7 Lo-Cal and No-Cal Ideas for Your Super Bowl Watch Party
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear “Superbowl”? And what’s the second thing you think of after thinking “cool commercials?” It may be a tie between easy-to-grab snacks, camaraderie, and the game itself. Well, here’s 7 ideas (plus a bonus) for your gathering that will have you thinking more about fun than calories. Go (insert your favorite) team!
1. Free football printable to set the mood. Jazz up your food and decorate your table with the paper printouts found HERE.
2. To start out the snacking. Remember those easy-to-make white-chocolate dipped pretzels from the holidays? You can use miniature straight pretzels or small pretzel knots to slash the calories and trade Christmas hues for team colors!
3. Glazed pineapple sausage bites – an idea from Real House Moms using kielbasa. Switch to the turkey kielbasa or sausage for less calories and bottled teriaki sauce for ease! (Click picture for recipe)
4. Marinated feta skewers. Another flavorful bite. (Click picture for recipe)
5. 5-Ingredient Sausage Balls. This made-over favorite now includes some whole-grain nutrition! (Click picture for recipe)
6. Chocloate-covered strawberry footballs. Several sources stated that one chocolate covered strawberry is about 57 calories. Even if you add in a few more for the extra stripes, it still makes for a reasonable sweet ending to the finger-food feast.
7. Another game going on: Commercial Bingo. Commercials are the best part of the program for some people – playing Commercial Bingo gives you another reason to pay attention to them! Go HERE for cards ready to print off, or make your own!
BONUS: SOMETHING NEW!
Whether for a starting snack or a post-game munch, how about a cheese puff? Well, not cheese puffs exactly – but “bean puffs” doesn’t sound as good. While it comes in cheddar and white cheddar, hot chili lime is a zesty flavor profile if you’re looking for a bit of oomph! And check out the ingredients on Beanitos’ version of this familiar-looking crunchy treat!
INGREDIENTS: Whole Navy Beans, Long Grain Rice Flour, Sunflower Oil, Tapioca, Lime Juice, Lime Oil, Cane Sugar, Garlic, Sea Salt, Onion, Tomato, Citric Acid, Chipotle Pepper, Paprika, Spices, Jalapeno Pepper.
WHAT’S GOING ON AT YOUR HOUSE ON SUPERBOWL SUNDAY?
Usually I fall asleep during halftime. 🙂 I would be all over those sausage balls first!
I don’t sit through much of any of it – I’m generally going about my business trying to keep an ear open for the commercial breaks. I think it’s hard to beat some of the commercials from yesteryear – but I like to see the attempts! -El
I don’t like sports for the most part. I did when my kids participated, but grew out of that. Superbowl Sunday will be a nice day on the intracoastal waterway in my boat with a lot less traffic on the water than usual.
Haha – sounds like us, Nancy. We do most of our shopping in Norman, OK – which happens to be OU Sooner territory. Which means we have the stores to ourselves on game days – not to mention our pick of restaurants with no wait! -El
I’m not a sports fan. Can I have some snacks anyway? ~(~_*)~~
Absolutely, Tess – provided you make enough for the rest of us!
Ha ha ha. Sheesh. I’ll bring the feta skewers.
Those strawberries look FAN-tastic!
That’s the spirit, Nancy – go, RED!
The sausage balls and beanitos sound good… Also the bingo commercial game sounds like a good idea.
I’m really curious about the beanitos – and not just because I get a kick out of saying that word!If you ever try them, let me know what you think! -El
Believe it or not, I tried the Beanitos – and for someone who can’t eat corn (i.e., Fritos, Doritos, Tostitos – anything ending in “tos” – they were pretty good. I tried the Cheddar Cheese ones….will let you know about any after effects!
Good to know! I’ll wait for the final report about ‘after effects’ before I venture to Beanito land – don’t forget to update us! -El