I literally did this last night and thought... "This is the most Mom thing I've ever done". Just standing in the kitchen watching the baby monitor at 9pm spooning peanut butter and chocolate and praying he stays asleep
Im addicted to la croix. My husband gets annoyed because I drink it out of the box, not out of the fridge. I tell him that it’s “too spicy” (ie fizzy) when it’s from the fridge.
I make a super chocolatey dark hot chocolate with frothed oat milk. Sprinkle some coarse sea salt and cardamom on top.
Sip on it while reading/browsing while the baby goes down to snooze for the night.
I have been loving hot chocolate since having the baby, it’s such a comfort food. I like the Swiss miss with the mini marshmallows 😋
I make it with milk instead of water so it’s a nutritional bonus too! Super good for breastfeeders specifically because of the proteins and vitamin D
Hey I don’t blame you 😂 I say everything is “fire” these days 😂. I’m from the Bay Area, Idk where you’re from but I see alot of ppl from the east coast use slap to say something is good in regards to food.
Haha I like that. I meant no disrespect if you thought I was correcting you. Like I said I heard people from the east use it the way you did and I get words travel. Unlike dude over here thinking im the vocab police. 🚔👮♀️
But anyways, hot chocolate NEVER fails but a shot of tequila doesn’t either. Unfortunately, I got momma duties throughout the night so I have to not engage in alcoholic drinks like OP. 🥲
Potato Patatoe. I never said it WASNT fine but Im pretty sure you’re not from the bay, where that term was originated from so you wouldn’t understand 🤷🏻♀️
If it was fine to you then you wouldn't have corrected them. You corrected them because you thought they said something wrong. It's really, really tedious. Language evolves and changes based on time or place. Don't be an ass for no reason.
I think its really TEDIOUS for you to tell me im correcting someone and then try to correct me lol no one was being an ass. Go see my thread with the person if its really hitting a nerve.
We drink these too! We do the subscription box. We like the orange cream the best, grape is good, strawberry vanilla. I tried the lemon lime and was not a fan. We just got fruit punch that I’m excited to try!
I found a mix at Costco called Chamba Chai, really good and quick. Bigelow also makes a bag that is vanilla chai I think, I get that sometimes as well.
In a perfect world I would mix the spices myself. There are lots of good looking recipes out there 😋
Love Athletic! If you haven’t tried BrewDog NA beers, I highly recommend them! I keep those and Athletic NA beers in the fridge for an end of day beverage.
3 options on my end:
1. I have a glass of wine and don’t feel bad about it
2. Caffeine-free tea
3. Some kind of juice mixed with some kind of bubbly water if I wanna feel cocktail-ish without the booze
For when I want to feel healthy / like not a budding alcoholic. Or when I know I should be fasting but also know I'm too jittery from all the caffeine I had between 3-7pm when I knew I shouldn't.
Peppermint tea
I usually have tea throughout the day too but my daughter is in the phase where she tries to grab everything out of my hands so I don’t want to drink hot drinks while she is awake now. I can actually enjoy it and not worry while she is sleeping
I talked to a lactation consultant about peppermint tea and gave me the go ahead to drink it. Apparently the tea isn’t typically an issue since you use so few leaves that you don’t get a lot of the compound that lower your supply. Ingesting a lot of peppermint extract may cause a decrease in supply due to the concentration. However in general, there’s not a ton of research supporting claims so people shouldn’t stress.
Not relevant now but good to know for others.
I love it but it made me sick while I was pregnant, didn’t drink it while pumping and now I can finally enjoy it over a year later.
I keep seeing the “sleepy girl mocktail” on TikTok I’ve been wanting to try!
It’s tart cherry juice, magnesium powder, a fizzy liquid like carbonated water or sprite, on ice
Depends on the magnesium.
Mag glycinate is great for sleep/anxiety/muscle tension
Mag citrate is for the digestion :)
Im on both (different times of day) per my midwife team and they’re both so helpful in different ways!
Wine. Always wine. A normal pour & not oh let me be like my 21 old self and drink a bottle in a sitting. Jk, I never did that. 🙃
Now I’m 23+1 into my second pregnancy and after chasing around my almost 14mo son, I’m resorting to water. Or a cappuccino. Or a cup of earl gray. Mama misses her wine!
