Lisa Shea - Cocktails: Low Carb Recipes

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Note: I am not a doctor. Always consult adoctor about whether alcoholic beverages are right for yoursituation. Also, obey local laws when ingesting alcohol.

James Bond has his martini - shaken, notstirred. In Casablanca theyre drinking French 75s. Throughout theyears, cocktails have called to our soul. During Prohibition theywere drunk on the sly, sipped in the cellar. In modern timestheyre glitzy and wild, toasted in bars from Los Angeles to TokyoTheres just something about cocktails!

When youre embracing a low carb lifestyle,often its tricky to know which cocktails are safe and which aresimply loaded with sugar. It can be a challenge to keep track ofwhich liqueurs are little more than sugar-syrup and which wontcause you to gain ten pounds with one sip.

Im here to help!

Note that this is the first version of thisbook its got all my favorites in it. 24 recipes to be exact. Ifyouve got a cocktail you adore that I dont have listed yet,contact me! Im continually updating all of my low carb books. Illbe happy to investigate if we can create a low carb version of yourcocktail, and then Ill add that to the next version of thebook.

This book should be FREE. I am distributingthis for free as my gift to the low carbers who have supported meall these years. If someone charged you for this book, please letme know! This should be absolutely free my gift to you.

Slinte!

Most hard liquors like rum, vodka, gin, andthe like have zero carbs but they do have calories. Sothey are a special case in low carb dieting. Its important toremember that your body burns alcohol as a fuel. Alcohol, beingconsidered toxic by the body, is burned as quickly as possible.What this can mean is that by ingesting alcohol, anything else youeat does not get burned and instead gets stored as fat.

Heres an example. If you eat a steak on itsown, your body burns those steak calories (from its protein) anduses them up. Your body doesnt store them as fat.

However, if you eat a steak while drinking analcohol-filled cocktail, your bodys first mission is to burn upthat alcohol. It ignores the protein in a steak. You might then endup with that steaks energy being stored as fat.

A low carb diet assumes that youre notdrinking alcohol. Thats how the carb counting work. If you drink alot of alcohol, then eating low carb wont keep you from gainingweight. Your body will gain weight based on the alcohol you ingestand the energy its providing to you.

So, if your aim is to lose weight, gocautiously on the alcohol. Itll interfere with your weight loss.If youre maintaining, then drink in moderation!

If youre looking for a good scary kind ofdrink for Halloween, the Bloody Mary would fit the bill nicely!Its tasty at other times of year as well, if you like a drink witha kick.

This cocktail is in essence spicy tomatojuice and vodka.

Ingredients:
3oz tomato juice
1.5oz vodka
1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
2 drops Tabasco sauce
1 dash lemon juice

Shake all ingredients together with ice, andstrain into a tall glass with ice cubes. Some people add salt andpepper.

I personally find this drink verysalty - too salty to drink in fact. However, my mom loves these, soit is definitely a matter of each person having their own personaltaste.

There is tomato juice with salt, and tomatojuice without salt, so if youre on a low salt diet, you can gowith the lower salt version.

Tomato juice has about 1.3g carbs per ounce,so for 3oz you are getting 3.9g of carbs. Call it an even 4 sincepeople rarely measure out shots exactly. A bit more than wine perdrink, but less than most beer.

If youre doing this for Halloween, get aplastic eyeball or two, and put them into your drink like icecubes!

Who Was Bloody Mary
Bloody Mary was the nickname of Queen Mary I of England. She wasonly queen from 1553 to 1558. Her dad was Henry VIII and once shetook control she actively tried to get the Roman Catholic church incontrol of England. Along the way she burned at least 300 of herenemies at the stake. She even killed the archbishop ofCanterbury.

Desperate for a child to perpetuate her line,she married an enemy of the state, Philip II of Spain. This madeher population even more upset with her. Her husband abandoned her,and she died only 5 years after she took control. With her deathcame in her sister, Elizabeth, one of the most famous monarchs inhistory!

Unfortunately, Bloody Mary never got to trythis drink. It was invented in the 1920s in Paris, France, at theNew York Bar. Fernand Petiot was the bartender who brought thiscocktail to life.

Looking for a cocktail that is low in sugars?This fruity combination of rum, vodka and sodas is 0g of carbs!

Ingredients:
1 shot vodka
1 shot rum
2.5 shots diet orange soda
2.5 shots diet lemon-lime soda

Put ice into a tall glass and mix in the fouringredients. This has got a great fruity flavor and 0g of carbs.Enjoy responsibly!

Be sure to avoid aspartame-sweetened dietsodas, look for those sweetened with Splenda instead.

Looking for a delicious,low carb cocktail recipe? Gin and Ginger is a classic - simply makeit with a Splenda-sweetened ginger ale!

1 partgin
4 parts diet ginger ale
splash lemon if desired

Put ice in tall glass, addin ginger ale. Stir in gin. Splash in lemon juice ifdesired.

I used the Waist Watcherscitrus frost here because it comes with lemon flavors builtin!

Carbs per serving:0g

Back in the 1800s, the railway was theprimary method of moving goods cross country. Millions of peopleworked on the railway. The Highball cocktail was invented as aquick recipe to entertaining these hard working people.

The drink was in fact named after the signalused when a train was moving through an area in a hurry.

By the 1920s, in cocktail-crazy gin jointsaround the world, the highball became a classic.

Ingredients:
2oz whiskey
diet ginger ale

Fill a tall glass with ice. Pour in 2oz ofwhiskey, then fill with ginger ale. Enjoy!

If youre on a low carb diet, a Jack and Cokeis perfect - as long as you use diet Coke! When you do, this isperfectly zero carb.

Start with a tall glass of ice. Add in 2oz ofJack Daniels. Now fill the rest of the glass with Diet Coke.

Stir a bit, and enjoy!

Long Island Iced Tea is a classicmulti-alcohol cocktail that can be almost completely zerocarb.

Just be sure to only have one! This is prettymuch ALL ALCOHOL and is quite potent. Drinking in moderation is fun- drinking in excess can really be quite harmful to your body!

1/4oz gin
1/4oz rum
1/4oz vodka
1/4oz tequila
1/4oz triple sec
1oz sugar-free sour mix