Recently I had the opportunity to submit a recipe for a "low-calorie" cocktail reminiscent of the beach. Immediately I started throwing a margarita to end all margaritas. But, was told that they wanted, shudder, a pina colada.
Uh, low fat coconut milk? Let me just pull that one out ..... oh yeah, its over here, next to the Neverending Story book... Whatever! So, needless to say, I pulled it out and this is what I came up with:
Coconut water - 30 calories but fat free and we're only using 4oz. The best way it to create ice cubes out of the coconut water but who wants to give all the secrets away, right?
Fat free vanilla yogurt - 4oz as well. I like yoplait source but anything will work. - 17 calories and fat free.
Some fresh pineapple - 1/3 cup. 20 calories
Some rum - roughly 80 calories.....
Some agave nectar (60 calories) or stevia (0 calories)
And, voila - not too bad and its less than 150 calories and virtually fat free!
So, here's the "who knew" part. Agave Nectar has quite a bit of calories considering how little is actually being used in a cocktail. Regardless, stick with me and make the drinks properly and you'll cut calories and fat. No matter how many calories found in Agave Nectar, its still less than in that pre-mixed crap...
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