Summer Tipples…..

Long, hot summer days, perfect evenings to enjoy a nice, cold refreshing drink. So what’s your poison??

We’ve put together a guide to the highest and lowest in calories so that you can still enjoy all the things that go with Summer drinking, without the damage. Often enjoying an alcoholic drink can impact your determination, weaken your resolve and make you feel hungry leading to the munchies and abandonment of all your good intentions! Too many swallows will not a slimmer summer make!!

So here’s your general A – Z, if you have more, please add them in the comments!

All information given is for 1 pt unless stated otherwise

Beers and Lagers

These are the full calorie versions

• Carling 189 cals
• Guinness 210 cals
• Heineken 236 cals

But if you switch to 0%

• Guinness is 91 cals
• Heineken is 119 cals

Ciders

These are the full calorie versions

• Dry cider 204 cals
• Fruit cider (a 500 ml bottle) 300 cals
• Sweet cider 239 cals

But if you switch to 0%

• Fruit cider (a 500 ml bottle) 205 cals.
• but Thatchers Zero Somerset Cider 260 cals (which is higher than regular Cider)

Cordials

• Blackcurrant (25) ml is 3 cals
• Lime (25) ml is 2 cals.

Cocktails

Typical Pub Measures

• Amaretto Sour 175 cals
• Bloody Mary 152 cals
• Blue Lagoon 123 cals
• Cosmopolitan 195 cals
• Espresso Martini 174 cals
• Long Island Iced Tea 152 cals
• Manhattan 233 cals
• Margarita 185 cals
• Mimosa 148 cals
• Mojito 127 cals
• Passion Fruit Martini 224 cals
• Peach Bellini 229 cals
• Pina Colada 320 cals
• Sex on The Beach 202 cals
• Strawberry Daiquiri 157 cals
• Tequila Sunrise 180 cals

Fruit Juices

J20 Orange and Passion Fruit (a 275 ml bottle) 52 cals

Orange Juice (½ pt) 263 cals

Pineapple Juice (½ pt) 280 cals

Liqueurs

50 ml measure

• Amaretto 154 cals
• Baileys 164 cals
• Chambord 106 cals
• Cherry Brandy 131 cals
• Cointreau 157 cals
• Disaronno 170 cals
• Grand Marnier 115 cals
• Jägermeister 126 cals
• Limoncello 172 cals
• Tia Maria 118 cals.

Mixers

Regular Versions

• Canada Dry (200 ml) 56 cals
• Coke (½ pt) 235 cals
• Fever Tree (200 ml) 56 cals
• Lemonade (½ pt) 101 cals
• Ginger Ale (200 ml) 40 cals
• Red Bull (250 ml) 115 cals
• Tonic Water (200 ml) 44 cals

Low Calorie Versions

• Canada Dry Slimline (200 ml) 2 cals
• Coke Zero (½ pt) 0 cals
• Fever Tree Light (200 ml) 30 cals
• Lemonade Light (½ pt) 11 cals
• Ginger Ale Light (200 ml) 2 cals
• Red Bull Sugar Free (250 ml) 8 cals
• Slimline Tonic Water (200 ml) 4 cals.

Spirits

50 ml measure (Pub Double)

• Brandy 111 cals
• Fruit Gins 104 cals
• Gordon’s Alcohol Free Gin 6 cals
• Gordon’s Original Gin 104 cals
• Vodka 104 cals
• Pimm’s 80 cals
• Port 79 cals
• Whiskey 111 cals

Wines

175 ml (Pub medium measure)

• Champagne 133 cals
• Prosecco 130 cals
• Red 133 cals
• Rosé 138 cals
• White Dry 131 cals
• White Sweet 164 cals

And there you have it, there’s bound to be some that haven’t been included, but please feel free to add your particular favourite in the comments. It’s certainly makes you realise that a night out could cost you many hidden calories, so maybe the question might be: Do you want to eat them…..Or drink them, to achieve success, happiness and health each week, moderation and balance must be a conscious decision, planned for and controlled.

And last but not least remember “Elbow” pours at home tend to be more generous than pub measures!

A glass here and a glass there…
can all add up to another layer!!

jackie and sonya