I grew up in the North, where iced tea was served unsweetened with the option to mix in your sweetener of choice. A sweetener that never really did much of anything but settle at the bottom of your glass because the tea was already cold, there was no dissolving it into your drink.
So, I wasn’t really a fan of tea.
Then I moved to the South after graduating from college. It was almost amusing, the way that people’s eyes would practically bulge out of their heads when they’d ask if I’d tried sweet tea yet. With smirks on their faces, thinking the Yankee would not like it. Because Southerners are not joking around when they call it “sweet.”
But I loved it. Right from my very first glass.
Though I refused to make it because the recipes my helpful friends would share with me called for 3-4 cups of sugar for a 2 quart pitcher of sweet tea. And I just couldn’t bring myself to make that, even though I knew good and well that the sweet tea I’d order in restaurants or friends would serve had that much sugar(and calories!) in it.
To say it gets hot down here is an understatement and if I drink sweet tea the way I want to, I could easily find myself drinking my day’s worth of allotted calories.
Then I was introduced to Southern Breeze Sweet Tea, which is sweetened with Splenda. Now my beloved sweet tea is a zero calorie drink.
You brew it like you’re used to making sweet tea. Boil water, then add 2 quarts into a large pitcher with 2 Southern Breeze Sweet Tea tea bags. Let it steep for 3-5 minutes, then chill. The sweetener is already inside the Family Size tea bag.You don’t have to add cups and cups of sugar to get the perfect sweetness.
I’ll admit to being a little bit of a skeptic when this sweet tea was brewing. I’d gotten used to Southern sweet tea, would this really measure up? But, it really does! There are real tealeaves in the tea bags, this isn’t some imitation or powder. This sweet tea tastes so delicious, the perfect balance of tea & sweetness! Now I brew a few pitchers of Southern Breeze Sweet Tea every week, serving it when we have friends over, or enjoying it out on my front porch, along with a good summer read.
Southern Breeze Sweet Tea Giveaway
Southern Breeze Sweet Tea is now available at Harris Teeter, Ingles, Wegman’s & Amazon.com but one of you will win a gift package that includes a box of Southern Sweet Tea and a Southern Breeze Sweet Tea mason jar. (Value: $10.00)
To enter: Leave a comment telling me what you love about sweet tea or share a family memory about sweet tea.
Giveaway winner will be randomly selected from the entries and notified via email and announced on this post. Giveaway will close on 7/7/17 at noon ET. US, 18+ only, please. Void where prohibited by law.
This giveaway has now ended and the winner is Brittany House.
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Southern Breeze Sweet Tea.
I love love sweet tea, but you have to be careful about how “old” it is – stale tea is just awful… I’ve had my share of family try to pass off 3 day old tea and it’s terrible!
I am from Texas, Sweet tea is a tradition. Sitting on the porch on a hot day with a mason jar of sweet tea is about as close to heaven as it gets.
I know some people don’t consider Florida the true south, but when you’re 3rd generation, I think you get to count it.
My family has always had sweet tea or some kind of tea on hand. The best was when we were planning BBQs and we’d make sun sweet tea. It just tastes great after a day outside, wrapping it up with a delicious BBQ!
It didn’t publish my whole comment!! 😀 My BFF got me a sweet tea maker as a housewarming gift because I’m the only sweet tea drinker in the house, so every pitcher is MINE, ALL MINE!
One of my fav lines, from a Craving Melon song is “on the 8th day, God made sweet tea.” I also once spent the holidays in Seattle and called home saying I needed “sunshine, sweet tea, and cheese grits.” 🙂
My husband’s family has sweet tea at every family event. I love it!
i remember just spending the summers drinking this tea with my family when i was a kid 🙂
I am going to have to try that. I love that it’s no calorie!
