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Mocktails, Anyone?
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Salud, cent'anni, l'chaim! Here's to a celebration that includes the grandchildren.

Shirley Temple, take a bow ... and step aside. Some new entertainers have taken center stage. The effervescent, sometimes sparkly, always refreshing, and totally nonalcoholic mocktails. The only beverages you'll need for partygoers of all ages. Cheers!


Darth Vadar
Single serving

Ingredients:

  • 6 ounces cola
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons grenadine (or substitute pure pomegranate juice)
  • 1 orange slice
  • 1 cherry

Put crushed or cubed ice in a tall glass, pour in cola, top with grenadine. Garnish with orange slice and cherry.


Tootie Fruity
Serves six

Ingredients:

  • 2 1/2 cups pineapple juice
  • 1 cup strawberries, sliced (set aside 6 whole berries for garnish)
  • 1 banana, sliced
  • 1/2 cup coconut cream

Place all ingredients in blender with two cups of ice and puree until smooth. Garnish each glass with a strawberry.


Bubble, Bubble, Toil, No Trouble
Serves 12

Ingredients:

  • 4 cups white grape juice
  • 1 cup pink grapefruit juice
  • 1 tablespoon lime juice
  • 1 bottle club soda (750 ml)
  • 1 pink grapefruit
  • 1 orange
  • 1 apple

Combine all juices in a pitcher and refrigerate. Slice pink grapefruit, orange, and apple. Add club soda and sliced fruits to thepitcher. Serve cold, like sangria.


Orange You Glad
Single serving

Ingredients:

  • 3 ounces frozen orange juice concentrate
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1/2 tablespoon sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Blend all ingredients in blender with six ice cubes until smooth. Serve in a tall glass.


Mellow Jell-O
Serves six

Ingredients:

  • 2 quarts apple cider
  • One 3-inch cinnamon stick
  • 3 ounces cherry Jell-O

Addapple cider and cinnamon sticktoa saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes. Add Jell-O to cider and stir until it dissolves (about two minutes). Serve hot.


Creamsicle Cooler
Single serving

Ingredients:

  • orange juice
  • papaya juice
  • grenadine syrup

Fill tall glass with ice. Add one part orange juice, one part papaya juice, and top with grenadine. Pour mixture into blender and whip until ice is blended. Top with cherry.


Little Manhattan
Single serving

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 cup cranberry juice
  • 1/4 cup orange juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon cherry juice
  • 1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 2 dashes orange bitters
  • 1 cherry

First, chill a glass. Fill the juice glass with ice and add water. Let sit for 30 seconds, then dump the contents. The glass will be chilled. Add all ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake. Strain into the glass and add a cherry.


Shirley Temple's Sister
Single serving

Ingredients:

  • 6 ounces watermelon juice
  • 6 ounces Sprite or 7-UP
  • 2 teaspoon confectioner's sugar

Place all ingredients in blender and mix. Pour over crushed ice in tall glass.


Monkey's Jungle Juice
1-2 Servings

Ingredients:

  • 2 bananas, sliced
  • 1 cup vanilla ice cream
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup orange juice
  • 1 cup milk

In blender, mix banana and vanilla ice cream. Pour in vanilla extract, orange juice, and milk, and puree until thick and smooth. Serve in a tall glass.


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user comments

I don't drink at all, but if I did I would not hide it. Teaching children that it is acceptable to drink within certain parameters is behavior that they need to be comfortable with. This is how they learn self control as well as tolerance for those who break the rules. It is a choice to drink or not, and children need to learn how to make the appropiate choices.
mahon246 on 08/08/08 at 09:02 AM Flag as inappropriate

i see nothing wrong with RESPONSIBLE drinking. even in the company of children.
junethon on 08/13/08 at 02:11 AM Flag as inappropriate

I only drink a little at adult social events.
FunGram on 09/05/08 at 09:49 PM Flag as inappropriate

I do not drink and I do not think children should be around drinking. I was raised in a alcoholic family and it did nothing put destory our family.
mammy6 on 10/04/08 at 06:01 PM Flag as inappropriate

Neither myself nor my husband drink. We did when we were younger and yes, we drank alcohol around our children. But we did not become intoxicated, and NEVER drove when we had had any alcohol. I feel children need to decide for themselves if this is a behavior they would choose, and if so that there are limits and rules that go with this behavior. Just like when you teach them that if you play with fire, you WILL get burned.
Grandma2all17 on 10/05/08 at 04:12 PM Flag as inappropriate


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