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As a busy mother of two young kids I find myself being tempted to snack quite often. We are always on-the-go and dinner is usually our only sit down meal. I love to snack, but I hate what it does to my waistline and the health of my family. I make good choices 98% of the time and choose whole foods like fresh fruits and vegetables, but on that rare 2% day, all I want is a good old fashion, crispy, crunchy potato chip.
I usually try my best to resist the urge to totally let myself indulge with the run of the mill greasy chip, but always fill guilty and quite disgusting after indulging. Then, when I try to make the “better” choice and reach for the baked version, I am left feeling unsatisfied and just plain gypped on flavor.
When I was given the opportunity to try a bag or two of popchips myself and I have to say that at first, I was skeptical. “Healthier alternatives” to regular foods tend to have three times the ingredients to make them low calorie, low fat and to add in the missing flavor. In this case, I was wrong. These little chips were light, crispy and satisfying when the urge to eat greasy chips. Another bonus is that, they are low in calorie and barely have any fat. The original flavor is always gluten free and vegan. In my opinion, a win-win for the occasional snack lover.Enter my go-to-snack: popchips.
What are popchips exactly? A snack “chip” made from nothing but all natural ingredients. And when they say all natural, they really mean it. popchips all-natural pledge: no fake colors, no fake flavors, no preservatives, no fluorescent orange fingertips, and no wiping your greasy chip hand on your jeans. No, really. We only use ingredients you can feel good about eating and we leave out the bad stuff like: hydrogenated oils and MSG, that give snacking a bad name. That’s one way they take snacking to a healthier level, but how exactly do they make them and what does all this “popping” mean? I didn’t get “how” it was done until I watched their video: The magic of popping.
What about my kid’s lunches? Well, on occasion they ask for potato chips (I think mostly because all the other kids bring them to school) with their sandwiches. Instead of throwing in a single serving of potato chips in their lunch bag I’d throw in three or four chips (hey, we are trying to eat healthier and junk is eaten on moderation). Now, I can throw in an entire serving of popchips and not feel like I’m shortchanging my kids -yes, seriously… I’d put three or four potato chips in there! lol.
The MOMables™ team and I have certainly become popchips fans and love that we can find a healthier alternative, not only for ourselves, but for our whole family. These little air popped chips would make a great occasional addition to any lunch box for any age.
Wait, it gets better. The fabulous team at Popchips have given us the opportunity to share their air popped magic with you, our loyal readers. They have offered to give away and entire month of popchips to one of our lucky readers. All you have to do is:
- visit popchips online, check out their flavors and leave us a comment below telling us which flavor of popchips you would devour for an entire month if chosen as the winner.
- You can also add additional entries by visiting popchips on Facebook and liking them,
- checking popchips out on Twitter and giving them a lovely follow or tweeting about this giveaway.
- Tweet this: “I’m making healthier lunches with @MOMables & cutting snacking fats with @popchips. You can too by entering here http://bit.ly/zlyJ0Q“ Just please remember to leave a comment for each additional entry you make.
Good luck and happy snacking!
Official Giveaway Rules: This giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents and will begin Wednesday January 18, 2012 at 10 AM EST and will end Wednesday February 1st, 2012 at 10 PM EST. The winner will be contacted within 48 hours via email and has 24 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen.
Sue’s Full Disclosure: I was compensated for writing this post and I purchased a bag of popchips with reimbursement as a means to do this review. As always, the views and opinions are my own.
Pictured: MOMables (top left) w/Gabriella Holland at the Starlight Event
mmm, the parm & garlic ones sound delish! love that on their website it also states they’re NUT free!!
liked popchips on facebook as well :)
It would be very hard to choose just one flavor! I think Sour Cream & Onion, Parmesan & Garlic and Chili Lime would all be amazing to try!
I liked it on FaceBook! I don’t have a Twitter account but I also added the Tweet as my FB status!
The parmesan + garlic flavor would be my pick – that is my favorite flavor for virtually any snack!
BBQ is my favorite, but I can’t wait until the stores around here finally get the sweet potato ones to try!!
I want to try the sweet potato!!
I have to add that the sweet potato ROCKS!!
So many yummy flavors to choose from. I think Sour Cream & Onion and Salt & Pepper would be great to try out.
I liked popchips on FB.
I don’t have a twitter account either, but I shared this on FB.
I could climb inside a bag of chili lime PopChips and stay for a month! ;) Yum!
The parm & garlic sound amazing, along with the cheddar and jalapeño!!!! I can’t wait to try them!
SEA SALT & VINEGAR is our favorite!!!
I think I could eat a months worth of parmesan garlic anything, so would love to try PopChips in that flavour :)
Sour cream and onion for sure!!!! Second choice would be salt and vinegar:)
We have seen the popchips in the store and I have been keeping an eye out for coupons to make them affordable I would love to try the BBQ ones.
I love the salt and pepper popchips!
I have never tried them, but they look yummy!!
The sweet potato sound delicious!
mmmm… Parmesan and Garlic *drool*
these sound interesting I haven’t ever heard of them! would love to try them out!
I would love to try the Cheddar Popchips. We all love them but our store only carries Original :)
I liked Popchips on Facebook :) (NinaHolstead)
I followed Popchips on Twitter (NinaSybil)
I tweeted about the giveaway :)
https://twitter.com/#!/NinaSybil
Parmesan and garlic please :o) Yum!
Liked Popchips on Facebook.
Following Popchips on Twitter.
Tweeted about the giveaway: https://twitter.com/#!/Alineric/status/163042381120286720
I love sour cream and onion anything so definitely that flavor. =)
Following @popchips as @LucasitosMommy
I “like” popchips on FB.
Salt and Vinegar is our house favorite!!!! I love to put the little bags in with my kiddos’ lunches!
I’ve seen them at costco, but haven’t had the chance to sample them. Who wants to buy a Costco-sized bag of a product you’ve never tried and never heard of and take the chance it’ll go to waste if it’s not good, right?
Krista, good thing you entered! You can try them -good luck!
I would love the original potato flavor! They meet all of my family’s needs for allergies and are delicious!
Wow, Yummy, Yummy! My kids love them and I can still feel good about sending them with their lunches to spice things up!
i know my family would want me to say the jalapeno ones, but I keep looking at the salt and pepper in the store!
The Sea Salt & Vinegar for sure! :)
I like popchips on Facebook. (Deanna Cali)
I follow popchips on Twitter. (@calidreamin87)
Tweeted:
https://twitter.com/#!/calidreamin87/status/164866797894512640