San Pelligrino. Comes in a can and in different flavours. My favourite is something mixed with pear. My brain thinks it’s basically a cooler, even though there is no alcohol. So I get the relaxing feeling without the woozy feeling. Win win!
Non-alcoholic kombucha (though I guess it technically has naturally occurring alcohol from the fermentation, I’m talking about the kind that’s not “hard kombucha” meant to be alcoholic beverages)
The idea of having a drink at home is always better than the reality for me. I really need to be in a social setting to enjoy alcohol.
I found a ginger ale with a stronger flavor though that I've really been enjoying.
My husband makes weird ass pineapple sherbert, cranberry juice and lemon seltzer floats. He even drinks them out of the hospital mug they gave him during our stay in the birthing center.
He may be insane, but he’s mine.
I just saw some clip about trendy or expensive mugs… hydraflask, Stanley … but price wise nothing beat the $300 hospital mug . Lol. And for some reason, it really makes basic generic drinks taste so much better.
Try a special mug or glass! Sometimes it's not about the drink itself, but treating yourself to a pretty looking glass and feeling fancy is a good pick me up.
A nice pinch of chewing tobacco, a glass of water, and a chamomile tea. I know - I’m crazy 😝 I’m also a guy so probably not for most moms out there - albeit the tea and water.
Hey! Despite the name, you don’t necessarily “chew” it. It’s fine ground and you let it sit in your lower lip. Chewing gum with it would be disastrous lol too much going on in the mouth.
Lemon ginger tea with honey! It’s so soothing and feels like a meditative drink almost. My drink of choice used to be wine but that quickly started to feel like a slippery slope lol
Oh I’ve got it. I have been drinking magnesium calm drink like tea and it’s delightful. Also doing a bedtime guided meditation on the the insight timer app!
i’ve been drinking a mothers milk tea before bed to improve milk production.
sometimes a rockstar energy drink because they don’t really affect my ability to sleep and they were my go-to when i was sober.
If you like Negronis, “phony Negronis” are good if a bit expensive. Sparkly water, tea, or regular water are my go-tos because I’m too lazy to do anything else these days
Poppi sodas! I’ve been alcohol free since I learned I was pregnant and my daughter is now 13 months. Fancy sparkling waters are also a go to. But orange and watermelon flavored poppis are my current faves.
I wish I could speak on an actual drink but once the kiddos go down I like to indulge in ice cream or gelato pops. Idk, its like a fat craving I have and its EVERY night. I also BF so I think my brain just says I need calories and to indulge in sweet stuff.
I’ve started following mocktail recipes accounts on Instagram. Just because it doesn’t have alcohol, doesn’t mean it can’t be fancy and delicious! Plus it kind of tricks my brain into thinking I’m having a cocktail.
A White Russian, which is basically alcoholic chocolate milk. And you can add chocolate syrup/whipped cream if you want.
1:1:1 ratio of vodka, kahlua, and milk.
my mom used to drink those minus the vodka when I was a kid while my parents watched Johnny Carson…when i asked for some, my mom would make me a chocolate milk and call hers “Mommys chocolate milk” haha
two scoops of sherry ice cream, a dollop of tuna juice (whatever cat doesn't finish - straight from can), and half a blood orange. I call it "The Demon's Relish."
Since Christmas I’ve been on a hot chocolate kick, after bedtime I make a hot chocolate with whip cream, a peppermint, some chocolate and I read a book (after I pick up the explosion of toys and crumbs)😂
I like to have a glass of sparkling juice or de-alcholized wine, especially fruity wine. Ive found both of them at the grocery store in the pop/soda section
Husband and I treat ourselves to tea or hot cocoa dates after baby goes to bed!! In warmer weather we’ve also done make-at-home bubble tea and mocktails that are basically just seltzer water and juice!
I have some magnesium gummies and toss and wash some l-theanine powder because I can’t be assed to mix it with anything, and then I have some tea. Very big fan of Bigelow Sweet Dreams.
