One of the best parts of the Super Bowl is gathering around with family and friends, and eating amazing food while watching the big game.
If you’re trying to count calories or stick to a healthy diet, though, you may be tempted to feel like you can’t really eat snacks — or at least none of the great ones — come game day. Read more about Alpilean benefits.
To bust this myth and share tips on enjoying delicious, healthy foods and how we can approach our dietary choices during the annual football feast, FIU News spoke with dietitian Tania Rivera, an assistant clinical professor at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work.
Here are her top tips for keeping it healthy while enjoying the Super Bowl: Check these prodentim reviews.
Healthy snacks at a glance
Top recipe suggestions:
- Seven-layer bean dip — Use vegetarian beans, low-fat sour cream, low-fat cheese to top off the dip and layers of onions or guacamole or avocados. You can also use salsa and fresh tomatoes, cilantros and some olives or even taco powder to give the dip some flavor. Use veggies or baked chips to eat this dip. It’s one of Rivera’s favorite recipes.
- Baked sweet potatoes — “These are very healthy,” Rivera says. Sweet potatoes are rich in vitamins A and C, iron, potassium and much more. They help your eye health and immune system, to name a few.
- Roasted cauliflower — Put buffalo seasoning on the roasted cauliflower and you’ll have a nice, meaty flavor that adds volumes to the snack.
- Potato skins — You can transform the traditional potato skins recipe to a relatively healthy one. Skip the bacon and use low-fat sour cream as well as low-fat cheese. With these low-fat ingredients, it’s a pretty good snack (just make sure to balance it out with other healthier choices throughout the day, Rivera says).
- Others mentioned below in more detail: hummus and carrots; baked chicken wings; and extra lean ground beef burgers. Read more about metaboost connection.
Tips to stay healthy during Super Bowl feasts
1. Skip the dip — go for hummus and carrots (or other veggies) instead.
Those creamy, white dips are the ones that come chock-full of fats. Substitute the dip for hummus and, instead of dipping chips, enjoy veggies.
“Hummus is an excellent dip for everything,” Rivera says. “Hummus with carrots is always a fan favorite. And as much as you can use veggies, that ups the nutritional value in any snack.”
Rivera adds that salsa is also a great option for dip. The tomatoes, onions, cilantro, lime and other vegetables usually found in salsa are healthy for you.
If you really want chips, she adds, choose the baked ones. “You save a lot of calories and saturated fats with baked chips.”
She also recommends chopping bell peppers and using them for dipping or even stuffing bell peppers with lean ground beef. “Those are great snacks,” she says. For more veggie layering, you could also stuff avocadoes with fresh vegetables like tomatoes, onion and cilantro.
Whole grain crackers are another substitute for chips. “Fiber fills us up more,” Rivera explains. “So, we tend to eat less whole grain crackers. Let’s let the crackers and veggies fill us up instead [of filling up on the more fattening foods].” These are the latest ikaria lean belly juice reviews.
2. Use lean meats and bake chicken wings.
Burgers and wings are the royalty of Super Bowl foods. You can modify recipes to enjoy them both while staying on a healthy meal plan.
Use extra lean ground beef instead of sirloin for burgers. Instead of chicken wings, you can try other chicken cuts. “Chicken breasts are healthier than chicken wings,” Rivera says.
If chicken wings are your heart’s desire, baking them is your best choice. Rivera says baked chicken wings are completely fair game when it comes to a healthy diet.
“The biggest health culprits at Super Bowl gatherings are often fried wings,” Rivera says. “That’s a hot ticket item. You can make a big difference in your health by baking them instead.”
3. Try to avoid foods with very high amounts of sodium and preservatives.
Charcuterie boards with cold cut meats are one item you may want to stay away from, Rivera says.
Ham and salami often contain high amounts of salt and sodium. And, if not eaten in moderation, those cold cuts could turn into high sodium numbers.
Desserts that are loaded with sugars are obviously not the best option. If you want to have a cookie, let yourself have one. “Limit yourself to one or two as opposed to mindlessly filling up your plate,” she says.
As for drinks, Rivera recommends sticking with water.
SWEET HOLY FROSTEDFLAKES!!!! GRATS 😀
With the XT nerfs, Hodir is by far my favorite fight in there. It’s awesome. Grats 🙂
If you don’t do the “run the fuck away and then run the fuck back and omg don’t mess it up” thing right, well… you know those NPCs that turn into icecubes after that? And the DPS is supposed to break them out in a specific order (I could never tell which was which, but apparently the order wasn’t actually super important)? That happens to you.
