What's your favorite alternative to popcorn?

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  • aeloine
    aeloine Posts: 2,163 Member
    A whole cauliflower. Seriously. If you bake it long enough, it gets awesomely pull apart-ey. I season it w S&P and garlic or cayenne pepper and just sit there pulling the florets apart. They are like poppable little pockets of goodness.
  • JillianRumrill
    JillianRumrill Posts: 335 Member
    @aeloine
    I've always stayed away from cauliflower, but your idea sounds delicious, I'll give it a try.
  • bbhe
    bbhe Posts: 29 Member
    I have air popped popcorn all the time...measure it into a 4 cup bowl and have a 1/2 teaspoon of butter and salt. This part is key because for a while it was more like 1/2 cup of butter :smiley: Anyway, I think it's so helpful to change out the things we love for healthy variations. I throw turmeric on the popcorn sometimes...Anyway, I usually have it with a scoop of Jay Robb protein with ice and water blended. And I have a great little treat that way! also see chocolatecovderedkatie.com (and no I'm not connected to her in anyway) but she has great replacement recipes for almost anything you'd want to eat.
  • aeloine
    aeloine Posts: 2,163 Member
    JillianRumrill wrote: »
    @aeloine
    I've always stayed away from cauliflower, but your idea sounds delicious, I'll give it a try.

    It's SO GOOD. And it's actually really low cal.

    I like to eat a LOT of high volume foods, so this hits basically every metric for me.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    edited October 2017
    aeloine wrote: »
    A whole cauliflower. Seriously. If you bake it long enough, it gets awesomely pull apart-ey. I season it w S&P and garlic or cayenne pepper and just sit there pulling the florets apart. They are like poppable little pockets of goodness.

    If you like spicy stuff, roasted cauliflower is also great with some Frank's Red Hot (or probably whatever your favorite hot sauce is). I'm like you, I can snack on the stuff.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    Popcorn is a volume snack I can't give up. I even tried those Skinny Pop Popcorn Cakes and they were terrible.
  • fitoverfortymom
    fitoverfortymom Posts: 3,452 Member
    NoxeemaJackson wrote: »
    Do you eat stove popped popcorn? My husband makes it on the stove only. now I'm a brat abotu it and will only eat popcorn from the stove - no more microwave for me!
    He'll use different oils - walnut, truffle, pistachio, but I think peanut is the best.
    But even stove popped with oil, it's 50 calories per cup.
    Also, there's Mrs. Dash toamto-garlic-basil seasoning - that's good on air popped and oil popped.

    We have a whirly pop, and that's how I make it. Just a tsp or two of oil. SO GOOD.
  • nolaman1970
    nolaman1970 Posts: 3 Member
    I use this recipe and love it.
    https://foodbabe.com/2013/11/12/microwave-popcorn/
    With Palm Oil just like Movie popcorn and it doesn't take much Palm oil to color and flavor it.
    http://store.nutiva.com/red-palm-oil/
    Palm Oil Ordered from Amazon.
  • cmtigger
    cmtigger Posts: 1,450 Member
    nolaman1970 wrote: »
    I use this recipe and love it.
    https://foodbabe.com/2013/11/12/microwave-popcorn/
    With Palm Oil just like Movie popcorn and it doesn't take much Palm oil to color and flavor it.
    http://store.nutiva.com/red-palm-oil/
    Palm Oil Ordered from Amazon.

    Food babe is not a good source about food safety. If you like the recipes that’s fine, but they aren’t any more healthy than anything else and a lot of her science is skewed.
  • Anvasilak
    Anvasilak Posts: 21 Member
    I purchased an organic NON GMO popcorn from Aldi's Supermarket. It called Simply Nature lightly salted. It's 37 calories per cup. It is delicious!! $1.79 per large 6oz. Bag. You can't beat it!! Great product!

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