Teeccino, pronounced (Tea-chee-no) is an herbal coffee alternative. Teeccino is used to help others who cannot have caffeine or acidic beverages still enjoy a product that resembles and tastes like coffee. Roasted fruits, nuts, grains, and herbs are blended and grown to taste like coffee when brewed. The main ingredients of Teeccino include, chicory root, carob, barley, dandelion root, ramón seeds, almonds, dates, figs, and other natural flavors. Just like when you open a bag of coffee and you inhale the aroma of the beans with a smile on your face, you achieve that same feeling when opening up a bag of Teeccino. You just can’t help smiling and feel thankful for such a wonderful coffee alternative with benefits that won’t cause side effects for those of us who are sensitive to caffeinated and acidic beverages. The aromas are heavenly especially the flavored ones. Teeccino either comes in grinds where you can brew it in a regular coffee brewer or it comes in Tee- bags where you can brew it just like tea in hot water. My go to flavors have always been the French Roast Organic and the Chocolate Organic. The chocolate one has that little hint of chocolate in it and the French Roast taste like a traditional coffee. My favorite part is when I add my favorite dairy free creamer to it and I see the swirl of the creamer mixed with the Tee. I love using either So Delicious Vanilla Coconut Milk Creamer with it or Califa Farms Almond Milk Pecan Caramel Creamer. Dairy free creamers taste amazing with it! Feel free to use which ever creamer you please to enjoy with a cup of delicious Teeccino. The best way to describe Teeccino is that it tastes like a mix of coffee and tea. It contains the strong flavors of coffee but the flavors come from roots and herbs which is pretty amazing.

Products

Tee-Bags

These are some of the flavors of the individually wrapped Tee-Bags. There are 10 that come in a box. You can purchase the boxes in Whole Foods Market and your local natural organic markets but they don’t carry as much of a variety in the stores as they do online at teeccino.com. I love taking the Tee-bags with me when I travel because I can easily make a cup wherever I am at and I don’t have to worry about finding a coffee brewer.  To make a cup, just add 1 Tee-bag to a cup of hot water and let it steep for about 3 minutes.

All Purpose Grind

These are some of the flavors of the All Purpose Grind. They come in 11 oz bags. You can find a variety of the flavors at Whole Foods Market and natural organic markets. There is more of a selection of the grinds in the stores than there are of the Tee-bags. Even though there is a wide selection in the stores, there are a lot more flavors on their website that are exclusively sold online like the Chocolate Raspberry flavor shown in the picture. They are known as boutique flavors. You brew the Teeccino grinds the same way you would coffee. You can use a French Press, drip coffee machine, filtered cone, or espresso machine to make it. I normally use a regular drip coffee machine to make it. All you do is add 1 tablespoon of grounds to 2 cups of water in the machine.

Here is a recipe for an easy dairy free Iced Chocolate Teeccino

I first took 1 1/2 cup of hot water and put it in a measuring cup (suitable for hot liquids) with the Chocolate Tee-bag to brew for about 3 minutes.

I then took a large Tervis cup and filled it about 3/4 of the way with ice. I then added the brewed Teeccino to the cup. Then I added about 1/4 cup of Califa Farms Almond Milk Pecan Caramel Creamer.

Teeccino is such an awesome, amazing, great tasting alternative to coffee. I have been drinking Teeccino since I was 18 when my best friend told me about it when she heard that I was about to quit caffeinated products. I can vouch that I personally have successfully quit coffee and caffeine with the help of Teeccino. Within the first few weeks, I stopped craving coffee.  You can read about it in the post I wrote a couple weeks ago called “How I Broke Up With My Love For Coffee.”

If you have wanted to quit coffee but were afraid of withdrawals or giving up your favorite morning ritual, well there is nothing to worry about anymore. Teeccino helps take care of the burden of feeling deprived of coffee when trying to quit. The worst part of quitting is thinking that there is no substitute but Teeccino is out there and it is THE best alternative on the market.

Top 12 reasons why Teeccino is the best alternative coffee

1. It is non acidic
2. naturally caffeine free
3. Gives you an energy boost from natural sources, not caffeine
4. Contains antioxidants from natural sourced ingredients
5. Contains potassium and fiber
6. Contains inulin which helps digestion
7. Has awesome unique flavors like chocolate mint, chocolate raspberry, vanilla nut, dandelion caramel nut, almond amaretto, hazelnut, and more.
8. Products are made from 75 -100 percent organic ingredients
9. Helps you kick the habit of caffeine in just a few weeks
10. It is naturally sweet so no need for adding sugar
11. It is GMO free
12. It tastes and smells amazing!!

For more information on their products and how to quit coffee using Teeccino, Please visit www.teeccino.com

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Love, 

Sara, “S.O.Eats”

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On January 7^th, 2013, it was the end of an era for me. It was the day I decided to cut coffee out of my diet cold turkey, FOR GOOD this time. How do I remember the date so well? It was the first day back to college after a long winter break and it was also one of my roommates 22^nd birthday. It was also the first day of my last semester of college. I was so tired in the afternoon after my first two classes and we were going out later that night for her birthday so I decided to have a coffee to wake me up. It was an organic coffee that I drank before so I don’t understand what happened. But it is a day that is still so vivid. Here are the events that led up to the infamous January 7^th.

