That first morning cup of tea.

It’s coffee for me, from our bean to cup machine. I would normally say that I love the smell of freshly ground coffee, but since being ill with a virus over Christmas, I’ve lost my sense of both smell and taste. Everything I eat or drink now is boring! Strangely enough, it hasn’t put me off eating chocolate! I think it must be a sugar craving.🤔

Ah,my most important first and lovely coffee often isn't my first drink of the day. Because I often sleep badly, partly due to a bad back and patches of bad cramp, I have to have a rule of no food or drink other than water before 6am. If I don't do that, when I have had a bad patch, and finally had a better sleep I wake up, wanting a drink!!
So. I can be a clock watcher, and then follow my specific pattern. I put my fresh water into the kettle and on, while I have warmed my cafetiere. I then put my bone china mug at the ready, and as the kettle begins to come to the boil empty the cafetiere and add my fresh coffee, enjoying the lovely smell. I don't let it actually boil, but just as it starts then add the water , stir the cafetiere, and leave to gain the right strength. Whilst this is happening I sometimes get weetabix ready, as I don't eat cheese, it upsets me, so am conscious that I need to have some milk per day. The boring weetabix let's me get that down me, and I have tablets to take, but need to take them after food so it's a way of doing two jobs at once. So then the day begins to improve greatly, when I am able to sit, reading the morning gransnet and then I have my best moment of the morning, when I listen to Bach before 7, drinking my lovely coffee, relaxing into the music , and feeling I can be in charge of my day, to a certain extent, and whatever the day may bring that is my moment. In summer with daylight I will listen to Bach and then go out to the garden to enjoy whatever there is to discover. In winter,it will be more of a struggle, but with the blessing of a shower, I can eventually get going, with my coffee helping each day. My lovely husband use to be the bearer of coffee to me in bed, a much appreciated kindness, which I still miss. Never mind, I still have the joy of that first coffee to enjoy.

DH always makes us both tea in the morning and we drink it in bed while doing the crossword and watching the news. It’s a lovely start to the day, except yesterday when my teabag burst and I swallowed a huge mouthful of tea leaves- yuk!

Get up about 8.30am. Shower and dress. Dh gets up around 10 and he makes breakfast.
Yorkshire tea no milk for me. In a large china mug. Its a christmas mug used all year round as its the ideal shape and size. Toast made with seeded bread and either marmalade or marmite. I like to let the toast cool so the butter (thick enough to see teeth marks) doesn't melt. Sometimes we'll have pate or egg on the toast but marmalade is my favourite.
Breakfast is late so no lunch.

Builders' Tea for me. I'd prefer sugar but have sweeteners to keep the scales under control.

The only tea I buy is M&S own-brand red label. I dislike Yorkshire tea, and any of the “gold” tea, I’ve never tried decaffeinated tea. I often get an opaque film on top of the mug, and remove the teabag with a tea strainer to get the film out as well. It doesn’t happen with any coffee, nor with fruit teas, and it doesn’t correlate to whether the kettle needs descaling, but it’s tiresome. Easier to make instant coffee instead (always M&S, red label, fantastic value at £1.20 a jar)!

I’ll drink coffee with any milk, but tea has to have skimmed or semi skimmed.

I too love my first cuppa (Tetley decaf) and a bowl of porridge with blueberries after my little diva has had her garden visit and her breakfast. I noticed on Youngerthanspringtime’s post she mentioned not having caffeinated drinks or anything to eat for an hour after taking Thyroxine. I take thyroxine and am interested to know if that is the norm or something she has been advised to do. I haven’t heard of this.
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I love tea!
Gold teabags from M&S, black and strong, DH has his as strong with a splash of milk, the only way to start the day.

We usually have percolated coffee around 11, then tea for the rest of the day.

Never drink tea if I have a choice, have never really liked it. If I do have any it has to be strong.
I have a coffee at around 6am when I get up and another mid morning (just made one for today) and that's usually my lot. I then drink water during the day, may have a glass of wine in the evening.
My OH drinks tea, many cups through the day.

