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Hot Drinks

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I tend to drink a lot of water but on colder days feel like something more warming. As it appears best not to overdo the coffee and tea (the decaffeinated varieties are quite unpleasant in my view) I was wondering what people drink to warm up. At the moment I tend to go for sugar free Ribena made with 2/3rds cold and 1/3rd boiling water. Most cuppa soups seem to be between 15 and 25 gms CHO. The low calorie ones tend to be reduced fats rather than sugar. A friend who is trying to lose a considerable amount of weight says he makes a hot drink with a stock cube but when I tried it I found it rather strong and salty. What do other do for a hot drink when they do not want a coffee or tea.
 
Bovril? We often used to drink oxo when I was little, but I would definitely find it too salty these days having cut out as much salt from my cooking as possible. I drink a lot of tea in the mornings to early afternoon, but rarely have hot drinks in the evening. I will have hot ribena if I have a cold 🙂
 
Coffee addict here 🙂
 
Hot ribena for me too and lots of tea, including green and herbal teas. Spiced apple juice is great at this time of year, I use half fruit juce, half water for that.
 
Boiling water with a thick slice of lemon or orange in is lovely. And calorie free (well as good as anyway).
 
I know you said not tea or coffee but I agree with you on the decaff usually but just wondered if you'd tried the PG tips 'the evening one'? I find that one really nice. Also herbal teas come in so many varieties now that you can usually find one that you like.
 
I found the Nescafe Alta Rica Decaff was one of the better decaffeinated coffees (although a little pricey).

It depends on your taste, personally I've worked through lots of the DragonFly Teas and Clipper Teas to try various things. I tried a few of the Twinning's teas too - but they haven't really grabbed me.
 
Bovril or Marmite - although if you don't like these as spreads, you won't like them in a drink either!

The Options hot chocolates can be quite good though - I think they're only around 5g of carbs per cup with 1-2g of fibre, which should be manageable for most people.
 
DeusXM said:
...The Options hot chocolates can be quite good though - I think they're only around 5g of carbs per cup with 1-2g of fibre, which should be manageable for most people.
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Actually yes, I'd forgotten about those - just checked and 5.4g carbs 🙂 Mmmm!
 
I like Bovril(both chicken and beef varieties), marmite I tend to use as a spread, check the carbs on tinned soups if you are in a position to be able to warm one up, or hot orange or ribena low/no sugar varieties, sometimes a stock cube is nice too.

p.s with Bovril and marmite, if you follow a low salt diet check the salt content
 
What about trying fruit teas?
 
Black tea 1 or 2 a day at work.

Black coffee the occasional treat.

Robinsons apple and blackcurrent no added sugar topped up with Hot water. Nice!

As its xmas - Mulled wine and mulled cider (In moderation of course)!! I tried a Hot orange punch with a shot of jagermeister from the manchester German market this year - that stuff is amazing. If anyone can invent a reduced sugar / sugar free version recipe... Ill be happy!!
 
Lemon and ginger tea with freshly ground black pepper
 
Ah! I recognise it now - it's 1% milk, between semi-skimmed and skimmed 🙂 Still way too creamy for me!

Thanks Donald! 🙂
 
Tetley's tea and marmite for me.
 
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