Mix cream cheese and olives and spread on celery sticks. Or, you can mix cream cheese with finely chopped pepperoni or ham slices (mix in a little horseradish) and spread that on celery.

I also read that thinly sliced jicama works nicely as a type of chip. I have never tried it, but it's on my list of new foods to explore.

Here is a link that gives additional keto information about this root vegetable> https://perfectketo.com/jicama-keto-friendly/

I don't attend many, but when I have, I've taken crockpot meatballs. Lots of options once you get the hang of meatball making. I generally stay away from other people's crock pot meatballs though, as they often are that grape jelly, bbq sauce mixed ones (super popular) and while tasty....are sugar bombs.

https://www.recipesthatcrock.com/crock-pot-meatball-parmesan-low-carb/ this one's pretty good and basic: marinara sauce, beef, eggs, parm. roll, and put in the crock pot.

These are amazing. But they do require more cooking. If you're feeling adventurous one day though, they're worth it: https://jenniferbanz.com/crockpot-swedish-meatballs I sub the milk for more heavy cream.

If there's a meatball you buy, you can simply pop them in the crockpot and take them sans sauce, or cover with a jar of your preferred marinara sauce.

I love salted greek yogurt as a dip. That and some veg, and I'm good to go. Super easy just salt the yogurt excessively, and dip radish, broccoli, cauliflower etc in it.

chili and cheeseburger soup are quick and easy if you have a crock pot and it's the time of year where hot things are good

Chicken caesar salad is another easy one to whip up and take

also, any cold "pasta" salad made with zucchini noodles instead of the pasta

Deviled eggs are always good. Also, I found a meatball recipe I have made a couple of times that I really like and others did as well. I can't find the recipe, but it is super easy, so I will try to explain it as well as I can:

1 lb ground beef mixed with 1 lb of ground sausage

Mix in the spices you like. Generally there is going to be enough salt in the sausage that it is not needed in my opinion. I do add ground black pepper, basil and/or oregano and garlic powder. If you want a bit of spice, then add crushed red pepper flakes. Add in either crushed up parmesan cheese chips, or I prefer just using fresh shredded parmesan as a binder - about 3 oz.

Cut some mozzarella cheese sticks into cubes. Make meatballs with one cube stuffed in the middle of each. I found to get them sealed well so the cheese doesn't leak out, I end up with about 20 meatballs in total.

Broil for 10-12 minutes.

Take it out. You will likely have to drain some of the fat. For most dishes, I just leave the grease in, but there will be a lot, so you will probably want to drain some of it.

Top it with low carb sauce and about 3 cups of shredded mozzarella and broil for another 5-7 minutes. I get a good vodka sauce from Thrivemarket.com that is low in carbs or an alfredo sauce.

All my other suggestions tend to come from my smoker. Those items really go over well and almost always include bacon, but I realize most people don't have a smoker, so those are likely not an option.

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As far as appetizers go bacon wrapped anything....LOL....Although there might not be any left by the time you get there, but you could do bacon wrapped sausages, bacon wrapped jalapenos filled with cream cheese, bacon wrapped mushrooms?

Then there is bacon-wrapped bacon. I have to say the bacon&jalapenos filled with cream cheese and bacon is one I had not thought of, and I bet that is really good.