24 Of Our Best Party Food Ideas and Super Bowl Snacks

1. Game Day Favorite Philly Style Cheesesteak

Let’s start off with a sports favorite.  The classic Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich.  This mouth watering tailgating/ sports party favorite has been on the menu for decades.  This sandwich carries all of the comforting deep sauteed flavors that will leave you and your guests very satisfied especially on Super bowl Sunday.

2. Super Bowl Snacks Football Sugar Cookies

Dessert snacks anyone?  The football sugar cookies are great grab-n-go snacks when cheering for your favorite team during the day.  A nice pop of sweet sugar cookie for anyone to enjoy from the adults to the kiddies.  Not only are they simple to make but even better to taste so give them a try on the party day.

3. Super Bowl Food Easy Chicken Parmesan Garlic Bread Pizza

Who doesn’t love pizza?  The chicken Parmesan pizza with garlic bread is great if you have a multitude of guests or if you are just flying solo.  The recipe is simple with all of the traditional ingredients of herbs, crispy chicken, and chicken that will shoot your tastes buds through the roof.

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4. Super Bowl Appetizer Pulled Pork Sliders

Here is another recipe for your party food ideas that will become a super bowl favorite in your household.  The slow cooker pulled pork sliders are fill with the down-home barbecue that everyone will love to enjoy.  Pull pork bathed in sweet and spicy barbecue sauce and topped with creamy coleslaw.  Yum!

20 Super Bowl Appetizers Ideas from Blogger Friends

1. Crispy Baked Buffalo Chicken Tenders
2. Coconut Shrimp
3. Cole Slaw Chicken Sliders
4. Fajita Bowls
5. Hot Crab Dip
6. Spicy Thai Chicken Wings
7. Cowboy Caviar Recipe
8. The Best Philly Cheesesteak Egg Roll Recipe
9. Twice Baked Potatoes
10. Blue Cheese & Balsamic Steak Sliders
11. Hot Swiss Cheese and Bacon Dip Recipe
12. Cheesy Crab Bite Appetizers
13. Cajun Glazed Bacon
14. Polenta Footballs
15. Taco Salad Mini Bites
16. Pizza Bites
17. Beer Cheese Dip
18. Spicy Buffalo Cheese Dip
19. Ultimate Easy Nachos
20. Chicken Sliders

Looking for more delicious recipes for your game day celebration?

Try these Empanadas and Pigs in a Blanket recipes.

Super bowl Sunday is on the way and you don’t have to be unprepared for it.  try out some of these party food ideas on the table and see what a difference it will make on game day.

Now that you have the snacks and appetizers, what about Football themed desserts?

See our 21 Favorite Football Themed Dessert recipes

For more great Super Bowl snack ideas visit our archives.

4 of the Best Foods to Keep you Hydrated

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Drinking at least 8 glasses of water every day is recommended. But other than drinking water directly in a glass, you can also get water from the food you eat. These foods will keep you hydrated by providing water in your body. Here are 4 of the best foods to keep you hydrated:

1. Cucumber

This food is considered to have the highest water content of any solid food. You can mix it up with your salad ingredients or blend it with your favorite nonfat yogurt, ice cube and mint. You can also make a soup out of cucumber to increase the hydrating power of cucumber.

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2. Iceberg lettuce

This food may have lower nutrition content than darker greens like romaine lettuce. However, when it comes to hydrating your body, the iceberg lettuce can top them all. This food should be present in your fridge, ready to be inserted in your sandwich for fillings.

3. Celery

Celery is another green leafy vegetable that should pump up your body with water. You can also get fiber from celery aside from water. Also, it contains vitamins A, C and K. These nutritional contents are great for your body.

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4. Radish

Not only that radishes are very refreshing, but more importantly it supplies water in your body. This hydrating veggie is packed with flavors and a crunchy texture that everyone will surely love. You can add radishes in several recipes that are perfect for any occasion.

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Consider these foods seriously to maintain proper hydration in your body. You can start by planting some, if not all, of these hydrating veggies in your home garden. Keep hydrated!

