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eric on Mar 5th 2009 Yummy Vegan Food!

I heart Popcorn and so do you!

When I first moved to Seattle, I discovered that “healthy” junk food was all around me. There was Mighty O’s, of course, but there were also stores that sold Red Hot Blues chips and vegan ice cream! I had isles of organic nachoes seasoned with sea salt! Corn syrup? Heck no! None of that here, just good old fashioned SUGAR! Mmmmmm!

We were stuffing ourselves on this veganny goodness! But I noticed that as my wasteline grew, my wallet inevitably shrank. My cupboard were full (well, at least till I skarfed it down) but my bank account was noticably shrinking.

Dining out wasn’t never something I was into and even though there are tons of amazing places in Seattle, I’d usually just rather make something myself. I love to cook, as many of you know. But when it came to snacking, I was all like “gimme them chips!”

That is, until I discovered… popcorn.

Yeah, as a kid, my mom would make popcorn and we’d all lay in front of the console TV watching Webster and Mr. Belvedere. But that was then! That was before I moved to Seattle and discoverd Veggie Bootie and Tings!

Popcorn had its place, to be sure. It was for the movies. Pay $9 for a movie and $6 for a bucket of popcorn that you’d eat during the previews.

Lately, however, I’ve rediscovered the glories of good old, old fashioned, hand made popcorn. Heck, I don’t even have a popcorn popper – just make it in a big pot!

And my goodness it’s cheap. Like really cheap. Compared to the $5 I’d pay for a half-full bag of Kettle Organic Potato Chips Sea Salt & Black Pepper, it’s a steal! For $5, I could be in popcorn for weeks! Even the organic stuff (if you buy it in bulk) is cheap!

Some folks like to put nutritional yeast on their popcorn. That’s all well and good, I suppose. But me, I just like it plain with a bit of salt, just like Mom used to make!

These days, Mom’s 3,000 miles away. The Dukes of Hazzard and Benson have been replaced with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Godzilla, but the popcorn remains the same.

Thanks, Mom!