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We are a huge football family and are so excited to start watching it on television in one more week! Our love for football stems back to the days when my husband and I first met. At that time, I learned my husband does not actually like football, but is fully obsessed. We would go to games together on a Sunday or just watch football all day in the house on Sundays and Monday nights, all while eating our favorite candy bars. It is such a part of our life that when my husband proposed to me, it was during the second half of a big football game. I knew he was going to propose and asked him if he was going to turn off the game to do so. Low and behold, he muted it and proposed while it was still on! He told me he had to watch the second half of the game and knew I loved the game too, so it was alright to propose this way! Can you believe it?! Anyway, he is a total romantic now and has made up for his proposal in many ways through the years. In turn, now that football is coming back and we have children who also enjoy the game, I needed to find some yummy snacks to serve to our family and friends when they come over to watch. Thankfully, MARS Candy and SNICKERS®, has me covered for football season!
In preparation for football season, Zane and I headed to our local Sam’s Club and selected the 48-count box of SNICKERS® candy bars and the MARS® 105-count variety bag t put into our shopping cart. We are a huge chocolate candy bar family and knew these delicious snacks would provide a great treat during the season and also while my kids and I throw around the ball for some family fun days. Sam’s club has such great deals on these candy bars and I knew by buying them at Sam’s, it would not only be affordable, but would last me for quite some time.
When I got home, I decided to do a pre-snack by cutting up some of the Snickers bars for Hayley and I. By itself, these bars provide a fantastic treat!
However, I really thought about how I can jazz up up the Snickers bars and MARS Candy so I can incorporate the love of the candies into a special football treat. They don’t need jazzing up at all, but rather thought it would be fun and inventive to use them in different snacks so we never get bored with our snack choices each week of football season. My first thought, was to add the cut up Snickers and other great MARS Candy into a trail mix combination, that we could take with us on the go during the season, or munch on at home. This portable snack was so easy to do. All I did was cut up Snickers bars, and then added in nuts, black raisins, white yogurt raisins, and M+M’s into the mixture. The end result was fantastic and provided my family with an easy snack to munch on while we watched the games or played football outside.
Then, I thought to myself, how much fun would it be to create a football themed sundae bar for the kids, and even the adults that came over to watch the games. We could also bring our own toppings and set up an ice cream bar at a friends house, if we were watching the games there. To do this, I simply put out ice Cream and then put out bowls of our favorite topping such as M+M’s, Snickers, Cherries, Sprinkles, Apple Pie topping, and more! I set it up and then allowed the kids to have some sundae fun after they played outside in the yard. It was a huge hit and I look forward to many more football days at our house where we set up our football sundae bar! It was so easy to do this and provided a fun way to get into the football spirit!
As you can see, football is a huge part of our lives and I now found great ways to use Snickers and MARS Chocolate to get into the spirit for our favorite games that are starting soon! I plan to come up with some more ideas for great chocolate recipes over the next couple of weeks, but right now, we have two fan favorite snacks here that will be a great addition during football season.
Are you excited about football season? Have you ever used chocolate to create a great snack?
Nice spread. I will be down to watch every game with you and your family if you serve snacks like that
Oh man that trail mix looks amazing! You can’t ever go wrong with a Snickers, yummy!! Looks like some fun snacking!
Just look at those sundaes! I love Snickers Peanut butter squares; we always cut them up and top our ice cream with them!
What a great idea for a sundae bar
Shoot, I want to do that sundae bar and we don’t even watch football! lol. They just look so yummy!
I know my entire family would love for me to set them out a Sundae bar. I wouldn’t be able to pull them away from it.
I want to join your ice cream bar. Snickers are yummy in ice cream when the Snickers gets frozen and chewy from the cold. I need to throw a football party now.
Not into football but I love the snacks, LOL
Mmmm, that looks like some yummy fixins. We aren’t a huge football watching family (like all of us) but I bet I could get the kids more interested with chocolate involved.
Holy Moly! I never thought to cut Snickers and put them in trail mix! I am totally doing this TODAY!
This is such a great idea! That trail mix idea is genius! Great, now I want a candy bar!
Football and Snicker’s definitely go together! We love to stock up for the games because they always disappear so quickly.
Oh man. I’m seriously not waiting for a game to set up this ice cream bar. This looks so good!
HoLEE crap. I’ve got to make this up for myself… and everyone else in the house. In my opinion, this is great no matter what the season is. Football, basketball, Friday.
I can feel myself expanding while I read this. You know what? I’m good with it. Bring on the Mars candy ice cream bar!
That’s an amazing setup. I’m a HUGE fan of candy and ice cream. This is PERFECT for me!
Oh yum! I love easy to eat snacks like Snickers, trail mix, and of course ice cream!!
I love the Snickers trail mix idea! However I would probably pick out the snickers and leave the rest of it for everyone else. I always pick the candy out of the trail mix.
All MARS chocolate is all delicious! Snickers is by far my favorite!
I use chocolate for everything… ha! But that trail mix sounds and looks great! Will have to give it a try.
We love M&Ms! If I put them out they’d never make it onto any ice cream!
I’m reading this and thinking “why didn’t I think of that??” We love SNICKERS in our house and often buy ice cream that has SNICKERS already inside, but this would be an awesome variation….chop up some for ice cream sundaes. Love it. #client
I love your sundae bar idea. It’s good for other parties as well. I have to admit that I am a sucker for Milky Way bars. I am also a big fan of Sam’s. I love that I save money buying the things I need and I can stock up on the occasional treats, too.
Yum! You know how to throw a party! See ya at the next big game!
This looks so yummy and the party setup looks so cool.
Such a great idea to make an ice cream bar where you can choose your toppings!
I’ll add Snickers and M&Ms to mine 
I really like the trail mix idea. It all looks super yummy!
With all that chocolate, I sure am ready! That trail mix though, yum!
I can’t believe it’s football season already! And YUM! I would LOVE to be at an ice cream bar right now. I have a taste for some snickers on my ice cream!
What a fun idea… LOVE the Ice Cream bar… snickers is our favorite.. this will be showing up during our Football Monday nights from now on..thanks for sharing… YUMMY
I am ready for football season as it gives me more reasons to make yummy food. I love your idea of a sundae bar, especially for the kids.
The trail mix looks delicious. I love chocolate – especially 3Musketeers.
Yummy – what a great idea! I love sundae bars!