Mocktails for Moms-to-be

Mom.me-tini

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Ingredients

¼ tsp fresh lemon juice

1 tsp honey

4 oz sparkling water

1 oz orange juice

1 lemon wedge for garnish

Instructions

Mix all ingredients together in acocktail shaker. Fill shaker with ice. Shake vigorously and pour into a martini glass. Garnish with fresh lemon wedge.

Materni-Tea

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Ingredients

5 oz decaffeinated iced tea

3 oz cranberry juice

Instructions

Mix the tea and juice together in a tall glass. Add ice and serve immediately!

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Pregnant Peach

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Ingredients

½ cup ice

½ cup frozen peach slices (reservea few for garnish)

6 oz lemonade

4 oz iced tea

2 oz peach juice

Instructions

Place all ingredients in a blender and pulse on medium speed just until smooth. Garnish with a few peach slices and serve immediately.

Baby Name Slurp

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Ingredients

1 cup frozen or fresh mango

4-5 frozen or fresh strawberries (reserve one for garnish)

5 oz lemon lime soda

1 oz ginger ale

Instructions

Place all ingredients in a blenderand pulse on medium until the fruit is pureed and smooth. Garnish with a strawberry and serve immediately.

Nothing Fits Fizz

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Ingredients

8-10 mint leaves

4 oz mango juice

4 oz club soda

2 lime wedges

Instructions

In the bottom of a tall glass, muddle the mint and mango juice. Add ice then fill the glass with club soda. Squeeze one lime wedge into the glass and use the other one for garnish.

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Cranberry Crib

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Ingredients

3 oz cranberry juice

1 oz orange juice

4 oz plain seltzer

Orange slice for garnish

Instructions

Fill a tall glass with ice. Add all of the ingredients and stir. Garnish with the fresh orange slice.

Mai Tai

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Ingredients

4 oz pineapple juice

2 oz club soda

1 tsp grenadine

4 oz orange juice

1 tbsp cream of coconut

Instructions

Mix all ingredients in a tall glass. Add ice and enjoy!

Sparkling Cosmopolitan

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Ingredients

3 oz cranberry juice

5 oz orange flavored seltzer

1 lime wedge

Instructions

Mix together the juice and seltzer. Squeeze in the lime. Serve straight up in a chilled martini glass.

Berry-Tini

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Ingredients

8 fresh blackberries

5 oz lemon lime soda

½ tsp fresh lime juice

Instructions

Muddle the blackberries in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add soda and lime juice and fill the shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into a martini glass. Cheers!

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Monkey Business

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Ingredients

1 banana

1 scoop vanilla ice cream orfrozen yogurt

1 scoop chocolate ice cream o rfrozen yogurt

½ cup ice

1 tbsp chocolate syrup

Instructions

Combine all the ingredients in ablender and pulse on medium speed until the banana is pureed and the ingredients are full blended into a smooth shake. Serve immediately!

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