Dualit Coffee Maker

If you have already visited Carolina then you've probably experienced at least a few glasses of wine "South," meaning that the iced tea. If you order a restaurant in Charleston it will in all likelihood is sweet without asking. If you complain that the person waiting will give you a "what's wrong with you boy?" Look, but back with a glass of tea without sugar for the Yankee poor beast.

Southern iced tea is sweet. This seems to be a no-no for a diabetic, but there is a way around that. In fact, some types of tea such as black, green or oolong really improve insulin production. Moreover, all teas are good sources of antioxidants that have a number of health benefits, including reducing blood pressure. The problem for diabetics is the southern tea sweet part. This article will show you a simple way around this problem soon.

If you live in the south, or if you want to pretend you do, you always want to make ice tea available. Now it might mean boiling water several times each day and is a kind of drag especially in the heat of summer. But you can easily make a home brewed tea concentrate that will reduce your time to boil, take up one quarter of the space in your refrigerator and make sure you always ready to drink tea.

You will need a 1 gallon jug and a teapot or saucepan with at least 1 gallon capacity. Fill the teapot to the top, next to a burner to boil. Add 2 cups of Splenda or another artificial sweetener in the pitcher. When the water boils pour it from the pan into the pitcher with the Splenda. Use a long wooden spoon to stir the mixture until Splenda dissolves. Toss in three bags of family size tea and foot.

After about two hours (or more if you want to) take the bags and squeeze excess water in the pitcher. Is that what you have done. What you have is a concentrate that will make 3 liters of tea per gallon one of your home brew. Keep the concentrate in the refrigerator and just make sure to remember to add a third glass of concentrate each glass you pour.

So there you have it. A glass of sweet iced tea south that even a diabetic can enjoy.