiled water I seep. For vitamin C, some spoonfuls of lemon I throw in. Drinking Cokes instead of tea ought to be a sin!