My recent order from iHerb.com arrived yesterday.
The order contained probiotics, 5 pounds of stevia, and nooch.
And they threw in a couple free samples
They usually throw in something free but this was the first time I got jelly. And I love jelly!
The mini jar reminds me of what my grandma used to throw in her purse when leaving fancy restaurants. One or two for the road was her thinking. Can’t argue.
I needed to replenish my stash of stevia and nooch. Especially since I liberally douse my popcorn with melted butter, melted coconut oil, stevia, and nooch.
I get This Nooch from iHerb because it’s 40% cheaper than at WF’s
Note: It’s very hard to hold a can of nooch with your left hand and not dump the entire canister, and balance and then focus a DSLR with your right hand, and take a picture that’s somewhat in focus. But hopefully you get the noochy drift.
I love the buttery + coconutty + sweet + cheezy flavors. I eat this combo all the time.
I am a huge popcorn fan. I have a whole section of Popcorn Recipes and am always adding things like cinnamon, ginger, maca, or chocolate chips to my popcorn to jazz it up.
From my last post about National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day, I am so glad many of you were able to celebrate. Even if unintentionally since I know most bloggers eat their fair share of PB every day anyway.
I’m glad you played along with creating your own holiday. Lots of you wanted to create a Chocoholics Day. I am down for that.
Dessert: Raw Vegan Peanut Butter Cups
Combines yesterday’s holiday with today’s nooch. Perfect.
There’s nooch in them. I created this recipe a couple years ago and added nooch because I feel the nooch adds some “authenticity” in replicating the Reese’s PB Cup filling. The nooch adds just a tiny amount of “grit” and savory-ness/salty-ness to the peanut butter filling, very similar to store-bought Reese’s PB Cups.
Questions:
1. What’s the last thing you’ve ordered online?
My iHerb.com order!
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2. Do you like popcorn?
Yes, love it!
If so, how do you prepare it? — I use a brown paper bag, place 2 Tbsp of popcorn kernels in it, fold the top down, and microwave it for about 75-90 seconds
And what’s your fave popcorn topping? — Lots of buttery spray (such as Pam Buttery spray) or melted (vegan) butter, coconut oil, nooch, stevia, and chocolate chips for me.
3. The mini jelly jar reminded me how much fun mini foods are to eat. What do you like that’s mini?
I like:
Mini Chocolate Chips
I like mini debt
And Mini Chocolate Donut Holes (Vegan, GF, No-bake & take 5 minutes)
Wow, I’ve never heard of the paper bag microwave popcorn trick! Do you put oil in with it, or does it work without it?
No oil! just do it as I suggested and it works perfectly!
I’m all about weird flavor combos! This one sounds good, interesting, but good! I have been getting the same brand of nooch from WF, good to know I can get it cheaper somewhere else!
Girl you know I love my popcorn! And like you, I love making different concoctions – preferably of the chocolate variety ;)
I like mini everything. I make all my cookies small, because then I can eat more of them. Plus, cute little things are just…cute.
Love nooch, love popcorn, love cooking it in the micro, love my micro, but don’t love the coconut oil thing. I don’t know. Doesn’t it make your popcorn all soggy? Even when I could eat butter, I never liked it on popcorn, because they’d turn all soggy and nasty. I’d pick around those, so all that was left was a bowlful of mushy soggy butter-laden popcorn. Which I bet sounds like heaven to some. :)
i need something to get my massive amt of toppings to stick, so either use spray (coconut oil or Pam) or just melt butter/coconut oil…but that’s much more gloppy. So the spray is better but it’s also more expensive that way and Im cheap. There IS some sog factor but honestly it’s probably b/c of the abundance of nooch and stevia and cinnamon i tend to add :)
I love iHerb. They actually have reasonable shipping rates and are usually SUPER fast, too. And I love the free samples they throw in! They are my go-to for buying chia seeds. It’s $8 or $10 from them or $25 from my co-op. Yeesh.
You’re making me really want some popcorn now!! Man, I can’t remember the last time I had a bowl of popcorn!
I LOVE popcorn. I usually pop it on the stove in coconut/canola oil because my microwave is ghetto and doesn’t rotate, so popcorn doesn’t usually pop. I like it salted and nooched!
My grandparents TOTALLY do the same thing, except they’ll empty the whole basket… It’s a little bit embarassing
grandparents, gotta love their mindset :)
Sweet score on the jelly. I get that same nooch from Amazon and love it on popcorn.
1. A new camera strap, Sun Warrior protein powder and more Gu energy shots for my upcoming half-marathon.
2. Yes, especially with a little coconut oil and salt.
3. Mini oranges and tangerines, I’ve been eating tons of those lately.
cant wait to see/hear about the new strap. I hate mine. That’s next on my to-be-upgraded list.
Just yesterday I ordered a hand-held GPS device for my husband’s birthday because he wants to go geo-caching.
That mini jelly jar is adorable! You’ve got to keep that one to put something in; Polly Pockets or whatever teeny-weeny toy parts Skylar has.
I know, i totally will be saving it for her.
Yum! I love popcorn, too. My boyfriend is actually more of a fanatic than I am. I used to buy the bags that you microwave but this past Christmas my mom bought my boyfriend an air popper. It’s really cute! It has wheels and it is made by Betty Crocker. If you Google it, you will see many pictures of it (red and white with wheels!).
My two combinations are:
melted butter and chocolate chips (pms popcorn basically, lol)
melted butter and popcorn salt, which is basically seasoning salt with a bit of sugar added as far as I can tell.
I used to dip popcorn individually into melted chocolate but now I just throw in the chocolate chips and they melt by the time I want to eat them. It’s messy but so satisfying! Smarties/M&M’s are fun too because they add a bit of colour. :)
That popcorn looks GREAT!
… I’m definitely using that recipe next time the boyfriend and I have a movie night. It will make it feel authentic!
Oh, what a cute little jar of jelly! I have a thing for cute little containers! :P And the blueberry muffin looks so yummilicious
i love your comment about your grandma tucking the jams into her purse when leaving a restaurant.
i just suddenly flashed back on my mom taking the little coffee creamers with her after a restaurant outing…she always said, “well. they’re just going to throw them out anyway!” – in fact, i think she still takes them, to this day!
omg my grandma used to swipe coffee creamers too!!
I love mini-anything. There is just something about a cute size. and I love popcorn, such a good snack
I love minis. I actually got a iherb order yesterday (coconut oil, raw tahini, and digestive enzymes) and I got the same samples, ie tiny jelly jar and madre lab sample. Do you use those madre lab samples. I have a small stack of them and never seem to remember to use them – also I take a ton of supplements right now as I was so deficient in so many things after years of food intolerances and bad digestion, so I always wonder about adding something to the mix.
Ive used some of the samples and some i give to scott.
Ohhh…popcorn! I’m a fanatic. I have two air poppers and use them liberally! I put vinegar in a spray bottle and spray it first and then whatever spice I”m in the mood for….NuSalt, cayenne pepper, chili spices, cumin, lemon pepper, stevia, cinnamon, etc The combos are endless and I’m always looking for more ideas.
And for national pb day…I think I will melt some pb and drizzle it on.
I’ve also heard of people making popcorn cereal…as in pouring milk over it and adding some stevia. Apparently it’s good though I think I would miss the crunch (:
Never tried nutritional yeast (sorry…hate the word “nooch”). Probably because I thought brewer’s yeast was the same thing and bought some cheap stuff and it was gross. Someone told me to feed it to my cat to prevent fleas!