Non-Alcoholic Drinks to have with Food

          From simple tricks to store-bought sips, we have you covered when it comes to non-alcoholic drink ideas. Most of these beverages aren't too sweet, making them perfect to serve alongside food. It's not much fun when everyone else is sipping lovely wine and you are given a warm glass, a bottle of sticky old squash if you're lucky and showed in the direction of the Kitchen tap. This is the equivalent of cooking rib of beef with potatoes roasted in goose fat, handing the vegetarian in the room a cold plate and offering them a slice of leftover quiche to go with their boiled carrots.
                        The soft drinks market growing 3.3% last year, and a bewildering array of smoothies, energy drinks and most recently coconut waters flooding supermarket shelves, few are food friendly. Soft drinks and fruit juices are full of sugar, he says but you can have savoury flavours that actually complement what's going on in the food. Alcohol consumption outside the home fell by 30% between 2006 and 2011, and as many as 15% of the UK population describe themselves as teetotal. For Jameel Lalani, founder of boutique tea company Lalani & Co, it's part of a wider trend towards lighter dining embodied by restaurants like Gauthier, which focuses on vegetables and puts calorie counts on the menu. People are looking at foo and health as one and the same, instead of being separate," Lalani says. "They're moving from having just alcohol all the time to half bottles, lighter styles of wine, and now away from wine to nonalcoholic offerings.
                           To miss out the correct ingredient, this drink matches , offering non-drinkers a glass of something that looks or tastes almost the same as everyone else's. Other cocktails that are just as good without the alcohol are Moscow Mules and Virgin Marys. I add soda to almost every fresh fruit juice rather than drinking it neat, find the long version more refreshing, thirst-quenching and prefer its transparency. A particular favourite is apple juice with soda. A crucial supply for those cutting back rather than cutting out is a bottle of Angostura Bitters above 44.7%. A few drops add astringency and depth to a lime soda, given it a more grown up edge and slowing down your rate of consumption.