Your Favorite Microwave Popcorn/Points
 

My favorite WAS Pop Secret Lite, made with Land 'o Lakes butter...well worth the 4pts per bag! Very buttery! I thought the Healthy Choice and the 98% Fat Free varieties were so bland...they were 3pts per bag, but this one is WELL worth the extra point.

My NEW favorite is the 94% (????) Fat Free Kettle Korn by Orville Reddenbacher...mmm it's great! I remember before I started WW I would eat the regular Kettle Corn and it's around 13 points for the whole bag! Big difference!

Anyone know the points for this new Kettle Korn? I admit I've been eating it w/o counting lately, so I want to know now..I threw out the box!

What's your favorite?

CD

I have found Act II butter popcorn to be very tasty. It cost 3 points but is worth it. I too thought healthy pop was like eating cardboard :smug:

Are you referring to the light Act II for the whole bag, or one serving or regular butter?

:) CD

I came here to post that my fav is also the Orvillreddenbacher (sp way off) Smartpop Kettle Corn. I just did the point math on 3 cups ( roughly half the bag, it pops 7 cups), and it was a 1 point snack. Good Eats!

OKAY... BUT HOW DO YOU COUNT??
 

Well, first of all... how about those new Orville Redenbacher's Smart Pop Mini Bags?!?!?!? And it's 2 points for the bag, very tasty, and addresses what (IMHO) is a core concept in everything we're trying to do here: Eating smaller portions.

That being said... How do you count your popcorn? :?:

As an example, I have here a 3 oz. (85g) bag of Jolly Time Healthy Pop (94% Fat Free) Butter Flavor Popcorn. Says 0% saturated fat, which is good.

On the back I see... [and I'm not gonna do the whole darn label, just the stuff that's pertinent to WW]

Okay, how do you do this?

My inclination is to take the first column--90, 2, 9 respecitively--multiply each number by 2.5 (number of servings in a bag), which gives me 225 calories, 5g fat, 22.5g fiber, which I'll round down to 22.

When the whole points system first came out, there was no upper cap on the number of fiber grams you could plug into the formula; today, the limit is 4. I kinda think this is a crock, simply because if I'm expected to be honest about the calories and fat, then why not be honest about the fiber as well?

Anyways... just taking two different routes with the fiber numbers and plugging them into my WW Palm Journal (the one that's banned, but again, screw 'em!), here's what I get:

225 calories
5g fat
22g fiber
0.6 points

225 calories
5g fat
4g fiber
4.2 points

Okay... dig in folks! Where did I go wrong, if I did?
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