there's something about having an umbrella
in your drink and a flower in your hair it just makes me feel like i'm on a tropical
vacation on a beach somewhere and the sun's out and it's gorgeous perfect weather and
that's not the case today and this isn't alcohol in here because it's only 10 a.m when
i'm filming this it's just sparkling water but the weather is getting warmer outside and
so i want to share with you guys my favorite keto cocktails these are going to be blended
cocktails and there's three of them that we're going to make we're gonna make a keto strawberry
daiquiri a keto margarita and a keto pina colada and my goal is to go over all the macros with
you guys we'll talk a little bit about keto and alcohol and then i'm gonna also give you
guys options on how you can make these aversion drink virgin drink without any alcohol in it at
all especially this is great for kids a lot of times my kids will come up to me and be like hey
can i have some that looks delicious and i'm like sorry it has some rum in it um but i'm going to
show you guys how to make a non-alcoholic version so without further ado let's get on to our
first cocktail which is the strawberry daiquiri the strawberry daiquiri is one of
my favorite blended tropical drinks it's actually been a favorite of mine since i
was a kid no i didn't have alcohol in it but the traditional strawberry daiquiri has a lot of sugar
in it especially if you're using the mix which do not use we're gonna make these from scratch
using fresh strawberries or you can use frozen strawberries but we're mixing the sugar completely
except for what's in a strawberry that's natural sugar in a blender we're gonna add two cups of
ice one cup of strawberries once again you can use fresh strawberries or frozen strawberries and the
alcohol that we're putting into our strawberry daiquiri is rum so i have six ounces of white
rum going in here now a little side note if you love strawberry margaritas you could actually
just use tequila in here instead of the rum and then to give it that signature flavor which
this is a surprising ingredient you might not have known this is actually in a strawberry
daiquiri we're going to add some lime juice so this is two ounces of lime juice going in here
and for our sweetener i'm going to be adding in a quarter cup of a monk fruit blend sweetener you
could use whatever sweetener you want allulose straight erythritol whatever you have on hand dump
that in there as long as it measures cut for cup first with sugar then we blend this all together
until the ice is completely crushed up and pureed pour it into your drink glass garnish with either
some strawberries or some limes and you're done let's talk about the macros real quick
for these keto strawberry daiquiris i figure this whole pitcher makes
around four cocktails so four servings i'm not going to go over
the fat and protein because you know i'll have it down below in the recipe
card if you guys want to look at the recipe on my website but for the sake of this we're mostly
interested in the carbs and the calories too so one is strawberry daiquiri is gonna be 111
calories the total carbs is 3.2 grams of total carbs and the net carbs is 2.4 grams so pretty
good especially if you just want to have like one cocktail and you can sub out other fruit too if
you wanted to make like a blackberry daiquiri or raspberry would be good too you could do blueberry
remember blueberries a little bit higher in carbs but i also feel like the blueberry skin would not
puree very well so that might be a little weird and you'll get blueberry in your teeth but if
you don't mind and you love blueberry then try it before we move on to our next keto cocktail recipe
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the description box next keto cocktail that we're gonna make is a margarita this is just gonna be a
classic margarita pretty easy to do this is gonna make two margaritas but you could double this to
make a pitcher if you wanted four margaritas out of it now margarita is not my go-to cocktail um to
tell you the truth i got sick off of it when i was like probably 21 a friend of mine we had like
a sex in the city you remember that show with uh sarah jessica parker we had a marathon and we
made margaritas and i haven't been able to really fully recover from that tequila madness
and to this day like tequila just kind of sends like this instant flashback of whenever i
take a sip of it so i still like margaritas but it's not something that i really reach for but i
know a lot of you guys love margaritas so that's why we're gonna make this so like all margarita
recipes we're going to start by salting the rim of our glass so just take a lime wedge cover the
edge of the glass with that lime juice and then dip it in your favorite margarita salt mixture
so this is a blended margarita you can make this on the rocks too if you want a margarita on the
rocks but we're gonna start with two cups of ice then add four ounces of tequila i'm using a white
tequila you could use was it gold tequila if you wanted i just like the white the white super
smooth and then we're gonna add a half of a cup of lime juice and for sweetener i'm adding two
tablespoons of a monk fruit blend sweetener now most margarita recipes call for triple
sec which is a like citrus infused liqueur which does have sugar in it from what i looked up
so to get around that i'm just going to add in a half a teaspoon of orange flavored extract if you
don't have orange extract and you don't want to invest in it don't want to find it don't can't
find it another substitute is just get and like an orange grade some of the orange peel in there
so orange zest just like a couple teaspoons in there and that should give you that same
