If you are reading this right now, you, like us have not thought about Sunday’s festivities until this very moment. With homework and travel teams and field trips and snow days and having to clothe and feed people EVERY SINGLE DAY while the Polar Vortex numbs your brain, things like the Super Bowl can be forgotten.

But we love watching football and we love hanging with our families, so the Super Bowl is a perfect time to do both. This menu is a procrastinator’s dream because it is quick, easy, and expandable so you’re set whether you invite the whole neighborhood over or just need to feed your own fun-sized crew.

But this is not just any game, it’s a SUPER game and that calls for something super special. We found this awesome Ballot Sheet that will keep everyone engaged in the pigskin party. With categories like “Numbers of Sacks” snuggled up with “Does Bruno Mars Wear a Fedora?” there is something for everyone. Print them out for the whole gang.

If you’re feeling even more ambitious because you saved so much time using our recipes, you can print out these free Super Bowl Bingo Cards. They really are worth the effort of  loading the printer with paper. And if you still haven’t run out of ink (this must mean you DON’T live in Ellen’s house), check out these fun Rate The Commercials Signs.

Okay, time’s ticking away. This an easy Super Bowl party, but it’s not a miracle. Let’s just get to the grub, shall we?

 

So first the APPETIZERS . . .

Lazy Girl’s Black Bean Cream Cheese Dip

This dip has four ingredients: cream cheese, black beans, salsa, and shredded cheese. The most involved step is draining the black beans. We have found it ups the appeal to use gourmet salsa, but really that’s like saying the red convertible made the Homecoming Queen even more popular. This dip is always the first to go. Just make sure you buy enough tortilla chips because people have been known to clean the dish out with a spoon. Or their tongues. And no one wants to see that.

Full printable recipe

 

Ellen’s Buffalo Chicken Dip

Ellen makes this all of the time, but there is still no picture because it goes too quickly! The secret to the scrumptious-ness of this dip is cooking the chicken in the crock pot the day before or earlier in the day. You MUST cook the chicken this way to get raves; if you just use plain shredded chicken, we can’t be responsible for the yawns you will incite.

And now the recipe is even better. Ellen use to recommend a baking step, but that step has been punted. Now, we do EVERY step in the crock pot. Maybe “lazy” should be in the title of this recipe, too.

Full printable recipe

 

On to the MAIN COURSE . . .

All right, so everyone is wowed by the appetizers. Time to kick the laziness up a notch.

Erin: How did we go from “easy” to “lazy”?

Ellen: Truth in advertising?

Erin: Let’s call it what it really is–SMART.

Ellen: Whatever. Let’s just get to it.

The Smartest Crock Pot Pulled Pork

There will be no printable recipe , because you’re a smartie and we believe in you.

Three ingredients: 5 – 8 pound pork tenderloin, package of dry onion soup mix, and one 16.9 oz bottle of Coke.

Throw it in the crock pot and let cook for at least 7 hours. Shred the meat with a fork.

You can do it!

Ellen: Alright, we may be lazy, but we can’t throw health completely to the wind. Gotta have some veggies.

Erin: See! That’s smart!! Seriously, we should drop the lazy.

Ellen: Easy, lazy, smart . . . once again, whatever. Although this menu is starting to sound more like a conflicted valedictorian.

 

Crispy Colorful Vinaigrette Coleslaw

This coleslaw is the best, because it doesn’t have a drippy, creamy dressing. It perfectly tops the pulled pork on a bun or takes the heat away from the Buffalo Chicken Dip. The recipe calls for some chopping of vegetables, but if you want a lazier smarter version, you can just dump a bag of shredded cabbage, a bag of broccoli slaw, and a bag of shredded carrots in the bowl and call it a day.

Full printable recipe

 

Some Kind Of Awesome Creamy Chicken Salsa Soup

Another option play would be this fabulous soup. If you’re already cooking the chicken for the buffalo dip, why not just double it? Even if you don’t want to serve this at the game, you can have dinner ready for Monday because as we mentioned before, the feeding NEVER ends. Now that we think about it, maybe you really should save this soup for the next day because it is SO good people will never leave your house.

Full printable recipe

 

Can’t forget about DESSERT . . .

Oreo and Peanut Butter Brownie Bites

You can whip these up in minutes to be declared the MVP of all time of all Super Bowl parties. Yes, they are that good. Brownie mix, Oreos, and peanut butter: three ingredients that make your taste buds go boom!

Full printable recipe

 

 

May the Odds Ever Be in the Favor of the Team You Want to Win!

(Our teams are out of it so we can be generous like that.)

 

-Ellen and Erin