So Australia is slowly transitioning into summer and it’s getting oppressively hot. During winter, I would enjoy brewing black tea with honey to warm me up but now it’s getting hotter, I need cold drinks.
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Currently I drink iced lemon honey tea to cool myself during my break. I make it myself by pouring hot water on to a jug, put some tea bags (remove after 10 minutes), add honey then let it cool overnight in the fridge. I then add a slice of lemon and some ice before I drink - very refreshing and healthy.
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But just wondering what are other cool flavoured drinks that you make that is healthy and can be made easily? Ideally not a soft drink or “sugar-free” but actually full of artificial sweeterners beverage!
Honey will break your fast, unfortunately. It contains calories and will cause a spike in insulin.
For fasting-friendly beverages: You can do iced black tea, iced green tea, or iced herbal tea. No honey or sugar, just plain tea. A small squeeze of lemon is OK. For herbal teas, iced peppermint tea is nice. Or iced hibiscus tea (Celestial Seasonings “Red Zinger” is a common brand in the US; not sure if it’s available in Australia). Really, any kind of herbal tea you enjoy will be good over ice.
Cucumber water is delicious. Slice cucumber, put in jug of water, keep jug in fridge overnight.
Sparkling mineral water over ice is really nice when it’s really hot.
The herbal teas that are fruit-based, no sweetener, zero calories. Some have stevia, which some people don’t mind. I personally don’t really enjoy it.
Rosehip tea isn’t sweet but is wonderfully refreshing, if you can find it. Mostly these days is rosehip plus hibiscus, which isn’t the same.