Well, I have another batch to brew! I did one yesterday, and because my SIL gave me a whole extra jar of scobys, I went ahead and did another batch. Now I'll have 2 gallons to drink from

I also gave my eldest dd a small amount for the first time and she loved it :great:

Right now I'm brewing them with 1/2 pasturized honey and 1/2 turbinado sugar. I'm almost out of the sugar and they were out at the store! Heh, maybe everyone else is feeding their scobys

Well, I'm down 3.5 pounds and 9+" since Thursday. Yes, I'm eating right and exercising, but that has made precious little difference in recent memory. I attribute much of it to the tea, especially considering much of my loss is from my lower abs -- a place which is historically difficult for me to lose!

Whoa Sharron you have me so inspired here. I also read the thread you started on ACV and decided to give it a try, i started drinking 2 spoons everymorning for the past 4 mornings and i got on the scale this morning and i was down 3lbs. So it had to happen in the last 3 days, that was the last time i weighed myself.

I think i can attribute this loss to the combination of ACV and green tea i have been drinking. I am so glad that i can green tea back to my diet again, it caused me to retain when i first started lcing.

Now this is what really has me excited, if i am doing this well with the ACV and green tea it is almost unthinkable whats gonna happen when i start drinking my kombucha, im hoping i will be able to start drinking next week. My ds is doing well, everything i try he wants to try, lol. The little booger has lost 10lbs since i started lcing, and he's not even doing lcing like talking about. So he's excited and is ready to try the kombucha as well, i wont let him the ACV, but he loves his green tea as well.

Thanks so much Sharron, you have no idea what an inspiration you are. Whatever work god has cut out for you to do, trust me you are doing it.

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Thank you Celeste, you have no idea how much that means.

I've sure learned a lot from reading those links I posted the other day. This is amazing stuff! .......And best of all, it tastes good

My new "baby" is starting to form, WOOOHOOO!!!! I'll have a batch ready by the 19th, can't wait!!!!!

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YAY!!! Isn't it exciting?!?

I'm thoroughly enjoying mine. I let it ferment 10 days -- could have gone longer, except that I couldn't wait!!! Now, I'm brewing 2 jars

I got the reimbursement from both of you lovely ladies

I got a book on Menopause from Alice (paleofornow) and Susan Weed, the author, suggests both fermented vinegar type drinks and fermented milk, like yogurt and kombucha mainly for calcium uptake. WOOOHOO!!!! I'm doing both, so that's a good thing!!!! My tea will be ready in 2 more days, can't wait. Then I will send a 'shroom off to specialK along with some kefir grains. The circle expands!!!!!!!

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Oh, Barb, I learned that a brand new baby won't make K-tea very well, it needs at lease a brew in the jar with its mother. I'd wait one week before starting to send the little critters off. I was fortunate, I had a whole jar-full of extras!

That is quite interesting, isn't it

mine will be ready on monday, yippeeeee.

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405 points to date ( HOLIDAY CHALLENGE )

Wowzers. I took my K-tea this afternoon with my EFAs and some almonds, then around 6 I got really hungry. I took some ACV cuz' I could tell my bgs were getting low. I snacked a bit while preparing dinner, but not aggressively so... I could hardly finish my dinner!

Here's to ketosis + K-tea + ACV

Yeah, my baby is still quite thin. I think there's another one forming too. I'll let it sit an extra day or so and see where it's at. I know SpecialK is waiting for hers. I won't send her one until it's really ready.

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Ok, so it just isnt me, i thought i may have done something wrong, my baby is looking like a sheet of paper. Was wondering if it was supposed to be the thin, but i guess it needs developing. I soooooo want to taste it, lol. Just curious as to what it tastes like, but i will wait until monday, hmmmmmmmm.

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I checked my second batch(es) yesterday and they both have little babies on them. When my SIL does hers, she lets it get a full 1/4 inch thick. She also likes hers to taste nearly vinegar-like! I like mine more at the Snapple Lime Green Tea stage

I'm afraid I'm going to run out again before it is done though. Both times it has been 10 days for me before it wasn't too sweet. I've only got 1 or 2 days left of tea at best :crying:

My baby is now between an 1/8 inch thick and a 1/4 inch thick!!!! I have ANOTHER one forming that is paper thin. I think I will go ahead and make another batch of tea this afternoon, leave the mother and the babies in and wait 'til they are a good 1/4 inch thick before I send one off to SpeicalK.

Sharron, you should start a batch with one, then make another batch with another, starting it a few days later, so you have a constant ongoing supply.

I drank a 1/3 cup serving of my finished tea today and added stevia and splenda to it. I like it sweet, but don't want all the sucrose in it, so I sweeten it to taste. I'm going to experiment and add some peach s/f syrup to my next 1/3 cup and see how that tastes. I hope it's yummy. I made mine with black tea. I see in my pantry that I have a boat load of green tea, which I am going to use for my next batch. (I LOVE Snapple's Diet Green Tea!!!! If it will taste like that, I am going to LOVE it!!!!)

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