All summer long I battle my addiction to juice. Juice: full of sugar, robbed of its fruit fiber...I know I shouldn't drink it but nothing else will quench my taste buds!
If I avoid juice altogether the cravings are much weaker, so I like to substitute tea for a nice compromise between water and juice. Whenever the mint gets out of hand (pops up in the lawn or the bean patch...) I just pick whole sprigs, rinse them, stick them in a clean mason jar of water and sit it in the sun for 3-6 hours. It is said that letting the sun gently warm the tea avoids releasing bitter tannins from the leaves (goes for any tisanes), the way boiling water would.
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I'm still experimenting with varying quantities of mint and stevia leaves, as well as the odd dash of lemon juice to finish things off. (Stevia is a natural sweetener that's caught on in grocery stores in recent years, I like to keep a plant growing, because it's fun to eat a leaf straight off the plant for dessert! I learnt that at the Montreal botanical gardens, where I ate a stevia leaf and a chocolate mint leaf together - a delicious way to satisfy that sweet tooth without many calories!)
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