What to Buy at Dollar Tree for Your Football Watch Parties

I’m a big proponent of shopping at Dollar Tree for parties. Snacks are cheap and plentiful at Dollar Tree, and there’s sure to be a store nearby, wherever you are in the country (here in Southern Californias, we’re about to have a lot more D Trees around). If you’re shopping for a football watch party, you can get most of what you need at Dollar Tree. Besides the glaring (yet understandable) lack of alcohol, Dollar Tree is a fantastic stop when you want to have a few friends over football, fun, and food. Salty snacks are the main focus of any football party and Dollar Tree has them up the wazoo. They also have cheap paper plates so you don’t have to do any extra dishes and, if you look hard enough, you can find the right decorations to match the theme! But this is Sporked, so we’re gonna stick with the essential football party snacks to pick up at Dollar Tree. Grab your jersey and let’s talk about what to buy at Dollar Tree for all your get-togethers this football season. May your favorite team make it into the post-season!

TGI Fridays Chili Cheese Crinkle Fries Corn Chips

Having chili cheese fries at your football party sounds fun until you get to the practicality of it all. Either you eat them with your hands and get gunk and goo all over your fingers, or you look like a goober pulling out a fork to eat fries while the people on TV are slamming their bodies into each other for your entertainment. Quite the dichotomy going on there! Enter: TGI Fridays chili cheese fry-style corn chips. All the flavor without the mess. So you can raise your hands up in celebration and not have to worry about flinging molten cheese onto the family picture hung up behind you.

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Nathan’s Thick Sliced Battered Onion Rings

I haven’t been to enough football parties where onion rings on the menu. Why is that? I say we fix this immediately. Dollar Tree is doing their part by stocking one of Sporked’s favorite onion rings for only $5 a bag. You could probably get by with one bag but you might as well grab two while you’re there. What’s the worst that could happen? You have a few onion rings leftover that you have to eat on your own. Puffy, airy battered rings that deliver flavor of the sweet onion within. Oh no, the horror!

SuperPretzel Soft Frozen Baked Pretzels

Turn your football party into a full-blown bar setup with an array of beers, a few signature cocktails, and a buttload of soft pretzels. That’s right, one of the best things a bar can offer on its little menu of food it’s legally required to sell to operate. When I was looking for what to buy at Dollar Tree for a football party, these SuperPretzels seemed like a no-brainer. Grab a can of cheese dip while you’re at Dollar Tree and you’ve gone full gourmet. Look out for the Michelin star coming your way—that’s service!

White Castle Cheeseburger Castle Bites

Pizza at the football party? Overdone! Cheeseburgers at the football party? Too much work! White Castle cheeseburger “pizza rolls?” Perfection! They’re easily poppable so you can fill up quickly during commercial breaks and they’re a contained snack so even if you drop them on the couch you won’t be staring at a pizza stain until you get that thing a deep clean! Bonus points to Dollar Tree for bringing this nationwide because we’re in a White Castle food desert over here in Los Angeles!

Continental Chef Onion Soup and Dip Mix

Every party needs a good dip and the football party we’re throwing together is no different. Dollar Tree has this onion soup and dip mix that looks like it’d go well with a few of our offerings. Onion rings, cheeseburger bites, and any chip you have on hand will all be elevated with a fat drag through your onion dip. That’s right, onion rings in onion dip. There’s no such thing as too much onion going on!

Shasta Cola

With all these salty snacks, you need a drink on hand to keep everyone’s palate wet. Luckily for us, Dollar Tree has a sleeper pick when it comes to soda. Shasta Cola! As Sporked’s Jordan Myrick put it, “it feels familiar, but it has its own little twist that makes it unique.” In this case, it’s due to a very light fruitiness that Jordan found extremely intriguing. That also happens to be perfect way to describe Dollar Tree as a whole: familiar with its own little twist. That makes Shasta Cola very on theme for your Dollar Tree-supplied football party.