Home-made Iced Tea Delights

Iced teas are great summer drinks. Not only are they absolutely refreshing on a hot day, they are also full of tea goodness such as anti-oxidants and a much healther drink than any soft drinks that are normally the choice for iced drinks. However may of us end up spending big bucks on our favourite brands and with the rising food prices it's time to learn how to make our own iced teas to tailor it to our taste and save money at the same time, not to mention, we'll be saving the environment by reducing the amount of plastic bottles we throw away after drinking the purchased iced teas.

Iced teas are so easy to make once you've made it once you wouldn't want to buy another bottle. All we need, are some tea bags (or loose leaf teas if they are available), some hot water, sugar and a flavour of your choice.

THE METHOD
1. Just like making a hot cup of tea, we can firstly prepare some hot water by boiling some in the kettle. While we wait for the water to boil, we can firstly get a big tea pot (or any other pots as long as they are not plastic so it doesn't melt) and put the tea bags in the pots. These can be black teas or green teas, depending on what sort of iced tea you would like to make.

2. Once the water has boiled, pour it into the pot with tea bags in it. Pour enough to make the amount of iced tea you wish. It's always a good idea to make a lot do you can store them in the fridge and have iced tea whever you want without having to make them each time you feel like iced tea.

3. Stir the tea bags around. You want your iced tea to be strong enough so the taste of tea will still be there when the tea has been chilled. After about two minutes, take the tea bags out.