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[River Song]

I like Lady Grey (black tea with orange and lemon peels) and jasmine green tea.

[LisaMofSLC]

During covid, I bought via mail from The Republic of Tea. They have all kinds of flavours. When I received their catalogs, they'd have two sample bags inside. I loved that they had variiety boxes of four flavours for Autumn and Christmas. Also some that were inspired by the Bridgerton series. The Spice and Tea Exchange have some good loose teas.

[Renata22]

@Dusty1
Thanks for that recommendation. That Bigelow tea is delicious!!

[Sooner]

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@faeriemoon wrote:

As a brand I like Bigelow.  I usually have Earl Grey, Oolong, English Teatime, and a couple of their green teas on hand all the time.

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@faeriemoon I have gotten the Bigelow green tea sampler boxes from Sam's Club and they are great!  

[Sooner]

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@wagirl wrote:

I like Celestial Seasonings fruit tea sampler--I add that to black tea for ice tea

Bigelow earl grey

Loved Teavana loose teas

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@wagirl I found a new company recently called Adagio Tea AND they had a list of their blends that are duplicates of the Teavana Teas (I used to buy those too!).  I just remembered that. 

I got a sample package from them and the tea I got was good, so might be worth a try.  It is fun to look through their web pages too!  

[deeva]

I've been a customer of Adagio and Upton Tea for about eight years. They always include free samples.  

I've also been a buying Harney Tea since 2000. 

[Puggirl]

Ladies 

Loose tea with a nice mesh filter is the only way to avoid bleached plastic tea bags.

It may be a little more work but worth your health...from a nurse.

[AuntMame]

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@Sooner wrote:

If you are a tea lover but don't care for making loose tea, try it with a good mug with a filter in it and a lid that holds the filter when you remove it.

ForLife, Tea Forte and dozens more makers have them--and the fine mesh stainless steel filters are great.  I like the ones that have a handle on the filter.  

Little teapots with these filters are nice too but they all sure make tea easy.  My most used teapots are the ForLife Bolo ones because they don't drip.

And you can compost the tea or put it around some plants if you like!

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I recently bought one of the stainless steel mesh filters with a lid that you can lower into a mug. I LOVE it! I think the loose tea brews better when it can float around in the mug in comparison to being confined in one of those little tin tea balls. And it's so much easier to use than the tea balls. 

I bought it from Positively Tea Co., which I think is a subsidiary of Fresh Roasted Coffee LLC. It was the cheapest one I found online.