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Turkey is known for its wide variety of street foods and one staple street food that immediately comes to our mind when someone talks about Turkey is The Doner Kebab. Usually made on a vertical rotisserie called a spit, Doner Kebab has become one of the most preferred fast foods in the European countries. Let’s have a look how you can cook it at home using a frying pan.

Doner Kebabs – Traditional Turkey Recipe

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Ingredients

2 lbs leg of lamb (boned and cut into slices)

2 lbs ground lamb

1-tablespoon black pepper

2-3 tablespoons salt

1-cup olive oil

3 cups processed onions, until liquid

1 tomato

2-tablespoon butter

1-tablespoon cumin

1-tablespoon pimento

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Directions

1. Remove any bits of bones and skin from meat. Cut it into serving slices, approximately ¼-1/2 inches thick. Pound the meat with a tenderizer.
2. Prepare a marinade by mixing olive oil, onion juice, salt, pepper, and, milk. Pour it over the meat and cover the dish with a plastic wrap. Place it in the refrigerator overnight.
3. Next day take out the meat from the refrigerator and allow it to come to the room temperature (Approximately 30-45 minutes). Use a knife or a meat cutter to shred it and then fry it in a teflon pan for 3 minutes on one side before flipping to the other side. Consider cooking the meat in olive oil for healthier preparation.
4. Serve the meat in a Turkish style by taking it off from the frying pan and putting it plane on the plate. You can also serve it on pita bread with a yogurt dressing prepared with bell-pepper flakes, cumin, salt, and, pimento.

Tip: Traditionally, Doner Kebabs were served on a plate with rice, hot sauce, ground paprika, and melted butter.

Overall, Doner kebab is looked at as a comfort food. It can be eaten in a sandwich or as full meal. The choice is yours!

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Pohela Boishakh is the first day of Bengali New Year. The day is celebrated on April 14 in Bangladesh and in West Bengal of India. Apart from that, the Bengali communities in some other Indian states including Odisha, Tripura, Jharkhand, and Assam also observe this day.

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‘Pohela Boishakh’ is a mark of cultural unity in Bangladesh. Irrespective of religious, ethnic, or other identities, every Bengali celebrates this day by taking part in Mongol Shovajatra (a kind of festive rally), going to Boishakhi Mela(a fair displaying things representing the rural roots of the country), eating Panta-Ilish(watered rice with fried Hilsha fish), and participating in different cultural activities. However, the trend of exchanging gifts has also become rife in these days. Check out the following gift ideas for Pohela Boishakh:

Gifts for Office Staff

If you are the owner of a company, giving gifts to your staff on Pohela Boishakh is a great way to establish a friendly working environment and improving your relation with them. You can make a gift basket by stuffing a bamboo-made basket with one or two pieces of clay-made toys, a replica of spinning wheel, a jar of honey collected from the forests of the Sundarbans, ripe tamarind, hand-made fans, a catapult, some amlas, etc. All of these things are very Bengali in nature and remind every Bangladeshi of his or her roots.

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Gifts for Guests

A tradition of Pohela Boishakh is to give gifts to the guests who will come to your house on that day. Just a little bit of your care is enough to make the gift a memorable one for your guests. Clay-, wood-, bamboo-, and fiber-made things are deeply related to Bengali tradition. So, you can give them clay-made horse, elephant, tortoise, flower vase, pitcher; wooden key ring; bamboo-made or wooden jewelry items; fiber-made hanger or mattress; or hand-made fans. Give children small replicas of boats, palanquin, tabor, dhol, etc. If you have time and are willing to take some extra pain, make them flower vase or picture frame from paper grind.

Gifts for Dear Ones

The gifts for your special ones should be special in nature too. You can give them wooden jewelry box containing wooden or fiber-made bracelets, wooden bangles, wooden earrings, etc. Otherwise, you can prepare some special foods related to this festival and give them by stuffing in a small paper or bamboo basket. Food items that represent Bengali culture are puffed rice, fried corns, flattened rice, and different types of sweetmeats mainly made of coconut, meshed rice, and date juice. To add more Bengali flavor, you can wrap each item with leaves of jackfruit or banana.

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This festival holds the essence of Bengali culture. It gives people a chance to come closer through remembering the roots of Bengali tradition. Just take care that the gifts must reflect the essence of Bengali culture and tradition. Enjoy the great festival!

