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Happy Hour - what's the best approach?

frichris
frichris Posts: 13 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I have to go 'out for drinks' with colleagues every once in a while, any suggestions on the best drink to have? I know water would be the best answer but when meeting at a bar, it just seems anti-social so am looking for an alternative.
Suggestions on how not to partake of the appetizers would be nice too.

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  • ashleypetrie4
    ashleypetrie4 Posts: 119 Member
    I always do a blueberry vodka soda (just blueberry vodka, soda water, and a lime wedge), about 70 calories a drink and limit myself to 2 with a water before, in between, and after to slow down.
  • crystalewhite
    crystalewhite Posts: 422 Member
    I will have a mini meal before I leave work to help curb my appetite for bar food, and then I will usually have a dirty vodka martini or a glass of wine. Those last a while for me.
    You really have to watch for mixers. I wish I liked soda water, but there is a bitter taste to me so I will only have vodka tonic on rare occasions. They will go down way too easily!
    Diet soda with liquor is another good option, Sprite 0 with Three Olives cherry vodka is delicious!
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    mm that sounds good.

    I usually ask for a diet rum and coke, virgin please.
    or something along those lines. I think the humor makes it less awkward.

    or I just say, water please. and forget everyone else
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    for the most part I'm partial to grapefruit flavored sparkling water with vodka...I usually have a couple every evening. on the weekends I might have a couple of beers or the occasional margarita.

    if i was just an every once in awhile social drinker, i'd probably just opt for whatever i felt like having and not worry a whole lot about it...which would probably be a grapefruit flavored sparkling water with vodka...at least in the summer.
  • foursirius
    foursirius Posts: 321 Member
    vodka soda
  • nickatine
    nickatine Posts: 451 Member
    my go to's are spiced rum diet coke, Michelob ultra, bud select 99, busch light. any liquor with sugar free mixer.
  • frichris
    frichris Posts: 13 Member
    Thanks for all the great ideas... I'm not big on soda water but maybe that's the best it'll definitely slow me down :-) and I like the idea of a snack before going and water before, with, and after each drink.
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