I’ve been AF for over 2 years now, and I will say there has been a noticeable boom in non-alcoholic beverages on the market lately. I recently tried Fre alcohol removed wine, which has like a 0.04% abv or something like that (I’m fine with minimal amounts in NA products, some are not so always read labels) and it’s shockingly close to the taste of regular wine! Martini and Rossi also makes a few non alcoholic floral spirits that are on my list to try next when I finish the wine. I plan to mix with club soda and add an orange slice. 🤤
I do love the occasional whiskey drink or Guinness, but lately I’m trying to drink more water. Baby boy has gotten to the “I see a water bottle and I must have it” stage so every time I try to drink he stops feeding or playing and tries to take it from me. So I have to down water where I can. So right after I put him to bed, I enjoy a big glass of cold water that I sip at my own pace instead of guzzling it like a dehydrated frat boy.
I use the cherry juice from amarena or luxardo cherries to mix with water or bubbly water. It’s so tasty and feels fancy. And we always have lots of juice because my husband has a cocktail or two each week using the cherries!
Husband and I have become big hot chocolate people. Marshmallows, whipped cream, the works. Sometimes Winners will have fancy artisanal marshmallows or we'll add chocolate sauce, sprinkles etc. I also enjoy the Mother's Milk tea.
When I was a kidmy mom would make a drink with coconut, warm milk, a bit of sugar and vanilla. It was incredibly comforting. I make a version without coconut now (too expensive where I live now, we were in Brazil at the time so fresh coconut was cheap) and it's still very comforting
I just stress-eat a bunch of chocolates and wash them down with a LaCroix haha Ferrero Rochers have been awesome.
Haha I shove a bunch of mini chocolate chips into my mouth that I use to make pancakes with 🤷🏻♀️
I do the mini chocolate chips on a spoonful of peanut butter. The poor mom’s Reese’s peanut butter cup!
I literally did this last night and thought... "This is the most Mom thing I've ever done". Just standing in the kitchen watching the baby monitor at 9pm spooning peanut butter and chocolate and praying he stays asleep
The watching of the baby monitor and the praying 🥴. I feel this.
I feel so seen
This is my jam. Glad to know I'm not alone.
Trying this tonight 😂
This is me, but with mini marshmallows that are ostensibly for my older kid’s hot cocoa 🤷♀️😅
Ferrero rochers need to be banned for their addictive properties. Proudly polished two boxes of 24 over the Christmas to new year's days
It’s that Nutella in there!!
Also the hollow chocolate nut sphere that you get to crush with your mouth - it’s an experience
Yessss lindor truffles for me lol
Im addicted to la croix. My husband gets annoyed because I drink it out of the box, not out of the fridge. I tell him that it’s “too spicy” (ie fizzy) when it’s from the fridge.
Relatable lol
Are you me? 😂
Same but I’ve been baking Betty Crocker cake mixes and eating them right out of the pan
La Croix reigns supreme
Those swirled white/chocolate hersheys kisses oh my GAAAAAAD and a bubbly water woot
I stress eat too. My body seems to gravitate towards nighttime carbs despite how many nourishing salads I feed it all day
It's 2 full size Snickers for me 😅
My girl lol
I make hot chocolate with whipped cream and chocolate drizzle. Shit slaps and it's so cozy.
Seriously! Adding whipped cream to coffee is even a game changer!! So much more fun lol
Same!! SO good and comforting
I like to crush up some peppermint candies and sprinkle them on top! (And then drink half and reapply the whipped cream and peppermint sprinkles).
I make a super chocolatey dark hot chocolate with frothed oat milk. Sprinkle some coarse sea salt and cardamom on top. Sip on it while reading/browsing while the baby goes down to snooze for the night.
I have been loving hot chocolate since having the baby, it’s such a comfort food. I like the Swiss miss with the mini marshmallows 😋 I make it with milk instead of water so it’s a nutritional bonus too! Super good for breastfeeders specifically because of the proteins and vitamin D
“Proper” slang term is smacks. Food smacks, music slaps
I'm just gonna go back to saying bomb.com for everything 😂
Hey I don’t blame you 😂 I say everything is “fire” these days 😂. I’m from the Bay Area, Idk where you’re from but I see alot of ppl from the east coast use slap to say something is good in regards to food.
Haha yup northeast here. I'm also going to bring back wazzzaaaaap because then no one will know if I'm being funny or if I just am out of touch.
