CALORIES IN ALCOHOL & HOLIDAY SPIRITS

Holiday Dieting Tips - Choosing the Super Foods

Alcohol reeks in calories and has the ability to blow your diet plan to Uranus. Some tips to keep your diet safe include:

Don't invite any Toms, Mickies, Jacks, Daniels or injured Mary's to your holiday party.

If you have a bottle of spirits that contains a worm, first, empty the bottle (no - not into you!). Next, carefully ease out the worm. Give life-saving mouth to mouth, then release the little bugger in your garden among the beets. Added plus? Your beets will be pre-pickled come harvest time.

If you do drink, don't think that chewing cinnamon flavored gum will mask the alcohol smell. And now for the alcohol calorie count:

SPECIALTY SPIRIT DRINK	CALORIES
Bloody Mary	86
Bull Shot	91
Gin Rickey	104
Gimlet	110
Mint Julep	115
Kir	121
Madras	123
Daiquiri	125
Cuba Libre (Rum & Cola)	127
Gin Fizz	130
Black Russian	137
Mimosa	137
Between The Sheets	141
Bacardi	144
Hot Buttered Rum	158
French 75	170
Gin & Tonic	175
Gin & Bitter Lemon	181
Manhattan	183
Margarita	185
Gibson	207
Martini	210
Irish Coffee	218
Alexander	244
Golden Cadillac	250
Brandy Alexander	253
Grasshopper	255
Harvey Wallbanger	258
Golden Dream	269
Mai Tai	310
Pina Colada	342