39 points by kenshi 4 days ago | 15 comments
  • > You don't actually want 300 calories of refined flour.

    Personally I always want this.

    • The only thing I want more than 300 calories of flour is 600 calories of flour.
  • Yes, but if less is more imagine how much more more would be.
  • 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.
    • 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.
  • A Reese’s peanut butter cup hack is peanut butter and chocolate chips in a cup. Eat it with a spoon.
  • 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.

    • Maybe your bowl is bigger than OPs?

      Those microwavable bags generally contain multiple servings.

  • 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.
  • We were talking about this last night at the hackernews london meetup! It sounds delicious!
    • Is this a bot? Three day creation date and the sentence of TFA is

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