Calories in Your Favorite Holiday Drinks
Hooray calories! …said no one ever. The holiday season is always cause for some extra inches around the waist and it’s not just because of the insane amounts of food thrown at you from every direction. Drinks, alcoholic and not, add to your calorie count in ways you can’t even imagine. We’re here to shed some light on ruin all of them for you.
Wine
Kick up your feet and really enjoy that glass, it’ll cost you. A single serving of red, white, pink, whatever: roughly 120 calories per 5 oz serving. Who drinks only 5 oz in a serving?
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Starbucks Lattes
Their regular ones start at 190 calories. Their holiday ones? Cinnamon Dolce: 260. Eggnog: 470. Maybe try it with skim milk? Or go somewhere else? Image courtesy of Starbucks
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Egg Nog (the fun kind)
Generally made with either rum, brandy, or bourbon, the holiday staple puts you at a whopping 220 or so calories per cup. We know family can be tough to deal with sometimes, but for calories alone maybe don’t drink an entire punch bowl’s worth.
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Egg Nog (the lame, but still good kind)
Store bought or homemade, this one still clocks in around 190 calories per cup.
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Hot Chocolate
Swiss Miss is our go-to and it’s 138 calories per serving (note: this does not include the necessary marshmallows, which add another 50ish calories, depending on how hard you go with them). You can cut out some of the calories by using water instead of milk or cream, but why would you do that to yourself?
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Hot Chocolate with Bailey’s
One classic plus another brings your beverage’s total calorie count to 268. So why add it at all? Because it’s amazing. Forget cream or milk in your cocoa, Bailey’s + Hot Cocoa 4EVA. Image courtesy of Bailey’s
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Hot Toddies
For the basic 5 ingredient recipe (whiskey, honey, lemon, cinnamon stick and hot water): 134 calories. It’s like alcoholic tea that warms you from the inside out better than any herbal winter supplement ever could.
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Scotch Rocks
Only 60 calories for you gentlemen who enjoy enjoying their liquor of choice. Cheers.
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Holiday Beer
Some of DC’s breweries put out a some really great seasonal beers you can only get right now and a lot of them are offered in the district at various pubs and restaurants. Our choice is Port City’s Tidings, a festive Belgian style ale for 230 calories per bottle.
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Apple Cider
This guy will only set you back 120 calories per serving. But it’s basically just apples and fruit is good for you so when you think about it it doesn’t really matter in the end. BONUS: hard apple cider is generally only an extra 20 calories. Go for it.
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Okay. So the calorie count mayyy be a bit out of our dietary price range. But does it really matter? It’s the holidays, man. In the wise words of Donna Meagle and Tom Haverford, we say: Treat yo self.
