Festive drinks

Chris-Mist
Ingredient:
1 oz cranberry juice (either regular or sugar free)
1 oz cranberry vodka
Splash of Lime Juice
Top with Sierra Mist

Directions: In shaker combine: Cranberry Juice, cranberry vodka and lime. Shake over ice and strain into glass. Top with Sierra Mist.

Berry Christmas
Ingredients:
2 oz cranberry juice (or other favorite red juice)
Splash of lime juice
Sierra Mist

Directions: Fill glass with ice (or chill all ingredients and skip the ice). Add to glass: cranberry juice, splash of lime juice and then top with Sierra Mist. Granish with something festive and fun (above: glass is rimmed with green sugar crystals and adorned with a candy cane twist).

Cosmopolitan Slushy

Ingredients:
10 ounce (1 1/4 cups) citrus-flavored vodka
1/2 cup Rose's lime juice
2 cups cranberry juice
4 ice cube trays

Directions
1. Combine vodka, lime juice, and cranberry juice  in a pitcher with 2 cups water and stir to blend. Divide between ice cube trays and freeze at least 4 hours or overnight (the drink cubes will freeze only partially.
2 Just before serving empty trays into a large bowl and using a fork, break up cubes to loosen ice crystals (the ice will be slushlike). Spoon slush into tall stemmed glasses and serve immediately.


Lime Sorbet Margaritas
Ingredients
1 lime, cut into 8 wedges
1/4 cup sugar
2 pints lime sorbet
1/2 cup tequila

Directions
1. rub the lime wedges around the rims of 8 stemmed glasses. Place the sugar on a small plate. turn each glass upside down and dip the rims in the sugar to coat.
2 place 2 scoops of sorbet in each glass and pour 1 tablespoon of tequila over the top of each serve with a spoon.

 Cucumber Saketini
Ingredients
3 ounces gin
1/2 ounce sake
5 thin slices of cucumber.

Directions
1. In a shaker with ice, mix together the gin and sake. Strain into a martini glass and garnish with the cucumber.

Sweets

I have the biggest sweet tooth. When you see me you will be able to tell that I do. But since I am getting married next year I really need to slow down on those sweet foods. Sweet foods can really cause your weight to really balloon because of the calories. When you are making sweet items at home but don't want the same calories as the original recipes switching out things that would add those unwanted calories.

1. Sugar can be replaced with splenda or other sweetners.
2. All purpose flour can be replaced with whole wheat flour
3. Whole milk can be replaced non-fat milk
4. Fat free icing
5. Making smaller portions