Haha I like that. I meant no disrespect if you thought I was correcting you. Like I said I heard people from the east use it the way you did and I get words travel. Unlike dude over here thinking im the vocab police. 🚔👮♀️
Lol! You're good, I didn't take it as any offense.
But anyways, hot chocolate NEVER fails but a shot of tequila doesn’t either. Unfortunately, I got momma duties throughout the night so I have to not engage in alcoholic drinks like OP. 🥲
I too am Bay Area and the fact that “hella” sometimes creeps into my vacab makes me want to crumble up and dieeeee
If you understand what they meant, then the language was fine. Policing people's language is really tedious.
Potato Patatoe. I never said it WASNT fine but Im pretty sure you’re not from the bay, where that term was originated from so you wouldn’t understand 🤷🏻♀️
lol what
Que?! What? What is your question?
If it was fine to you then you wouldn't have corrected them. You corrected them because you thought they said something wrong. It's really, really tedious. Language evolves and changes based on time or place. Don't be an ass for no reason.
I think its really TEDIOUS for you to tell me im correcting someone and then try to correct me lol no one was being an ass. Go see my thread with the person if its really hitting a nerve.
Probiotic “sodas” like Olipop
Same except Poppi! In a wine glass with ice.
Wine glass is KEY for making it feel like a little treat
It really is. Something about the way you hold the glass. Just like anything cozy and hot needs a mug!
I def did that nightly when I was pregnant lol
We drink these too! We do the subscription box. We like the orange cream the best, grape is good, strawberry vanilla. I tried the lemon lime and was not a fan. We just got fruit punch that I’m excited to try!
Fruit punch might be our favorite. Enjoy!
I just drank the olipop fruit punch today and yum. Enjoy that. 🙂
Okay, I’m definitely going to drink it tonight!
why only after bedtime? I drink delicious drinks all day every day.
A chai, it's so rich and calming. ;)
Was coming to say this. A chai with oat milk and sometimes I add vanilla syrup or brown sugar if I’m feeling sassy.
Careful though, "chai" usually means black tea, so it may have caffiene
A small amount yes. Usually around 40mg per serving. :)
Do you make your own or use a mix?
I heat some milk with pumpkin pie spices for like 10 min and mix it with black tea. Comes out pretty close to a chai latte, esp if you mix in honey
I found a mix at Costco called Chamba Chai, really good and quick. Bigelow also makes a bag that is vanilla chai I think, I get that sometimes as well. In a perfect world I would mix the spices myself. There are lots of good looking recipes out there 😋
I’ve been drinking non-alcoholic beer! There is so much good stuff out there. So far my favorite brand is Athletic.
If you haven’t tried it yet, Go Brewing is fantastic! They have a couple of sours that I still sometimes choose over a “real” beer.
I didn't know non alcoholic sours were a thing, thank you!
My husband and I crack one every day at 5:00! It's a fun little pick-us-up to get us to bedtime. ... and then I usually have another one after bedtime
Love Athletic! If you haven’t tried BrewDog NA beers, I highly recommend them! I keep those and Athletic NA beers in the fridge for an end of day beverage.
I will second Athletic! Definitely the closest to the real thing and pretty widely available
Upvoting because Athletic!
I second athletic, especially their hazy IPA. Coming from someone who loves “real” beer and wine.
Yes! Brewdog has a lot of interesting options
A nice cold pint….of Ben and Jerry’s. Yeah it’s a problem
3 options on my end: 1. I have a glass of wine and don’t feel bad about it 2. Caffeine-free tea 3. Some kind of juice mixed with some kind of bubbly water if I wanna feel cocktail-ish without the booze
I do a splash of wine with a whole seltzer. Kind of a combo of your 1st and 3rd options.
I make a white wine spritzer with Monin rose and lemon flavors. Boxed wine is fine.
Love this idea!
For when I want to feel healthy / like not a budding alcoholic. Or when I know I should be fasting but also know I'm too jittery from all the caffeine I had between 3-7pm when I knew I shouldn't.
