Why We Love it Wednesday: Popcorn Awesomeness

For my first "Why we love it Wednesday" post, I wanted to review a really cool item. Something that would force you to drop what you're doing and rush right out to buy it. I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to come up with a product that I love. That I just really couldn't do without. I looked around my house and saw tons of items that make my kids lives better, but I wanted this to be all about ME! Me, me, me!
I went to the kitchen and there it was, just sitting there all innocent like. Pretending that it wasn't aware of its awesomeness. But I know...and now you will too.

Introducing, The Nordic Ware Microwave Popcorn Popper. It is one of my favorite products and is by FAR the best $8.99 I ever spent.

My two favorite foods are apples and popcorn. I eat both every day and would be more than happy if forced to live solely on these two yummies (maybe a piece of peanut butter toast every now and then...). Last year when I started reading reports of how harmful the coating inside microwave popcorn bags could be, I was pregnant and became worried and immediately stopped eating my favorite snack. I had always eaten the low fat variety of the microwaved good stuff, and though my husband loves stove top popcorn, I wasn't willing to eat something so full of oil. I searched the Internet for an answer and found several posts on making popcorn in a brown paper bag. I tried this several times, and it was ok, but the popcorn wasn't fluffy and I wasted a lot of kernels that didn't pop. I bought a Sunbeam air popper, and it was a waste. A big, loud, messy waste.

One day I was at Target (where all good things happen), buying ranch flavored popcorn seasoning to make homemade ranch "Doritos," and spotted a yellow bowl on the top shelf. I thought it was ridiculous to spend $8.99 on a bowl to serve popcorn in. I'm pretty sure I rolled my eyes. I do that sometimes. So I took it off the shelf to scoff at it and saw that it claimed to pop popcorn in my microwave with or without oil! For $8.99? Bargain! My opinions can change quickly...

That night I made my first bowl, and fell in love. Its so simple. A half a cup of kernels into the bowl, into the microwave, and done. There is the option to use oil, but I haven't. I bought my mother one and she does use the oil and says that it is very good. After the popcorn is done (mine is perfect after 2 minutes and 30 seconds but every microwave is different) I spray it with butter spray and sprinkle a variety of popcorn seasonings. Perfect, perfect, perfect. For a quick snack, it's a great option because popcorn is healthy and because you can decide how much you want to make for easy portion control.

Buy one...you'll like it.

*Please note that these opinions are solely my own and I was not compensated in any way to provide them.  Now go buy a popcorn bowl!