Any one found a 'realistic' caffeine free tea?

[Flowerydems]

Stuggling without my tea fix as I've now got a mental craving for Coke now so my 2 mugs a day is reduced to one. All the caffeine ones seem to taste a bit funny :(

Has anyone found anything that comes close to the satisfying goodness which is a nice hot mug of tea but minus the caffeine obviously?

Thanks,

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

Nope, sorry. I've tried them all. Had high hopes for Yorkshire tea decaff but it was just as foul as the rest. I've gone from about 8 big mugs a day to none.

[RhinestoneCowgirl]

I drink redbush with milk. It's not the same as a proper cup of tea, but better than gak herbally watery stuff (I reserve much of my ire for cammomile 'tea')

[raedrenn]

I tried lots too and the best one is Punjana decaf

[OrangeGloss]

Yorkshire Decaf but I could only stomach anything remotely like tea (caffeine or not) after about 16 weeks

[Iggly]

Redbush here. Or decaf coffee which isn't as bad as decaf tea.

[IvorHughJarrs]

I also love redbush (or rooibos) tea but of the normal teas I alsways find Twinings decaff tastes more like traditional tea than some of the other watery, tasteless yeeuch.

[Paschaelina]

What about trying caffeine-free coke instead? You could go back to normal tea then.

[sleepybump]

Yorkshire decaf here - I used to like strong teas and it certainly is not as good as that, but I'm used to it now and when I have my one real tea a day I now prefer light teas! I also have (cheap) decaf coffee which as Iggly said above, is certainly much better than decaf teas, though I find, even as a decaf, coffee is a little too much for me to drink all the time.

[Amybecomesamum]

I prefer PG tips decaf but only without too much milk and made strong.

[lolajane2009]

redbush here too.

[aubergine70]

I like twinnings english breakfast decaf.

[JenniL1977]

Yorkshire decaff is the best I've found, and I'm an 8-10 mugs a day girl usually, when I can drink proper tea... You get used to it being a bit different and I'm starting to find proper tea a bit harsh now

[Flowerydems]

Paschaelina I've tried that aswell but I don't know what it is about fat coke. Such a guilty pleasure after all the diet coke I had to drink before getting pregnant to lose some weight :)

But it's more that I've had to come down from nearly 10 cups of tea a day to 2 already but nothing's the same at work especially. So silly seeing as I've managed to give up smoking and booze but still want a lovely comforting cuppa every couple of hours. Sigh, might just need to bite the bullet and make myself like the redbush stuff. Just tastes quite peaty to me for some reason.

Thanks for all the advice though, glad I'm not the only one that stuggled to find some nice ones

[chrisonabike]

another vote for yorks.

[EmLH]

Cafe-direct decaff is yummy. I drink it all the time now as I prefer it to normal tea :)

[Twittwooo]

I've been drinking Cooperative decaf tea. I've got used to it pretty quickly and I used to drink a lot of caffeinated tea! What are people's thoughts on how much decaf tea it is safe to drink? I'm in early pregnancy at the moment and recently read that even with decaf you have to be careful so I'm trying to cut down on that now! How many cups do you think is safe?

[jammyscone]

Have you tried the different flavours of rooibos? There's an earl grey which is quite nice and I really like the vanilla.

[aethelfleda]

Twinings earl grey decaff is good.

Of all the regular "decaf" teas, Tetley seemed least yucky...

But have you heard of the DIY decaff trick? Found this online a few weeks ago. The caffeine comes out in the first 30 secs of brewing, so allyou have to do is get a regular teabag, make a cuppa with it, ensuring a 60 second steep, then remove the bag and make a second cuppa with the same bag. Give the first one to someone else- yours will have virtually no caffeine in it!

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

Really? I'll have to start making dh tea!

[MrsGubbins]

have you tried green tea? add honey and lemon... I was addicted in early pregnancy!

[ragged]

Rooibosch with vanilla and cow milk is very nice. Else add vanilla-flavoured soymilk to it.

[nannyl]

another vote for redbush (or Rooibosch which is the same) tea.

the ones with vanilla are nice too too, and while the early grey red bush dont taste the same as twinings earl grey, they still do for me.

I prefer to go for teas that are naturally caffeine free, rather than teas that have been chemically decaffinated

[shreddinghippo]

I really like the Twinings Earl Grey decaff. Have stuck with it now DD here, as caffeine goes straight to her via BF and she stays awake all bloody night!!

[WiiUnfit]

PG Tips decaf here, I don't even notice the difference? :)

Caffeine-free coke is nasty though!

[Fenouille]

I switched from 10 cups of Sainsbury's Red Label a day to 10 cups of Sainsbury's Red Label decaf per day and found it a perfectly acceptable substitute. Not tried any other decaf teas though as Red Label is my favourite tea anyway.

Could never get on with Roobois but did have a cup of breast feeding tea (fennel and aniseed) every now and then which was quite refreshing but nothing near a substitute for the gallons of proper tea I drink a day.