Blogmas day 18 : Favourite Night Time Drink

Now this post is a little bit different as I am sat writing this with a cup of tea.  Now I don't normally drink tea but recently I have gotten into drinking herbal tea.

A few weeks ago, my sleep pattern went a bit crazy and I wasn't going to sleep until 4am!  I know crazy right!  Especially when I had lectures in the morning.  I wasn't getting enough sleep and my concentration was suffering not to mention my skin and body was suffering too.  I kept getting spots and the bags under my eyes were getting to big and concealer wasn't helping at all.  I had had enough!

I went to the chemist and they gave me some Nytol sleeping tablets and I had read online that herbal tea helps.  I popped to my local Morrison's and had a look at their herbal tea range and one popped out at me.  This was the Pukka Night Time tea.  It was priced at around the £2.30 mark and I thought to myself 'Why not try some?  What have I got to loose?'  I bought it and tried some that night.

The packet comes with 20 sachets and the smell from the packet put me off slightly but I carried on with making myself a cup of tea.  I added about half a spoon of sugar to the cup as I had never tried herbal tea and poured the hot water and stirred the bag and sugar around and let it steep for 5 minutes.  The smell was a bit better once the water was added and after it had steeped, I tried some...to my surprise, I liked it.

Pukka Night Time tea is a blend of Lime flower, Lavender and  Organic Oat Flower.  At first, I was dubious of what this would taste like but the taste is quite nice.  The main flavour I get from the tea is a very subtle taste of Lavender which is rather nice.

I have recently just tried another herbal tea which is for the night time and that is Clipper Snore &
Peace Tea.  This tea is an Organic Chamomile, Lemon Balm & Lavender.  This one has a subtle taste of mint and on further reading of the ingredients, I found that it contained Spearmint.  This tea retails at £1.50 from ASDA.

I haven't decided on which one out of the two are my favourite but I will be repurchasing both of them and also trying other herbal teas.  I still don't know if I will start drinking tea as a daytime beverage but I am willing to give herbal tea's more credit.

What herbal tea have you tried lately?

Bye for now.

Jess. x