Lemonade Drinks
Meal: 75 cal Protein: 0 g Carbs: 5 g Fat: 0 g
Most lemonade recipes are 1:1:1. That’s one cup of sugar, one cup of lemon juice, and one cup of water. The easiest modification to this recipe is to drop the amount of sugar by half and then add in other flavors to balance out the tartness and enhance the natural lemon goodness. We have halved the calories in the base lemonade recipe and in Option 1. Each option after that adds some of the calories back but in ways that are extraordinarily good – just be careful to manage serving size and in some case swap this lemonade for dessert.
Infused Simple Syrup
Ingredients
- 1 C Water
- 1 C Raw Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Black Strap Molasses
- 1 Vanilla Bean
- Sea Salt
Lemonade Base
Ingredients
- ½ C Simple Infused Syrup
- 2 C Lemon Juice (4-8 Lemons)
- 5 C Water
Directions
- Combine water, sugar, molasses, vanilla, lemon peel and salt in saucepan over medium heat. Simmer until sugar is completely dissolved and lemon peel is infused in the syrup.
- In a 2 Litre Jar (or other pitcher), combine lemon juice and water. Stir, then add sugar syrup a little bit at a time, up to the entire amount of syrup. Taste periodically to check sweetness.
- OPTION 1: (add more flavor; without more calories) Replace any amount of Water with Iced Tea STASH has really good flavored Black Tea, Green Tea, and Herbal Tea bags My Faves are Breakfast in Paris, Chamomile, Holiday Chai, Lemon Ginger Blue Iced Tea made with Butterfly Pea Flower Powder (1 Tsp to 1 C hot water) is beautiful!
- OPTION 2: (add even more flavor with a few more calories) Swap Limes for Lemons Add Muddled Lime, Cucumber, and Mint
- OPTION 4: (add flavor and more calories; think of it like dessert) Flavored Ice Cubes – each ice cube is between 10 and 50 calories My faves are Pomegranate Juice and Tart Cherry Juice Sweetened Tea also makes excellent ice cubes
- OPTION 5: (add flavor in the form of alcohol)
