Save money, calories and chemicals going into your body by re-purposing store-bought glass tea jars for homemade ice tea. Clean the bottles after you're finished with your drinks (or get friends to give you some), then make a big batch of tea on the stove by boiling water and adding the tea bags to steep. I add some honey to mine and then when it cools down, I pour it into the glass bottles.
I keep these in the fridge (make caffeine-free and caffeinated ones separately) and grab when I'm going out the door. I save money on the tea, limit calories of a caffeinated soda, and don't have to ingest all those chemicals that come from a soda!
I've been doing this for about 3 years, putting them into my husband's lunchbox. It is about the cheapest drink I can give him other than water--he doesn't even sweeten his tea. For a change of pace, I'll add an herbal tea bag to the regular or green tea ones. Sometimes, I'll add some mint from my garden. He's not gotten tired of it yet. It tastes so much better than the bottled tea drinks you buy. If you're feeling really adventurous, mix the tea with fruit juice.
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