Alternative to a good old cuppa?

Evening all.

As I laid wide awake in bed last night, despite being tired, I realised I must reduce my daily caffeine intake.

The trouble is, I thoroughly enjoy my cuppas, so much so that my typical daily caffeine ritual is typically:

1 or 2 mugs of tea before work.
2 strong coffees at work
4 mugs of tea between getting home from work and going to bed.

What can I drink instead?

Not alcohol, I get plenty of that at the weekend.

I enjoy herbal infusions, but mostly in the summer. I know about dandelion coffee, but to be honest its not great. I'm after something as satisfying in winter as a proper cuppa, but without caffeine.

 

What about caffeine free coffee. Kenco is quite good.

 

How about rooibush tea - doesn't taste the same but you can have it with milk, so it looks the same, pale brown and steaming. I also drink a lot of Indian chai (you can get it from Asian supermarkets or Tesco's etc). It always comes out very weak so I reckon that's OK to drink late at night. Or is it not possible to get decaffeinated tea, though I've not tried it.

 

Well thats me boned then:( Do you not have sugar in the dandelion coffee

 

Thanks for the suggestions all

I forgot to mention I've tried decaffeinated tea and coffee. I didn't like it at all. To me it tasted of chemicals.

I might give the dandelion coffee another chance. I don't put sugar in it Zig because I find it sweeter than real coffee as it is. I think that's part of the reason I'm not that much of a fan, because I don't take sugar in coffee.

 

Ahh, i don't usually take sugar in tea unless i'm working, but do like it in Dandelion coffee.

 

Do you make your own dandelion coffee Zig?

I've only tried the shop bought stuff from Holland and Barret.

 

Just don't try darjeeling

Tea

 

I do Dave, and I wouldn't entertain the H&B stuff.

I have various roasts of the stuff in the cuboard, ranging from properly done to lightly mothered.

Best one i've done was to sun dry before roasting.

 

I must be brain dead or something, as tea,coffee, white black expresso capacinno, coke a cola, water milk. or fruit juice makes no noticable difference other than it is wet or wet and warm and quenches my thirst

Alcohol does give me a little high, ie eight pints of beer or a dozen sprits, does not make me drunk or slur my speech, Maybe due to the half pint of Rum a day and three cans of beer for 22 years free issue (only ten for the rum, as they thought it was not a good idea to give you half a pint of Rum when you were incharge of the BIG RED button :-) so stopped it ) and certainly not slipping the tongue and voicing any opinion I did not have before the said drinks

I am not one of the brigade that take an exprsso and go OMG dig dig dig the garden I am exploding with caffeine

I seem to be missing out on something here

Are you sure you are just drinking Tea ?

Jack McHammocklashing

 

OH used to drink a ridiculous amount of coffee - so much so that he ended up with palpitations. So he had to switch to decaff and Sheal is right - the Kenco version is very good indeed.

For years, I struggled to find a version of green tea which actually tasted pleasant. Tetley's lemon green tea is really nice and now I don't miss the ordinary stuff at all. Half price at Sainsburys at the moment!

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What about having Drinking Chocolate, or even Horlicks or Ovaltine nearer bedtime