While we love football, honestly, the game itself isn’t even the best part. The afterparty is. Whether you’re celebrating your team’s victory or mourning a loss, any sports fan would agree that kicking back with friends, chilled beer, and a hot grill in the parking lot is just as important as the actual outcome. (But, we always cross our fingers for the W, anyways!)

We, at Blossom, love ourselves a good sports party. Which is why we’ve partnered with our friends at ShopRite to help you score a hosting touchdown with these tailgating hacks and snacks! Whether you pull up to the game with effortless trunk organization, pass around Instant Chip Bowls, or serve delicious Watermelon BBQ Wings, there is a hack for every snack with ShopRite!

Best of all, you can order everything you need with the click of a button! Throwing a tailgating party doesn’t get easier than this.

Instant Chip Bowl

Ingredients:

• Bowl & Basket Wavy, Kettle, and Potato chips

Directions:

1. Carefully open the top of the chip bag
2. From the bottom, push the bag inwards to slide the chips up to the rim to create the “bowl.”
3. Serve with assorted dips & enjoy!

Brick It!

Ingredients:

• Cooler
• 3 bricks
• Oven
• Towel
• Oven safe food containers
• Bowl & Basket Pesto Sauce
• Bowl & Basket Spinach & Ricotta Ravioli
• Bowl & Basket Macaroni & Cheese

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees 
2. Fold the three bricks in aluminum foil so they are completely covered
3. Carefully place bricks in heated oven for 10 minutes
4. Place a small towel in the bottom of the cooler
5. Using an oven safe glove, place the three bricks inside the cooler spaced out
6. Place heated  Bowl & Basket macaroni, ravioli, & pesto sauce inside the oven safe food containers, and sit inside the cooler and close the lid
7. Enjoy your hot food at your tailgate for hours to come!

Football Dogs

Ingredients:

• Bowl & Basket Crescent Rolls
• Mini hot dogs
• Squirt bottle of mustard

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 375°F
2. Unroll the can of crescent dough
3. Cut each triangle lengthwise into 3 narrow triangles
4. On a cookie sheet, roll up each hot dog in crescent roll dough starting at the thickest end of the dough
5. Bake 11-14 minutes or until golden brown
6. Draw the “Laces” of the football with mustard as a finishing touch!
7. Enjoy & serve with ketchup!

Easy Elote

Ingredients:  

• Bowl & Basket corn on the cobs
• Angel food cake pan
• Cilantro
• Crumbled cotija
• Bowl & Basket Elote Seasoning
• Fresh lime juice
• Red bell pepper
• Mayonnaise 

Directions:

1. Cook corn cobs until soft
2. Take corn cob and place in the hole of the angel food cake pan
3. Forcefully press down to decob the corn with ease!
4. Once enough corn is in the pan, add cilantro, bell pepper, cotija, lime juice, & mayo & stir until thoroughly combined
5. Finish off with a generous amount of Bowl & Basket Elote Seasoning & serve!

Stadium Guacamole

Ingredients:

• Whole Pantry fresh avocados
• Large plastic food bag
• Bowl & Basket Guacamole Seasoning
• Lime
• Chopped onion
• Cilantro
• Squirt bottle of sour cream
• Kalamata olives
• Green olives

Directions:

1. Place peeled and deseeded avocado, chopped onion, cilantro, lime juice, and Bowl & Basket Guacamole Seasoning inside the plastic bag before sealing
2. Squish and mash the avocado and ingredients together until well combined
3. Cut corner and squeeze guacamole into large rectangular serving dish
4. Use sour cream to create “yard lines” and olives to create the opposing team players
5. Serve with chips and veggies for the ultimate tailgate party dip!

Watermelon BBQ Wings

Ingredients:

• Bowl & Basket fresh chicken wings
• Whole Pantry Honey Barbecue Sauce
• 1 large watermelon
• Skewers
• Aluminum foil
• Coal briquettes
• Lighter fluid
• Lighter

Directions:

1. Cut watermelon in half lengthwise, hull out fruit and set aside
2. Take one half of the hulled watermelon and line with aluminum foil
3. Place hot coals and smoking chips inside watermelon
4. Place skewered raw chicken wings on top and place the other half of watermelon for the lid
5. Cook on each side for 15 minutes
6. Uncover wings & brush with Whole Pantry Honey Barbecue Sauce
7. Enjoy!

Easy Drink Packing Hack

Ingredients:

• Bowl & Basket Lime Sparkling Water case
• Bowl & Basket Watermelon Sparkling Water case
• Bowl & Basket Mandarin Orange Sparkling Water case
• Large cooler
• 4 bags of ice

Directions:

1. Open one end of each case of soda
2. Place open end face down at the bottom of the cooler and space the cases out evenly
3. Pour ice between the soda cases until ⅔ full
4. Pull on the closed end of the case box to let the soda fall into the ice
5. Let chill and enjoy your cold sparkling waters!

Game Day Chicken Sandwiches

Ingredients:

• White hamburger buns
• Fried chicken patties
• Lettuce
• Tomato
• Number stencils
• Bowl & Basket Everything Bagel Seasoning
• Bowl & Basket Nashville Hot Chicken Seasoning
• Bowl & Basket Garlic Butter (melted)

Directions:

1. Build your chicken sandwiches with buns, tomato, lettuce, and fried chicken
2. Brush melted garlic butter on the top bun generously
3. Carefully place number stencil on top
4. Sprinkle either the Bowl & Basket Everything Bagel Seasoning or Bowl & Basket Nashville Hot Chicken Seasoning on top of the stencil
5. Carefully remove stencil to remove the perfect number on the bun!

Easy Food/Drink Transport

Ingredients:

• Assorted Bowl & Basket snacks & drinks
• 3 drawer plastic storage towers

Directions:

1. Place the 3 storage towers in the trunk of the car in a row
2. Fill each drawer with snacks, drinks, plastic cutlery, etc
3. Arrive at your tailgate & unpack with ease!