SultanOfSwing

We share the load in our house. Both of us like to sit on our arses on a Saturday afternoon

Maste

So I've been discovering! Brilliant Sunday football TV snack!

SultanOfSwing

Plus they're a little bit better for you than crisps. Every little helps, I suppose.

Rete

Love a bowl of popcorn, as well. Bit of a purist, I suppose. Just like with eating corn on the cob or any freshly prepared veggie, I don't put salt on popcorn or veggies. A little unsalted butter and I'm all set.

The only issue with popcorn is the same as eating corn on the cob. It is loaded with sugar and a diabetic needs to watch the number of grams consumed.

Shard

They are, and the fact that you have to prepare it helps with not over-snacking. In theory, at least!

Pulaski

Do you mean "carbohydrate"?

Popcorn is 75% carbohydrate, but has almost no sugar (0.3g/28g serving), or about 1% by weight. In other words, you'd have to consume nearly 6lb of popcorn to get 1oz of sugar.

SultanOfSwing

Or, conversely, the fact that it's so easy to prepare another batch helps with being able to eat loads of it

For comparison, there's 19g of sugar in an apple and nobody's going to argue that apples are good for you. That's enough that I couldn't eat any apples at all when I did a low-carb diet and I bloody love apples.

Rete

Thanks. As a diabetic you count carbs and on the list of not allowed to consume is corn. I know that corn is used to make sugary corn syrup hence why I said sugar instead of carbs

Sugar is a carb and why we aren't allowed to eat most fruits and many veggies. No root veggies but what the hell I cheat on the veggies.

mrken30

Sugar is a simple carb, corn is a complex carb. Corn just falls into the starchy veg group as a diabetic.

petitefrancaise

and they're all converted to glucose which is a sugar!

I don't like popcorn.

Revels. Minus the coffee creams please.

BEVS

Agree. Yuk

My diabetic cat is with me on the popcorn so doesn't have this tussle.

Pulaski

Starch can be broken down into pure glucose, but other complex carbohydrates typically include some glucose and then other sugars such as fructose, galactose, and xylose.

Pica

They do-but I don't

Pica

Once the topping's licked off it's like chewing polystyrene-same goes for rice cakes-yuk

Pica

Please post the coffee creams over here-they're the best ones.