Mama Bite : Just for Mom : Mocktails for Moms
Mocktails for Moms

Wanna tip back a top-notch drink, even if you're pregnant or nursing?

08.03.2009

Submitted by alara on Sun, 08/02/2009 - 11:00pm.
The Bite:
Excellent, just toast the occasion with a mocktail. These nonalcoholic, summery drinks are festive, taste great - even scratching your itch for wine (well, almost) - and boost your body with organic and vitamin-rich juices. Impressive.
The Benefits: 
  • Modeling best behavior. Although lots of mamas-to-be (ourselves included) have sipped the occasional glass of wine, studies link drinking any level of alcohol while pregnant to birth defects, so these are good alts if you wanna play it safe.
  • Perfecting your health. Juice-based drinks include vitamins that pregnant and nursing moms need. Apple, pomegranate, and kiwi mocktails, for example, contain iron, folic acid, and vitamin C.
  • Keeping the eco-ideal. Pesticides and other cruddy chems play no part in producing organic ingredients, keeping toxins off fruit, out of soil, and away from water - as well as your body.
Wanna Try: 
  • Santa Cruz Sparkling Organic Juices - OK, it's a spritzer, but the champagne-like bottles make it festive; lemonade, limeade, and tangerine flavors; 100% organic ($34/twelve 750-milliliter bottles)
  • Vignette Wine Country Soda - fizzy drink for wine-loving moms available in Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Rosé flavors; made with pure wine grape juice in CA from local fruit; no added colors, sugars, or preservatives ($29/twelve 12-ounce bottles).
  • Raumland Organic Sparkling White Grape Juice - bubbly, balanced nonalcoholic wine from Germany made with Riesling and Bacchus grapes; one of the best nonalcoholic wines available ($16/bottle).
  • Margarita Mama: Mocktails for Moms-to-Be - booze-free recipes, including standards such as mudslides and cosmos, and new bevvies like the raging hormone - ginger ale, lemonade, cherry juice, and mint ($11).
  • DIY Bite - mix up the mamatini from Celebrations.com (orange, pineapple, cranberry, and lime juices with a bit of salt); or try the baby Bellini from JustMommies.com (peach nectar, fresh lemon juice, and sparkling cider).

Timeout

When Chicago mom Amy Koch was pregnant with her daughters, Brette, 3, and Isabella, 7, she drank seltzer with a splash of cranberry, and twists of lime and lemon.

Bang For The Bite

If 10,000 Mama Biters and their hubbies swill only organic wine instead of nonorganic (either with or without alcohol), in a month we'll avert the weight of 38 full wine bottles in pesticides.

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Samantha  on November 12, 2009 at 05:25 AM 1
Modeling best behavior. Although lots of mamas-to-be (ourselves included) have sipped the occasional glass of wine, studies link drinking any level of alcohol while pregnant to birth defects, so these are good alts if you wanna play it safe. online games

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