Healthy Game Changers: 5 Low-Cal, Football-Watching Snacks

Healthy Game Changers: 5 Healthy Football-Watching Snacks
Healthy Game Changers: 5 Healthy Football-Watching Snacks

How's this as a recipe for disaster: wings, pizza, dips and chips, brownies, and beer. These are America's football-watching favorites, and if you started snacking this month with the NFL kickoff game, chances are you'll look like a quarterback come the Super Bowl. Here, to the rescue, football-food makeovers that look and taste like the originals. Your guests won't know these nibbles are low in calories and fat, and you'll stay in your skinny jeans till baseball season.

Lite wings: Cut the saturated fat and sodium with these cornmeal-crusted boneless buffalo wings. Serve them with a light blue-cheese dip.

Pizza-to-go: For maximum calorie control, DIY. Convenience a priority? Order a thin-crust veggie pizza from Domino's, Pizza Hut, or Papa John's. All three can deliver a pizza that weighs in at less than 250 calories a slice.

Chips and dip: Serve baked chips with one of the new Greek-yogurt-based fat-free dips. At about 15 calories a tablespoon, you can have more than a handful.

Chocolate fix: Make your own 100-calorie fudge brownies, using applesauce instead of oil to keep them moist. Short on time? Splurge on a box of Erin Baker's Organic Brownie Bites at only 90 calories each.

Brewski: Okay, so light beers don't have the alcohol (carbs, to you) of full-strength brew. But if you're counting calories, these four can't be beat at 70 calories or less: Budweiser Select 55, Miller Genuine Draft 64, Beck's Premier Light, Pabst Pearl Light.

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