Mages can iceblock out of it (lol irony), but lesser classes can have difficulties.
Your guild must have some awesome healers 😛
Well done, Pike! That sounds really particularly pet-unfriendly. Actually, it sounds pretty hunter-unfriendly, too…
Also, mages can iceblock out of iceblocks?! This amuses me!
@Armond – Yeah I turned into an ice block a couple times the first few tries. It was embarrassing. >.>
@Durkonkell – Actually you could just leave your pet on the boss the whole time and nothing would ever happen to him. The first time I went in there I was totally pulling all the tricks I pull in Nexus to try and keep my pet alive and I just wound up killing myself (because I’m horrible at multitasking), so discovering that you did pretty much nothing with your pet the whole time was a relief.
Why your pet is immune to the frost damage on this fight and not in Nexus, I have no idea.
Hon, do you *really* need both raid frames and party frames? It looks so cluttered!
Grats on two great new pieces of gear!
@ Negathle – My UI is very cluttered. But anytime I’ve tried to fix it, something horrible happens. Example, I totally spent forever in Ulduar while on a brief break tweaking my UI to make it less cluttered, then my game crashed so it didn’t save any of the settings. When I logged back on it was like “TAWYN’S BACK, PULLING NOW.”
So yeah >.>
And I do feel naked without raid frames… I like my UI to be the same across toons (I am easily confused) and my healer needs those raid frames x_x
I do love my job in that fight for Hard Mode. I just sit by a cozy fire and shoot like my life depended on it.=D
Hodir is definitely a fun fight, definitely a bit hectic for everyone, but fun nonetheless!
You haven’t even been to Mimiron yet. Don’t be too hasty in calling this the craziest fight ever. ^^
The only this that bugs me about the screenshot is all of the clutter. Other than that that fight is epic keeps us on our toes nowa days. Second favorite fight in Ulduar.
Bwahaha. That was crazy fun!! Woot for us downing Hodir-25 for the first time 😀
– twitter.com/philodino
I’m totally in that screen shot.
Also don’t worry it gets easier, just wait until Yogg!
Impressive indeed, one more item to add to my list of “things to do when I finally grind up to 80”. On a side note, would you consider posting a list of the add-ons you use? Some of them I love the look of but can’t identify and I really want to steal them for myself.
A tip for Hodir. Only guilds who kill him hard mode seem to know it for some reason.
There are two NPC mages: Missy Flamecuffs and Sissy Flamecuffs. Only those two NPCs need to pe gotten out of Ice Blocks. They will free all the other iceblocks in like 3 seconds and give raid more time to dps boss down.
Gratz Pike !
That fight is crazy yes ! And like the people said above : Just free the mages (the gnomes), or even one of them : they free their comrades and you will gain time, and they are the one doing fires. We freed only one this week and got the achievement !
And yep, pets are immune to the frost, I did this fight in BM for a while, until I got much more optimized for Survival. It was the only way I found not to be to ridiculus on the meter…
And like other said, wait until you discover Mimiron, or Vezax… You will love them, a lot of “don’t stand there, mooooooove !” is awaiting you… I can’t wait for your stories about your next trip in Ulduar, keep up !
@ Ionut and Nefernet – don’t worry, we were definitely only freeing the gnomes! They were marked up with raid icons and everything.
lol Hodir is fun, and once you get used to it you become an old hand at it.
Then you get Freya and her adds madness
Then comes Mimiron which is chaos incarnate until you try Mimiron hard mode which is just wtfery and makes everything before seem easy peasy.
Hodir is quite fun, though even when we’ve pretty much got it on farm, we still screw up sometimes. Just a little slip can wipe it (Healer getting block’d). Using a DK tank and Aura Mastery really does make it trivial, though. 😛
Unfortunately, I’ve seen Avalanche drop, aaannddd…..
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My gun was better. >.< It went to the other hunter who was toting around one from 10m Naxx. I just feel horrible, though, that 1% crit racial, completely wasted due to the lack of decent end-game bow. :/
Oh well.
Oh and on the madness of fights topic. One word.
Mimiron.
And another…
Yogg-Saron.
xD
By the way, marksman is amazing for this fight. If you get the crit buff, do Rapidfire,chimera,readiness,chimera for omgwtf dmg plus 5k piercing shot ticks!