Dog Days Iced Tea

One of my favorite kitchen appliances is The Iced Tea Pot by Mr Coffee. My recipe is 3 bags of ginger or lemon, or a combination, 2 bags black and 2 bags green tea, plus 1-2 tablespoons honey. I brew 1/3 more than suggested by manufacturer giving me about 1/2 gallon. I then brew another quart that I freeze. I use the frozen tea instead of the manufacturers suggested ice. So simple and so good!

Don't people have common sense anymore?It's quite obvious many many people can't think for themselves. If you don't think a recipe is right for you, then tweak it to suit YOU. The person , who so kindly shared it, doesn't expect it will be the " be all , end all "of all recipes! Good grief, people! Use your brains! Think for yourself! And you don't need to criticize that individual at all.

After studying to be a doctor, many new discoveries are shocking and are hard to believe. Black tea is toxic to most people. Oranges are more poisonous than ever imagined.
Just because some plant, vegetable, or fruit contains a good vitamin, it's not necessarily healthful or "life improving". For example, Poison Ivy is loaded with iron, chlorophyll, and many vitamins. It's still a poison! So are oranges, and many other foods people eat to try to be healthy.
Very few people have immunity to the naturally occurring toxins in many common foods.

Thanks for a very nice multi-purpose drink. Kick back and cool off with a glass; enjoy with stop-by friends; wonderful addition to any picnic or fellowship gathering; good source of Vit. C and Electrolytes; helps to curb the 'hungry but not time to eat' twinges.
I stir in my fiber additive to this tea. Being Hypoglycemic due to under-treated hypothyroidism, a glass or two throughout the day helps to keep me more balanced decreasing the "gotta have sugar" spikes.
Dehydrate and store the fresh fruit to have readily on hand. It reconstitutes in the tea.
It is saddening to read such critical, sarcastic comments previously written. I can not help but to wonder if these folks also write to magazines, authors of cookbooks, the grandmother of their friend, etc. to bash their recipes that are not written in a way solely for the benefit of any/all ailments they may have. Due to the prolonged thyroid issue, I developed a super inconvenient and painful sensitivity to Gluten. If there were something contained in this tea I knew I could not have, I'd just substitute an acceptable alternative...too simple. Sure, I may ask for alternatives and, yes, I would share alternatives with others, but not in such a way as to demean and critisize the person, their info, who was kind enough to share of themselves.

why use chemicals or artificial anything? The idea is to refresh, relax and enjoy....not gorge and o/d

natural is better for your being, anyway...throw the pink & blue packets away

*I use Barry's Irish Breakfast Tea.
*Honey for sweetness, I have Type 2 Diabetes and it doesn't throw my blood sugar off as badly as granulated sugar does.
*Lemon and Lime OR Mint, haven't tried mixing them yet, but I will. Thanks for the recipe!

Stevia for sweetener is a fantastic idea and works awesome if you can't use sugar. I stay away from synthetic sweeteners, and personally like the flavor of Stevia... and Laurie is right, a little goes a long way. I grow my own.

Hey try it and see. You could also elimated the orange juice altogether and just have the sliced fruit in the tea to add flavor. Also could substitute something like crystal light for the orange flavor.