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Low calorie living doesn’t mean giving up pleasure, taste or cocktail hour.  What it does mean is better planning and thinking a little outside the box.  In some cases fresh fruit rather than liqueur makes all the difference in the world regarding sugar content and it ups the flavor tremendously – win/win for you!  Changing drinking patterns such as opting for low calorie champagne rather than the trendy calorie packed Cosmopolitan or Margarita is not only more glamorous in the glass, but lighter on the lips and hips.  Take a little time to cruise through the listing of cocktails below to find a few new favorite recipes in a variety of spirit bases.  This listing will be updated frequently, so check back from time to time.

Teenie-Eclipse – adapted by The Intoxicologist

Origination: Signature cocktail of Eclipse Bars – England

Original recipe for Eclipse found in Difford’s Guide 7

5 Fresh Raspberries

1/2 ounce DaVinci Raspberry Sugar Free Syrup

1 ounce Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey

1 ounce Ocean Spray Light Cranberry Juice

1/4 ounce Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice

Muddle raspberries and raspberry sugar free syrup together in bottom of mixing glass.  Add Jack Daniel’s Whisky, cranberry, fresh lime juice and ice.  Shake to blend and chill.  Strain into a rocks glass with crushed ice.  Garnish with bruised mint leaves and raspberry.  Total calories: 86 Total Carbohydrates 3.15

This one really knocked my knickers off with its fabulous taste even ‘teenied’.  Sure there is a little of the sugar free taste buried within, but the fruit flavor really kicks in and creates quite the tasty treat.  At 86 calories and barely there carb count, I might bump up the Jack Daniels to 1-1/2 ounces and add on the extra 34.5 calories.  That would give it just a fraction more whiskey flavor and still weigh in at just 120.5 calories.

Low Calorie Living – The Drink Recipe Guide

1.       Classic Cocktails at 100 Calories or Less Article

2.       Figure Friendly Cocktails Under 100 Calories Article

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4.       Low Calorie Classic Cocktails & Splenda Simple Syrup Article

5.       Tommy Bahama Beach Worthy Cocktails Article

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7.       VeeV 150 Calorie or Less Cocktails Article

8.       Apple Trace Teenie – Buffalo Trace Bourbon

9.       901 Tea-quila Time – 901 Tequila

10.   Bacardi Hurricane Teenied

11.   Bahama Basil Smash

12.   Blackberry & Teenie – Bacardi Rum

13.   Caipirinha – Leblon Cachaca

14.   Cape Cod – 42Below Vodka

15.   Champagne Cosmo

16.   Classic Martini

17.   Crimson Raider Teenie – Courvoisier Cognac

18.   Cuba Libre – Bacardi Rum

19.   Eco-Mojito – VeeV Acai Spirit

20.   Fountain of Youth – VeeV Acai Spirit

21.   Irish Coffee – Jameson Irish Whiskey

22.   Jim’s Peach Fuzz – Jim Beam Bourbon

23.   Laurent-Perrier Champagne – 65 calorie

24.   Mai Tai-Teenie – Bacardi Rum

25.   Mango Cran-Cooler – Absolut Mango

26.   Mango-Oro – Oro de Jalisco Tequila

27.   Moscow Mule – 42Below Vodka

28.   Naked Protein Colada – Bacardi Rum

29.   Nilla Basil Daiquiri Teenie – Bacardi Rum

30.   Old Fashioned – Bourbon/Rye Whiskey

31.   Parisian Oro Frappe – Oro de Jalisco Tequila

32.   Pomegranate-Acai Lemonade – VeeV Acai Spirit

33.   Rangpur & Tonic – Rangpur Gin

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37.   Spa Cooler – VeeV Acai Spirit

38.   Sparkling Mango – 37.5 calorie Mocktail

39.   Splenda Simple Syrup

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42.   Tommy Bahama Slenderade

43.   Tommy Bahama Summer Press

44.   Tommy Classic Daiquiri

45.   Tommy Tea

46.   Tonic – Gin/Rum/Vodka

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50.   VeeV Basil Gimlet

51.   VeeV It Up

52.   Wentworth Teenie – Buffalo Trace Bourbon

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