Summer "Garden" Tea
Our weed gardens are loaded with peppermint and apple mint tea. These 2 natural mints flourish with zero help. They actually moved into my yard. When I mow the air smells of mint!
Step I
Cut a LARGE bunch of mint or other herb of choice.
Allow to dry by hanging up or just put in a large cardboard or paper sack, etc. and pick up daily and move the tea around until it air drys. Keep out of the sun.
Take a 5 gallon stock-pot an fill to the top with this tea. Then fill to the top with distilled water. Simmer for 3-4 days until very dark tea appears.
Strain this and then add 1/2 gallon sorghum molasses or Maple Syrup. Then take 5 one gallon jugs and add 1 cup raw/organic cane sugar. Then pour the tea into these jugs. Add 1 drop or more if desired of oregano oil to each gallon jug.
Put in refrigerator. When ready to drink add 100% more water; so fill your cup 1/2 full of tea and then fill on up with water. Also easy to take 1 jug of water and mix with 1 jug of tea and then keep cold in the fridge. If you like less sweetened tea, add more water.
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Pop or some people call it soda
All made by evil people; I say this because they not only sale an acid drink, they use corn sysrup instead of sugar. Raw Sugar or Grape Sugar cost 1 penny more than using the chemical they call corn syrup or high frutose, etc...and this turns their acid drink they call pop into a chemical drink that makes humans chemical addicts. They say every American consumes at least 25 pounds of corn syrup yearly and that this has changed the human race, they are no long normal humans, but mutated humans because of the chemical known as corn syrup. So all manufactures adding corn syrup to their foods, you know are adding all of the anti-population chemicals so they have favor with the governments and thus I say they are evil; very evil.
You just about have to go to high priced organic stores to fine drinks/foods with out corn sysrup. They charge double the price sometimes for a food source that should cost much less and certainly no more than the toxic commercial foods sold in all public food stores and these people just capitilize on the market and are little better them selves.
SUGAR
Humans are created to live on fruit sugar; this is why commercial manufacturers can sell their crap they call foods, they add cheap commercial sugars and since people crave fruit Sugar so much, they can easily become addicted to any foods with some type of mimmicing sugar base such as Corn Syrup.
Raw Sugar cost about $35.00 per 50 pound bag. If you choose "Organic" raw sugar it may cost a few dollars more. A 50# bag should last a family some years.........but we all know the average American Family can easily spend $35.00 per week on commercial fast food style drinks from the gas station/reasturants, etc..per WEEK!
PROPER SUGAR
Consuming raw/fresh/sweet fruits. All you desire every day of your life is the proper way to consume sugar. The perfect way is to consume the fruits in their season, this way you also get the proper COLOR, because fruits of season often are of a differant color each month depending where in the world you live.
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Children LOVE garden teas!!!!!!!!!!!! If you can't afford sorgum or maple syrup, just add more raw sugar. The above recipe makes 10 gallons of drink. Cost was the cost of the sorghum, which also made the drink a healthy mineral source for the kids to grow strong bones, etc...
A 12 oz can of pop can cost 50 cents to a dollar. The above tea would make 70 times more than the pop cans and would NOT be very anti-health to children.
WHY won't the pop manufactures use grape sugar or raw sugar instead of corn syrup? They are EVIL, extremely EVIL people............so guided by population controlling governments. They say that penny saved daily on each can of pop is worth over a million dollars per day to the pop industry, but that is all lies!!!!!!!!!!! They do not care, they would simply raise their product 1 penny if that was the case, NO, the facts are they desire to make you and your children SICK........doing so to please your government. "IF" they don't play the population game, the governments will restrict their sells market. This is why the GOOD PEOPLE in the food business must stay small and people have to search for the sources.
BUT, all you need for a cheap healthy drink is some of what the country people call Garden Tea. Wild mints grow along the creeks. The lands are loaded with herbs and anyone with the desire can buy a book and learn to identify the good herbs by their flower and just about all herbs can be used to make a garden tea. The mints are widely used because they grow so easily around the houses.
Some people make these teas and simmer them way down into a concentrate and then freeze them, so they can have cheap drink the year around that the kids love. Otherwise you can dry these teas and store them in large paper bags and make it fresh the year around. A very small section of dirt can produce a HUGE amount of tea. The tea grows and grows as you cut it. It spreads through loose soil with runners producing more and more plants.
You may think the popaholic kids won't like tea, THEY DON'T CARE, they want their SUGAR and they will instantly LOVE very sweet tea made with plant sugar loaded with earth minerals............POP SUCKS, it ALWAYS HAS, it is caustic acids of death, but kids/adults drink it because of the mimmicing chemicals of sugar. HUMANS REALLY WANT REAL SUGAR, so in theory, the above garden tea sugar drink in comparsion to a can of 50 cent pop, should be worth $20.00 per glass or more! Far more if you consider your health.
Those lucky souls that live south enough to have citrus trees have tree sugar sources and humans do best on sugar derived from the tree. The most common tree sugar is Glycerin and it used in herbal formulas. Dr. John R. Christopher stated that the herb "glycerin" was a healing herb all by its self and the ideal preservitive for herbal formulas. Glycerin can cost $35-$50 per gallon depending on your source.
AVOID all store products with added glycerin and vitamin C as well as food color. This pretty well eliminates buying much of anything from them that is packaged or bottled.
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