Hibiscus flowers are what put the “red" in Red Zinger Tea and Tazo Passion Tea, but it’s much cheaper to buy hibiscus flowers in bulk. (The actual delta between bulk hibiscus tea and packaged/branded hibiscus vary based on packaging and pricing but still, the multiples are huge.) If you buy Tazo Passion Tea in tea bags, it costs the equivalent of $47 a pound, Celestial Seasoning Red Zinger Tea, the equivalent of $43. I used that amount for months but recently have begun to use more, maybe even double.)īesides, while $13 a pound isn't cheap, it is comparatively inexpensive versus the alternatives. (That figure assumes using the "three big pinches" for the tea. Then I did the math and learned that a pound will yield 65 quarts of tea for about $.20 each, that's a nickel a cup. I was a little taken aback, paying $13 for a pound of hibiscus flowers. How inspired? She posted Friday day, that night I ordered an entire pound of organic hibiscus flowers from Amazon with free shipping, you know, thanks to Amazon Prime! Juice? Too many calories for too little liquid.īy good luck, awhile back, I’d already begun brewing a carafe of Hibiscus Tea every day, thanks to inspiration via the Vanilla Ginger Bissap at the wonderful blog, Global Table Adventure. Tea? No, my sister inherited our mother’s tea gene, not me. I missed the morning ritual of something warm and soothing as much as the aroma of brewing coffee. If you don’t drink coffee in the morning, what exactly do you drink? I quit cold turkey, a mistake that provoked a week’s misery of caffeine-withdrawal headaches.īut here’s the thing. My once-a-day vacation treat, a Starbucks “venti unsweetened iced coffee with room for cream” took possession of my brain, leaving it wired like a corkscrew during the day and me, its mere vessel, tossing and turning at night.
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