I relax some of my food standards when we’re away from home. Despite my best efforts, you cannot always control everything. Vegetables aren’t always organic, most restaurants don’t cook with coconut oil etc. Additionally, contrary to what my offspring think, my mission in life isn’t to embarrass them in any way possible. Even with the upcoming book, at one of our early meetings when we conceptualized it, my agent looked at me and said “the advice for each scenario cannot be to bring your own.” I agreed. But there are places when you should bring your own and one of those places is the movies.
My children eat candy and have treats but they don’t need
sour patch kids the size of a clutch purse or popcorn popped in garbage. They
used to give me a hard time over my need to smuggle in my own cinema offerings
until I found a solution they adored. The solution’s name is Quinn and this
popcorn is insanely good. Aside from the movies it’s now our football snack, road
trip snack- we’re pretty into it.
As Quinn says
it’s “microwave popcorn reinvented”. I
have many issues and phobias but the microwave isn’t one of them. If you don’t
microwave, there are stovetop directions. The bag is free of chemical coatings and such
found in typical micro pop (and also compostable). All ingredients are non-GMO,
popcorn is organic. You pop the popcorn, add oil and shake, add the flavor
packet and shake again. Our only issue is that we live in a house divided. Two
favor Vermont Maple and Sea Salt and two can’t think beyond Hickory Smoked
Cheddar.
So there are
times when I try to find a family friendly replacement for unhealthy options.
Other times, I’m trying to pack the maximum amount of nutrition into our family
meals. One of my favorite ways to do
this is with hemp (seeds, oil, powder). Hemp hearts (shelled hemp seeds) have a
mild flavor and contain a variety of fats making them great for skin, cognition
and mood. They’re also a good source of
protein. These go in our school day smoothies and get sprinkled over salads and
in yogurt.
From our family (and
the Quinn and Manitoba Harvest family) to yours.
Quinn is giving
away a 6-pack of all flavors of their popcorn.
Manitoba harvest
is generously supplying a lucky reader a hemp starter pack (with hemp oil, hemp
hearts and hemp protein).
To be eligible
- Comment below (with an email address so we can reach you)
- Tweet “@foodtrainers family favorites @quinnpocorn and @manitobaharvest #giveaway http://foodtrainers.blogspot.com/2013/09/two-of-our-family-favorites-and.html"
- And like Manitoba Harvest and Quinn Popcorn on Facebook
You have until
Thursday September 19th to enter
How do you maximize nutrition in your
meals? Have you tried either of these foods? And where do you try to smuggle
food?
