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Featured Article (With recipes!): Game Day Hummus, a healthy Super Bowl snack 

From BestMedicineNews.org

While football and food often go hand-in-hand, you don’t have to throw away your health goals just because your favorite team is playing. Make it a healthier game day with more nutritious dips and snack dishes or by substituting sliced veggies for chips and pretzels.

For your next game day, try this tasty fire roasted red pepper hummus. It will keep you energized throughout the game so you’re up and cheering for the team and not ready for a nap at halftime.

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Fire Roasted Red Pepper Hummus

Ingredients

1 (19 ounce) can garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed

6 ounce fire roasted red peppers (adjust to taste)

4 tablespoons lemon juice

2 tablespoons Tahini

2 cloves garlic, chopped

1 teaspoon Kosher salt

Black pepper to taste

2 tablespoons olive oil

Directions

• Pour garbanzo beans into blender, reserving about a tablespoon for garnish. Add lemon juice, Tahini, peppers, chopped garlic and salt. Blend until creamy and well mixed.
• Transfer the mixture to a medium serving bowl. Sprinkle with pepper and pour olive oil over the top. Garnish with reserved garbanzo beans.

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