We recommend loose tea over tea bags any time. However, the convenience factor of having bagged tea does play a big part in deciding to use tea bags. If tea bags are more manageable for you, here are some suggestions:

Create your own tea bags. Buy loose tea, and measure it out into these paper tea filters. They act just like tea bags. You can measure all of your tea out into these filters as soon as you purchase it, and store them all bagged up and ready to go. This is great if you take your tea “to go” or like to drink some in the office. For 5 pennies per cup, this will make a huge difference in your tea!

Teavana Perfect Paper Tea Filters This size makes normal tea bags for a cup of tea. Includes 100 tea bags made with abaca pulp (a strong fiber procured from the stalk of a specific banana tree), cellulose, and sealing fibers for just $4.99. They are bleached with oxygen and are biodegradable. We make sure that they are designed as purely as possible so that the taste of your tea is not affected by the bags.

Perfect Paper Tea Filters – 100 for $4.99


Perfect Paper Filters for Teapots – 100 for $5.99

You also can look for tea bagged in “infusers”. This will look more like loose tea, rather than the clippings that are found in the cheap, grocery store tea bags. The tea needs to have room to move about or unfurl in the bag. Silken tea infusers, or pouches are becoming popular alternatives to loose tea.

Our recommended seller of high quality, inexpensive tea pouches is
Mighty Leaf Teas.
These silken tea pouches DO give your tea room to unfurl and move around, and they don’t just use the tea “dust” that some tea baggers put in their pouches. I do admit, I’ve got these bags at the office – it’s just so easy!

Adagio Teas
has also come out with some high quality tea bags. Prices vary by the type of tea, but they are generally a bit less expensive than Mighty Leaf. The infusers are a delicate triangular prism shape, convenient for setting aside and reusing later.