Soft Drinks & Alcohol Free Cocktails

[Chim Girl]

I'm going to have a booze free January, given the fact that it is my birthday during the month I'm planning to make some interesting drinks. Anyone have any suggestions please?

[Mobile Chicane]

If I'm not drinking, I have elderflower cordial and fizzy water in a wine glass.

It's a bit more grown up than the Diet Coke / lime and soda thing, and I feel (marginally) less deprived.

[Bob the Planner]

Mmmmmm - theres a challenge then ! The following are stuff I have tried in the past and found enjoyable (on th odd occasion where I am off the alcohol)

4 measures peach juice
2 measures orange juice
1 measure lemon juice
Crushed Ice
4 measures soda water
Slices of lemon, orange and lime

Mix the juices and ice. Pour unstrained into a glass and ad a splash of soda water. Decorate with the fruit slices.

Or

cool a glass in the freezer for a bit.
5-6 strawberries
1/4" slice of pineapple
juice of 1/2 lemon
juice of 1/2 orange
a dash of syrop de fraise

Blend together the friuts and juices retaining a strawberry. Slosh the syrop round the glass, add the blended juices and garnish the edge of the glass with the strawberry. Add crushed ice if desired.

or

2 oz raspberries
4 fl oz lemonade
1 small scoop vanilla ice cream
Lime slice

Blend the raspberies and lemonade to afine pulp. Add the ice cream and a slice of lime.

or
2 very ripe bananas
3-4 tbsp greek yogurt
1-2 tbsp full fat milk
1 tbsp soft dark brown sugar

Blend all the ingredients (with a glug of dark rum if not on the wagon) until smooth. Pour into a glass

Hope the above give you a few ideas.

[Rude Girl]

Not very exciting, but these are my alcohol free choices (I don't really like sweet stuff):

If out, tonic water tarted up to look like G&T. Always distracts the people who are desperate to tempt you off the wagon.

Out or at home, a Virgin Mary - bloody mary without the vodka.

At home, ginger cordial and soda water or lemonade or soda with angostura bitters.

[H_Kan]

Asda do a non alcoholic sparkling Muscat. Comes in a champagne style bottle and you can pop the cork etc, is only about 1.50 a bottle.

Most of my family don't drink, so for various occasions I usually grab some of this for toasts etc. Most of us really like it as well, even those of us who do drink.

[eightseventhree]

buy some of these

http://www.fentimans.com/ they are the best!

[Chim Girl]

Thank you for those.

Much like you RG I'm not a huge fan of sweet drinks, I've found that sparkling water with a few drops of Angostura Bitters and a wedge of lime is really nice.