Healthy tasty or low calorie snacks for the cinema

looperman1000

Ok i don't want to take in sticks of celery, but at the same time i dont want to take in really high in calories and fatty treats!
Is there a compromise, can anybody help with any ideas, that you can chomp away on in the cinema?

Melion

Natural confectionary company jellies

looperman1000

thanks Melion

poconnor16

If its low calorie, just buy your own popcorn and bring it it - big difference between that and the cinema stuff.
Or Kelkin yoghurt covered rice cakes, broken up in a sandwich bag. You can get them choc covered too - sweet and savoury sorted!;)

looperman1000

nice one poconnor16 :-)

poconnor16 wrote: »

If its low calorie, just buy your own popcorn and bring it it - big difference between that and the cinema stuff.
Or Kelkin yoghurt covered rice cakes, broken up in a sandwich bag. You can get them choc covered too - sweet and savoury sorted!;)

Khannie

poconnor16 wrote: »

If its low calorie, just buy your own popcorn and bring it it - big difference between that and the cinema stuff.

Can you elaborate on that a bit? I would have thought they'd be fairly similar.

poconnor16

Khannie wrote: »

Can you elaborate on that a bit? I would have thought they'd be fairly similar.

Hi Khannie - maybe I am wrong to generalise but our local cinema popcorn tastes like it is loaded with butter. I think bringing your own helps with portion control and you know exactly how many calories you are getting. Oh and its cheaper.

Penn

Most cinemas I've been to in my area don't put any butter on the popcorn. A friend is vegan and has to ask before he gets it. I would have thought the main problem would be if they added in more salt

jam_mac_jam

Melion wrote: »

Natural confectionary company jellies

Would that be almost all sugar? how is that healthy or low calorie.

Dotcomdolly

Yeah the jellies are low fat, but all sugar!

How about treating yourself to some fresh black cherries from M&S? or grapes?

The bags of Manhattan popcorn have the big plus of controlled portion size. Air popped too asfaik.

BabyBirch

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

Yeah the jellies are low fat, but all sugar!

How about treating yourself to some fresh black cherries from M&S? or grapes?

Yeah I was going to suggest blueberries! No mess and definitely low calorie

Mellor

Melion wrote: »

Natural confectionary company jellies

LOL, get marketing by the Natural conf. comp. imo

Just because it's natural doesn't mean it's healthy. Almost all sugar is natural.

poconnor16 wrote: »

Hi Khannie - maybe I am wrong to generalise but our local cinema popcorn tastes like it is loaded with butter. I think bringing your own helps with portion control and you know exactly how many calories you are getting. Oh and its cheaper.

I dunno, unless you can air pop it at home, doing it in a pan with oil is still prety bad.


Ricecakes for me

pinkypinky

Even the cinema popcorn quantities are enormous. You could bring a 50g bag of Manhattan popcorn and that would do most people. My local cinema sells a 500g bag - who needs that much?!

Susie_Q

looperman1000 wrote: »

Ok i don't want to take in sticks of celery, but at the same time i dont want to take in really high in calories and fatty treats!
Is there a compromise, can anybody help with any ideas, that you can chomp away on in the cinema?

Maybe not the advice you want, but try to get out of the habit of snacking in the cinema. I don't understand why people feel they have to bring food in. Eat a proper meal before you go to see a film and you won't want to nibble things. Eat when you're hungry, not out of habit!

silverharp

excellent suggestions with the grapes / cherries! and still cheaper

I brought one of those supermarket containers of sushi once:D

columok

biltong, nuts or fruit. However my infrequent trips to the cinema are usually accompanied by ferocious amounts of sweets!

AvaKinder

Vegans should be aware that alot of cinemas (or at least one large chain) use butter salt on the popcorn, so even if you get the popcorn without butter it will be salted with butter salt.

But in general, cinema popcorn would be alot unhealthy than homemade.