Three ingredients are all you need to make these salty, sweet and creamy Smoked Almond and Goat Cheese Stuffed Dates!

Happy Friday friends! I hope your week sped by quickly and that your weekend goes by nice and slow. That’s just how I like mine to be, although it usually ends up being the opposite. This weekend is going to be pretty low key for us. With Thanksgiving next week I’ll be getting my grocery shopping done ASAP in hopes of avoiding the grocery cart madness later in the week. Other than that it’s running, going to get my post run cappuccino and then eating all the things because I will have just run off all of the other things!

While I like to keep myself busy on the weekends, my husband prefers to spend a good portion of his relaxing on the couch watching one football game after the next. I don’t know how he does it. I can watch about one quarter of a game and then I have to get up and do something. I guess I’m kind of like that with all TV, but especially when sports are on.

Usually I find myself in the kitchen whipping up some kind of easy snack to munch on during the game. My husband of course would love hot wings, pizza and chips during every game, but I have a hard time eating that way after a long run. I love to snack, but I don’t like to undo all those miles and calories I burned off by eating a couple wings, slice of pizza and handful of chips. When it comes to my snacks I want something that’s got more to it than just a bunch of empty calories. Lucky for me, Blue Diamond Almonds sent a container of their Smokehouse Almonds to try out and boy were they delicious! I’m a huge fan of salty smoky flavors, so these almonds suited me just fine!

To solve the football game snack dilemma I decided to come up with possibly one of the simplest recipes you’ll find on my blog, Smoked Almond and Goat Cheese Stuffed Dates. This little one or two bite snack (depending on the size of your bite) is an explosion of flavor and texture. It’s sweet and chewy from the date, creamy, cheesy and tangy from the goat cheese, and crunchy, salty and a little smokey from those amazing Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds. The stuffed dates take no more than 10 minutes to make and they are surprisingly filling too. So ditch the chips and reach for one of these tasty smoked almond and goat cheese stuffed dates!