Big flavor- 10 calories! Had to share.

I found the best of all foods I ever considered for my diet. Kernal Seasons. OMG it's just like the flavors of potato chips, white cheddar popcorn etc. At 10 cal. per tsp I can put it on low cal snacks and KEEP them low cal, and uber delicious.

http://www.kernelseasons.com/ ; There's a store locator on there.

I LOVE the White Cheddar and Sour Cream and Onion. I adore the salty flavors of junk food, but I hate the fat and calories they entail. So I opt for this "all natural" (doubtful? don't care tastes too good lol) no msg, seasoning. To me it's like a tasty little miracle in a bottle.

So far I've used it with popcorn, and as a spread with a lil low fat yogurt.I will def. put it on naked veggies next time I make some.

Have you had it? Any good recipe ideas?

hmm link doesnt seem to be working

http://www.kernelseasons.com/

This should work

I saw these at my local walmart! I thought it looked interesting but never picked it up. I don't eat popcorn that often, but it seems like you can put it on other things as well. What do you put it on? (:

Also just a thought, but it wouldn't it be awesome if fiber one made there own popcorn as well? Ahahha.

Hi!  I bought some of this (butter flavor) at Walmart a couple of weeks ago. I've been using the Smart Pop 100-calorie packets.  I sprinkled some on the popcorn, but the problem is that it  falls to the bottom of the bowl.  Anyone have any suggestions?

Original Post by robin9395:

Hi!  I bought some of this (butter flavor) at Walmart a couple of weeks ago. I've been using the Smart Pop 100-calorie packets.  I sprinkled some on the popcorn, but the problem is that it  falls to the bottom of the bowl.  Anyone have any suggestions?

 

I had to google around for the ingredients because, funnily enough, the company doesn't seem to have them on their site.

Ingredients of White Cheddar:

Cheddar Cheese [Dehydrated Blend of Cheese (Granular and Blue {Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes}Whey, Vegetable Oil, Whey Protein Concentrate, Lactose, Maltodextrin, Salt, Sodium Phosphate, Citric Acid, Lactic Acid, Onion Powder, Natural Flavors, Modified Food Starch, Butter, Calcium Phosphate, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate, Hydrolyzed Soy & Corn Protein, Silicon Dioxide Added to Prevent Caking.

Yikes... I sure as hell would not put that on my popcorn. It seems pretty rich of the company to call it "all natural" given their ingredient list. It's also stretching the truth to cite many health-related organisations' recommendations of popcorn, despite the fact they are endorsing popcorn and not the seasoning itself.

Thanks for the suggestions, but I had tried both of those.  Ha!  Maybe I should just use regular popcorn and not microwave.  I believe three tablespoons equals three cups of popped, which is 100 calories.  By using a combination of oil and butter-flavor Pam, maybe there would be enough moisture on the popcorn to hold the Kernel Seasons.  Thanks again!

I mix the seasoning with greek yogurt and use as a dip. I spread something like 1.5 tbsp yogurt over a plate and sprinkle 2 tsp of seasoning on it, I've only used the Parmesan and garlic for that and so far so good!

I also put some of the nacho cheese on on some steamed (still moist) broccoli.

Just for fun I used the caramel with a banana, and geez were my tastebuds happy with that!! I imagine it will work well with apples too.

I tried to find the no cal. butter flavored spray they have on their website, but couldn't. So I just put my water bottle on fine mist and spritz it while I pour in the bowl. Works reasonably well. I also read somewhere that it works best with microwave popcorn, pour it in the bag and shake. I think there is still some steam that makes it better than an air popper. I can not yet speak from personal experience as far as that goes... yet anyway.

I am thinking if I ever have kids, this would be the cure to anything they didn't want to eat.

Meryl- I agree the ingredients do sound a little bit scary, but the worst of them make up less than 2% of the product (or so it says on the bottle) and while I am usually incredibly crazy about this, it doesn't seem worse than the seasoning on junk foods. I just see this as a lesser evil. A really delicious lesser evil. My thinking goes like this "Tastes great, better than nachos, win!" LOL well that is the shorter less enlightened view anyway! ;)

Original Post by robin9395:

Thanks for the suggestions, but I had tried both of those.  Ha!  Maybe I should just use regular popcorn and not microwave.  I believe three tablespoons equals three cups of popped, which is 100 calories.  By using a combination of oil and butter-flavor Pam, maybe there would be enough moisture on the popcorn to hold the Kernel Seasons.  Thanks again!

 I spray a little butter flavor cooking spray on the popcorn, it helps the salt, etc. to stick.

Original Post by mcheather71:

Original Post by robin9395:

Thanks for the suggestions, but I had tried both of those.  Ha!  Maybe I should just use regular popcorn and not microwave.  I believe three tablespoons equals three cups of popped, which is 100 calories.  By using a combination of oil and butter-flavor Pam, maybe there would be enough moisture on the popcorn to hold the Kernel Seasons.  Thanks again!

 I spray a little butter flavor cooking spray on the popcorn, it helps the salt, etc. to stick.

Now, THAT I haven't tried.  Didn't realize I could spray butter-flavor Pam on popcorn.  Will give it a go.  Should help the Kernel Seasons to stick.  Thanks much for the suggestion.

Kroger carries a no-fat and no-calories butter spray made by I Can't Believe It's Not Butter that works well on popcorn and other things. Also Parkay makes a no-fat/no-cal spray that I think Walmart sells.

Thanks, Troy.  I just checked and my grocery store carried the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray, too.  That sounds like the best option, I think.  I do appreciate all the suggestions from everyone.

Be careful with those calorie sprays. They may say they are non-fat/calorie free, but have you compared them in grams next to their tub? I use Olivio spray, and on the bottle it lists it as having no fat or calories. But on the tub, when I compared the two, it comes out to 1.2 calories a spray with .12g of fat. Use enough of it and you can easily add calories you're not accounting for. And it adds up over time.

The hubs and I adore this stuff. Great alternative to sour cream on potatoes. Great on broccoli. We use smart balance spray with it, but I'm certain if you just sprayed water on the potato it would be moist and delicious without the spray.

I used Kernal Seasons years ago with the olive oil spray and found it worked VERY well on my air popped popcorn. THEN I found the spicebarn.com If you like Kernal Seasons, the spicebarn popcorn seasonings are even better AND you can buy them in bulk containers. I buy the quart container of the white chedder. You do have to account for the calories when you use more than one spray of the olive oil spray and you should also measure your seasoning and not just freely shake it on.

theprize

Thank you

Thank you for sharing...

 I have been looking for something tasty & reasonable (health wise) such as Kernel Seasons for 20+ years I usually go without, sometimes go plain, sprinkle Splenda brown sugar or ruin a good batch by improvising the seasonings that I never get right.

 The sodium is fantastic 0-80mg depending on the flavor (skip the popcorn salt 470mg)

 Gluten Free!

 WARNING: FOOD ALLERGENS

http://www.kernelseasons.com/i/pdf/KS_Nutriti onal_Facts_and_Allergy_Information.pdf

 Milk/dairy and soy are listed; however, Chocolate Marshmallow, Apple Cinnamon, Kettle Corn and popcorn salt are listed safe.

Sulfites list under Caramel flavoring.

 I have to try Kettle corn, too bad my husband can no longer eat popcorn he would love this!  

I have to go shopping...

ooohhhhh.....Thanks for sharing.  I forgot about this product.  I tried the nacho cheese kind years ago and liked it on popcorn. 

I'm going to check these out when I go to Wal-mart next.