![]() ![]() margarita ingredients in a blender next to salt and limes. ![]() It’s also a paleo diet friendly if you, like me, have a margarita-loving paleo-following friend. Add ice, tequila, lime juice, orange flavor extract, and monkfruit sweetener to a blender. The orange flavor is brighter and sweetness can easily be adjusted with a couple extra drops of stevia per glass (and I find that it usually needs a couple extra drops but the standard serving amounts are listed below).Īnd even two of them won’t break your calorie bank or undo all the good you did in the gym earlier today. How does that stack up in numbers?īut more importantly, how does it stack up in taste? The skinnier margarita is refreshing, citrusy, and really easy to drink. We put on the top and give it a good shake (photo 4). Step 2: Now we add in our tequila, orange liqueur, lime juice and a handful of ice (photo 3). So we set out to make a skinny margarita by replacing the sugar in the homemade mix with liquid stevia* and the orange liqueur in the margarita with fresh orange juice. Step 1: We grab our cocktail shaker and add fresh blackberries with the simple syrup (photo 1) and then muddle until the blackberries are nice and pulverized (photo 2). Sure, they’re completely fresh and so much better tasting than any mix you’ll ever find but it is a lot of sugar for something that isn’t frosting. I’m pretty sure that I’ve never stopped at just one margarita. I mean I knew they weren’t great… but times 3? Ouch.Ī single lime margarita was an empty calorie bomb with 300+ calories and nearly 40g of sugar. Such a rude awakening the first time I punched my daily calories into my phone and saw just how terrible those weekend margaritas actually were. Over the last few months, I’ve been “running,” which is code for “mostly walking between weeks-long hamstring problems” and keeping an eye on calories in vs calories out. It’s Friday! And we’re feeling even more celebratory than usual because this morning I got dressed and then immediately took my jeans off.
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