The BELA Game-Day Snack Board

Zero-cook, tin-to-board snacking—crunch, brine, heat, and olive oil you actually use.

This is the board you build when you want the table to look stacked—without turning the kitchen into a crime scene. Open a tin, throw down crunch, bring the brine, add a creamy hit, and finish with chili jam. It’s snackable in every direction: salty, spicy, crisp, creamy. Perfect for the Big Game because it feeds the room and keeps everyone grazing.

A high-contrast snack board built around BELA sardines in olive oil: clean, savory, tender fish paired with briny olives, crunchy celery + carrots, and a mix of pretzels, crackers, and rye chips for nonstop scoop options. Cream cheese adds the rich base, chili jam brings sweet heat, and the sardine olive oil is the secret weapon—drizzled over crackers, veggies, or even right onto the fish for extra gloss and flavor. It tastes like “bar snacks, upgraded.”

How to plate it

• Put the open tin in the center like the main event. Keep the sardines in the tin (looks great, stays neat).

• Use the empty lid or an extra small dish as your “oil station”: drizzle a little sardine olive oil over crackers, rye chips, or celery as people build bites. Don’t toss that oil—treat it like finishing sauce.

• Keep the cream cheese as a big slab (don’t over-style it): spoon chili jam right on top so it looks intentional and people know what to do.

• Group by vibe so it reads fast:

   

  • Crunch zone (pretzels, crackers, rye chips)

  • Brine zone (green + kalamata olives)

  • Fresh zone (celery + baby carrots)

  • Cream + heat zone (cream cheese + chili jam)

   

• Add tools that match the chaos: chopsticks or a fork for sardines, a knife for cream cheese, toothpicks for olives, and a few napkins stacked where people will actually grab them.

Recipe

1. Add everything to a large cutting board or serving platter (keep the sardines in the tin).

2. Add cutlery: chopsticks or fork for sardines, knife for cream cheese, toothpicks for olives.

3. Optional finishing move: drizzle a little of the sardine olive oil over your crackers/veg as you build each bite.