A healthy snack

Saturday afternoon we were watching college football and I decided to make myself a little popcorn. This has become a completely organic snack for me, so I thought I'd post it. I used to be all about the ease and quickness of microwave popcorn, but when we decided to pull the plug on microwave (more on that in a later post) I had to find an alternative.

I purchased some organic popping corn from Stop and Shop for $3. I planned on popping it in a large pot with a little olive oil, but my wonderful neighbor was moving and gave me her air popper for free! Yay! So now, I just take two handfuls of kernels and put them in the popper, plug it in, and let it go to work. While the corn is popping, I melt a tablespoon of organic butter on the stove by placing a small glass dish inside a pot with about 1 inch of water and heating it over medium low heat. I purchased the butter at Trader Joe's for around $4.50.

There are at least 20 servings in the bag of popcorn and 32 servings of butter topping in one package of butter, so for about $.30 for a medium bowl of popcorn and about 5 to 10 minutes of my time, I have a very tasty, healthy, and green snack. I used to buy Orville Redenbocker's Natural ButteryGarlic microwave popcorn minibags at 10 bags for around $3 (I don't know exactly since it's been a while since I purchased it) making it around $.30 a bag. I'm happy to discover that I'm breaking even.

Tips - To make it even tastier, I add a little salt, a little garlic powder, a dash of pepper. Margarine and light butter make the popcorn soggy, you must use real butter to maintain the popcorn's crunchiness.