The BEST Football Beverages with Reduced Calories (Part 2)
to go with the BEST Football Foods without the Guilt (Part 1)
150 calories or less………
CARDINALS Cosmo: 1 1/2 oz. vodka, 1/2 oz. fresh lime juice, 1/2 oz. cranberry juice, 1/2 oz. club soda, orange peel. Mix vodka, lime juice, cranberry juice, club soda, then garnish with orange peel.
PANTHERS Punch: 3 oz. red wine or white wine, 4 oz. club soda, fruit garnish and ice. Stir wine and soda then pour over ice and top with fresh fruit garnish.
RAMS Rum & Coke: 1 1/2 oz. rum, diet coke. Pour ingredients over ice and top with lime garnish.
TEXANS Tequila Sunrise: 1 grapefruit wedge, 1 orange wedge, 1/4 c. grapefruit juice, 1 T. fresh lime juice, 1 t. sugar, 1/4 c. tequila, 1/4 c. club soda. Combine all ingredients (but club soda) and stir until sugar is dissolved, then add ice and top off with club soda and garnish with grapefruit & orange slice.
REDSKINS Rita’s: 1 1/2 oz. tequila, 1/4 oz. o.j., 1/4 oz. lime juice, 1/4 oz. lemon juice, 1/4 oz. agave nectar, mix and pour over ice and garnish with lime slice
MOTOWN Mojito’s: 1 oz. fresh lime juice, 2 t. fine sugar, 1 c. crushed ice, 10 fresh mint leaves, 2 oz. white rum, 2 T. club soda. Stir lime juice & sugar until dissolves, add ice and mint and shake, then stir in rum, and club soda, pour into glass and top with fresh mint leaf.
BRONCOS Bloody Mary: 1 oz. vodka, 4 oz. tomato juice, 2 dashes Tabasco, 2 dashes Worcestershire sauce, 1 stalk celery. Mix all liquid ingredients, then pour over ice and stir in celery stalk.
Lower Calorie Beer with High Flavor
Corona Light 99 calories
Guinness Draught 125 calories
Miller Lite 96 calories
Heineken Lite 99 calories
Coors Light 102 calories
Amstel Light 95 calories
Stella Artois 154 calories ( I had to add this beer even though it is 4 calories over the 150 calories, as it is a great flavorful beer with lower calories)
Thank you to Tom and Grant for their “professional” input!
GO TEAM!
Cathy Kaashoek says
Awesome info!!!👏🏽
christie@fitfabforever.com says
Thank you and let me know your favorite!
Lori Parodi says
I can’t wait to make one of those Texan Tequila sunrises! Sounds refreshing, being the tequila qirl that I am!
christie@fitfabforever.com says
They are yummy, refreshing and less calories than the original……..I bet you will love it!👍