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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / January 2007a couple of relatively low carb alcoholic drinks
Ok, ok, I know alcoholic drinks are never really low carb, but......I enjoy a good drink once in a while, but most mixed drinks are just loaded to the hilt with massive amounts of carbs. I've found a couple of drinks that are pretty darned good and *relatively* low in carbs. Low enough to enjoy a good blowout once in a while. Here they are: ------- Daquiri Lots of ice 2 oz White Rum 1 oz Daquiri mix Top up with Diet 7up or Diet Sprite Daquiri Mix 3 parts lime juice, fresh squeezed of course 1 part simple sugar syrup Simple Sugar Syrup 1 cup sugar 1 cup water Bring to boil to disolve sugar then cool (As you can see there is only 1/4 ounce of sugar syrup in one Daquiri) ---------- Bulldog Highball ice 2 oz Gin juice of 1/2 orange, approx. 2 oz, fresh squeezed of course Top up with diet Ginger Ale or Canada Dry Ginger Ale (about 1/3 the carbs as most other ginger ales) ------- Anybody else with *relatively* low carb drink recipes? TC Why wouldn't you use Splenda instead of sugar? | Ok, ok, I know alcoholic drinks are never really low carb, but......I | enjoy a good drink once in a while, but most mixed drinks are just [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] | | TC > Why wouldn't you use Splenda instead of sugar? I've never tried splenda in a drink. I've tried splenda a couple of times in food recipes and was not impressed by the taste. Would it disolve into a water syrup like sugar does? And 1/4 oz of sugar syrup in a drink is way less than what is normally in a drink. Seemed almost acceptable to me, as much as I hate to consume refined sugar. TC > tunder...@hotmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > | > | TC Yes, it dissolves fine or you could buy it already dissolved. www.sweetzfree.com or FiberFit at http://www.netrition.com/nutragenics_fiberfit_page.html Tastes fine in tea. || Why wouldn't you use Splenda instead of sugar? | [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] | | TC > Yes, it dissolves fine or you could buy it already dissolved.www.sweetzfree.com or FiberFit athttp://www.netrition.com/nutragenics_fiberfit_page.html Tastes fine in tea. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > | > | TC Just found a LC drink recipe webpage. They say you can make sugar syrup with splenda. 1 part splenda 1 part water bring to boil until splenda is dissolved. chill. TC >> | Anybody else with *relatively* low carb drink recipes? Just my usual, Gin and tonic with ice and lemon! > Ok, ok, I know alcoholic drinks are never really low carb, but......I > enjoy a good drink once in a while, but most mixed drinks are just [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > TC Scotch, straight up or with a bit of water. Sadly, this still has too many calories for me.  SignatureBob in CT > > Ok, ok, I know alcoholic drinks are never really low carb, but......I > > enjoy a good drink once in a while, but most mixed drinks are just [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > -- > Bob in CT- Hide quoted text - 'Fraid I am not a big fan of Scotch, regardless of how it is served or how long it sat in a barrel or how much its been filtered in peat. TC On Jan 30, 3:12 pm, tunder...@hotmail.com wrote: > > > Ok, ok, I know alcoholic drinks are never really low carb, but......I > > > enjoy a good drink once in a while, but most mixed drinks are just [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] > > - Show quoted text - I like scotch and soda, manhattan made with just a little sweet vermouth, gin and diet tonic, and Mich Ultra Beer And a bloody mary isn't very high in carbs either. On Jan 30, 3:42 pm, "trad...@optonline.net" <trad...@optonline.net> wrote: > On Jan 30, 3:12 pm, tunder...@hotmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 60 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Oh, and I forgot, an occasional Martini is good too, usually a dirty one. And as an after dinner drink, on occasion I'll have a cognac. Another new find that's a super sipping drink: Zaya Rum. It's the best rum I've ever tasted, dark and super smooth In fact, I don't really drink rum, except occasionally this one, with a nice Cuban cigar. It's hard to find and expensive, made in some Guatemala insane asylum, I think. [cut] >> Scotch, straight up or with a bit of water. Sadly, this still has too >> many [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > TC You don't know what you're missing! SignatureBob in CT > Anybody else with *relatively* low carb drink recipes? I stick with vodka on the rocks if I'm out drinking. Zero carbs, so no messing around with counting grams or worrying about whether I can afford to have one more. Who wants to keep track of numbers when you're drinking? (Not that I've been even tipsy in a long time, but you never know....) Is there any such thing as a low-carb amaretto? I used to love amaretto sours, and I'm sure you can get diet sour mix, but I'd guess the liqueur is pretty sugary in itself. SignatureAaron -- 285/235/200 -- http://aaron.baugher.biz/ "If you hear hoofbeats, you just go ahead and think horsies, not zebras." tunder...@hotmail.com wrote: > Anybody else with *relatively* low carb drink recipes? For the Yuletide I've been known to make egg nog with half-n-half/light-cream, egg, vanilla extract and either brandy or rum. Heavy enough that watering it down does work. Every so often I'll have some of the zero carb beer substitute that comes in concentrated form. Just add water to reconsistute. I like bourbon for this rather than scotch. Around once a week I'd rather spend my carbs on a really nice beer than settle for whiskey. >Ok, ok, I know alcoholic drinks are never really low carb, but......I >enjoy a good drink once in a while, but most mixed drinks are just >loaded to the hilt with massive amounts of carbs. Vodka and diet tonic. Zero carbs. And not all that many calories, as well. Jo Anne Jo Anne wrote in message ... >>Ok, ok, I know alcoholic drinks are never really low carb, but......I >>enjoy a good drink once in a while, but most mixed drinks are just [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Jo Anne Rum and Diet Coke, Vodka and Diet Orange. I like Diet Pepsi Lime and rum once in a great while. Cheri >>Ok, ok, I know alcoholic drinks are never really low carb, but......I >>enjoy a good drink once in a while, but most mixed drinks are just >>loaded to the hilt with massive amounts of carbs. > > Vodka and diet tonic. Zero carbs. And not all that many calories, as > well. This might actually be gross, but I really like it. In the summer I like to mix the cheap Burnett's Mango vodka with diet tonic water. It's almost like soda pop. brigid On Jan 30, 11:36 am, tunder...@hotmail.com wrote: > Ok, ok, I know alcoholic drinks are never really low carb, but......I > enjoy a good drink once in a while, but most mixed drinks are just [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > TC I guess I should have mentioned that I prefer to minimize the amount of sugar and non-caloric sweetners as much as possible. Diet colas contain some pretty nasty chemicals that I try to avoid as much as possible. In fact I would rather use small amounts of sugar than anything that contains aspartame. TC |
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