Lipton Green/White Tea

**kmonokwe** · 12-11-2008, 03:17 PM

My DH is a bit addicted to caffeine...Mtn Dew is the love of his life. However, he's definitely gotten on board with the idea of better living - healthy eating, exercise and frugality. This summer we found 1-liter bottles of Lipton green/white teas, and he loves them. They fix his caffeine for the day, too, without as much sugar. I know Lipton may not be the best tea to be drinking, but he likes it a lot, and its a lot better than the pop.

Anyway, the 1-liter bottles are getting harder and harder to find around here, and we've taken to buying the 12-packs of 12- or 16-oz bottles

I've seen green and white tea bags from lipton online, but never in the store. My family wasn't really a tea-drinking family, so I've never made iced tea before. I'm wondering whether the tea bags will produce the same drink he gets in the bottles, how much tea can be produced from a tea bag and whether you guys think it's a frugal switch with shipping costs, since I can only seem to find tea bags online?

**LastDragonfly** · 12-11-2008, 03:25 PM

We cant find the tea anymore either except our General Dollar Store carries them. Sometimes our Walgreens carries them.

**StaceyS** · 12-11-2008, 03:29 PM

No. The bags just make plain tea. You'd need to add sweetener and lemon juice most likely to get them to taste similar.

**SandNOceanGirl** · 12-11-2008, 05:43 PM

I was addicted to Mt. Dew also but my DBF started drinking green tea with citrus about 2 months ago and I fell in love with them. We buy the 12 pks. of 16.9 oz bottles. I still make regular ice tea with bags. It depends on your taste for tea as to how many bags and how much sugar you would use. I usually use 8 tea bags and 1 1/2 cups sugar for a gallon of tea. That is how we like it!

**dcompton** · 12-11-2008, 06:17 PM

You could try other tea bag brands besides Lipton. The taste might be a little different, depending on the company's blend. But in the relatively inexpensive ones, I would think they would be fairly similar.

**shadowfax** · 12-11-2008, 06:30 PM

I often make a bottle of iced tea by slipong a tea bag into a bottle or glass of chilled water. I have learned to like mine unsweetened but you could add sweetener like Stevia or Splenda to get the similar flavor. Also a few drops of lemon concentrate.

I especially enjoy the Honey Lemon Ginseng green tea done this way. I steep the tea bag in there for at least 5 minutes. For me I just leave the bag in there and continue to refill the glass/bottle until the flavor is totally gone.

If making it by the gallon use 1 teabag to 2 cups of water.

Another nice refreshing drink is to just bruise some mint leaves and stir them into some ice water.

**frugal.lass** · 12-12-2008, 11:55 AM

Talk to the manager of the grocery store in your area and see if they could start ordering the flavour of tea you're looking for. When I lived in a small town, my grocer would do that with certain items for me. To be honest, I'm a bit shocked because all the stores in my area carry several different brands of green and white tea so hearing that you can't find it at all just seems crazy to me. I guess specialty teas are more popular in my area. The green/white iced teas can be made the same way as regular iced tea, you will just have to experiment with the amount of sugar used since the bottled ones are often quite sweet.

**nuisance26** · 12-12-2008, 02:36 PM

~I always have green iced tea in our fridge. I use decaf Bromley green tea. Here's my recipe:

Green Tea
Steep 7 tea bags in boiling water for 6 hours, remove bags
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup lemon juice(bottled)

Mix together in gallon jug and top off with cold water. You can replace 1/2 of the sugar with honey but you may have to reheat your brewed tea to get it to melt into the liquid. My DH says this tastes better than the bottled stuff.~

**Trishagirl** · 12-12-2008, 09:21 PM

I drink the bag green tea bigelow w/lemon. The liter bottles aren't good for the they have high frutose corn syrup and that make people fat. Not healthy at all.

**LuvMyHubby** · 12-13-2008, 09:23 AM

I can find the Lipton and Bigelow Green tea bags at my local Hannaford. I like the bottled Lipton diet white Rasberry as a treat but I find that the other has too much sugar for me.

I either drink my tea warm or will doctor it up to create an iced tea. I do like the Lipton white or green tea to go, again they are my luxury item that I take to work, I buy them when I get a coupon and once they are gone they are gone until I have the money.