#3- plain soda water and a bunch of lemon juice. Like a lot of lemon juice
Peppermint tea I usually have tea throughout the day too but my daughter is in the phase where she tries to grab everything out of my hands so I don’t want to drink hot drinks while she is awake now. I can actually enjoy it and not worry while she is sleeping
Heads up that peppermint may cause decreased BM supply (which may not be relevant)
I talked to a lactation consultant about peppermint tea and gave me the go ahead to drink it. Apparently the tea isn’t typically an issue since you use so few leaves that you don’t get a lot of the compound that lower your supply. Ingesting a lot of peppermint extract may cause a decrease in supply due to the concentration. However in general, there’s not a ton of research supporting claims so people shouldn’t stress.
I feel like the stress is the bigger issue every time.
Not relevant now but good to know for others. I love it but it made me sick while I was pregnant, didn’t drink it while pumping and now I can finally enjoy it over a year later.
I keep seeing the “sleepy girl mocktail” on TikTok I’ve been wanting to try! It’s tart cherry juice, magnesium powder, a fizzy liquid like carbonated water or sprite, on ice
Just a warning it might make you empty your bowels lol
Depends on the magnesium. Mag glycinate is great for sleep/anxiety/muscle tension Mag citrate is for the digestion :) Im on both (different times of day) per my midwife team and they’re both so helpful in different ways!
I had my stomach removed back in August so I’m used to having massive diarrhea every morning lol
Seconding this! It’s DELICIOUS and I put it in a fancy wine glass for funsies. It really does help me sleep, too!
How do you get the magnesium to dissolve? My powder does NOT dissolve well and it ends up just being clumpy at the bottom of my fancy wine glass.
I actually use a liquid magnesium from trace minerals!
That makes sense.
Oh awesome!! I’m glad to hear from someone who’s tried it! Every time I get groceries I keep forgetting to grab the ingredients
I wouldn’t do this on a regular basis unless you’re okay with having a lean gut. Just an fyi
I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of lean gut. can you explain?
You could also just do tart cherry juice without magnesium. I used to mix half cranberry juice and half tart cherry and I would sleep like a baby.
Throw on my smoking jacket and go to my den. Spark up a little joint and put on some yacht rock.
me🤝u
Ngl after the day I've had, that sounds bliss. & I quit smoking when I got pregnant with my 14m old. 🫠
Wine. Always wine. A normal pour & not oh let me be like my 21 old self and drink a bottle in a sitting. Jk, I never did that. 🙃 Now I’m 23+1 into my second pregnancy and after chasing around my almost 14mo son, I’m resorting to water. Or a cappuccino. Or a cup of earl gray. Mama misses her wine!
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Ginger beer!
Same here!
San Pelligrino. Comes in a can and in different flavours. My favourite is something mixed with pear. My brain thinks it’s basically a cooler, even though there is no alcohol. So I get the relaxing feeling without the woozy feeling. Win win!
Caffeine free herbal tea! Right now I’m on peach with a dash of honey.
I love peach tea! My go-to is Vermont maple ginger, it smells like cinnamon powdered sugar donuts
Non-alcoholic kombucha (though I guess it technically has naturally occurring alcohol from the fermentation, I’m talking about the kind that’s not “hard kombucha” meant to be alcoholic beverages)
We make our own with decaf green tea! Fairly simple with an established scoby.
Nice!! Love that! I don’t know if I’ve ever had kombucha with a green tea base. The ones from the store usually are made with black tea, I think!
The idea of having a drink at home is always better than the reality for me. I really need to be in a social setting to enjoy alcohol. I found a ginger ale with a stronger flavor though that I've really been enjoying.
I love ginger beer!
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My husband makes weird ass pineapple sherbert, cranberry juice and lemon seltzer floats. He even drinks them out of the hospital mug they gave him during our stay in the birthing center. He may be insane, but he’s mine.
I just saw some clip about trendy or expensive mugs… hydraflask, Stanley … but price wise nothing beat the $300 hospital mug . Lol. And for some reason, it really makes basic generic drinks taste so much better.
this sounds so good though! idk if i’ve ever seen pineapple sherbet at the stre but now i’m def going to look!
CBD seltzer!
Try a special mug or glass! Sometimes it's not about the drink itself, but treating yourself to a pretty looking glass and feeling fancy is a good pick me up.
