5 Food Games to Help Burn Off The Turkey

For many of us, Thanksgiving is about the day, not just the evening meal.  And though eating is a time consuming affair (in my family we have one meal mid-afternoon and a second later in the evening), there's always some down time.  Here are five ways to fill it - consider them ice breakers, education tools, or the Thanksgiving equivalent of a treadmill.

1.  Food Lover's Trivia - With food as your game pieces and 1800 questions about all things food, this game may replace the turkey as the highlight of your Thanksgiving.  It manages to be a challenge to the food-educated without isolating the less food saavy.

2.  Foodie Fight - A somewhat simpler version of Food Lover's Trivia with a thousand questions about all things foodie - formal service, celebrity chefs, cooking methods, cookbook authors, and ingredients.  There's room for debate with some of the questions, which can lead to discussion, debate, laughter, and occasionally an actual food fight.

3.  Celebrity Chef!  The Game - Do you have what it takes to land a TV show, run a fabulous restaurant, or sign a book deal?  How's your chef pop culture knowledge?  Take a break between stuffing and pumpkin pie to find out.

4.  Winerd - Move your cork playing piece across wine label spaces by answering wine trivia questions of all sorts...and by drinking wine.  The blind tasting aspect of the game keeps things interesting in a way other trivia games just can't compete with.

5.  Eat It! - The perfect way to distract guests from a turkey that's taking a bit longer than planned.  No questions about grass fed beef here - instead, find out how much you really know about Keebler, Little Debbie, and Cheetos.  What is the oldest Girl Scout cookie, anyway?