Its Friday Night And I'd Like a Drink

I was wondering the same thing :-) I found this page from an article that may help.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/low-calorie-cocktails

Low-Calorie Cocktails
5 ways to keep from overloading on calories when you have an alcoholic drink.

How Many Calories in Popular Cocktails?
So just how many calories are in your favorite cocktail? These calorie counts for popular alcoholic drinks are approximate, based on popular recipes, but may vary depending on ingredients and portions.

Pina Colada (6 oz): 378 calories
Mojito (8 oz): 214 calories
Cosmopolitan (4 oz): 200 calories
Chocolate martini: (2 oz each vodka, chocolate liqueur, cream, 1/2 oz creme de cacao, chocolate syrup): 438
Margarita (8 oz): 280
Green apple martini (1 oz each vodka, sour apple, apple juice): 148
Martini (2.5 oz): 160
Port wine (3 oz):128
Bloody Mary (5 oz): 118
Red wine (5 oz):120
White wine (5 oz): 120
Alcohol-free wine (5 oz): 20-30
Beer (12 oz): 150-198
Light beer (12 oz): 95-136
Ultra-light beer (12 oz): 64-95
Champagne (5oz): 106-120
Coffee liqueur (3 ounces): 348
Godiva chocolate liqueur (3 oz): 310
Wine spritzer (5 oz): 100
Eggnog with rum (8 ounces): 370
Hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps (8 oz): 380
Hot buttered rum (8 oz): 292
Spiced cider with rum ( 8 oz):150
Mulled wine (5 oz): 200
Vodka and tonic (8 oz): 200
Screwdriver (8 oz): 190
Mimosa (4 oz): 75
Gin and tonic (7 oz): 200
Long Island iced tea (8 oz): 780
White Russian (2 oz vodka, 1.5 oz coffee liqueur, 1.5 oz cream): 425
Mai Tai (6 oz) (1.5 oz rum, 1/2 oz cream de along, 1/2 oz triple sec, sour mix, pineapple juice): 350
Rum and Coke (8 oz): 185
Rum and Diet Coke (8 oz): 100
Mike's Hard Lemonade (11 oz): 98

I don't know drinks too much other than the fact chambord sours are sinfully tasteful ...
Thank goodness that I'm not a drinker though - I can't imagine having those calories to be fighting with .. unfortunately I still love cake!

Hey! As you know its Friday night and for lots of us that means kicking back a few with some friends.
I usually drink Heineken in a bottle (150cals) and have been trying to find some other kind of drink to enjoy this evening. I've tried Miller Light and am thinking about trying the Miller Genuine Draft. (64 cals)

Tonight feels like a mixed drink night so if you've got any suggestions, I'd love to hear them!

I was thinking like vodka and crystal light, or rum and diet coke (not so much), or something maybe with coconut rum...

:drinker:

Thanks:blushing:

The coconut rum and diet coke is good

Hey! As you know its Friday night and for lots of us that means kicking back a few with some friends.
I usually drink Heineken in a bottle (150cals) and have been trying to find some other kind of drink to enjoy this evening. I've tried Miller Light and am thinking about trying the Miller Genuine Draft. (64 cals)

Tonight feels like a mixed drink night so if you've got any suggestions, I'd love to hear them!

I was thinking like vodka and crystal light, or rum and diet coke (not so much), or something maybe with coconut rum...

:drinker:

Thanks:blushing:

The coconut rum and diet coke is good

Coconut rum and pineapple orange juice is wonderful...don't know about the calories but maybe could count as a fruit helping :laugh: (I know that's stretching it a bit)

What's in Long Island Ice tea to give it almost 800 calories??

REAL Long island ice teas not only have Coca-Cola in them, but it also contains 5 types of alchohol. So if each serving of 1oz of alchohol = ~100 cal, thats a huge no no for me.

What's in Long Island Ice tea to give it almost 800 calories??

REAL Long island ice teas not only have Coca-Cola in them, but it also contains 5 types of alchohol. So if each serving of 1oz of alchohol = ~100 cal, thats a huge no no for me.

Don't forget they have sours mix, which is essentially simple syrup (sugar and water) with lemon and lime juice.

Hey! As you know its Friday night and for lots of us that means kicking back a few with some friends.
I usually drink Heineken in a bottle (150cals) and have been trying to find some other kind of drink to enjoy this evening. I've tried Miller Light and am thinking about trying the Miller Genuine Draft. (64 cals)

Tonight feels like a mixed drink night so if you've got any suggestions, I'd love to hear them!

I was thinking like vodka and crystal light, or rum and diet coke (not so much), or something maybe with coconut rum...

