How to Make Healthy Low Calorie Margaritas
Margaritas conjure up images of summer for many people. They see themselves sipping the refreshing drink poolside or at a backyard gathering. But all of the calories in a traditional margarita mix can wreak havoc on your waistline. With the right recipes, however, you can have your margaritas without feeling guilty about your diet. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Make a basic margarita with one simple substitution. Squeeze 1 whole lemon into a glass. Add 1 cup of water and 1 package of sugar substitute Stevia. Add one shot of tequila and ice cubes and stir. By using Stevia instead of sugar, you're saving a lot of calories, because Stevia has hardly any.
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Create a low-calorie lemon-lime margarita. Squeeze one whole lemon and one whole lime into a blender. Add 1 cup of water and fill the blender with ice. Add 2 shots of tequila, and blend well. If you would like your margarita a little sweeter, add 1 package of Stevia before blending, but this margarita will taste just fine to many people without it. Most of the calories in this drink come from the tequila.
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Make a strawberry margarita. Remove six strawberries from a package of frozen strawberries for each margarita. Put the strawberries in a blender. For each drink, add 1 shot of tequila, ice and about 1/2 cup of water. Blend and stir. Just like with the lemon-lime margarita, most of the calories in this drink come from the tequila.
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Tips & Warnings
Blend fruits such as bananas and pineapple in with the other ingredients to make a tropical low-calorie margarita.
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