Let’s talk POPCORN! It is, after all, NATIONAL POPCORN DAY!
I dunno about your household but ours is all about popcorn. When the kids were little it was a standard snack. When I was a kid – (Yes, Virginia, even Mother Connie was a little kid 33 years ago.) Grin/Giggle – Sunday night supper was ALWAYS popcorn and milk.
For that matter, when I was little, most every night had a designated menu: Monday we ate bean soup and Jello salad. Tuesday we nearly always had pork chops with bread and cream gravy. I think you get my drift…you might say we were rather regimented. Grin
Popcorn is such a great snack, mostly because it is cheap. Half a cup of corn will billow up into a couple of bowls full, which can be devoured while the next half cup pops. It makes the house smell good. It can be flavored with salt or pepper or one of those “Mrs.Dash” spice mixes. You can sprinkle cheese over it. You can make caramel corn or cinnamon corn. You can even eat it with no topping whatsoever.
One of my mom’s favorite ways to use leftover popcorn – if we ever had any, which was not often! – was to use it to top off cream of tomato soup! Sorta like croutons for soup!
Popcorn is fabulous for stuffing May Baskets, too, but we’ll save that for another holiday!
The Normanator and I are very blessed to have organic popcorn and we keep it in the freezer. Someone advised me eons ago that if you do keep popcorn in the freezer, you should add a few drops of water to the container so it pops well. This organic corn pops so well that there are never any “old maids” because every kernel explodes into deliciousness!
What’s YOUR favorite way to have popcorn? I hope you can pop up a batch tonight, sit back and relax with your family in the coziness of your home. Maybe you could even have some apples with that corn. YUM.
Are you living on a dime? Do you use EBT cards from WIC or SNAP? Are you just plain frugal? Maybe you get goods from a food pantry or food bank. Perhaps you qualify for food commodities. In any case this blog (even though we are having trouble with “blogremlins”- monsters who mess with the webmaster and make everything look different and awful and boring 
) is designed to help you S T R E T C H your food budget and food dollars as far as possible.
Those of you who take the time to comment or email us at foodstampscookingclub@gmail.com probably don’t realize how you make Mother Connie’s day. Every comment is a treasure, as is each Member. Our membership continues to grow, although one gentleman opted out because he didn’t want recipes. (Whatup with THAT? It’s a food blog, Mister! ha)
The search goes on continuously to bring you food ideas you would actually create in your own kitchen! Maybe those blogremlins will finally leave and we can get back to business as usual. We can always hope. 
Connie Baum
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Popcorn is my favorite snack food ever. I don’t buy bags of chips or sweets when I grocery shop; I buy popcorn kernels. It is so inexpensive and delicious!
I pop them on the stove in canola oil, and yes, I add butter and salt because that makes it yummy! With a cup of strong and sweet tea, I’ve got the savory, bitter, and sweet flavors covered.
O, Pamela! You are my heroine. Except that I do not use canola but the BUTTER sounds DEEEEEVINE! What time should we be at your home to enjoy this tasty treat? giggle
Thanks for popping by-pun intended. We appreciate you so much! I surely hope our Members take time to POP by your blog. It’s a cutie and full of helpful notions.
I apologize for the pun but truthfully, I’m not very sorry. my bad
Hugs
Mother Connie
My family loves popcorn…and you can even air pop it if you are especially taking pains to be healthier with your snacks.
HOLEY BUCKETS, Rainy! We had an air popper until it up and DIED. I was so sad to have to give it up. While we were shopping for a replacement we discovered the kind that “stirs” the batch as it is popping. It was love at first sight and we’ve never looked back. We like coconut oil or olive oil best for popping but do use corn oil if we are sure it hasn’t been genetically modified.
Who knew healthy snacks could be soooo much fun and so diverse? All those yummy toppings…
Thank you AGAIN, Rainy. So good to have you leave the sewing room long enough to whiz by!
Hugs
Mother Connie
Popcorn is one of my favorite snacks. When my kids were little, I’d make a big pot of soup, and large bowl of popcorn on Saturdays, for lunch. They do as your mother did, Connie, they’d use the popcorn as croutons in the soup. My favorite is stale popcorn, the next day. It has a texture that I really love.
WOOHOO, Lili! I knew you and I are cut from the same cloth!!!
It’s so great to have you POP in…pun intended. grin/giggle
Hugs
Connie