If you have been reading my blog, then you know I love Green Smoothies, so when I saw this blog post from Teresa at Eat. Drink. Be Skinny! I knew I had to read and share it! I hope that you enjoy her post as much as I do, head over to her blog to read more. Thanks to Teresa for letting me share her post!
Green Drink Cocktails
Green Drink + Booze? I know you’ve seen them! And you wonder…what the heck? Who’s putting kale in a cocktail and why would they do that?
In the spring of this year, I launched my first Green Cocktail, the Lean Green SkinnyTini Machine,
as an Earth Day inspired cocktail. I’ve used the recipe at a few other
social mixers and it always gets rave reviews. And most recently, to my
fantastic surprise, it won the Smirnoff Go Green Cocktail Challenge and
was featured on their FaceBook Page this week. And it looks like the Smirnoff fans were in awe as well.
This bad boy got more Likes and Shares than Sandra Lee’s Green Cocktail…not that anybody is counting 
I’ve changed the alcohol base of this
cocktail a few times over, but the mix is always fresh cucumber juice,
fresh lime, fresh mint, sweetened with Stevia and topped off with soda
water. It’s all natural, artificial sweetener free, low calorie and may
have other detoxifying health benefits.
So to Answer the Original Question
Why would somebody put kale in a cocktail?
Why mix the wonder and alkalizing health benefits of the green drink and
douse them in acidifying alcohol? I don’t know why others do it. Maybe
its a marketing trick because the green juice industry is blowing up. It
didn’t take the booze hounds long to figure out that energy drinks
created a larger buzz (both socially and physiologically), so why not
try the next best thing? I can’t speak for them.
Fancy green cocktails are popping up everywhere!
Why I Created My First Green Drink Cocktail
I can however tell you why I created my
first Green Drink Gone Wild and why I’ll probably make a few more.
Alcohol does indeed have an acidifying affect on your body’s PH. That
means it’s harder to get nutrients inside your cells and toxins out.
When your blood is slightly alkaline, things work better. Fresh green
juice is one of the most alkalizing tonics on earth. So my logical mind
tells me this…I may not be getting the full health benefits of the green
drink by shaking it with booze, but isn’t it then likely that perhaps
I’m not acidifying my body either? Can’t they cancel each other out?
Don’t you feel healthier and more sophisticated by just looking at it?
And guess what? At the end of the day,
health benefits aside, this Lean Green SkinnyTini Machine just tastes
good! I do think we’ll see more and more of them pop up in specialty
restaurants and bars soon. So give one a try. It may not be proven to
cure cancer, but at the very least will be refreshing, reviving and
relaxing!
And a Word of Caution
Just because it’s green, in NO WAY implies
health benefits of any kind. Most traditional liquors that are used to
color our glasses green are not skinny or healthy. Apple Pucker, Creme
de Menthe, Midori and Sour Apple Schnapps are a health minded, dieters’
worst nightmare. They are loaded with excess sugar and can easily run
you 100 calories per ounce for 20% booze (clean vodka is 64 calories per
ounce and 40% booze). Read or ask the bartender for ingredients if
you’re looking for a potentially healthy tonic and look for things fruit
and vegetable juice bases. The murkier the better 
Do you have a different green drink gone wild cocktail you would like to share? I’d love to hear about and feature your recipe…but only if it’s tasty
Cheers!
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