Warmth in your hands, healing your toddler.

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What is more lovely than a warm drink in your hands as the weather turns cool? I am starting to enjoy warm drinks all day long. Not only does it keep you hydrated, but it is a great replacement for cool water because it leaves you feeling warmer. Which means you can turn that thermostat down.

I really enjoy coffee. Really. I don’t drink it all that often, however, for two reasons:

1: My husband doesn’t drink it, therefore we have no coffee maker or French press.

2: It’s not all that great for me since I am working on healing my thyroid.

So I enjoy it every once in a while, but certainly not daily or even weekly. A great coffee substitute is freeze-dried dandelion coffee. Sounds crazy, but it is good and really does taste like coffee. I enjoy Dandy Blend.

The drinks I am enjoying right now include:

  • Mornings: Trader Joe’s blueberry green tea sweetened with stevia.
  • Noon: A big mug full of dandy blend coffee, sweetened with stevia and raw cream or milk stirred in.
  • Evening: Trader Joe’s blackberry herbal tea. So delicious with some stevia.

Our toddler also enjoys tea. Whenever I make some he asks for his “own” tea. He drinks herbal teas with me and even enjoys sips of my dandy blend coffee.

This is a fantastic way to get healing herbs into your toddlers body. Our son will drink pretty much any tea as long as their is a little peppermint added for flavor. We just brew a half mug of tea with the herbs, strain the herbs, and then fill the rest of the mug with cool water. He will seriously down an entire mug in just a few minutes.

If you do allow your toddler to drink a whole mug of tea, do not then take him out for errands leaving the diaper bag at home. He will completely soak his pants before you even get to the grocery store. Ask me how I know.

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  1. I also love tea in the cooler months but don’t like it at all in the warmer months. I like Traditional Medicines Gypsy Cold Care and Yogi Tea’s Winter Warmer. Neither are particularly appropriate for toddlers, but both have interesting flavors and good healing medicinal qualities. I’ve also realized that I love adding a slice of fresh ginger and/or about an inch of cinnamon stick to my cup of tea along with honey and lemon. I let them sit in the last half inch of tea while I heat water for the next cup. Sometimes I forget the teabag and just have ginger/cinnamon/lemon/honey “tea” 🙂

  2. I love Dandy Blend. It is slow delicious! i’m so glad the weather is warm so I can enjoy hot drinks again. I love to drink tea and Dandy Blend while my daughter, who is 3, drinks hot chocolate.

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