Low Calorie Mixed Drinks You Can Make at Home
Looking for super simple, easy mixed drinks you can make at home in a snap? Here’s a list of cocktails anyone can make at home in under two minutes – including drinks that are low carb friendly, relatively budget friendly, and fool proof. Let me know if you’ve come up with any drinks of your own that you can make in just a minute or two at home, I’d love to hear.
If you are at a restaurant or bar, you will notice that most drinks have about 300 calories. If you have two drinks, that’s the equivalent of eating a whole meal, not to mention that it’s empty calories of sugar, fat, and alcohol.
Some people, when they drink, they just have one drink. That’s their dessert, that’s their splurge, they have their one tiramisu martini, and that’s it. How… moderate. This is not my way. If I am going to drink, I don’t usually plan to have just one. That’s why I came up with this list of drinks that don’t contain excessive amounts of calories, fat, or sugar. I stick to these options and it makes the night enjoyable without the guilt and anxiety of drinking the equivalent of half a cheesecake.
A couple notes: None of these have added sugars, but some are higher in carbs from natural sugars than others, and some have a higher fat content and therefore higher calorie count, but are low in carbs.
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Coke and Rum (with Diet Coke)
The ideal keto drink – zero sugars, zero carbs, 100-200 calories from the rum depending on what type of rum and whether you make it a single or a double. The Diet Coke makes it sweet without adding the awful amount of sugar that a regular Coke provides.
1.5 oz rum
103 calories, zero carbs, keto friendly.
Easy peasy Sangria Recipe
Using chilled Sangria wine (or another red wine of your choice) mixed with Zero Sprite in a 1:1 ratio, and then add a shot of vodka. If you want to make it fruitier, you can use Zero Sugar Cherry 7-Up.
If you have the extra ambition to make it fancy, you can add some cut up apples, which are a fruit that is lower in carbs.
3 oz Sangria wine
3 oz Zero Sprite or Zero Sugar Cherry 7-Up
1.5 oz vodka
Something about drinking sangria makes me feel footloose, fancy, and oh-so-feminine.
187 calories (not including the apple), 3g carbs
Vodka Cream Soda
Using the Diet Coke or Coke Zero again, mix soda with one shot of vodka and half and half. Serve in a glass over ice. I love this because I trick myself into thinking I am drinking a cocktail with Bailey’s Irish Cream, but I’m not. It’s also a nice change up from a typical Coke mixed drink.
1 can Coke Zero
1.5 oz vodka
splash of half and half
163 calories, zero carbs, keto friendly.
Low Sugar pina colada
EA regular Pina colada is high in calories, fat, and has over 30g of added sugars. Either of these versions are much better.
Version 1: Natural Homemade Pina Colada
1 oz unsweetened coconut milk (if you aren’t worried about fat, you can use coconut cream)
3 oz pineapple juice
1 oz rum
Blend together with ice in a cocktail shaker or blender and drink with a cute umbrella.
180 calories, 7g fat, 14g carbs, zero grams added sugars
Keto Note: In this The calories come in at about 100 from the rum, 100 from the coconut milk, and 50 from the pineapple juice, but all the carbs come from the pineapple juice.
Version 2: Low Carb, Low Sugar using Mix
(This mix does have 5g added sugars, which is slightly over a teaspoon)
2-3 parts Skinny Pina Colada Mix
1 part rum
ice
Blend and Enjoy
hARD lEMONADE (Sugar free)
You can always find the sugar free lemonade packets in on Amazon or at grocery stores like Aldi.
Sugar Free Lemonade On the Go Packets
2-3 parts water
1 part vodka
Just mix with water until dissolved and pour over 1.5 oz vodka and ice. You can also try pink lemonade.
Sugar Free Pink Lemonade On the Go Packets
103 calories, zero carbs, keto friendly.
sPIKED pEACH ICED TEA (SUGAR fREE)
Most grocery stores sell sugar free, low calorie peach iced tea packets that are actually really good. Mix with water and a shot of vodka until dissolved and pour over ice.
1 serving peach iced tea mix
2-3 parts water
1 part vodka
ice
103 calories, zero carbs, keto friendly.
Easy bloody mary
Tomatoes and tomato juice are not “low carb” or “keto friendly” by nature, so I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone following a super strict keto diet.
1.5 oz vodka
3 oz Zing Zang Award Winning Bloody Mary Mix (this mix is as low in carbs as V-8 or other tomato juice, and although it is sweetened it has no “added sugars” per serving)
158 calories, 12g carbs, zero grams added sugar. high in sodium.
You can also find a more complicated Bloody Mary recipe online and it will be more homemade/natural, but here’s the speedy way for those of us who don’t have the patience for celery salt and slicing up limes.
Mango green tea and whiskey
A nice, unique combination of mango, green tea, and whiskey if you’re looking for a change of scenery. Mix the sugar free mango green tea packet with water until dissolved, then stir in a shot of whiskey and pour over ice.
1 serving sugar free mango green tea mix
4 oz water
1.5 oz whiskey
ice
106 calories, zero carbs, keto friendly.
FRUIT PUNCH with a punch (sugar free)
Alas, regular margaritas are as bad as soda when it comes to sugary syrupy death. The handy solution is the packets of low calorie sugar free fruit punch and some tequila. They sell the fruit punch packets on Amazon or stores like Walmart and Aldi. Mix to your heart’s delight and serve over ice.
1 on-the-go packet of low calorie fruit punch mix
4 oz water
1 oz tequila
ice
111 calories, zero carbs, keto friendly.
SUGAR FREE PALOMA (GRAPEFRUIT Sparkling Frost )
Aldi sells these single carbonated fruity drinks called Sparkling Frost that have no carbs or calories, but they are sweet, unlike seltzer. (They are only sold at Aldi, but there is another brand on Amazon called Sparkling Ice.).
A Paloma has grapefruit soda and tequila, and you can add in a splash of lime
1.5 oz tequila
1 bottle of grapefruit Sparkling Frost or Sparkling Ice
Aldi sells other flavors too, like cherry lime and blackberry.
111 calories, zero carbs, keto friendly.
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