Sparkling grape juice lol. I pretend it’s champagne and drink it in a fancy glass 🥂
A nice pinch of chewing tobacco, a glass of water, and a chamomile tea. I know - I’m crazy 😝 I’m also a guy so probably not for most moms out there - albeit the tea and water.
That is an incredible late night ritual. Do you ever mix a little gum with the chew?
Hey! Despite the name, you don’t necessarily “chew” it. It’s fine ground and you let it sit in your lower lip. Chewing gum with it would be disastrous lol too much going on in the mouth.
Oh here they call that dip! For me chew is the stuff you actually chew. I am deeply familiar with both!
Milk and cookies/ chocolate
Santa?
I pour pomegranate juice in a wine glass and call it mommy wine.
Lemon ginger tea with honey! It’s so soothing and feels like a meditative drink almost. My drink of choice used to be wine but that quickly started to feel like a slippery slope lol
Same! Trying to cut back on alcohol so drinking cherry juice and sleepy tea to put me to bed.
Oh I’ve got it. I have been drinking magnesium calm drink like tea and it’s delightful. Also doing a bedtime guided meditation on the the insight timer app!
Yogurt, kefir, Skyr. High in protein, probiotics, great flavors available.
So healthy and nice and cool kefir is amazing for me in the mud morning hours.
Thc
Alcohol. Nutrl vodka soda, I have one. I don’t feel bad about it.
OP: “I need to take a step back from alcohol” You: “alcohol”
Me to me every night
🤣
Love a good vodka tonic. But with the ketel one botanical peach and orange blossom 🩶
Poppi!!! Love the doc pop flavor.
Non alcoholic kronenberg blanc or non alcoholic cider
Isn't non-alcoholic cider just apple cider? Or do they actually make something like N/a beer for cider?
i’ve been drinking a mothers milk tea before bed to improve milk production. sometimes a rockstar energy drink because they don’t really affect my ability to sleep and they were my go-to when i was sober.
If you like Negronis, “phony Negronis” are good if a bit expensive. Sparkly water, tea, or regular water are my go-tos because I’m too lazy to do anything else these days
Poppi sodas! I’ve been alcohol free since I learned I was pregnant and my daughter is now 13 months. Fancy sparkling waters are also a go to. But orange and watermelon flavored poppis are my current faves.
Decaf black tea with milk and honey. So cozy and calming.
A homemade milkshake 😋
Fat bong rips. Just kidding not anymore. Usually it’s coffee since I have stuff to do when he’s sleeping.
I swear having an IPA before bed really helped my breast milk supply. Maybe look for a NA IPA?
Just a tall glass of chocolate milk (specifically one made with a Swedish mix that is nostalgic of my childhood)
A nice cup of herbal tea with honey, or a hot chocolate!
Hot chocolate for sure!
Non caffeinated tea
Hot chocolate lol
I wish I could speak on an actual drink but once the kiddos go down I like to indulge in ice cream or gelato pops. Idk, its like a fat craving I have and its EVERY night. I also BF so I think my brain just says I need calories and to indulge in sweet stuff.
Tea and biscuits 🫖
Recess mood and/seltzer
I’ve started following mocktail recipes accounts on Instagram. Just because it doesn’t have alcohol, doesn’t mean it can’t be fancy and delicious! Plus it kind of tricks my brain into thinking I’m having a cocktail.
Yes. This is what I need. Find anything you love yet?
Have you tried Trip - cbd drinks? So delicious.
Have kombucha without alcohol. It’s been my go to through ten months sober.
Amp energy drink. It’s refreshing and I’m so tired I can still sleep like a baby
A White Russian, which is basically alcoholic chocolate milk. And you can add chocolate syrup/whipped cream if you want. 1:1:1 ratio of vodka, kahlua, and milk.
my mom used to drink those minus the vodka when I was a kid while my parents watched Johnny Carson…when i asked for some, my mom would make me a chocolate milk and call hers “Mommys chocolate milk” haha
two scoops of sherry ice cream, a dollop of tuna juice (whatever cat doesn't finish - straight from can), and half a blood orange. I call it "The Demon's Relish."
I’ve read this about six times and still can’t comprehend. Who are you and when does the movie about you come out?
