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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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!

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! 

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!

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.

Cookie Dough Dip Recipe

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!

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!

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.

Fried Dill Pickles Recipe

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

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.

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!

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!

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!

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.

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!

Pulled Pork Sandwiches

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

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!

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!

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.

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?)

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!

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!

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!

Chicken Tortilla Soup

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

Pasta Fagioli 

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

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!

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! 

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. 

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!

 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! 

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!

Warm Pomegranate Cranberry Cider 

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

So, there you have so many of my favorite football foods. I’d love to know your favorites in the comments!

How to Save Your Own Favorite Recipes

We have created a Recipe Collections Tutorial as a guide. It is so easy to save your favorites, but this guide makes it even easier.

Create an Account and Save Recipes

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Save and Customize This Meal Plan

Once you have created your free account, you can save this meal plan to your personal recipe collection. If there is something else you’d rather have one night, swap out the recipes with your favorites!

Shopping Lists

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Have fun!
Robyn xo