Elevate Your Tailgate With These Healthier Game Day Favorites

If you're like me, and love game day snacks as much as sacks, you're not alone. Many sports fans fess up to enjoying football food more than the game. Problem is, typical fan fare like chips and dip, burgers and brats, pizza, wings and beer can easily add up to more than a day's worth of calories and several days' worth of saturated fat -- all before kick-off! Here are some of my favorite lighter football snacks so you don't end up feeling like a 300-pound lineman by the end of the season. Skinny Dips To contain calories when there's a "blitz" on chips and dip, I opt for dips with more filling fiber and fewer calories than a typical Ranch or queso dip. Best bets: my Skinny Guacamole recipe, hummus and bean dip. Dip Tip: Replacing a cup of regular sour cream with nonfat Greek yogurt shaves 315 calories and 45 grams of fat from your dip recipes. Mini Caprese Bites Skewers Appetizers and sides often pile on more calories than main courses, so look for ways to make your apps veggie-packed. To make: Slice cherry tomatoes in half and put on toothpick, add one small slice fresh mozzarella cheese and one basil leaf. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Turkey Cocktail Meatballs Ground skinless turkey breast has one of the highest protein-to-calorie ratios and using it in place of 90-percent lean ground beef saves 80 calories and 9 grams of fat per serving (about four mini meatballs). Hummus Deviled Eggs Upgrade this egg-cellent...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news