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Step Up Your Food Game

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The madness has begun! 63 games of the year’s best college basketball are tipping off at center court all across the country. But if you want to remain a Power Forward in the off-season and not slip into Mascot status then you’d better opt for some tasty, fit-friendly re-inventions of the famous game-day foods. If enjoying the competition from the comfort of a couch at home, don’t fall prey to the standard junk food that most fans are devouring all month long. Take your own culinary capabilities to the kitchen court this weekend and host a viewing party that steps up your food game! 

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Stock up on Quest Protein Chips and see the nutrition facts here.No time to cook anything? Here’s a quick fix for those who want to clean up the chow at a party. Quest Nutrition (of protein bar fame) has an entire line of protein chips. Yes, PROTEIN CHIPS, and they come in the five most popular potato chip flavors. Stock up on all of them, hide bags of your favorite flavor for emergency snacking, then use the remaining four to make the best FINAL FOUR food dishes to ever grace your game-day menu…

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Get the Jalapeño Poppers recipe and nutrition facts here.Basketball games are notorious for coming down to the last few seconds. But if the game slumps into a nauseating, twenty minutes of last ditch comeback attempts by constant fouling and free throws, then you’ll need something to heat the day back up. Keep the excitement going (even if it’s just about meeting your macros) with some super spicy finger-foods like protein-coated Jalapeño Poppers!

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Get the Mozzarella Protein Sticks recipe and nutrition facts here.Cheese Sticks… plus protein. Need I say more? The most bankable game-day appetizer is so much BETTER with a protein boost that it’s mind-boggling we haven’t seen them around sooner. We could elaborate on the sheer magnificence of their taste, but we’d honestly rather go back to eating another one.

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Get the Margherita Pizza recipe and nutrition facts here.Tip off is at Noon, so who’s got time for lunch?! When the starving gang shows up at your doorstep, modest munchables won’t suffice. Treat your guests as royal ambassadors with a kingly feast like Margherita Pizza! In case they’re reluctant to indulge, kindly remind them these savory slices only pack 1/4 the carbs that delivery pizzas do! That crust you’re holding there? It’s mostly protein. 😉 

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Get the Boneless Wings recipe and nutrition facts here.The mandatory dish of every game-day buffet. Wings are an iron-clad concept: chicken dipped in your favorite flavors. But if you want to double down on your protein (and have a say in the kind of chicken you’re eating), then take the 45 minutes to make your own batch at home… coated in protein powder! No bones, more protein!Does your game-day dinner table still have some room left? Fill it up with more of these clean, protein-packed upgrades to many of the classic in-home spectator snacks. Friends don’t let friends eat junk!
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Step Up Your Food Game

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The madness has begun! 63 games of the year’s best college basketball are tipping off at center court all across the country. But if you want to remain a Power Forward in the off-season and not slip into Mascot status then you’d better opt for some tasty, fit-friendly re-inventions of the famous game-day foods. If enjoying the competition from the comfort of a couch at home, don’t fall prey to the standard junk food that most fans are devouring all month long. Take your own culinary capabilities to the kitchen court this weekend and host a viewing party that steps up your food game! 

Quest Protein Chips

Stock up on Quest Protein Chips and see the nutrition facts here.

No time to cook anything? Here’s a quick fix for those who want to clean up the chow at a party. Quest Nutrition (of protein bar fame) has an entire line of protein chips. Yes, PROTEIN CHIPS, and they come in the five most popular potato chip flavors. Stock up on all of them, hide bags of your favorite flavor for emergency snacking, then use the remaining four to make the best FINAL FOUR food dishes to ever grace your game-day menu…

Jalapeño Protein Poppers

Get the Jalapeño Poppers recipe and nutrition facts here.

Basketball games are notorious for coming down to the last few seconds. But if the game slumps into a nauseating, twenty minutes of last ditch comeback attempts by constant fouling and free throws, then you’ll need something to heat the day back up. Keep the excitement going (even if it’s just about meeting your macros) with some super spicy finger-foods like protein-coated Jalapeño Poppers!

Mozzarella Protein Sticks

Get the Mozzarella Protein Sticks recipe and nutrition facts here.

Cheese Sticks… plus protein. Need I say more? The most bankable game-day appetizer is so much BETTER with a protein boost that it’s mind-boggling we haven’t seen them around sooner. We could elaborate on the sheer magnificence of their taste, but we’d honestly rather go back to eating another one.

Margherita Protein Pizza

Get the Margherita Pizza recipe and nutrition facts here.

Tip off is at Noon, so who’s got time for lunch?! When the starving gang shows up at your doorstep, modest munchables won’t suffice. Treat your guests as royal ambassadors with a kingly feast like Margherita Pizza! In case they’re reluctant to indulge, kindly remind them these savory slices only pack 1/4 the carbs that delivery pizzas do! That crust you’re holding there? It’s mostly protein. 😉 

Protein-Coated Boneless Wings

Get the Boneless Wings recipe and nutrition facts here.

The mandatory dish of every game-day buffet. Wings are an iron-clad concept: chicken dipped in your favorite flavors. But if you want to double down on your protein (and have a say in the kind of chicken you’re eating), then take the 45 minutes to make your own batch at home… coated in protein powder! No bones, more protein!

Does your game-day dinner table still have some room left? Fill it up with more of these clean, protein-packed upgrades to many of the classic in-home spectator snacks. Friends don’t let friends eat junk!

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