Popcorn

What’s your go-to comfort food?

Boring old popcorn. The kernels get stuck in my teeth but I love it.

I love air popped or stove popped. Just a little bit of coconut oil and truffle salt. Occasionally I will make caramel popcorn. Movie popcorn is okay but no extra butter.

It’s filling and I can have a lot of it for fewer calories than chips. I like making it on the stove, I feel like a pioneer woman. The oil and salt make a nice savory flavor, it just tastes good.

There is also the fact that as an adult I can have just popcorn for dinner. It’s not the most well-rounded meal but that’s the comfort part.

I don’t like bagged microwave popcorn, except when I travel. Somehow it tastes better away from home. It has to be the natural kind without butter. Then I like Skinny Pop and the kind in the pink bag, I forget the name.

Having popcorn as my comfort food seems so bland, but sometimes comfort is bland.

Someone once said “It’s impossible to eat popcorn without looking like you are in a popcorn eating contest”. I laugh at that every time I have popcorn.