Yes. Dark chocolate is a great trick!

Also, I found that if I eat dark chocolate I eat a lot less of it and whatever craving I had is met sooner and easier without overdoing anything. (However, I still love double coated tim tams).

I am glad that the herbal tea drinking took, I really like the flavour more and more, and there’s no tannin either, plus yay for hydration

Course first I have to replace the chocolate eating with herbal tea drinking

Yes, I quite agree on the freshly plucked herbal tea. You know Alternate Alisa totally does that. In her gorgeous and abundant veggie garden. Behind the infinity pool.

But T2 is so sexy, I can’t help myself!

Perhaps I need to instil that one in for one out rule for boxes of tea. And actually find ones I enjoy drinking. Thing is, I don’t seem to buy black tea and then it’s black tea that I might go looking for! I get seduced by the hints and infusions of flavours. Much like the yarn colour names!

I tend to drink more tea when I live with people who drink a lot of tea but I tend not to opt to make it for myself.

Next time the tea boxes fall out of the pantry, I’ll say “hey at least it’s not a $500 handbag!”

I feel a bit of a philistine in going mostly for the flavoured teas. I do love the Aussie Wattle, though, and the Magagascar Vanilla has a lovely scent to start the morning with.

I think twinings tea chest is cheapest via their UK store when out dollar is good, but I’m trying to wait for Peters of Kensington site to have a sale on it.

I already can’t stand that Alternate tea-drinking Alisa reading Vogue!
Here – I will lend you one of my only food/drink intolerances – I cannot handle tannin, therefore i can’t drink tea, past one or two sips. Herbal I can manage, except cammomile, which lets face it, is something to run the lawnmower over rather than something you would choose to drink

You want to be the really serene, have it all, done it all woman, you would be drinking your own, freshly plucked, home grown herbal tea (and maybe white tea – its a pretty bush apparently – diggers sell it). So it is always fresh, best quality, and if you don’t drink it, it keeps the birds and bees and butterflies happy and makes your garden look and smell nice. And doesn’t clutter up the cupboard. win!

*goes to check out teapigs.co.uk*

I like tea too. I just don’t choose to drink it much.

So many cool flavours and names for flavours. And all in pretty boxes in my pantry.

One thing that does help is go full tea snob -perhaps tea nerd works better in context- only buy loose tea. Single origin non flavoured to limit choices even more, and a preference for first flush Darjeeling for example even helps throwing out older examples.

The slight drawback of that approach that it does lead the way to the $500 handbags of tea.

Australian Afternoon tea is my favourite currently.

Great post, very funny and familiar. I have weaned myself out of buying boxes and boxes of tea I never drink, and restraining myself to just a couple of interesting varieties based on what my regular friends actually drink – though the occasional box of T2 with exciting names on the teabags does make me happy to offer up to said fancy tea drinking friends.

I drink tea by the bucketloads, but only plain and strong and milky, and I always get the same kind of teabags (Dilmah extra strong) for myself & Finchy.

I sympathise very much with your aspirational tea-purchasing, and I think that C should count himself lucky that this part of your personality is expressed through tea and not any of the far more expensive habits you could develop in the search of aesthetic perfection. $500 handbags, anyone?

(Btw my friend’s mother in law has the best tea box, a beautiful wooden thing like a small writing desk, full of little cubbies for different teabag varieties)

That said, I like tea. And although I sway between being a tea-drinker and coffee-drinker, I think tea gives me greater equilibrium.

Plus, lots of cool flavours…

I like tea too. I just don’t seem to choose to drink it