Free 1001 Low-Carb Recipes: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes From Dinner to Dessert That Let You Live Your Low-Carb Lifestyle and Never Look Back by Dana Carpender

(Ocean Spray makes one.)
8 ounces (240 ml) pink grapefruit–flavored Crystal Light (or any no-sugar grapefruit-flavored drink mix), prepared
    Combine the tequila and cranberry juice cocktail in a tall glass, fill with ice, and pour in the grapefruit-flavored drink.
    Yield: 1 serving
    3 grams of carbohydrate, 0 grams fiber, and 0 grams protein.
Hard Lemonade
    Commercially made hard lemonade is actually a malt beverage—in the same class as beer. That makes it high carb right there, plus it has sugar. But how hard can it be to make your own?
     
1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) vodka
Sugar-free lemonade (Both Country Time and Wyler’s make a sugar-free lemonade mix.)
    Just fill a tall glass with ice, pour in the vodka, and fill with sugar-free lemonade. Garnish with a lemon slice, if you like!
    Yield: 1 serving
    1 gram carbohydrate, 0 grams fiber, and 0 grams protein.
Mojito
    I’m tragically unhip. I discovered the Mojito while writing this book and fell in love with it—only to learn it had been the hot drink for at least a year!
     
    If you haven’t tried this classic Cuban drink, you must. (Don’t have fresh mint? There’s nothing easier to grow—indeed, plant mint and it will threaten to take over your yard!)
    1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) white rum
1 tablespoon (15 ml) lime juice
1 sprig fresh mint
1 teaspoon Splenda
Club soda to fill
    Combine the rum, lime juice, mint, and Splenda in the bottom of a tall glass. Using the back of a spoon, press the mint well to release the flavor and stir everything together. Now fill the glass with ice, then with club soda.
    Yield: 1 serving
    2 grams carbohydrate, a trace of fiber, and a trace of protein.
Wine Spritzer
    This is a great drink if you want something mild that you can sip on for a while without getting incapacitated. (A good thing to bear in mind if you have to play around with the grill rack and manipulate hot coals!)
     
3 ounces (90 ml) dry red wine
Unsweetened berry-flavored sparkling water to fill.
    Pour the wine over ice in a tall glass and pour in berry-flavored sparkling water to fill
    Yield: 1 serving
    1 gram carbohydrate, 0 grams fiber, a trace of protein.
Wine Cooler
    You have a lot of leeway here! Basically, you’re combining wine and diet soda. Experiment to find your favorite combinations.
     
3 to 5 ounces (90 to 150 ml) dry wine—red or white, whichever you prefer
Diet soda—consider trying lemon-lime, red raspberry, tangerine or orange, or grapefruit (Fresca)
    Pour the wine over ice in a tall glass and fill with the soda of your choice.
    Yield: 1 serving
    Assuming you use 3 ounces (90 ml) of wine, this will have about 1 gram of carbohydrate, 0 grams fiber, and a trace of protein.
Salty Dog
    This old summer favorite is usually made with grapefruit juice—at 22 grams of carbohydrate per cup. We’d better use the pink grapefruit–flavored Crystal Light!
     
Coarse salt
1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) gin
Crystal Light pink grapefruit–flavored sugar-free drink mix (or any no-sugar grapefruit-flavored drink mix), prepared
    Rim a tall glass with salt. Fill it with ice and add the gin and Crystal Light grapefruit-flavored drink.
    Yield: 1 serving
    1 gram carbohydrate, 0 grams fiber, 0 grams protein.
Dark and Stormy
    A classic Dark and Stormy is made with ginger beer, not ginger ale, but there is no such thing as low-carb ginger beer, at least that I know of. So, I tried it with diet ginger ale and got a very tasty drink!
     
1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) dark rum
1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) lime juice
Vernor’s Diet Ginger Ale (I like to use Vernor’s because it’s particularly crisp, but if you can’t find it, use any diet ginger ale you can get.)
    Put the rum and lime juice in a tall glass, add ice, and fill with ginger ale.
    Yield: 1 serving
    3 grams of carbohydrate, a trace of fiber, and a trace of protein.
Shandy
    This is a classic British summer cooler. If you make two, you’ll use up all the beer and all the ginger ale!
     
6 ounces (180 ml)