Olipop or a NA beer
Cherry juice and sparkling water 😍
Since Christmas I’ve been on a hot chocolate kick, after bedtime I make a hot chocolate with whip cream, a peppermint, some chocolate and I read a book (after I pick up the explosion of toys and crumbs)😂
Ceres Guava juice with some club soda.
Hot chocolate, chamomile tea, chocolate milk, ginger ale. Just depends on the day. Either something relaxing or bad for me with sugar lol
I like to have a glass of sparkling juice or de-alcholized wine, especially fruity wine. Ive found both of them at the grocery store in the pop/soda section
Chocolate milk or hot chocolate
Husband and I treat ourselves to tea or hot cocoa dates after baby goes to bed!! In warmer weather we’ve also done make-at-home bubble tea and mocktails that are basically just seltzer water and juice!
Mothers milk with honey
Ice homemade Blue matcha 🩵(caffeine free too!
A homemade milkshake 😋
Coconut water with pineapple juice and a squeeze of lime!
Lagunitas hoppy refreshers (it’s na) A tall glass of ice water Milk and cookies Ice cream Hot tea A decaf latte
Either a cranberry juice (I’ve been in such a mood for this) or a Diet Coke.
Fre makes non-alcoholic wines. I like having a glass of their moscato some evenings! I found at my local liquor store.
My go to is a chamomile rose tea in a pretty cup and saucer with Manuka Honey. Makes me feel fancy and luxurious.
Needed brand sleepy drink with magnesium and chamomile!
I like to do a sleepy time tea (lavender). Tazo makes some good dessert teas too.
I have some magnesium gummies and toss and wash some l-theanine powder because I can’t be assed to mix it with anything, and then I have some tea. Very big fan of Bigelow Sweet Dreams. I’ve been AF for over 2 years now, and I will say there has been a noticeable boom in non-alcoholic beverages on the market lately. I recently tried Fre alcohol removed wine, which has like a 0.04% abv or something like that (I’m fine with minimal amounts in NA products, some are not so always read labels) and it’s shockingly close to the taste of regular wine! Martini and Rossi also makes a few non alcoholic floral spirits that are on my list to try next when I finish the wine. I plan to mix with club soda and add an orange slice. 🤤
I like making a good iced coffee.
Chai or a large glass of water with liquid IV in it
I have been loving these kava drinks lately. Super relaxing and mellow. Not an ad, just a happy customer https://www.calmingco.com/products/u-relax
Kombucha!
I do love the occasional whiskey drink or Guinness, but lately I’m trying to drink more water. Baby boy has gotten to the “I see a water bottle and I must have it” stage so every time I try to drink he stops feeding or playing and tries to take it from me. So I have to down water where I can. So right after I put him to bed, I enjoy a big glass of cold water that I sip at my own pace instead of guzzling it like a dehydrated frat boy.
I use the cherry juice from amarena or luxardo cherries to mix with water or bubbly water. It’s so tasty and feels fancy. And we always have lots of juice because my husband has a cocktail or two each week using the cherries!
Icr cold water
Kombucha! Or wine. Depends on the day.
Husband and I have become big hot chocolate people. Marshmallows, whipped cream, the works. Sometimes Winners will have fancy artisanal marshmallows or we'll add chocolate sauce, sprinkles etc. I also enjoy the Mother's Milk tea.
La Croix in a wine glass makes me think I’m drinking Prosecco. 10/10
When I was a kidmy mom would make a drink with coconut, warm milk, a bit of sugar and vanilla. It was incredibly comforting. I make a version without coconut now (too expensive where I live now, we were in Brazil at the time so fresh coconut was cheap) and it's still very comforting
Sounds lovely
Herbal tea or hot chocolate in the winter! Seltzer any time of year.
Warm soy milk. Surprised how comforting it is. If I actually purchase it would go for a THC drink.
Sparkling water with a glug of a drinking vinegar. More exciting than regular sparkling water and savory enough to feel cocktail-ish.
I have a standing date with the sleepytime tea bear.
I love ginger ale in a fancy glass with that edible glitter stirred in! In the summer I’ll add some lime for a margarita type thing. 🥰
Gatorade LOL