13 Healthier Super Bowl Snack Swaps
13 Easy Super Bowl Food Swaps
11. The splurge: Outback baby back ribs, full order. Ribs are fatty, and the sauce is sugary. For the record, Outback baby back ribs are 1,156 calories.
The swap: Try making them yourself, and trim all visible fat before and after cooking. Also, instead of coating your ribs with an excessive amount of sauce beforehand, partially cook them loaded with seasonings, brush them lightly with the sauce, and then finish cooking.
12. The splurge: Four bacon-wrapped smokies. The bacon alone—without the sausage and brown sugar—is more than 80 calories, for a total of more than 160 calories per appetizer. Four of them go down easy for 640 calories.
The swap: If you need to eat some type of bacon-wrapped hors d’oeuvres, go with Applegate Farms Organic Hickory Smoked Uncured Turkey Bacon. It’s only 35 calories per slice. Hebrew National Beef Franks in a Blanket are 60 calories each.
13. The splurge: Three cans of regular soda. Each 12-ounce can is 100 calories. So to burn off just three, you’d need to dance for more than an hour.
The swap: Water, flavored seltzer, unsweetened ice tea—there are so many low- or no-calorie drinks.
See? It’s totally possible to have all of the fun without any of the Monday morning Super Bowl regret! What tasty swaps do you plan on making a little healthier for the game? —Erin