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My entire household loves popcorn! Popcorn brings such fond memories from my childhood. I remember as a child, munching down on delicious popcorn when my family had our much loved movie nights! I also recall during the holidays when my dad brought home several different popcorn tins filled with flavors of caramel, cheese, and buttered popcorn. Still, nothing beats the taste and flavor of fresh popped kernels.
Despite the fact that popcorn is yummy, it’s a healthy natural snack alternative to lots of sugary and greasy snacks available. I don’t know about you, but I’ve a mindset to only offering my family healthy snacks that are good for their bodies.
When Kernel Seasonings considered me in reviewing their popcorn products, I was thrilled. With that said, I was sent all 14 of their fabulous tasting seasonings, a popcorn pouch, popcorn spritzer, and a 10 oz. Movie Theater Butter Popping and Topping Oil.
I was so excited about doing this review, that I even went out and bought my very own popcorn popper! Keep in mind that I’ve been wanting one for some time now. Note that you can use your microwave, a pot on the stove, or a popcorn popper to get your corn popping.
What I love so much about raw popcorn is that I can dress it up to my liking. I’ve had some popcorn in the past that was flavored with way too much butter, seasonings, and salt. Kernel Seasonings claims that their popcorn is nearly completely hull-less and they haven’t disappointed on this statement! I have not found myself picking at my teeth since eating their popcorn!
I have not tried out at all the flavors they’ve sent me but they ones I have tried are very good! Being the chocolate lover that I am, I tried the chocolate marshmallow flavor first! It wasn’t over powering at all and had a nice light taste! I then tried out the regular butter flavor, along with the ranch, and jalapeno. I wanted to mention that their seasonings not only taste good on popcorn but on other things too. I’ve used their seasonings on potatoes, eggs, veggies, fish, and chicken! I wanted to mention that Kernel Seasonings offers a recipe book with each order!
The Popcorn Butter Spritzer is a great alternative to dumping melted butter onto my popcorn. In using the spritz technique, my popcorn has not been soggy or too damp. I simply spritz my freshly popped popcorn and then sprinkle on whichever seasonings I so choose. It’s also 100% natural with no fat and zero calories!
Overall thoughts:
I highly recommend all Kernel Seasoning products! Check them out for yourself at: www.NoMoreNakedPopcorn.com
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I’d like to personally thank MyBlogSpark™ for the opportunity to review the brand new Chex Mix Turtle Bars by General Mills! These are my absolute new favorite snack! I truthly fought back the urge to eat more than one at a time!
These bars are made up of a mix of caramel, Chex pieces, chocolate, pretzels, and peanuts. This is a perfect mix for these bars as they are packed with a tasty amount of flavor. It’s pretty amazing how something so good is also healthy and completely good for you! These bars are only 130 Calories and have 8 grams of whole grain in each bar!
These bars are great to tide you over till your next meal with their salty and sweet flavor, even my husband loves them!Which is saying a lot because he’s not really huge on sweet snacks and he’s pretty picky when it comes to bars.
These are great to snack on around the house or to throw in your purse, back pack, kids lunch box, or husband lunch! I know what little we have left, we’ll be taking with us on an outing to a local science museum tomorrow afternoon. I can’t recommend them more than I’ve said! I’m hoping to snag a few more boxes of these to keep around the house for good.
Who doesn’t love to get a fortune cookie? I know each time my husband and I eat Asian food ,we make sure to get our cookies and eagerly open them to see what silly fortune is inside. And now for something new, did you know there is a company called Fancy Fortune that specializes in personalized and one-of-a-kind flavored fortune cookies? Yes, I did say flavored!
I was sent a plethora of their flavored fortune cookies to review. I’m a chocolate addict so I inquired that all would be covered in their fine gourmet chocolate. Can you blame me? Out of all the flavors I tried, I would settle on the Toasted Coconut, Minty Mint, and the Cool Cappuccino as my favorites, though they are all really delicious! We honestly couldn’t stop trying them all out at one sitting.
Some of the other flavors my family and I tried were:
The Original, Old Fashioned Bubblegum, Chocoholic’s Delight, Cherry Bliss, Horseshoe Blue, Luscious Lemon, Oh, Wow!” Orange, Very Berry Raspberry, Passion Fruit Punch, Sun-Ripened Strawberry, Cool Cappuccino,and the Double Chocolate.
These cookies are great to use as Wedding favors, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day,Anniversaries, and more! Can you imagine how surprised and memorable an event would be to whomever would be receiving a flavored fortune cookie with a custom fortune cookie on the inside? Some wonderful suggestions you can surprise someone with is announcing your pregnancy, send them as save the date cookies, and even propose! How fun!
I recommend this company highly if you are looking for a fun and unique way to wow those around you with something old with a new twist!
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