Mojito Recipe

Ingredients:

Directions:
Squeeze the lime into a glass. Add sugar. Muddle. Add mint and lightly muddle. Add enough crushed ice to fill the glass 2/3. Pour in rum stir and fill the top with seltzer water.

Vodka Lemonade Crush

For a truly refreshing cocktail try the Vodka Lemonade Crush. Commercial lemonade, which is basically fizzy sugar water, is very high in calories. So, why not make real homemade lemonade instead. It's cool and refreshing and much lighter on the calories despite the sugar included in the recipe. (Sugar measures in at 16 calories per teaspoon).

Put the sugar and salt in a saucepan with 4 cups of boiling water and boil for 2 minutes. Chill the mixture and add the lemon juice, vodka and crushed ice. Serve in a pitcher with lemon slices and mint garnish. Each of the four

Gin or Vodka Diet Tonic

A Gin or Vodka Tonic contains around 200 calories, but if you're watching the calories, use Diet Tonic instead. You save yourself around 100 calories and as "every calorie counts!" These drinks are the simplest of cocktail choices.

Fill a tall glass with ice cubes and lemon and lime wedges as shown. Pour Gin over ice cubes and fill with tonic water. Stir gently and add a garnish of lemon

Vodka Diet Cranberry

Another poolside favorite is the Vodka Cranberry. Cranberry Juice is high in sugars, which pushes up the calorie count to over 250 for this drink. A Vodka Diet Cranberry contains only 140 calories.

Pour 1½ oz. Vodka into a chilled cocktail glass filled with ice and lemon wedges. Add club soda to 2/3 full and then top off with diet cranberry juice (may use regular). Garnish

Cuba Libre Lite

Did you know that a Rum and cola has 240 calories? There is a 140-calorie difference between cola and diet cola. This tasty libation is one of the best picks for summertime cocktail and can be garnished with ample lime or lemon for a citrus infusion.

Pour 1 ½ ounces of light or dark rum into a tall chilled glass filled with ice and lime wedges and top off with diet cola. Stir gently and garnish with lime wedges. Rum and Diet Coke is the appealing choice for weight-watchers at about 110 calories

Whiskey Tea Smash

A perennial favorite for summer is Ice Tea. The Whiskey Tea Smash is a very simple recipe, and weighs in at around 160 calories! Brew some of your favorite tea and then chill for a personal touch.

Muddle (or mash) a piece of peach and a wedge of lemon with the ½ oz. simple syrup in the bottom of a mixing glass. Add 1½ oz. Bourbon and 3 oz. iced tea and shake well with ice. Strain the drink into a rock glass filled with ice. Garnish with a slice of peach and a lemon wedge.