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Help re milk please
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Resurgam
Master
Could you try a less usual tea, maybe berry flavour, or mint, liquorice - or use al little lemon juice?
I used to enjoy ordinary tea, but covid altered my taste and I have never been able to go back to drinking it.
shelley262
Expert
I've just discovered a dandelion, fennel, ginger and liquorice tea from Waitrose it's just got a lovely hint of liquorice in it. I'm not a herbal tea lover normally I prefer very very weak normal tea - but ditched milk years ago. Waitrose own brand teas, including peppermint that I love, are 1.15 per pack so not too bad although they were a pound a pack until recently!
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Deleted member 527103
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If you like peppermint tea, I recommend growing it.
It is very easy to grow so keep it in a pot and have fresh peppermint leaves throughout the summer.
You can also make your own mint sauce or add it to salads. It goes lovely with feta and/or beetroot.
It is very easy to grow so keep it in a pot and have fresh peppermint leaves throughout the summer.
You can also make your own mint sauce or add it to salads. It goes lovely with feta and/or beetroot.
Have you tried actually measuring how much milk you actually use in tea throughout a day? If you have, say, 3 cups with a splash in each, you may not be using much at all, especially with some of the other suggestions on here for alternatives.
Just a thought.
I have a cupboard full of herbal teas couldn't live with out them, especially fennel crushed in a pestle and mortal bunged into a sieve then add to hot water with a dash of lemon - yum.
seawitch1963
Newbie
That stuff is vile! I'll stick to my builders tea lol!
fumanchu
Well-Known Member
The thing is, it's hard enough to cope with a change in diet without doing away with the one or two things you desperately need and in my early 70s, it woukld be impossible to revamp my taste buds! I think I'll have to factor in a milk allowance - can drink less tea but still real rea.
Thanks for all help!
Thanks for all help!
I’m not a medical person, nor have I heard of the diet you talk about, but 800cals caught my eye and my brain said ‘that sounds dangerous’. A normally healthy, reasonably active person needs around 2000kcals a day (depending on size, weight and loads of other things), so that makes 800 look very little. I’d love to know more about it to find out if I’m jumping to erroneous assumptions or not... (trots off to see what Mr Google knows via Diabetes UK).
JoKalsbeek
Expert
It's very low cal, yes, but it's not intended to be a long-term thing, from what I understand. Off the top of my head 6 to 8 weeks or something. Beyond that it would indeed lead to malnourishment, but as a crash diet, it works. After that you have to find something that's sustainable in the long run though.
JoKalsbeek
Expert
Maybe switch? Cream in tea, (needs less, still flavorful and fewer carbs), tea without, coffee... I take other stuff too, diluted tomato juice with a sprinkle of salt which seems a bit like soup, broth, make my own tea with lemonbalm and lavender, water with some lemon in, warm or cold, use some tisane I get from amazon.de, watered down coconut milk with cocoa etc.... I have to drink more than I normally would, (kidney stones....) so I just vary a lot with what I take in. Otherwise it'd be all tea, all the time. But my kidneys don't like Earl Grey and chais anymore, alas. All in all though.... You don't have to dump all tea-with-milk. Just have one or two? And fill the rest of the day up with other things?I take a lot of milk in tea, and I drink a lot of tea. Have to change that habit
We use fully skimmed long life milk from Aldi or Lidl (100Kcal per 1/2 pint), being long life it's creamier than fresh fully skimmed milk making it very similar to fresh semi-skimmed milk in taste and consistency.
