Green Tea Lemonade

August 23, 2011 By Leanne Vogel March 30, 2017

Print Green Tea Lemonade Author: Leanne Vogel Recipe type: Vegan, Gluten free, Dairy free, Sugar free, Yeast free, Corn free Prep time: 20 mins Cook time: 15 mins Total time: 35 mins Serves: 10 C A delicious and refreshing way to meet your daily water intake requirements and load up on age defying antioxidants. Keep in the fridge for up to a week for quick hydration. Ingredients 4 bags organic green tea

10 cups filtered water

¼ teaspoon concentrated stevia powder *see note

½ cup + 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice Instructions Place water in a large saucepan, cover, and heat on high heat until boiling. Remove from heat and drop in teabags. Allow to steep for 10-15 minutes. Remove tea bags and stir in honey, mixing until dissolved. Allow pot to sit for a couple of hours to cool before pouring into a large glass jug, mixing in lemon juice, and storing in the fridge until use. Notes Try using [naturally] flavored green tea like jasmine, apricot, or mango for flavor variation



Adjust stevia amount to taste as several brands seem to have a different sweetness strength. Don’t like stevia? Try ½ cup honey or coconut sugar. 3.3.3070

You could say that I’ve become a bit obsessed withlately. You can find me using it as a, combining it with almond milk for[don’t knock it till you try it], or enjoying aas a mid-morning treat. Because there’s caffeine in green tea; albeit not as much as in a cup of coffee, I try to limit it to 1 cup per day, 5 days a week.Green tea and I have always had a Ross and Rachel relationship – on again, off again, love, hate… you know. Gosh, I miss that show. As with a lot of foods, I get bored, I move on, and then come back to it when I remember why I loved it in the first place. In the case of green tea, it’s been absolutely. You see,; for some people, masks itself by. Of course our first reaction to hunger pain is to eat, but sometimes hunger is not the case! 9 times out of 10 it’s because we’re thirsty. My general rule of thumb is that if I’ve eaten in the past 1-2 hours and I get hunger pains, it’s probably because I’m thirsty. I can’t express how amazingly helpful this has been in. Before coming to the conclusion that my portion sizes were causing me digestive grief I would be finishing off the contents of my lunch kit – breakfast, morning and afternoon snacks, and lunch – all before 11am. It wasn’t that I was eating more in a day, I was just eating it all at once because I wasWhen our; like when we have snack + lunch within an hour of each other, we have too much food in our system which makes it nearly impossible for our bodies to digest the foods properly. With too much food at once and, I would often getand aevery afternoon. Dealing with swollen belly at the office is. After recognizing what the issue was, I was quick to come up with a water schedule and prepare a couple ofto help me transition to eating in 2-3 hour increments instead of jamming a days’ worth of food into a couple of hours. It’s not about eating more or less it’s aboutOf course if I drink my water and I’m still getting hunger pains, I grab a snack. One of my favorite treat-like drinks has to be this green tea lemonade. I like to drink it in between my morning snack and lunch. It hits the spot with it’s sweetness andme at the same time. Win-win in my book!Also, it should be mentioned, that contrary to belief, studies* are now showing that drinking tea doesn’t dehydrate us as originally predicted. In fact, because of the antioxidants contained in green tea it can be a better solution than water… within moderation. I’ll stick to my 7 cups of water, but I’ll take in that last 1 cup of fluids by enjoying a tall glass of this stuff! *Source: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2006

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