Microwave popcorn costs too much damn money. But you like it. So what do you do? You make your own. DIY site Instructables has information on how you, yes even you, can make your own microwave popcorn for a fraction of the cost of store-bought crap. The ingredients are simple:

1/4 cup of popping corn (generally $0.99 for a pound bag. This is enough to make at least 50 bags of microwave corn)
2 Teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
To taste – popcorn salt (it has finer granules than table salt with the same taste)

And the following tools:

A stapler (if you’re afraid of the staples sparking, you can omit this.)
A teaspoon
A measuring cup
A brown paper bag
and
A microwave

Now just put the olive oil on the popcorn, toss in some salt, and you’re ready to microwave! Hooray! —MEGHANN MARCO

Microwave Popcorn, homemade easy and cheap [Instructables]

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