We have never been a cow’s milk family.  Pasteurized dairy leaves little nutrition to be desired and can be very inflammatory to the body.  Almond milk was our go-to for awhile, but then the news came out that most store-bought brands probably contain next to zero actual almonds.  You can read all about that here. So I expanded my horizons a bit, and tried cashew milk, I fell in love with it. But in most store-bought brands, there were so many extras lurking in the ingredient

Tea certainly didn’t begin as an American thing, but we have enveloped the tea drinking tradition and have made it wildy popular as a society over the years.   Legend has it that the Chinese Emperor Shen Nong discovered tea in 2737 BC while boiling water under the shade of a tree.   A slight breeze came along and caused some leaves to fall into the water, which the emperor tasted and found to be quite delicious.  Through the ages, further experimentation has clearly revealed