SKINNY MINT | 28 Day Teatox | Day 1

Today I begin a tea detox! I've always been intrigued by these so when I was offered the chance to give it a go, I jumped at the chance.

Lots of different brands offer types of tea detox, this one is from SkinnyMint.  The premise is that you drink two tea's a day from their range, you drink the morning boost with your breakfast, it has natural caffeine in it to help you perk up and give you a boost of energy (god knows I need this with a baby!).  Then, every other night, you drink the night cleanse tea after your dinner (this one is caffeine free).  As with anything of this nature, it will work best when teamed up with a balanced diet and exercise - my diet is pretty balanced at the moment and as much as I don't get much exercise, I am very active with the little one.

They all contain completely natural ingredients, and so far I've only had the morning brew which was pretty tasty, very drinkable.

My hope is that I feel fresher and have more energy in the morning (especially when I go back to work next month), and in an ideal world, sleep better at night.  I have just had 2 good nights sleep, but it often takes me a while to get to sleep, so if the night cleanse can help with that, it'd be amazing :)  And you know, it'd be nice to feel a little healthier too :)

If you're interested in having a look for yourself, you can checkout the SkinnyMint website, it's the 28 day detox I'm doing.

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Lets talk about tea

One of the things you may or may not know about me, is that I love tea.  Yep I like the usual assam and English breakfast, but my favourites are flavoured tea and herbal tea.  So I thought I'd talk about tea today :)

My first love is camomile tea - I used to drink this all the time when I was younger and it wasn't until there was a sachet of the Teapigs camomile flowers tea in a beauty box that I rediscovered it.  So after that I went out and bought a big box of it :)  The trick with Teapigs is to buy a big box of them, otherwise each teabag works out to be nearly 50p each, if you buy a big box is less than half of that :)  The big bag on the right is loose camomile flowers from Harrods - I know that sounds really expensive, but it's actually the same price as that box of teapigs on the left, and there's a hell of a lot more of it!

A recent discovering of mine is Chai tea, if you're looking for it in a cafe, the best (in my opinion) is Cafe Nero - I think they use the same powder (Drink me chai) as above.  If you're not familiar with Chai, it tastes a lot like cinnamon :) I've even taken to making it at home just like they do in Cafe Nero, warmed milk, powder whisked in and a shot of vanilla syrup, it's so yummy I've been drinking one while sat here typing this :)

 Next up - Peppermint tea - boy oh boy is the Teapigs one amazing!  Quite strong (strong in peppermint, not 'tea' flavour if you know what I mean?) - you can get a couple of cups out of 1 teabag too.  The tassimo strawberry/rose tea is really lovely too - I love that Tassimo (who primarily make coffee) have thought of other things as well as coffee.

These?  these are my work tea's.  My favourite by far is the pomegranate green tea - especially if it's mixed with some runny honey - the two go so well together.  The mango & lychee tea is lovely too - the peach is probably the most 'green tea' tasting of the lot, still lovely though.

I hope you liked this different kind of post today - what's your favourite kind of tea?

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