I love the sweetness ofd sweet tea
I kid you not when I say that I started Weight Watchers after I became addicted to sweet tea. I’d never had it until my senior year of college (and I’ve lived in NC since elementary school.) It was so good. And if this has zero calories, that means it’s already Weight Watchers-friendly. 😉
This sounds good.I quite like sweet tea.
We actually just left the south last week, and I was unable to try sweet tea. I love how this is already sweetened too!!
This looks delicious. I am definitely a sweet tea lover but I also love zero calorie!
I love that sweet tea is something easy to have on hand. Doesn’t take long to make up a fresh, refreshing, pitcher of it!
I LOVE sweet tea. I could drink it all day and be perfectly content. I have never found one that had no calories in it so this is something I would love to use to replace my sugar filled pitcher!
my mom would make sweet tea all summer when i was a kid. it tastes like childhood.
Yum! Sweet tea is so good on those hot summer days. I will have to give this kind a try.
I remember my grandma Archer use to make the best Sun tea- we would make a hug jug of it and set it out on the back patio together
I grew up loving sweet tea! Everyone in my family drinks it. Now I prefer unsweetened ice tea, but will still guzzle the sweet tea when I have a sweet tooth. YUM!
Whoa awesome! I love sweet tea!
Sweet tea is so good on a hot summer day. I’d love a zero calorie sweet tea.
I could totally use a glass of cold iced tea and a rocking chair. I love that yours are blue!
I’m a huge sweet tea fan! Love that I can drink this without feeling guilty.
When I was a kid my Aunt used to take my cousin and I to McDonald’s for sweet tea’s.
Summer and sweet tea go hand in hand. Love the photos and Southern Breeze review. Thanks for the giveaway.
I ended up switching to unsweetened tea last year to avoid the calories. I grew up on sweet tea and really miss it. I am going to have to try this one now to see how well I like it. I may have to make a switch back 🙂
I’ve lived in the South most of my life…and guess what? I never been a tea fan ever…like EVER! I think its cute Mason jar they gave u…if I ever get a sample of this I will get over my tea-phobia and try it just because I know u werent the biggest tea fan either!
Sweet tea in the summer makes me think of wonderful summers spent with my grandparents. The best memories!
I love sweet tea! My parents used to make sun tea, and it was delicious.
Awesome giveaway! I always remember my dad brewing sweet tea outside on the deck!
To me sweet tea represents summer. I love the idea of relaxing while a soft summer breeze wafts over you, while you are sipping on a cup of sweet tea.
The sweetener is in the tea bag? That’s smart!
I am a sweet tea snob! I have never heard of this brand- but I would love to try it!
I love the rocking chair picture, screams south. I grew up in the north too and moved to the south. I get the oddest looks when I’m the only one in the group that doesn’t order sweet tea. This brand is amazing, my hubbie who is a born and bred southern loved it!
Summer is great time for sweet tea. My granny used to make it all the time.
I love sweet tea. I love how I can make this one so easy and fast.
I love that little mason jar too! So perfect for summer!
Tea, a porch, and good reading, you say? Yep, that’s my idea of a really great way to spend some time.
I love sweet tea and zero calories. Sounds refreshing! Thanks for sharing!
I love the taste of sweet tea!
I love how refreshing it is!
One of the things that the hubs and I have been missing on our diet is our sweet tea. This one having zero calories is totally going to be in our kitchen!! And I’m loving that mason glass with the label on it, too cute!!
Sweet tea is the house wine of the south. Sweet tea makes everything better
This is awesome! I love sweet tea but never drink it because of all the calories! What a perfect summer drink!
I grew up in Texas where sweet tea is a tradition. I haven’t made any in years since I’m the only one who drinks it. I’m really wondering why now.
Tea is my favorite drink other then water. This looks so good!
This made me drool. I live in England and people look at you like you’re crazy if you ask for cold tea. Sweet iced tea is an indulgence for me. I’ll have to try and find this when we move.
Also from the north, i’ve never had true sweet tea either! I like the way this is made too, sweetening over time.
