Red, White, & Blue Sangria Plus a Summer Salad

I love anything red, white, and blue. Don't you? I love sangria. Ben's aunt makes an amazing sangria that we drink just about anytime we are all together. So I thought I would "tweak" her recipe and make it red, white, and blue for our upcoming 4th of July party!

Ingredients:

1 bottle of white wine. I used Reisling

1/2 cup of Splenda

1 cup of lemonade

1 lemon

1 lime

1 cup of vodka. I used Tito's

1 bottle of diet 7up or Sprite Zero

strawberries

blueberries

Granny Smith Apples

Fun American Flag straws! I picked mine up at Target.

Directions:

Pour wine and vodka in a pitcher

squeeze the juice from the lemon and lime into the pitcher

slice your strawberries and add about a handful of those and blueberries into the pitcher. I made my apples into stars. (I'll show you that part below)

Add Splenda and stir well.

Tips:

To squeeze the juice from the lemon and lime, I use my citrus press from Pampered Chef. Makes life so much easier.

To cut my apples into stars, I used these mini cutters. I peeled my apples, then sliced.

I make this sangria either the night before or the morning of that I need it. The longer it "sits" the yummier it taste!

So fun and So festive! This amount will make about 1.5 quarts. For our upcoming party, I will double this recipe....heck, who I am kidding I will probably triple it!!!!