5 healthy and delicious cocktails under 200 calories

For when you’re trying to fit into your mar-teeny jeans.

We’re going to be honest with you – we don’t mind a cocktail. And when we say we ‘don’t mind’ one, what we actually mean is that we ONLY have three Pinterest boards dedicated to cocktails.

But, you want to know what else we don’t mind? Being a little bit healthy. No, we don’t want to be crazy healthy or anything – you’ll never see us at the supermarket with a bunch of kale and a tub of Greek yoghurt – but we like to look after ourselves.

But sometimes our love of cocktails and our desire to be healthy don’t really mesh well – that is until now! You see, some cocktails can have more calories than three mars bars (that’s 732.6 calories in case you wanted to know), and that’s WAY too many for our liking.

But, never fear, because we found some awesome cocktail recipes that have only about a quarter of those calories!

And, get this – if you use the juices from Eastcoast Juice, you’ll be getting your daily dose of natural sugar, and all the benefits – such as fibre and proteins – that come with it!

Now, excuse us while we head to the gin…whoops, we mean gym.

Skinny Grapefruit Margarita

Ingredients:

1 shot Triple Sec

1 shot tequila

1/3 cup Red Ruby Grapefruit Juice from Eastcoast Juice

80mls 100% Lime Juice from Eastcoast Juice

½ cup sparkling water

Method:

Combine all ingredients and pour over ice into a medium/large glass.

Cherry Vodka and Grapefruit Lemonade Slushies

Ingredients:

1 cup Country Style Lemonade from Eastcoast Juice

2 tbsp Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice from Eastcoast Juice

2 shots cherry vodka

½ cup water

2 cups ice

Method:

Put all ingredients in a high-powered blender, and blend! Pour into medium/large glasses, and top with a cherry or mint.

Bloody Mary

Ingredients:

1 ½ shots vodka

½ cup Tomato Juice from Eastcoast Juice

2 tsp 100% Lemon Juice from Eastcoast Juice

1-3 dashes of Tabasco sauce (to taste)

4 – 6 dashes Worcestershire sauce (to taste)

Celery stick

Lemon wedge

Method

Pour vodka, tomato juice, lemon juice and both sauces into a shaker. Shake gently and strain into a glass. Garnish with a celery stick and lemon wedge.

Spiced Whiskey Sour

Ingredients:

2 tbsp water

1 ½ tbsp sugar

½ tsp five spice

3 tbsp 100% Lemon Juice from Eastcoast Juice

1 ½ shots bourbon

Ice

Method

Combine sugar and water in a small microwave safe bowl, and microwave on high for 20 seconds or until sugar dissolves. Stir in five-spice powder and let sit until room temperature. Pour sugar syrup, lemon juice and bourbon in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake mixture for 10 to 20 seconds, and strain into 2 glasses filled with ice.

Vodka in Pink