Going off alcohol

I belong to a wine club ( I live next to a wine growing area) so we get wine cheapish by the dozen. There are a lot of wonderful small vineyards within a 30 minute drive. Another reason I don’t want to move and downsize !

I love Bacardi on Friday nights. I don’t think I can tolerate anything else due to migraines but I have persisted over the years and it seems I can take that.
However I have tried using wine drops in occasional glass of Merlot of late and they seem to work at staving off the bad head too. But no I still do love to have some alcohol but generally once a week is plenty.

Usedtobeblonde

I feel it will soon be drinking alcohol at home… a slippery slope?
When I was out last evening my favourite Cocktail, an Old Fashioned , was £11:50 and a glass of Australian Shiraz £13:50.
I settled for Rioja at £10:50.
I couldn’t help but compare what a bottle would cost if bought and drunk at home.
The hospitality industry is in danger of shrinking into just a few venues for the determined and the well off.

I used to worry about that when I moved after DH died, utbb but I now realise it’s no big deal. Nothing nicer than your favourite tipple in the peace and quiet of your own home especially knowing it’s a fraction of the cost you!d have to pay in a pub or restaurant.

nanna8

I belong to a wine club ( I live next to a wine growing area) so we get wine cheapish by the dozen. There are a lot of wonderful small vineyards within a 30 minute drive. Another reason I don’t want to move and downsize !

That would definitely make me stay put. 🤣🥳🍷

I've not had alcohol since I was 32, after an embarrassing incident at a friends dinner party I vowed I would never drink again and apart from a sip of champagne at weddings I'm now 77yrs. I never missed it.

I did mean to add both my daughters have found they just cant drink as they used to as it makss them feel sick they are in their 50s so maybe its just bodies changing that does it.

I like a shandy of an evening, I buy cans and it’s 0.5% very refreshing when very cold.
Nothing like the far too much white wine I used to drink years ago.

Gave up alcohol in my early 40s, I found it was making me depressed regardless of one, or three drinks.
Also I think once us ladies start hitting menopause, I think that may have a lot to do with it.

Jaxjacky

I like a shandy of an evening, I buy cans and it’s 0.5% very refreshing when very cold.
Nothing like the far too much white wine I used to drink years ago.

I could drink a shandy as long as it’s dead weak with a nice pizza.

Being coeliac I can no longer drink beer or lager. Cider is fine….apart from the calories! 😫

I definitely buck this trend.

I still enjoy wine (white or rose) vodka & tonic, (fussy about the vodka) maybe a gin & tonic (I only like Hendricks gin) rather fussy about the tonic.

Like a good champagne, totally over Prosecco.

Basically I am fussy, when I consume calories I want to enjoy them 🍾🥂