You know the packs of pop corn that you buy that are especially for the microwave? Personally, I don’t like the flavours they come in never mind what they put in it to create those tastes.

For ages I was popping the corn in a microwavable container until one day, in my effort to pop ALL the corn, I burnt a hole in the bottom and had to throw contents and all out.

I have since discovered you can make pop corn in an ordinary brown paper bag in the microwave. Put in a brown paper bag aprroximately three tablespoons of corn, fold the top over a couple of times to keep the contents in, microwave on high for about 2-3 minutes or until there is a two second gap in between pops.

The great thing about this is you can control exactly how much you need, enough for snacks in a lunchbox, adding flavour or not.

The amount of corn you use will be dependent on the size of the bag (bearing in mind size of lunch bags will be different between countries) and the time it takes will depend on your type/wattage of oven. Don’t be tempted to put too much raw corn in the bag, you’ll be surprised how much a few tablespoons of corn will pop into. Let’s just say, I’ve opened up the microwave with overflowing popcorn much to the delight of the small peoples I was making it for.

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