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41 points by kenshi 6 months ago · 17 comments

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senkora 6 months ago

> You don't actually want 300 calories of refined flour.

Personally I always want this.

thom 6 months ago

Yes, but if less is more imagine how much more more would be.

gumboshoes 6 months ago

This is also what I discovered. That a lot of what I like about beer and soft drinks is the carbonation, so having carbonated (calorie-free) water has similar satisfaction.

  • yial 6 months ago

    I’ve found this to work for me incredibly well. Even just “club soda” fulfills 90% of the “cravings” I might have for a beer or soft drink. The other 10% I am probably actually hungry and just not realizing it.

roxolotl 6 months ago

A Reese’s peanut butter cup hack is peanut butter and chocolate chips in a cup. Eat it with a spoon.

camel-cdr 6 months ago

Cool idea.

For the sake of being pedantic:

> The whole bowl has fewer calories than two slices of garlic bread

Really? Idk what the sizes are, but I looked up the weight of one of those micro wave popcorn packages, which usually fill the bowl we have at home. That seemed to be 100g, which is about ~350 kcal not including oil/butter. I'm getting about ~275 for 100g of bread, which is more than two slices. That's about 6 inches of baguette.

  • ash_091 6 months ago

    Maybe your bowl is bigger than OPs?

    Those microwavable bags generally contain multiple servings.

  • kenshiOP 6 months ago

    I should have included the following information in the blog post (will update it later!):

    I usually have:

    - 45g of air popped popcorn (64 calories).

    - 5 to 10g of butter (37 - 74 calories).

    - couple of garlic cloves (10 cals).

unsnap_biceps 6 months ago

We make popcorn with https://www.kerrygoldusa.com/products/garlic-herb-butter/ and it's quite delicious, however, it doesn't quite hit the same as real garlic bread. The mouthfeel of the crispy toast is different than popcorn.

jl7512 6 months ago

We were talking about this last night at the hackernews london meetup! It sounds delicious!

  • mmsc 6 months ago

    Is this a bot? Three day creation date and the sentence of TFA is

    >Last night at a Hacker News meetup, I shared something

    • Jtsummers 6 months ago

      The submission itself is three days old and the comment you replied to is from the same time. It looks like the submission came back through the second chance pool:

      https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

      If you hover over the timestamps ("1 hour ago") you'll see the actual submission date and time.

e40 6 months ago

I was shocked that my continuous glucose monitor showed a huge spike for popcorn without butter. Last time I had it.

  • xnx 6 months ago

    Carbs like popcorn that dissolve in your mouth are very close to being cotton candy.

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