Clipper white tea, no milk, and a thick oatcake with thick cut marmalade. A filter coffee with hot milk mid morning, water at lunchtime, teatime and bedtime.

I'm am not a tea drinker, I drink black coffee But, I have been told I make an excellent cup of tea. Both of my sons and a work colleague drink 'builders tea'. The spoon can almost stand up on it's own it's so strong.

It’s the only time I really appreciate tea! And it has to be hot, if I am distracted, eg by GN and it cools down, it is usually left undrunk.

I used to be addicted to coffee first thing- strong and black.

Now I'm on a health kick I start my day with a cup of warm water from the kettle.

I do a few jobs around the house before having breakfast with a cup of black tea.

This is followed by a cup of coffee, still strong and black but mid-morning- or I wait if I'm meeting someone.

I like the way this breaks up my morning. I do hate it when we run out of coffee though- so still addicted I suppose!

Tea on an empty stomach makes me sick. First cup is usually at teatime 😃

I have tea first thing in the morning, strongish, but never when I’m away, then it’s always coffee. Unless I’m staying with my DD and she brings me a cup made just as I like it.

I get two mugs out of one teabag, with a bit of “mashing” and put a little honey in it for my singer’s throat.
Not keen on food first thing unless in an hotel, when I like everything that’s going.

A small glass of orange, then some kind of cereal and a lovely cup of decaff tea usually Tetleys. I am not really a coffee drinker by choice but my husband adores coffee so have a couple of cups whilst catching up with the papers. Mornings wouldn't be the same without that first cuppa and it has to be in my blue mug which is years old.

Allira

missdeke

I haven't drunk tea since I was 10 years old. To me it tastes like sucking copper pennies, I really don't know how anyone can even get it past their lips. Afraid my day starts with the first of a host of medications.

Perhaps your medications have affected your taste?

I can't face coffee in the morning, it has to be tea (Yorkshire) and coffee later at about 11 am.

No, it's definitely not that. I never liked it, as a child I always had to have it half and half milk, I had to have the first cup out of the pot so basically it was little more than hot water, and then I had to have lots of sugar in it, anything to try and mask the taste of the tea. When I was 10 my mum finally gave up and let me have coffee instead. Always black coffee with no sugar, I did lose the taste for coffee when I had chemo some years ago but I got over that, could never get over my distaste for te.

Haven't drunk tea in 40 years, I'm a coffee girl

I love Sainsbury’s Red Label tea but also like Clipper. A nice big mug first thing and then more -probably too much -throughout the day. I loathe coffee but tea is the stuff of the gods.

Cup of tea as soon as I come downstairs; say good morning to Alexa while the kettle is boiling.
Sainsbury's extra strong teabags, and just a splash of milk. Always make my tea in a pot, cannot bear teabag in a mug. Just doesn't taste right.
And I'm happy!

stewaris That was around the time I had my first baby. It was a week in hospital then and we weren't allowed tea at bedtime. It was one of the many things that was supposed to be bad for the baby. We had hot chocolate instead, which I loathed. They made it with hot water instead of hot milk for me but I still hated it.

I now have tea made with Clipper Tea Bags and a slice of toast and marmalade in the morning. Until recently it was Yorkshire Tea. For Years i used to use PG Tips, but I don't like the taste of it now.

I had a hysterectomy when I was 27 and when they started dishing tea out before bedtime it was weak. Fantastic for I but as we recovered I was moved down the ward and the tea became increasingly strong, bitter and disgusting. This was over 40 years ago and my tea has now, and has been since then, like dishwater.

Love an early morning cup of tea along with a couple rich tea lights…M&S gold teabags I have. Strong with a splash of milk.

I am a yorkshire lass but now live Lancashire But i cant stand yorkshire tea, i think its weak & wishy-washy.

Gosh,yes.I need 2 cups of strong assam tea first before i can get moving.Assam teabag tea.Lovely.