With the holiday season in full swing I’m sure that if you’re like me, your schedule is already booked with numerous invitations to holiday parties given by your company, business associates, friends and family. Dust off that TiVo receiver because the days of wiling away an evening in front of the TV set with a bowl of popcorn are over! Who has the time to be a couch potato when there’s shopping to be done (for those of us who don’t get it done months in advance), schedules to juggle and parties, parties, parties!

With all the festivities comes tons of food, tons of carbs and tons of calories. If you don’t want to forgo your Aunt Mabel’s famous fruitcake,  try this – Zero Carb cocktails!

Just pair Crown Royal® Whiskey, Johnnie Walker® Scotch Whiskey, Jose Cuervo® Tequila, Smirnoff® Vodka or Tanqueray® Gin with your favorite diet soda or a splash of water or tonic and you’ll have a beverage that tastes great with zero carbs per serving.

So when you’re watching what you eat at one of this season’s holiday parties, watch what you drink too. Here are a few suggestions for low carb cocktails made with 1½  ounces of premium spirits… 

Smirnoff Martini

Tanqueray and diet tonic

Crown Royal and soda

Johnny Walker and diet ginger ale

Cuervo and diet coke or diet ginger ale