Make your own herbal tea for practically nothing.
Here is a pan of herbal tea I made today.
It takes only a small amount of each ingredient to make a wonderful tea. Orange peel is free. Other ingredients not free, but used in small quantities: Dried mint leaves, Dried spearmint, Lemon grass, Lemon juice, Frozen raspberries (only 3 berries), Ginger root shavings. Makes two quarts of tea for 14 cents, or eight 8-ounce cups for less than 2 cents each. Compare that with 10 cents per teabag to buy herbal tea in the grocery store.
Of course, if you live where you can get to a garden or walk in the woods, you can collect rose hips, wild mint, chamomile, wild berries and flowers to make tea with even cheaper than using items like I did today, which all came from stores.
Whether you gather the ingredients by foraging, or use what’s available from your local stores, you can enjoy your own personal blends of herbal teas just the way you like them, and pay a tiny fraction of the cost of boxed tea – or even pay nothing at all!
Here are links to some of the many sites on the web that explain how to make your own herbal teas:
http://www.countryliving.com/cooking/about-food/herbal-teas-0906
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food/1981-05-01/Wholesome-Hearty-Herbal-Tea.aspx
Here’s a list of hundreds of different ingredients you can use to make your own tea: http://www.crazyfortea.com/herblist.html
Another long list of possible ingredients, and more general and particular information about herbal teas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbal_tea
