| I am trying not to drink more than one alcoholic drink a week because I don’t like how alcohol makes me feel. Please recommend fun, tasty, even indulgent-ish drinks that would be a good substitute of sorts for alcoholic beverages. |
| I like kombucha. Tons of different flavors. |
| Ginger beer with pretty much anything |
| Cranberry or cherry juice with club soda and lime |
Why drink at all if you don’t like the way it makes you feel? It makes no sense. |
Most recommendations will be full of fruit juice and will make you fat. Just stick to unsweet iced tea or something of the sort. |
| I like seltzer with some olive juice or lemon- most mocktails are very sweet and sometimes I miss the “savory” taste of wine or a cocktail |
| I drink flavored seltzers, either alone or with a splash of juice. I also drink soda when I'm out. Mainly because it's still less calories than drinking 4 glasses of wine, and I never drink more than one at time. |
| I have cut back on drinking from 2-3 drinks a week to 1-2 drinks every 3-4 weeks. But I don’t want to waste calories on mocktails - I drink still or sparkling water if I’m not drinking and save the calories for a nice glass of wine on the occasion that I do have a drink. I’ll also indulge in a nicer wine than I would have before. Or I’ll have a piece of chocolate after dinner, etc. Mocktails are not worth the cost or the calories in lieu of alcohol for me. |
| I like club soda or seltzer with non-alcoholic bitters. Nothing sweet. |
| I like to make mock mojitos. A little sugar muddled with mint leaves, lots of lime juice and seltzer. |
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I’m sober and here’s a recent one:
Wine glass Abundant ice Lemonade Pellegrino Fresh raspberry garnish You have to make it a little festive and fun and indulgent. I hope you stick with it. Life on the other side is glorious. |
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Kombucha
Spindrift Sparkling tea or cider Virgin Mary |
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There are a bunch of high end sparkling teas.
Also https://www.ft.com/content/a9c51b8f-9760-4e87-90fc-042a5ed2b0f1 |
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I like sparkling water with lime.
I like dark sodas with lime and crème. I like Shirley temples or cran with light sodas. Again, grenadine (from the Shirley temple) with a lime sparkling water is great. Virgin pina colada |