I've been meaning for some time to start blogging my favourite money diet tips and tricks, and seeing as I'm deep in the thick of midterm studying, there seems like no better time than the present to start.
Popcorn, or p-corn in our house, is not only one of my favourite money diet tips, but one of my all time favourite snack foods. Zea mays averta is one of the most economical choices you can make in a snack food. In fact, according to the folks over at popcorn.org, popcorn gained popularity during the Great Depression since at only 5 or 10 cents a bag, it was one of the few luxuries down and out families could afford. These days for the price of a bag of chips you can buy a 2kg bag of popcorn kernels - that's a whole lotta p-corn!
Because I am a glutton, one of the best things about popcorn to me is that I can eat an entire (large) bowl of it without feeling disgusting. I cannot (and will not!) say the same for a bowl of chips. In fact, popcorn is so popular in our house that we recently bought a bag of chips on a splurge day and a few chips in decided to pop a batch of corn instead.
Please note I am NOT talking about nasty microwave popcorn. That shit is a) expensive, b) disgusting, and c) packed full of nasty chemicals. Stay away! We pop our corn stove top. We have a special stove top popper where you turn a crank that keeps the kernels moving at the bottom of the pot. It pops a nice tub of p-corn. Then we divvy it up. Paul likes his traditional style with butter and salt (in moderation, my lovelies) where I go a little left wing with nutritional yeast and Old Bay Seasoning. Yum!
For mere pennies (yes, pennies!) a bowl you've got yourself a snack that is naturally high in fibre, low in fat, and low in calories. Top it sensibly (or not, whatever you're into) and you're being nutritious with both your money diet, and your eating habits.
Horray for p-corn!
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Love it! I'm a big, BIG popcorn fan and stove top is the only way to go. Did you see 101cookbooks posted a popcorn blog recently with an amazing-looking chili lime tequila recipe? http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/chile-lime-tequila-popcorn-recipe.html
I like mine with a little garlic salt and lashings of chili powder. Mmmmmm spicy!
he he he p-corn.
bo ha ha ha poo-corn.
ahhhh, poo corn.
for popcorn that tastes exactly like that white cheese kind that dads eat have it with olive oil, salt, garlic powder and nooch (nutritional yeast.)
poptastic!
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How gross. And rude. I am a mother of 4, and all of my sweet, beautiful little girls read your lovely blog, miss memeaid girl. But now that I realize this is a sick perverted porn sight devoted to shit stained balls and the like, I will NEVER let them read it again
Their loss, I guess.
Officially I would like to state that the first anonymous was me (still not saying my name, but as if you don't know Katie), but the others weren't.
The others were courtesy of your older brother, Mr. Bill W. Illy.
Trust me, I can tell the difference.
Ahhh, too funny. As soon as I posted my comment I realized I should have added "but I bet I am related to him". Anyway, love you!!!!
This is Billy W Illy. I am watching all of you.......
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