DO YOU FART ON THE PLANE?

If so, we want to hear your story! We're having another give away. This time we will be giving away "Tummy Tamer's Tea" from Colorado Organics, for the best/funniest story about farting and flying. The catch is it has to be about your gas and you have to be willing to let us print your story. We'll do a before and after. After we send you the tea, we'll want to hear about your next flight and whether or not the tea helped.

Send your stories by Tuesday September 22 to theflyingpinto@aol.com subject: FART (no stories in the comments please;-)

Here is a guest post from the creator of Tummy Tamer's Tea and fellow flight attendant, Susan Emery. It is written for FAs but certainly our passengers will benefit too:


TAME YOUR TROUBLED TUMMY
By Susan Emery
Herbalist, Clinical Aromatherapist and Flight Attendant


Tired of toot tooting your way down the aisles? Bidding first class just to have a galley all to yourself? Not enough crops on the plane for all the “dusting” you need to do?
Having been a flight attendant for more than 20 years, I’ve had my share of trapped gas and painful reactions to airplane food.
I learned of the tea blend we’re making while going through my training as an herbalist. We were studying the digestive tract and ways to aid digestion. Many cultures use a digestive aid at the end of a meal, but as Americans many of us have a tendency to overeat. This undigested food sits in your system. Although this tea was meant as a remedy to the overeating and undigested food, I discovered it greatly reduces the amount of gas you have while on the airplane.Ingredients:

1 oz Chamomile Flowers
1 oz Peppermint Leaf
1 oz Licorice Root, lightly ground
1 oz Fennel Seed, lightly ground
50 heat-seal tea bags
Directions: Grind your fennel seed and licorice root in either a clean coffee grinder, a “Magic Bullet” or by hand with a mortar and pestle. You are just breaking these up, not pulverizing them.

Combine with the peppermint and chamomile in a large bowl. Measure 1 teaspoon of blend into the open side of each tea bag.

Seal the open side of each tea bag with a hot iron (this will activate the glue).
To brew your tea, add 1 tea bag to 8 oz boiling water and steep for approximately 5 minutes. If you prefer not to make the tea bags (which are easier for travel), you can use a tea ball or make your tea in a French Press style of coffee pot.
You may either buy these ingredients in small, 1 oz portions at your local health food store, through our website, www.coloradoorganics.net or you can buy in bulk and use a kitchen scale. Whenever possible, please purchase local and organic ingredients.

Feel free to email me with questions or comments to susane@coloradoorganics.net

*If you have high blood pressure, please limit your consumption of this tea to one cup per day. Pregnant or nursing women, consult a physician first.