flavor once it's blended we pour it into our margarita glasses you can garnish with an
additional lime wedge and it's ready to drink now for the macros on this once again i'm just
going to go over the carbs and the calories i feel like it's kind of hard to determine
the macros on anything with lime juice i use my fitness pal to figure out macros and
when it comes to lime juice because i use just kind of like the bottled concentrate lime juice
because ain't nobody got time to to juice a bunch of limes because that takes forever like half a
lime gives you like a tablespoon of lime juice so anyways it's really hard to determine how many
carbs are in lime juice i look up the one on my bottle it says zero carbs and i don't really
know if that's true or not so i found one that actually on my fitness pal did have carbs and some
of the lime juice so if we're counting that which i feel like they would have carbs in it but maybe
they don't because maybe it's just a lime extract anyway so if it's like real lime juice then
the calories would be 145 calories 5.2 total carbs and 5.2 net carbs now if you use like a
concentrate or maybe it is just lime extract then that was going to make a huge difference
in fact it'd be zero carbs right because alcohol doesn't have carbs in it nothing else has
carbs in it so it'd be zero carbs so i'm kind of confused on it let me know down in the comments
what you guys think how you calculate carbs from lime juice whether using the bottled one or
fresh i just i don't have an accurate source so that one's always been tricky for me up next
let's talk about my favorite all-time umbrella drink keto cocktail and that is the pina colada
i love this one just because it just instantly teleports me onto like a beach in the caribbean
to make it at home it is so easy to make and it is unbelievably delicious we're gonna start of course
with two cups of ice i'm also going to add a half of a can of coconut flavored lacroix now you can
use whatever sparkling water you want to use if you don't even want to add this in you could just
add water in its place if you don't want to get a sparkling water but i really like the flavor and
just kind of like that little bit of bubbliness this adds to this cocktail and we're going to add
a half a cup of coconut milk to that this will give it like that coconut flavor plus it gives us
a little bit of fat too so it'll almost be like a meal the alcohol that we're going to use is a
white rum so we'll use six ounces of white rum and then for sweetness i'm going to add in a
quarter cup of my monk fruit blend sweetener typically a pina colada has pineapple in it and
pineapple it's not keto sorry guys i know it's sad because i love pineapple but it's filled
with a lot of sugar so we're not going to be adding in any pineapple or pineapple juice to
this but we will add some pina colada extract i'm just a huge fan of extracts um so we're
adding in a teaspoon of pina colada extract um you could also use pineapple extract here if
you wanted you could completely omit this and it would be more like a coconut like a rum flavored
coconut blended drink which would be really good blend this together until it's completely
pureed and then pour it into your glass i'm garnishing this with some pineapple slices just so that people know that it is a
pina colada but don't eat the pineapple now let's go over the macros on this pina colada
and i will explain the fat macro since we do have coconut milk in here now i figured this makes four
pina coladas so for each pina colada it's going to be 143 calories 4.5 grams of fat total carbs is
0.4 grams and net carbs is 0.4 grams really good macros and believe me this cocktail is delicious
it's one that you definitely have to make now i did mention that you guys could turn these
into non-alcoholic cocktails if you wanted or a mocktail as how it's called to do that it's super
simple anywhere where you are adding alcohol into this recipe you just replace it with water so
instead of like four ounces of alcohol or six ounces of alcohol just replace that with four
ounces of water or six ounces of water now let's briefly talk about alcohol and keto i've done a
video about this before i'll have it linked up here if you guys want to watch it alcohol certain
types of alcohol is allowed on the keto diet you really want to just have it in moderation
though and just because it can slow weight loss if weight loss is your goal and really alcohol
is a poison so it's not good to consume it all the time because it's very taxing on the liver
can cause inflammation all that stuff now when it comes to the body digesting alcohol if you're
consuming it with foods or anything like that other fatty things it's actually going to take
priority in digesting the alcohol first since it does see it as a toxin so it's going to be working
on digesting that and anything else is just gonna get stored immediately as fat so this is just
something to keep in mind um kind of like why i usually just kind of like to have a cocktail by
itself without anything even though i know it's really hard to do because alcohol and food kind of
go together so i think alcohol is fine on the keto diet as long as you're going with like low carb
options like some keto cocktails a keto friendly wine things like that but really don't consume
it every night ideally just social occasions so these are just my three a favorite
like tropical cocktails that are out there i've made them into keto versions
there's tons of other cocktails that are keto friendly and maybe i'll do a
video on those in the future including one of my favorites which is the dirty martini
which is like vodka vermeus and olive juice lots of olive juice green olive juice so good so
maybe i'll show you guys how to make that one day
