{"id":1690,"date":"2022-02-09T15:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T23:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2022-02-09T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T23:42:13","slug":"employee-fitness-challenge-mocktails-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/2022\/02\/09\/employee-fitness-challenge-mocktails-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Fitness Challenge &#8211; Mocktails Anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the stress of our daily grind makes us really crave an alcoholic beverage to help us take the edge off at the end of the day, but I hope you are all incorporating other relaxation techniques into your lives this dry-February.<\/p>\n<p>If you are anything like me, sometimes just the &#8220;look&#8221; of the drink is what is the most appealing. We love the fancy garnishes and bright colors and we want them to look as good as they taste! Well, believe it or not, you can accomplish that same sense of enjoyment without alcohol. Here are a couple of our favorites that we&#8217;re sure you&#8217;ll love. So light a candle, put on some soothing music, sink into a luxurious bubble bath and enjoy one of these delicious mocktails.<\/p>\n<p>CHOCOLATE MOCKTINI <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1693 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2022\/02\/Chocolate-mocktini-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2022\/02\/Chocolate-mocktini-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2022\/02\/Chocolate-mocktini.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ingredients<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 cup cold milk<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup chocolate syrup<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp. simple syrup (optional)<\/li>\n<li>Crushed ice, as needed<\/li>\n<li>Chocolate shavings or sprinkles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instructions<\/p>\n<p>Combine milk, chocolate syrup, and crushed ice to a blender and blend until smooth. Dip the rim of your martini glass with chocolate syrup and sprinkles or shavings. Fill each glass and top with chocolate shavings or sprinkles.<\/p>\n<p>KOMBUCHA MOCKTAIL<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1692 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2022\/02\/Kombucha-Mocktail-300x216.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2022\/02\/Kombucha-Mocktail-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2022\/02\/Kombucha-Mocktail.png 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ingredients<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose your favorite flavour of kombucha<\/li>\n<li>Pick a second flavour of kombucha<\/li>\n<li>Sparkling water, flavoured if you want<\/li>\n<li>Fresh juice to compliment<\/li>\n<li>Sweetener if needed<\/li>\n<li>Garnish to compliment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instructions<\/p>\n<p>Combine ice both kombucha flavours, sparkling water, juice, and sweetener to a glass. Garnish however you wish to compliment for flavour of your unique mocktail &#8211; be creative!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the stress of our daily grind makes us really crave an alcoholic beverage to help us take the edge off at the end of the day, but I hope you are all incorporating other relaxation techniques into your lives this dry-February. If you are anything like me, sometimes just the &#8220;look&#8221; of the drink &#8230; <a title=\"Employee Fitness Challenge &#8211; Mocktails Anyone?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/2022\/02\/09\/employee-fitness-challenge-mocktails-anyone\/\" aria-label=\"More on Employee Fitness Challenge &#8211; Mocktails Anyone?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":1696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,7,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employee-stories","category-fitness-challenge","category-recipes","category-information-and-resources","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}