Okay, so I was all set to relate the wonders of Honest Tea, a tea drink in a bottle ($1.35 here in the middle of the Midwest) that was billed to me as delightful and only slightly sweet. I have a sweet tooth when it comes to drinks, and it would do me good to kick that particular habit. So today I got three bottles when the boy and I gave Mommy some alone time with a trip to the grocery store:

• Gold Rush Cinnamon - This stuff smells great, sweet, with a lot of cinnamon. It tastes pretty good, too, but here is the trick for tea: it smells much stronger than it tastes. In the case of this one, that's not bad. I would drink this again, and might even go out of my way to look for it.
• Lori's Lemon Tea - Pretty plain, boring tea. If you can't be bothered to make it yourself, you could spend some money to buy this. I was hoping, from the name, that it would be more like a lemonade tea, but it's more like a tea, with lemon wedge.
• Moroccan Mint Tea - Not so impressive. Smells like mint, has an aftertaste of mint, but the mint tea we used to brew at home from the peppermint leaves we got at the New Pioneer Coop was much better.

That said, I am looking forward to finding some of their other flavors. From their web site, I can see being interested in Vanilla Mint White Tea and Kashmiri Chai. They also have a new line of fruit juices coming out, but they might defeat the purpose (reducing my dependence on sweet drinks).

The wife is of the opinion, and rightly so, that we could make much of this at home. If I could get Honest Tea at work, or the flavors I like, it would be great. But buying it at the store and bringing it home (where I could be making my own tea) does seem silly. I do like their philosophy though, and who can resist the whimsy of their naming?