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Appetizers

Here are some delicious appetizers to enjoy before the main entree makes its way to the table.

These are fun ideas to serve at parties, or make when you're wanting to curb everybody's appetite for just a bit.

All of these appetizers are gluten free and dairy free too!

Salads

  • A large salad in a serving platter. The salad has cuts of romaine lettuce, purple cabbage, light green napa cabbage, chunks of grilled chicken, shredded carrots, and lots of sliced almonds. There is even a few strips of wonton strips.
    Oriental Chicken Salad
  • A corner view of a salad bursting with strawberries, white bleu cheese, pecans, and red onion.
    Strawberry Salad
  • Veggie Pasta salad in a bowl
    Gluten Free Veggie Pasta Salad (Dairy Free too)
  • A plate of gluten and dairy free croutons.
    Buttery Croutons
  • A quartered piece of iceberg lettuce topped with red onion, bacon crumbles, cherry tomatoes sautéed in bacon grease, golden croutons, and ranch dressing drizzled over it on a blue salad plate, In the background is a cup of ranch dressing.
    Wedge Salad

Soups

  • Two black bowls filled with ground sausage, celery, carrots, onions, two different kinds of beans, in a fire roasted broth next to dinner rolls and spoons.
    Gluten Free Pasta Fagiloi Soup (Dairy Free too)
  • A large black bowl filled with tender potatoes, chunks of ground beef, corn, green beans, fire roasted tomato, broth, and a tomato juice combination.
    Cowboy Hamburger Soup
  • Bowl of taco soup with lime on top.
    CrockPot Taco Soup (Easy GF DF Slow Cooker Soup)
  • A large black soup bowl filled with diced celery, carrots and wide noodles with chunks of chicken and broth. On top are a few fresh cut parsley pieces.
    Chicken Noodle Soup
  • Close up of a bowl of gluten and dairy free lasagna soup.
    Gluten Free Lasagna Soup (Dairy Free too!)

Dips and Salsas

  • Closely looking at who made guacamole.
    Easy Guacamole Recipe
  • Closely looking at cinnamon sugar diced apples.
    Apple Salsa
  • A small party drink cup with white ranch dressing in the bottom. Then sliced celery, carrots, bell peppers in the back of the cup. 3 cherry tomatoes on a fun bamboo skewer in front with a piece of broccoli.
    Veggie Cups

Finger Foods and Others

  • Looking down on gluten-free and dairy free pinwheels.
    Cranberry Apple Walnut Chickpea Salad Pinwheels
  • A mini muffin pan filled with a buttery baked crusts in each compartment and then topped with a shredded chicken and veggie filling.
    Mini Chicken Pot Pies
  • A white plate with bacon wrapped around tater tooth pic through the middle. There are 2 dipping sauces nearby,
    Bacon Wrapped Tater Tots
  • a child grabbing an energy bite
    The Best Energy Bites (gluten free snacks)
  • Closely looking at who made guacamole.

    Easy Guacamole Recipe

  • Closely looking at cinnamon sugar diced apples.

    Apple Salsa

  • Looking down on gluten-free and dairy free pinwheels.

    Cranberry Apple Walnut Chickpea Salad Pinwheels

  • A corner view of a salad bursting with strawberries, white bleu cheese, pecans, and red onion.

    Strawberry Salad

  • A white plate with bacon wrapped around tater tooth pic through the middle. There are 2 dipping sauces nearby,

    Bacon Wrapped Tater Tots

  • A plate of gluten and dairy free croutons.

    Buttery Croutons

  • Two black bowls filled with ground sausage, celery, carrots, onions, two different kinds of beans, in a fire roasted broth next to dinner rolls and spoons.

    Gluten Free Pasta Fagiloi Soup (Dairy Free too)

  • A small party drink cup with white ranch dressing in the bottom. Then sliced celery, carrots, bell peppers in the back of the cup. 3 cherry tomatoes on a fun bamboo skewer in front with a piece of broccoli.

    Veggie Cups

  • A quartered piece of iceberg lettuce topped with red onion, bacon crumbles, cherry tomatoes sautéed in bacon grease, golden croutons, and ranch dressing drizzled over it on a blue salad plate, In the background is a cup of ranch dressing.

    Wedge Salad

  • A loaf of bread still in the pan with a spoon drizzling white drizzle across the top in a zig zag motion next to a green Granny Smith apple and a cup of coffee.

    Apple Fritter Bread

  • A large salad in a serving platter. The salad has cuts of romaine lettuce, purple cabbage, light green napa cabbage, chunks of grilled chicken, shredded carrots, and lots of sliced almonds. There is even a few strips of wonton strips.

    Oriental Chicken Salad

  • A collage of different recipes featured in this recipe round up.

    Must-Have Super Bowl Foods

  • A mini muffin pan filled with a buttery baked crusts in each compartment and then topped with a shredded chicken and veggie filling.

    Mini Chicken Pot Pies

  • A large black bowl filled with tender potatoes, chunks of ground beef, corn, green beans, fire roasted tomato, broth, and a tomato juice combination.

    Cowboy Hamburger Soup

  • a child grabbing an energy bite

    The Best Energy Bites (gluten free snacks)

  • Veggie Pasta salad in a bowl

    Gluten Free Veggie Pasta Salad (Dairy Free too)

  • Easy Kid Snack Ideas

    Easy Kid Snack Ideas

  • Four bottles of different dairy free ranch dressing

    Dairy Free Ranch Taste Test

  • A plate of mashed gluten free potato pancakes.

    Easy Gluten Free Mashed Potato Pancakes Recipe

  • A bowl of Gluten Free Taco Bake.

    The Best Gluten Free Taco Bake (Dairy Free too)

  • Gluten and Dairy Free Super Bowl Party Foods Sure to Score a Food Touchdown

    Gluten and Dairy Free Super Bowl Party Foods Sure to Score a Food Touchdown

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