Lisa Lillien - Hungry Girl Happy Hour: 75 Recipes for Amazingly Fantastic Guilt-Free Cocktails and Party Foods

Welcome to Hungry Girl Happy Hour , the cutest cocktail book in the universe! On these pages youll find recipes for 50 amazingly delicious, completely guilt-free cocktails and 25 incredible HG-friendly party foods. These drinks and snack foods are SO fantastic, no one would EVER believe theyre low in calories and fat. NO ONE. Not your skeptical nosy neighbor. Not your diet-food-hating best friend. Not even your beer-guzzling husband.

So quit procrastinating and start flipping through this book. Like, NOW. Things to Have on Hand Theres no fancy-schmancy stuff required. Heres a list of simple things you should keep around A variety of glasses. A few martini glasses (small and large), several tall and short glasses, a couple of shot glasses, and some margarita glasses will keep you covered. A shaker.

Aside from helping to chill your drinks, shakers are FUN. Plus, most standard shakers include a strainertwo tools in one! A blender. Theres a whole chapter about blended drinks. To enjoy these, youll definitely need a blender. Measuring cups and spoons. (See Handy-Dandy Conversion Chart.) But if youre feeling fancy, invest in a jigger and a spouted measuring cup with markings for each fluid ounce. (See Handy-Dandy Conversion Chart.) But if youre feeling fancy, invest in a jigger and a spouted measuring cup with markings for each fluid ounce.

A muddler and a corkscrew. Youll only need these for a handful of recipes. But theyre worth having around. Nonessentials for added enjoyment. Colorful bendy straws, little paper umbrellas, toothpicks shaped like swords, a tip jar (you never know)These will WOW your friends when they come over for drinks! Things to Know Look for rum, vodka, and tequila with 40% alcohol content (80 proof). This will ensure that your drinks taste delicious and that the nutritional info is 100% accurate.

Whenever possible, keep your cocktail ingredients cold. This way, your drinks wont be warm or watered down. You can de-booze most of these drinks by swapping out the liquor for something else. When it comes to soda-based drinks, use an equal amount of extra soda in place of the alcohol. For creamy drinks, use more of the creamy liquid base (usually light soymilk). Like most cocktail recipes, ours list liquid ingredients by the fluid ounce.

But if youre working with measuring cups and spoons, this should help Handy-Dandy Conversion Chart

And if youre working with a shot glass or a jigger, know that 1 shot is the equivalent of 1 ounces or 3 tablespoons. Recommended Products Sugar-Free Calorie-Free Flavored Syrup Torani Sugar Free HG Heads Up! Look for Torani at specialty stores like BevMo! and Cost Plus World Market, or order online at torani.com. Some of the more common flavorslike vanillacan be found at supermarkets in the coffee aisle. You can also find many flavors of sugar-free syrup at some coffee chainsjust ask for a few ounces of the syrup to go! 25-Calorie Packets Diet Hot Cocoa Mix Swiss Miss Diet, Nestl Fat Free No-Calorie Sweetener Packets Splenda HG Heads Up! As far as taste is concerned, Splenda is BY FAR our favorite. However, if you prefer an all-natural option, stevia will work, too. Light Vanilla Soymilk 8th Continent Light, Silk Light HG Alternative! Although technically not soymilk, Blue Diamond Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze is an amazing milk swap with only 40 calories per cup.

Use this stuff and your cocktails will have even fewer calories. Find it with the non-refrigerated boxed milks at select supermarkets and health food stores. Diet Cranberry Juice Drink Ocean Spray Diet Diet Lemon-Lime Soda Sprite Zero Sugar-Free Powdered Drink Mix Crystal Light Fat-Free Vanilla Ice Cream Breyers Smooth & Dreamy Fat Free HG Alternative! Dreyers/Edys Slow Churned Light Ice Cream may not be fat-free, but it tastes FANTASTIC and wont affect recipe nutritionals very much at all. One last thing: Please, please, please drink responsibly. (That includes being of the legal drinking age.) Just cuz youre drinking guilt-free cocktails doesnt mean you wont be guilty of doing something TERRIBLE if you drink and drive. So be safe, okay? Thats itCOCKTAIL TIME!

OMG! Key lime pie, Creamsicles, pumpkin-liciousness, and fruity fun.

The drinks in this chapter are almost too delicious for words. And heres a little tip: Chill out! To make your cocktails stay cold longer, stick the glasses in the freezer for a while before whipping up your drinks. Or simply fill the glasses with ice (crushed works best), and let em chill while you make the cocktails. COOL. Okay, lets not waste any more time. Let the mixing begin!

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PER SERVING (entire recipe, 1 martini): 129 calories, 0g fat, 21mg sodium, 7g carbs, 0g fiber, 4g sugars, 0g protein

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