My Dads’ side of the family is Cuban so I grew up surrounded by Cuban coffee. Cuban coffee consists of the famous cortadito (espresso) and café con leche (coffee with milk). Cuban coffee is HIGHLY ADDICTIVE. I repeat, HIGHLY ADDICTIVE. When I was about 7 or 8 years old I remember always asking my grandparents for sips of their café con leche. They used to let me even though some of my other family members would say that it was going to stunt my growth. In spite of that, I do not blame coffee for my height of  4’ 10”. As I got older, I then drank a lot more café con leches and other types of coffee drinks.

By the time I got to high school, Starbucks started to open up everywhere around where I lived. I think I used to go there around 3 times a week. Sometimes I would even wake up at 5 a.m just so I could leave the house by 6 to get a coffee and make it to school on time at 7:40. Then when I was about 16 years old, another day that I will never forget, I went to Starbucks and got my usual Caramel Frappuccino. Just to mention, I was not living an organic life around this time. So anyway, I got the Frappuccino and I went to visit my mom at work. I have no idea what happened, but I literally could not sit down and I felt jittery. I was running all over her office and just felt this super high off of caffeine. From that day I knew I needed to change to caffeine free or something. I opted to start drinking caffeine free with the occasional regular coffee.

When I was 18, just right after I graduated from high school, I completely changed my lifestyle to an organic one. With that, I decided to cut out all caffeine and sodas as well. At that time, my best friend told me about this product called Teeccino. It is an herbal coffee made from chicory root but it has no caffeine, low in acid, and actually has many health benefits. It helped with the cravings of coffee and it tasted great. Even in my first 3 years of college where I was working about 30 hours a week in a restaurant and I was a full time student, I survived without any need of coffee. This is unheard of in the hospitality/restaurant industry since caffeine is what keeps workers in the hospitality industry going. College is also the place where the habit of coffee starts so I totally went the opposite way. I used to drink a Teeccino about 4 times a week. One of my roommates from Vietnam used to say that I was drinking “coffee tea” which is a great way to describe Teeccino.

Then, in summer of 2012 I went with my family to Europe where I picked up the coffee habit again. Europe is known for their awesome coffee and local coffee shops. One of the countries we went to was Paris where my sister purchased a coffee from one of the local shops. The aroma of the coffee was divine and it looked delicious so I ended up giving in my 3-year end of no coffee and taking a sip. That little sip gave me an opening to start drinking coffee again. After that summer, I went into my senior year of college and in that fall semester I drank regular organic coffee about 2-3 times a week. It helped me stay up late to study and do homework. I just loved the taste.

So back to January 7^th, 2013. After an exhausting first day back to school, I drank an organic coffee. Little did I know, that coffee was going to be the deciding factor that I would never drink coffee again. So, I drank the coffee and right after I felt a lot less tired which was what I was trying to achieve. Then about an hour later, I started to feel jittery, my arms hurt, I had heart palpitations, heartburn, and I felt run down. It felt like the beginning of getting the flu where your whole body hurts although I didn’t feel like I was actually sick. It was honestly the weirdest I have ever felt from a coffee. Luckily that feeling only lasted about 4 hours but I vowed that I would not drink coffee again. I fortunately cut coffee cold turkey without cravings or crashes. Also, I only picked up that coffee habit again for about 7 months so it was significantly easier to cut it out this time.

This is how I ended my coffee addiction using Teeccino

For the first 3 weeks, I drank 1 Teeccino every day. Then on the fourth week, it went to every other day. Two weeks after that, it went to twice a week and then to a couple of days a month. I eventually stopped even craving the Teeccino. Teeccino is an amazing product and taste just like coffee. Just add your favorite creamer and you think you are drinking your favorite cup’o’joe.

It has been three years since the day I decided to finally end my love for coffee and to this day, I do not crave coffee at all. I have been offered coffee to try and I won’t even take a little sip. I know where that sip could lead and I don’t want to go down that path again. Even though I do not drink coffee or barely anything with caffeine, I still support organic coffee companies and I like to visit cool organic coffee shops around the world. When I tell people that I no longer drink coffee they look at me like I am crazy or they ask me how I survive the day without it but I am here to tell you that it is possible. Even for a Latina like me, where coffee is a staple at every family function and it is in the blood to drink coffee, I no longer need it or crave it. You too can quit coffee if you have the want, the willpower, and also if you use the best product to help you cut the habit out called Teeccino.

Love,

Sara, “S.O.Eats”

For more information on Teeccino please visit their website, http://teeccino.com .

Disclaimer: Just because this is the way caffeine affects me, that doesn’t mean it happens to everyone else.

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