:drinker:

Thanks:blushing:

Oh MOMmy this is my kinda thread!!!

Well now, I intend to have a couple 'o' drinks of that stuff you're holding in your hand with diet coke and I have no doubt a couple 'o' glasses of wine with some chinese food we'll pick up on the way home.

What? did you think I picked my photo because of the hat???

(I also drink vodka with light cranberry juice.) :drinker:

I was wondering the same thing :-) I found this page from an article that may help.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/low-calorie-cocktails

Low-Calorie Cocktails
5 ways to keep from overloading on calories when you have an alcoholic drink.

How Many Calories in Popular Cocktails?
So just how many calories are in your favorite cocktail? These calorie counts for popular alcoholic drinks are approximate, based on popular recipes, but may vary depending on ingredients and portions.

Pina Colada (6 oz): 378 calories
Mojito (8 oz): 214 calories
Cosmopolitan (4 oz): 200 calories
Chocolate martini: (2 oz each vodka, chocolate liqueur, cream, 1/2 oz creme de cacao, chocolate syrup): 438
Margarita (8 oz): 280
Green apple martini (1 oz each vodka, sour apple, apple juice): 148
Martini (2.5 oz): 160
Port wine (3 oz):128
Bloody Mary (5 oz): 118
Red wine (5 oz):120
White wine (5 oz): 120
Alcohol-free wine (5 oz): 20-30
Beer (12 oz): 150-198
Light beer (12 oz): 95-136
Ultra-light beer (12 oz): 64-95
Champagne (5oz): 106-120
Coffee liqueur (3 ounces): 348
Godiva chocolate liqueur (3 oz): 310
Wine spritzer (5 oz): 100
Eggnog with rum (8 ounces): 370
Hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps (8 oz): 380
Hot buttered rum (8 oz): 292
Spiced cider with rum ( 8 oz):150
Mulled wine (5 oz): 200
Vodka and tonic (8 oz): 200
Screwdriver (8 oz): 190
Mimosa (4 oz): 75
Gin and tonic (7 oz): 200
Long Island iced tea (8 oz): 780
White Russian (2 oz vodka, 1.5 oz coffee liqueur, 1.5 oz cream): 425
Mai Tai (6 oz) (1.5 oz rum, 1/2 oz cream de along, 1/2 oz triple sec, sour mix, pineapple juice): 350
Rum and Coke (8 oz): 185
Rum and Diet Coke (8 oz): 100
Mike's Hard Lemonade (11 oz): 98

This list is really helpful! I used to drink a Long Island Iced Tea almost everytime I went out in college...they're almost 800 calories!?!?!?!? No wonder I gained 27 pounds in college!

Also, I've heard vodka is one of the lowest calorie hard alcohols...so you could do vodka and soda, a vodka cranberry, screw driver (you'd be getting calories from juice though...but it's better than empty calories from mixers). A martini maybe??


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Hey! As you know its Friday night and for lots of us that means kicking back a few with some friends.
I usually drink Heineken in a bottle (150cals) and have been trying to find some other kind of drink to enjoy this evening. I've tried Miller Light and am thinking about trying the Miller Genuine Draft. (64 cals)

Tonight feels like a mixed drink night so if you've got any suggestions, I'd love to hear them!

I was thinking like vodka and crystal light, or rum and diet coke (not so much), or something maybe with coconut rum...

:drinker:

Thanks:blushing:

well if you like beer you can have becks light 64 calories
Miller Genuine Draft ----the bottle has to say 64 on it cause it only has 64 calories in it..

what is NOT in a long island iced tea?!

iced tea!

:laugh:

:drinker: oh how i would love to be sitting in the sun with a malibu and diet coke:grumble:

Ok you know whats a total hoax? That MGD 64. What they dont tell you is that its only 2.8% alcohol. :laugh: Yeah. So you have to drink 2x as much to get the same effect. I'm sticking w/ vodka and diet! :drinker:


http://www.alcoholcontents.com/beer/beer.htm

I have been enjoying Fresca with tequila. It kind of tastes like a margarita but is under 70 calories.

I like this suggestion! I will have to try this! I love tequila!!

My favorite is Caffeine Free diet pepsi and a couple of shots of Whisky,mmmmm
only 70cals for one shot . And it gets the job done
:drinker: :drinker:

Gets the job done! LOL :bigsmile: :drinker:

I thought mikes hard lemonades were more like 200 cals... And my all time fave is vodka and diet tonic with a lime twist. If u r going out however they generally don't have diet tonic but any alcohol with diet coke is low too.

Me too- I'm quite sure it's closer to 200 than the list suggests... unfortunately! :grumble: