Green TeaHome made Iced Green Tea with Lemon, Honey and GingerI’m a huge water drinker and literally drink something from the minute I get up until the minute I go to bed. While I like water, sometimes I’m in the mood for something different. Instead of drinking bottles of premade diet green iced tea with citrus, I’ve been brewing a pot of green tea in the morning, adding my own lemon and ginger and putting it on ice to drink throughout the day. I prefer this to the bottled version for a number of reasons:

  • It’s not sweet which is the way I like my drinks.
  • There are no artificial sweeteners, colors, or chemicals in it.
  • I can water it down as much as I like.
  • One tea bag will brew enough for me to drink weak iced tea all day.
  • It costs me just pennies instead of dollars per day if I were to drink bottled green tea.
  • There’s no individual packaging to have to recycle (or pay for)
  • Even the teabag and lemon rinds end up in compost bin.
  • It’s fresh and delicious!

The second green tip is so simple that I’m amazed. I woke up the other morning after a huge rainstorm to find that I had lots of little tiny ants around my sink.  Not wanting to use spray chemicals or purchase ant cakes, I googled for a  natural solution.  Lo and behold, the suggestion to sprinkle baby powder along their point of entry to prevent them from crossing over it, actually worked!  So, my sink area looked like I had gone on a bake fest and failed to clean up the scattered flour for a couple of days but it was worth it!  So far, no more ants.

These are just two easy, cheap, and green solutions for every day situations which cut out the chemicals, saved me some money, and didn’t harm the earth. What do you do?