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Football Food Favorites!

Robyn Stone

Published Jan 25, 2025

Football food favorites are perfect for tailgating and watching the game! These 30 delicious recipes are great for serving as you cheer on your favorite team!

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Looking for even more game day recipes? Browse through all of my game day friendly recipes here ! Fair warning, though: it’ll make you hungry! 🙂

Football food. It’s a thing, right? Well, it certainly is around here! And during football season, you better believe we’re pulling out our favorite tailgating and game day recipes to share! The delicious food is my favorite part of planning for tailgating or watching the games. I love making various easy, satisfying foods that my family and friends will enjoy! It’s just even more fun to cheer for your team when you’ve got some great food, don’t you think?!

I hope you enjoy my recipes for Football Food Favorites as much as my family and friends do!

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Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe

Buffalo Chicken Dip tastes just like the buffalo chicken we all love. This creamy buffalo chicken dip comes together easily and is always a winner! Now, updated to include traditional buffalo chicken dip and how to prepare it in the slow cooker!

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Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe

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Spinach Artichoke Dip

Spinach Artichoke Dip is quick and easy to make! With just six ingredients and ready in less than 30 minutes, this is the best spinach artichoke dip recipe and a favorite any time!

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Spinach Artichoke Dip Recipe

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Restaurant-Style Salsa Recipe

This delicious Best Homemade Salsa recipe rivals any restaurant salsa – and I love that I can make it at home anytime. Not only is it delicious with chips, but we also love it with so many dishes, from tacos to my Salsa Chicken . Since it comes together in minutes with ingredients that I usually have on hand, I can whip it up at a minute’s notice.

Easy Restaurant Style Salsa Recipe - This salsa recipe is easy to make in minutes! No cooking required for this fresh, delicious restaurant style salsa recipe! // addapinch.com - 7

Best Homemade Salsa Recipe (Restaurant Style Salsa)

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This time of year, I love to have delicious dip recipes for serving when we get together with family and friends, at tailgating events, and during the holidays. If you love cookie dough, you will love this quick and easy dip. Serve it as a creamy dip in a bowl or shaped like a football, as I do with my Football Cookie Dough Dip recipe . It is so much fun!

Football Food Favorites! - 9Sheet Pan Nachos Recipe - Sheet Pan Nachos make a quick and easy appetizer for a crowd or easy weeknight supper! These nachos are always a favorite! // addapinch.com - 10

Sheet Pan Nachos Recipe

This Sheet Pan Nachos Recipe is such a versatile recipe; it’s a perfect game-day food or a simple family supper. The recipe cooks all in one sheet pan and couldn’t be easier!

Sheet Pan Nachos Recipe - Sheet Pan Nachos make a quick and easy appetizer for a crowd or easy weeknight supper! These nachos are always a favorite. - 11

Sheet Pan Nachos Recipe

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Sweet and Spicy Meatballs Recipe

Sweet and Spicy Cranberry Cocktail Meatballs make a delicious, quick, and easy recipe ready to serve in 30 minutes. Perfect for busy weeknights, watching the game, and entertaining.

Sweet and Spicy Cranberry Cocktail Meatballs Recipe - An update on a classic party favorite, these sweet and spicy cranberry cocktail meatballs are always a hit! // addapinch.com - 13

Cranberry Meatballs Recipe

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Fried Dill Pickles Recipe

Fried dill pickles are tart dill pickle slices encased in a crispy, crunchy coating that is just perfect for snacking.

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Fried Dill Pickles Recipe

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Pretzel Bites Recipe

These pretzel bites are perfect when entertaining or when you have friends over. There’s just something about these little pretzel bites dipped in mustard or even salted caramel sauce .

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Pretzel Bites Recipe

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Smoked Chicken Wings

Chicken Wings are a definite favorite that we make repeatedly at my house. These smoked chicken wings are delicious and simple to make!

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Smoked Chicken Wings Recipe

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Baked Crispy Buffalo Chicken Wings

Crispy buffalo wings don’t have to be deep-fried to be delicious! This easy recipe for baked chicken wings makes everyone’s favorite wing crispy and amazing!

If you love chicken wings, I also think you’ll love the recipe that I share for them in my cookbook. So easy!

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Crispy Baked Buffalo Chicken Wings Recipe

BBQ Chicken Sandwich on a bun with slaw, dripping with homemade bbq sauce - on a white plate on a marble countertop. // addapinch.com - 22

Easy BBQ Chicken Sandwiches

If you are looking for a quick and easy, absolutely delicious recipe that people always go nuts over, then friends, these Easy BBQ Chicken Sandwiches are for you! They are so easy to make!

BBQ Chicken Sandwiches make an easy and delicious meal! Made with shredded chicken tossed in a flavorful BBQ sauce! Always a favorite! // addapinch.com - 23

Easy BBQ Chicken Sandwiches Recipe

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Stromboli

This Stromboli Recipe is the one for you if you have hungry folks around your house or are looking for an easy-as-can-be recipe to serve while watching the game at home or tailgating.

