Healthy alternatives to your favorite alcoholic beverages!
Mocktails
Whether you're sober-curious, fully sober, or simply want to cut back on the alcohol you consume, mocktails are an easy healthier alternative for your favorite alcoholic beverages. Our non-alcoholic mocktail recipes make virgin drinks just as tasty and satisfying as the real thing.
An increasing number of non-alcoholic spirits, wines, beers, and mixers are available, which are a great way to substitute alcohol for a more health-conscious choice. These can be added to our mocktail recipes below, although they taste great without them too!
Below are a few easy mocktail recipes to get you started. Keep in mind when creating a mocktail as an alcohol alternative, it really helps to add fun garnishes, such as:
- Fruit wedge or spiral peel
- Melons cut into fun shapes
- Cucumber slices
- Celery
- Lime slices on pick w/raspberries
- Edible flowers (alone or frozen in ice cubes)
- Lavender
- Basil or mint leaves
Mocktail Recipes:
Crisp & Cool Strawberry Kombucha (single serving):
In a shaker, blender or or tall glass muddle together the following:
- 3 strawberries
- 3 mint sprigs
- Juice of 1 lime
- 1 tsp honey (optional - try without first)
Then top with:
- Crushed ice
- Organic Ginger or Berry Kombucha
And garnish with a mint sprig!
Healthy Sparkling Mojito (4 servings):
- 2 cups iced peppermint tea
- 3 tbs honey (optional)
- Handful of fresh mint leaves
- 2 limes juice and zest
- 3 oranges or blood oranges juiced
Add all items to the blender to combine. Then fill glasses half full and top with:
- Sparkling water (Spindrift, Topo Chico or citrus flavored Pellegrino or LaCroix)
- Garnish with mint sprig or citrus wedge
Watermelon Green Tea Refresher (4 servings):
- 1 & 1/2 cup iced green tea
- 4 cup chilled, cubed, seeded watermelon
- 3 tbs fresh lemon juice
Blend all in blender for ~1 minute. Pour into glasses and garnish w/lemon wedge.
Quality of life improvements & reasons to cut back your alcohol intake:
- Fatigue
- Brain, heart, GI health
- Hormone issues or diabetes
- Cancer
- Weight management
- Improved sleep & mood
- Money
- Relationships, role-modeling for kids and grandkids
Some secrets to building new habits:
- Set a manageable time chunk 60-100 days
- Get clear on your why/intention
- Identify cues, triggers, cravings
- Come up with alternative responses to situations or triggers
- Seek support - make it public
- Create environment for success (the new habit must be attractive, easy, satisfying, enjoyable)
"You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your habits"
Signs you may have a problem with alcohol consumption:
- You cannot wait until that next drink
- You are constantly thinking about the next drink
- You think of a drink as your daily reward
- Alcohol is your crutch for negative feelings
- You feel you NEED a drink to relax or to have fun socially or fall asleep
- You cannot stop once you start
- Your drinking is causing health and/or relationship problems
Key takeaways to help make the switch to mocktails:
- Make it a treat
- Complex flavor balance of bitterness, acidity, sweetness, heat
- Keeping added sugars to a minimum
Gather the ingredients and mix along with LifeScape Nutritionist, Dana Bosselmann, & special guest Dr. Susan Wilder, LifeScape Founder & CEO, as they create these healthy & delicious mocktails [watch here]
Originally published July 28th, 2021