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By Diane Forrest
With
the recent Super Bowl game, you may be surprised to learn how much food was
consumed during that one sporting event.
According to statistics, Americans will eat 30 million pounds of snacks
on Super Bowl Sunday. Those snacks break down to 11.2 million pounds of potato
chips, 8.2 million pounds of tortilla chips, 4.3 million pounds of pretzels,
3.8 million pounds of popcorn and 2.5 million pounds of nuts. Viewers will also
consume more than 1.23 billion chicken wings during Super Bowl weekend, according
to the National Chicken Council’s 2013 Wing Report. Chicken wings are not the
only junk food on the palates of Super Bowl viewers. They will be reaching for
pizza, millions of slices of them. According to PizzaMarketplace.com, two of
the largest pizza chains report that on Super Bowl Sunday sales for pizza will
skyrocket. Pizza Hut will sell more than two million pizzas or 16 million
slices and Domino’s will sell 11 million slices.
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I
am giving you these stats to let you know that the Super Bowl is the start of National
Snack Food Month. The super bowl
is the second largest food fest, following Thanksgiving, and people consume
around 1200 calories in snacks during the game.
Normally, when I think of the super bowl, I think of the commercials,
the half time show, and all the great food.
Football is the last thing on my mind.
So, it makes sense that we start the snack food month with a bang. Also during the month of February, there is
not much to do other than stay inside. It’s
usually too cold and wet to go out, and there are so many colds and germs
floating around. Newswise.com lists
these activities that occur during the month of February:
Watch an old movie on
TV (53 percent)
Eat a favorite snack
food (45 percent)
Call an old friend (45
percent)
Reread a favorite book
(35 percent)
Bake cookies (34
percent)
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Another
favorite activity is snacking, adding on that extra layer of heat to your
body. When I think of snacks, I think of
chips and cookies. However, I have been
trying to eat healthier, and have been munching on celery sticks. Even when eating my favorite thing,
chocolate, I have been eating the dark chocolate covered raisins. You can still snack, but choose healthier
foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, even low salt, and low fat popcorn.
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You
don't have to be perfect; even I have to have some McDonald's French fries or
puffy Cheetos every now and then. But
you can start off slow, and incorporate some healthy choices along with some of
your favorite snacks, and before long, who knows, you may just want the healthy
food.
Diane,
We decided to be healthier this year during the super bowl and enjoyed these two platters:
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