Shuvo Noboborsho (Happy New Year)!

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Happy Sunday! Every weekend my daughter and I talk about what we’d like to cook for a fun activity. From cookies and cakes, to making brunch, Sunday is the perfect day for getting in the kitchen. Recipes, especially ones you do with your family can be special.

Today I found this recipe at Better Recipes – and knew you would love it. Take a look at this one pan chocolate cake recipe that takes no time at all to whip up!

One Pan Chocolate Cake Recipe

Ingredients

1-1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup granulated sugar

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup cold water

1/3 cup canola or vegetable oil

1 teaspoon white vinegar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Heat oven to 350 degrees.  Place flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in an 8-inch square  baking pan.  Stir to combine.  Pour water, oil, vinegar, and vanilla over flour mixture.  Stir carefully to combine well and smooth out batter.

Bake for about 30 minutes or until a tester inserted in the middle comes out clean.  Cool and frost cake with your favorite icing, or just dust with powdered sugar, if desired.  Makes one 8-inch square cake.

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All 3 of my children have been collecting Box Tops for Education for the last 6 years or so. I remember when my middle son, now 14, but when he was in 2nd grade was in tears because I had thrown away a granola bar box that had a Box Tops for Education on it! He was so upset, and I had to go dig through the trash to get it…. ewwww!   — Awww, what we do for our kids!

For those of you who don’t know what Box Tops for Education are:

“Box Tops for Education has helped America’s schools earn over $475 million since 1996. You can earn cash for your child’s school by clipping Box Tops coupons from hundreds of participating products. Box Tops also offers easy ways to earn even more cash for your school online.” – Box Tops 4 Education

 

The importance of giving back to schools:

The great part about the Box Tops for Education program is that your direct participation earns your child’s exact school money for education. You will enter your child’s school information and all your rewards will go to their school. Awesome, yes?

So I was excited to pair up with Jingit, a program that pays you to shop for your favorite brands and your child’s school get’s rewarded too! For those of you who aren’t familiar with Jingit:

“With Jingit, you can earn real cash, instantly for watching ads online; or checking in and shopping for select products at your favorite stores; even for giving your feedback to leading brands by taking brief surveys. In return, those brands get your attention!”

 

Google+ Album – See how to use Jingit!

What a win-win for all. So I loaded the Jingit app on my iPhone, shopped at Walmart and bought General Mills foods that my kids already love. Take a look at my Google+ Album here.  See my trip, what I picked up, and how easy it was for my daughter’s school to earn Box Tops, and me, money.

It was an enjoyable time being able to get rewarded for items I would have purchased anyway! My son inhales the Totino’s Pizza’s (hey he’s a teenage boy) – and my daughter loves the Gogurt and granola bars. General Mills cereals such as Honey Nut Cheerios and Cinnamon Toast Crunch are favs at my house too!

Want to learn how you can get started – here you go:

Here are the steps for you to start earning!

1.) Sign up here: —> Jingit Signup

2.) Download the Jingit app for your iPhone or Android: –> Jingit download app

3.) Start shopping! Go to Walmart. Check in with the app and scan the barcodes on any 4 participating General Mills’ back-to-school basics products that are listed on the screen once you get to the store.  Then “cha-ching!” – you’ll earn a little real cash, in real time. And 4 Bonus Box Tops will automatically be donated to your selected school.

4.) Visit Walmart.com to engage with General Mills products, and look for banner ads with a Jingit curl from these same brands. Some locations may not feature the same ads. Once you get home, make sure to “check in” at home, by scanning your products again to earn more money, and to have the Box Tops for Education donated to your child’s school.

Lastly, log in to your Jingit dashboard and see how much money you made. You can also watch videos, learn more about other products you can earn with and share with your friends on Facebook , Twitter and Pinterest. I was excited that I made $6.00!

Thanks Jingit, Walmart, and General Mills. My daughter was excited to donate her Box Tops to school the next day.

I am a member of the Collective Bias Social Fabric® Community.  This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias and Jingit #CBias #SocialFabric”. All experiences and opinions are my own.

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