If you think that you shouldn't have an extra drink, try a non-alcoholic beverage like sparkling cider instead.
Space caloric drinks (wine, cocktails, beer) with water, sparkling water, or other non-caloric non-sweet drinks.
Before proposing a toast, look around and make sure everyone's glass is full, whether it's with champagne, sparkling water or non-alcoholic punch.
To wash it all down, the Pentagon meal-planners say they will supply thousands of gallons of egg nog and non-alcoholic sparkling grape soda, known here as Saudi champagne.
Jansz itself, based in the Pipers River district, makes one of the most consistently excellent sub-£20 non-vintage sparkling wines anywhere in Jansz Premium Cuvée, with its citrussy crispness and toasty depths.
On one hand Lussory Gold is perpetuating this, which I support; on the other hand, making a non-alcoholic sparkling wine is taking one of nature's happy accidents and turning it into a commodity". To Camper's point, people traditionally drink because they want to feel the effects of alcohol.
Out Boulder is seeking donations of cakes, non-alcoholic sparkling cider and even a disc jockey spinning "radio-approved music only".
Use non-alcoholic sparkling wine instead, or cut that part out of the recipe.
If what you are avoiding is alcohol, ask instead for soda, juice, lemonade, coffee, tea, non-alcoholic sparkling cider, or water.
The procedures discussed above are primarily concerned with the production of still (non-sparkling) table wines.
Give him, say, the subject of sparkling water versus non-sparkling, and he'd have something to say – though what, exactly, might surprise me.
