There are tons of fun ways to dress up your game day party with themed snacks and dishes. Think of foods that are already football-ish, like potatoes, meatballs and hamburgers, and easily shapeable foods like cheese and desserts.

How about mini meatball subs? Shape your meatball like a football, slap it in a saucy mini hoagie and top it with strips of mozzarella to resemble stitching and voila! The same mozzarella stitching idea can be applied to pizzas, (make a football shape out of pepperoni, then lay the stitching down,) hamburgers or potato boats.

How about desserts? Twist up the traditional rice crispy treats by using cocoa crispies to give it that pigskin color and shape and decorate accordingly. Or a Jello kickoff cake that uses whip cream and Oreo cookie crumbles. Just follow the cake recipe on a box of Jello (try lime) and pile your cookie crumbles to resemble a football. Use decorative icing for the laces.

Other cute ideas include decorating deviled eggs with food coloring to match the teams, or use the top guacamole layer in a bean dip as a playing field, make x’s and o’s out of olives and use sour cream (put in a cake decorator or plastic bag) to create the field lines and write the names of the teams.