OH me, oh my that sounds good. I’m actually starting to like sweet tea, Shell. I’m a northerner. It’s wrong! lol
We love sweet tea (esp Wayne). I buy it from the store normally but have made my own with those mounds of sugar! We have a jug in our fridge at all times. So refreshing on these hot & humid days
I’m a sweet tea addict! I like mine super sweet! I will have to check this out!
I really need to try this sweet tea. I am from the north and not something we normally drank but I have a few southern friends who rave about it.
I love Sweet Tea because it just reminds me of sitting out on the porch with my family when I was a little girl.
I have a serious sweet tea addiction. It’s a problem. I can’t drink soda anymore because the carbonation bothers me, but sweet tea? Oh yeah. I can put a hurtin’ on that.
Oh I love love love sweet tea. It always reminds me of hearing a Southern comedienne say “Y’all want sweet tea or unsweet tea with that?” and it makes me laugh. I’m not usually one for sweet drinks, either, but boy howdy do I love sweet tea and would LOVE to win this!
This looks like something that my husband would really enjoy. He loves sweet tea!
Sweet tea is my hubby’s fav.! He will actually go to mcdonalds and just order a sweet tea!!!
i remember my uncle always drinking a sweet tea at dinner time that was always his favorite
I love that Sweet Tea is so refreshing on a hot summer day. Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.
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It’s the ultimate summer drink!
It reminds me of my grandmother’s who would make it just right, really sweet without it being overly sweet. with lots of ice
I love the taste of the sweet tea
I am a Georgia girl who married and now am a Marylander. I miss REAL honest-to-goodness home brewed and mixed sweet tea, but I don’t want all those calories either. This product intrigues me and I want to taste for myself if it’s as good as the real deal. Thanks.
I remember my mom making sweet tea every Sunday for our Sunday dinners.
Living in NC sweet tea has always been a tradition for us.
To me it represents a conversation starter with neighbors and friends for long talks and laughs on the front porch. I always have a pitcher of sweet tea ready just in case someone shows up.
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I love the taste of sweet tea.
I love sweet tea–ice cold sweet tea in a Mason jar! I have fond memories of days on the screened in porch at Lake Jackson with my grandparents who have since passed. We would just talk and talk. Oh how I wish I could have one more day with them.
My entire family Is from georgia and we love sweet tea! Now living In arizona It;s hard to find!
My husband is the ice-tea drinker in the family. I prefer hot tea!
I love how refreshing it is on a hot summer day.
I love the way it can just about replace a meal when its so hot you can’t think about food.
It’s so refreshing.
My grandma and I use to sit out on the patio in the summer and drink sweet tea and talk. I miss those conversations.
I live in the south so drinking sweet tea is almost second nature to me. I love how sweet and refreshing it is not only in the summer but all year long.
I love how sweet tea quenches your thirst on hot summer afternoons. It just seems like summer when a jar of sweet tea is around. I love the zero calorie aspect of Southern Breeze Sweet Tea the most.
I love sweet tea. That is all we drink in the house. I love making it in the sun best!!!
I love everything about sweet tea. It’s such a big part of my life.
We make sweet iced tea everyday, it’s so refreshing to drink especially in the hot summer!
My boyfriend loves sweet tea and I make it for hiim
I just love the taste. Got hooked on it when I lived in Georgia
I love love love sweet tea. I drink it every day because it’s cool and refreshing.
I’m a Texan so sweet tea is served at practically every meal!
sweet tea reminds me of being home. my mom always had sweet tea for our beverage at dinner time.
I love the taste and how it cools you off on a hot day.
The worst thing about traveling away from the south is restaurants that only serve unsweetened tea! I love sweet tea and have yet to find a no calorie sweetener that is spot on, I’m going to look this product up on amazon.com!
My husband is so obsessed with sweet tea that when we travel north, he has to bring his own so he will not be without. Thank you