Tea Blends

I pulled this from Teavana's website, because I love tea recipes (especially the idea of mixing the black Mate teas with a chocolate tea). You should be able to order them online if you click the links below each picture.


Tea blending is the creative experience of mixing more than one type of tea together for a unique taste, aroma or health benefit. If you are able to visit one of our many Teavana stores across the country you can experience tea blending "face to face" by having our Teaologists brew a special blended tea for you.  Teavana Teaologists are experts at mixing loose teas together and creating custom tea blends for boosting the complexity of the taste. Since it is hard to get an idea of how tea tastes and smells complement each other online, we have added a few tea blend suggestions below.

Many herbal tea blends are packed with the delightful taste of fruits and herbs, especially when mixed with other flavored loose teas. Rooibos teas add more fruit flavor as well as adding antioxidants to your cup. Plus, when mixing rooibos tea into an herbal tea blend, the resulting blended tea still remains caffeine free!

Popular Tea Blends

An energizing chai tea blend of mate and white tea: 

Samurai Chai Mate	White Ayurvedic Chai Tea

A Teavana classic tea blend of jasmine green tea and tropical rooibos tea: 

Jasmine Pearls Green Tea	Rooibos Tropica Tea

A coffee lover's blend of chocolatey MateVana and spicy chai tea: 

MateVana Herbal Tea	Rooibos Chai Tea

A delicious green tea blend with peaches and strawberries:

Peachberry Jasmine Sutra Green Tea	Strawberry Lemonade Herbal Tea

This fruity green tea blend makes a great iced tea:

Fruta Bomba Green Tea	Apple Lemon Pomegranate Rooibos Tea

A blend of white and herbal teas bursting with flavor:

Youthberry White Tea	Wild Orange Blossom Herbal Tea

A fruity choice for calorie-counters:

Weight To Go! Pu-erh Tea	Raspberry Riot Lemon Mate Tea

A healthy white tea blend that adds antioxidants to your cup:

Youthberry White Tea	Body + Mind White Tea

The Cupboards

There are some food toppings and such that I am particularly fond of, and should (hence) be in all other cupboards as well. Sadly, it's a modest list... since having variety in my diet confuses me.

Fodder for the Cupboards

...and the fridge and the freezer (perhaps the counter, too?).

Food Essentials

Safe Foods

1. Butter Spray (0 calories). Butter spray is amazing. I drown my food in butter spray. It's magical. You should always have butter spray around you.
2. Frozen Berries (79 calories per cup). I munch on frozen blueberries quite frequently, because they're low in calories, and because it's very difficult to binge on frozen fruit. Likewise, I put nearly all of my fruit in the freezer.
3. Zevia Soda (0 calories). Zevia is a brand of soda that uses stevia to sweeten their beverages, as opposed to aspartame (found in popular diet sodas, barring fountain drinks). Zevia Cream Soda has become my favorite dessert as of late. 
4. Water Bottle Drink Mix (5 calories per packet). The mixes that I'm referring to, are packets that are poured into water bottles in order to add flavor. Crystal Light is my favorite brand for this, because they add antioxidants, vitamins, and fiber to their mixes. I prefer their flavor as well, opposed to that of 'off brands.'
5. Pepper (0 calories). I know that this is a common staple, but it deserves a mention. Black pepper temporarily boosts one's metabolism, and it makes boring food exciting (like salt!).
6. Tea (0 calories). You should always have tea. There is no excuse for not having tea. It's filling, it settles the stomach, and it has a plethora of medicinal uses (...and it's good with milk and sugar).
7. Better than Bouillon No Chicken Base (15 calories). Bouillon cubes create a lovely 15 calorie soup, which one could nearly drink with abandon. As a vegetarian, I love Better than Bouillon for their vegan options.

Preventative Measures 

'Safe' Binge Foods

1. Popcorn (100 calories per bag). If you must binge, binge on popcorn. So many wonderful things can be done with popcorn. It can be doused in butter spray, then sprinkled with cinnamon and zero calorie sweetener; doused in cocoa powder; mixed with garlic... all of which are great for satiating binge cravings.  
2. Arctic Zero Ice Cream (150 calories per pint). When I can afford it, I like to keep a few pints of Arctic Zero in my freezer. One can down five pints of Arctic Zero ice cream and still not have exceeded 1,000 calories... making it a perfect binge food. 
3. Frozen Mango (90 calories per cup). Frozen mango has an interesting consistency, reminiscent of marshmallows. It also tastes somewhat like marshmallows, which makes it a very pleasant fruit to binge on.
4. Cocoa Powder (15 calories per tbsp). Cocoa Powder is a low-calorie way to mend chocolate cravings. I enjoy mixing it with stevia (any other 0 calorie sweetener will do as well), and mixing it into a touch of nonfat milk (this changes the consistency, so that I'm not eating spoonfuls of dry powder [and milk raises one's metabolism]).

On an unrelated note: I'm starting the 'Master Cleanse' tomorrow. I'll post my excitement.

Weight: 114 113 112 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 100 99 98 97 96 95

Height: 5'4"

Points: XII