Archive for October 11th, 2008

Football Snacks That Don’t Add Up Too Much

Football Sundays are upon us, and if you’re like me and have a man in the house that loves his Sunday football, and also has friends over every week (don’t get me wrong, I love it, it’s nostalgic to have people over and snack on wings and other goodies all day), then you definitely know how hard it can be to avoid the snacks that inevitably add up with the beer calories when you’re in the swing of watching football. 

It just seems that pizza, beer, wings and other salty, fatty foods go best with this favorite American pastime, so it’s no wonder that we may pack in as many as 3,000 to 4,000 calories on these days.  However, are there some smarter snacks you can be setting out, so that you won’t be stuffing your face with fattening, salty and sugary snacks all day on football watching days?

Well, you can definitely cut calories little by little, but it’s also important not to just keep absent mindedly eating when you’re not even really hungry, even if you are in fact cutting the calories by watching what you eat on these days as far as the healthfulness of the actual foods you choose to put out. 

One way you can cut back a little (every little bit helps), is to buy low fat or baked chips instead of the full on fried, fatty chips that populate the store’s shelves.  You can also buy pretzels instead of chips, which have little to no fat and other than sodium, aren’t all that bad for you.  Try buying some fat free dips too – they don’t taste half bad now.  Or you can buy fat free or low fat sour cream and make your own.

Try putting out a turkey summer sausage instead of the fattening beef version.