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Stromboli Recipe

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Meatball Sliders

Meatball Sliders make a great appetizer, lunch, or even supper! Just be sure to make plenty of these meatball sliders because they go fast!

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Meatball Sliders Recipe

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Pulled Pork Sandwiches

This simple slow cooker pork roast recipe makes the most amazing pulled pork, perfect for sandwiches and more! So easy!

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Pork Roast Recipe

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Baked Ham and Cheese Sandwiches

These super easy baked Ham and Cheese Sandwiches are always a favorite! They are delicious for a quick, easy hot lunch, afternoon snack, or game day treat!

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Baked Ham and Cheese Sandwiches

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Three Cheese Pizza Recipe

This Three Cheese White Pizza recipe is loaded with delicious cheeses on a homemade pizza crust! It’s easy to make and such a favorite pizza for a family dinner or for watching the game!

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Homemade Three Cheese White Pizza Recipe

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Margherita Pizza Recipe

Margherita Pizza is one of the most delicious pizzas, in my opinion. It is the one I turn to time and again. It’s easy to make at home and perfect for a casual meal with friends and family.

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Margherita Pizza Recipe

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Pizza Stuffed Mushrooms

Pizza Stuffed Mushrooms are perfect for a really quick-fix lunch or supper, after-school snack, or appetizer for the big game (you know that’s coming soon, right?)

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Pizza Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe

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White Chicken Chili

White Chicken Chili makes a delicious meal full of spicy chili flavor, chicken, and white beans. Stovetop, Slow Cooker, and Freezer Instructions are provided to make easily make this White Chicken Chili a favorite anytime!

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White Chicken Chili Recipe

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Loaded Potato Soup

Loaded baked potato soup is hearty, warming, and oh-so-very comforting. It is one of my favorite soup recipes for family meals, dinner with friends, and watching the game!

Loaded Baked Potato Soup Recipe - Loaded baked potato soup makes a warm, comforting potato soup recipe. Made with baked potatoes blended into a creamy soup and topped with your potato bar favorites! // addapinch.com - 41

Loaded Baked Potato Soup

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Classic Chili

This Classic Chili recipe is an easy, savory chili recipe that is a favorite and cooks on the stovetop in minutes! It is made with just six ingredients and is ready in 30 minutes, and it makes the best chili!

Bowl of the best classic chili made with beef, beans, tomatoes and spices and then topped with your favorite toppings. Photographed in a white bowl with garnish on a white surface. - 43

The Best Classic Chili Recipe

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Chicken Tortilla Soup

This easy Chicken Tortilla Soup makes a simple yet scrumptious soup recipe. With slow cooker, Instant Pot, and stovetop instructions included!

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Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe (Slow Cooker, Instant Pot, and Stove Top)

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Pasta Fagioli

Pasta Fagioli is a must-make recipe in my house and is ready in 30 minutes.

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Pasta Fagioli Recipe

Taco Soup filled with ground beef, corn, and beans and topped with shredded cheese, sour cream, green onion // addapinch.com - 48

Taco Soup Recipe

This taco soup recipe is quick and easy, flavorful, and delicious! Made with ground beef, beans, and corn, it is on the table in less than 30 minutes!

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Taco Soup Recipe

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Chocolate Cake Recipe – 9×13

This is the easiest 9×13 chocolate cake recipe I’ve ever made. Adjusted from my Best Chocolate Cake that everyone absolutely loves, I’ve now made the cake even easier and sized for a 9×13 sheet cake!

Best Chocolate Cake Recipe (9x13 Recipe) - This is the easiest 9x13 chocolate cake recipe I've ever made. Adjusted from my Best Chocolate Cake that everyone absolutely loves, I've now made the cake even easier and sized for a 9x13 sheet cake! // addapinch.com - 51

Best Chocolate Cake Recipe (9×13 Recipe)

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Mississippi Mud Cake

This Mississippi Mud Cake recipe is one I love to make again and again for a simple yet amazing dessert for family suppers and casual get-togethers.

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Mississippi Mud Cake Recipe

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Peanut Butter Cup Blondies

This Peanut Butter Cup Blondies recipe is always a crowd favorite! Think soft peanut butter cookies mingled with peanut butter cups and topped with more peanut butter and chocolate. Yes, they are a special treat indeed!

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Peanut Butter Cup Blondies Recipe

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Chewy Sugar Cookies

Chewy Sugar Cookies are always a favorite, no matter the occasion! These well-loved cookies are perfect for holidays, as an afternoon treat, or for when you have friends over!

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The BEST Chewy Sugar Cookies Recipe!

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Pecan Pie Bars

This easy Pecan Pie Bars recipe features a shortbread crust topped with a sweet pecan pie filling. If you are looking for something perfect to serve a large crowd, easy to make, and even easier to eat, and that still brings out that nostalgic, traditional pecan pie flavor, you should definitely try this recipe!

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Southern Pecan Pie Bars

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Warm Pomegranate Cranberry Cider

This quick, easy, warm cranberry pomegranate cider recipe makes the perfect sip to stay warm and cozy!

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Warm Cranberry Pomegranate Cider Recipe

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Have fun! Robyn xo