5 Skinny Cocktail Recipes

This time of year the “Holiday Cheer” is often of the alcoholic kind.  Even if you’re sticking to a clean eating plan, you don’t have to deprive yourself to have fun at parties.  Here are a few cocktail ideas that are light on calories:

Old-Fashioned
1 1/2 oz Bourbon
2 dashes Angostura bitters
1 tsp. raw sugar
Few dashes plain water

Garnish with an orange and a cherry.

Sea Breeze
 4 oz cranberry juice
1 1/3 oz Vodka
1 oz grapefruit juice

Garnish with a lime slice.

Gin and Tonic
1 part to 3 parts gin (to taste)
3 parts tonic water

Garnish with a lime wedge.

Mojito
1 1/2 oz white rum
6 mint leaves
soda water
1 oz. fresh lime juice
2 tsp. raw sugar

Muddle ingredients and serve. Garnish with mint and lime.

Cosmopolitan
1 1/2 oz vodka
1 oz cranberry juice
1/2 oz fresh lime juice