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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

gummy worms and cracker jacks, hidden in one of my big slouchy hobo bags

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The Cadbury Creme Egg McFlurry at British McDonald's

cadbury creme egg mcflurry?! mmm overseas mcflurries are the best. like baci mcflurries in italy :)

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What's Your Favorite Halloween Candy?

reese's, 100 grand, kit kat, butterfinger (always liked the original, but, a few years ago, i got the ones with the cream/wafer filling and those are awesome and not as likely to lift your sealants), mounds

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

gummy worms and cracker jacks, hidden in one of my big slouchy hobo bags

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The Cadbury Creme Egg McFlurry at British McDonald's

cadbury creme egg mcflurry?! mmm overseas mcflurries are the best. like baci mcflurries in italy :)

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What's Your Favorite Halloween Candy?

reese's, 100 grand, kit kat, butterfinger (always liked the original, but, a few years ago, i got the ones with the cream/wafer filling and those are awesome and not as likely to lift your sealants), mounds

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Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Epiphany'

a really dense, fudgy chocolate six layer cake with chocolate hazelnut buttercream

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Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan

Haha interesting hypothesis. (I don't blame him!)

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Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan

This is a joke, right?
To even suggest that Dylan chose to emigrate to Greenwich Village for its pizza or that "I Shall Be Free" is an ode to his favorite foods is pretty absurd.

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Cook the Book: 'Panini Express'

fresh mozzarella, pesto, roasted eggplant and red peppers

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Cook the Book: 'The Bacon Cookbook'

bacon egg cheese salt pepper ketchup on a bagel

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What's your most unusual cookie cutter?

we basically collect cookie cutters in my house. whats even stranger is that we rarely use them because we're not big on rolled cookies. we have a collection of musical instruments and a set of different dog breeds.

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Food Network Chefs

ina garten rules. i'm a giada fan as well. i've gotten to the point (granted it took 5 years) that i can make it through a 30 minute meal, but rachael ray really bothers me, and she's gotten worse over time. sandra lee and her darned cocktails and dreamscapes should have been scrapped long before emeril live and molto mario. i despise nigella lawson for reasons i can't even think of. i like alton and i love food science, but all those crazy skits on good eats are a bit much to take sometimes. i think there needs to be some additions to the food network, and i don't think guy fieri is cutting it!

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

Just to clear up a previous post with the glamour.com link -- If you read the article, the person had extra doses of butter added to the regular amount of butter. The 500 calorie small popcorn was the one without extra butter, however it still had the regular amount of butter.

Unbuttered popcorn (popped in oil) only has 55 calories per cup.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

My friends and I sneak in burritos and chips from the mexican place across the way. YUMMM!
If not that, then I usually just grab a bottle of water and buy some kind of candy at the concession stand. I used to, without fail, buy cherry coke but that was before they changed a small to about a gallon and make it 4.25. Siigh.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

Since I've moved out to Los Angeles it seems like sneaking food into a theater here hasn't been that big of a deal. The theater I usually go to is part of an outdoor mall area with several different food establishments surrounding it. We almost always go eat before we go to a movie, and if I have a diet coke from Rubio's in my hand as I go into the movie, no one seems to mind. So maybe it's a little different out here?

As for food, I've brought in a subway sandwich before, squished down in my not-so-large purse. And no, it wasn't a five dollar footlong.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

It wasn't sneaking so much as I bought it and stuck it in my bag, a large pack of Starburst (years ago when I still ate candy). The ticket taker asked me to open my bag and it was on top, and I was like oh shoot. It was especially annoying because the movie was starting and we'd parked pretty far, so BF shoved it under his shirt (we walked outside) and we went back in. That really annoyed me, but I understand - they sell Starburst at the theater.
Another time, we'd just gone to Dunkin' Donuts (for him), and he was holding the bag, the ticket taker was like "You can't bring that in." So BF put it under his shirt and said "Ok how about now?" using the logic that they don't sell donuts there, and he wanted a donut, but the ticket taker was like no. So he went outside and stuffed it under his shirt more carefully and went in.
Is it just us who gets searched/stopped? lol I swear we don't look like we're carrying anything in particular! I have occasionally tossed sweets into my bag but not for the movie. Lately, when we go to the movies, we just pay for the concessions there because it's easier and because the way he sees it, it is a night out and you might as well just pay - like being on vacation and paying for things you normally wouldn't. (Clearly, we have no children yet - I imagine all snacks will be packed into my bag before movie trips with children.)

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

I always sneek in food. I just can't bring myself to pay those inflated prices. My cache usually includes Dollar Store movie candy, homemade cookies or bars, water and cheddar popcorn.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

I just never brought food in movie theatres other than once in a blue moon, maybe popcorn, or a fave candy, but I just wanted to watch the movie. I was usually going out for dinner afterwads, or when younger, had dinner already.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

What HAVEN'T I snuck in? Some of the highlights are a 40-oz of beer (college years) and 12 beers (adult years with 2 backpacks), chicken tikka masala with nan and many diet cokes.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

When they lived in Chicago, my son and his wife each took a bottle of wine and a straw in the inside pocket of their parkas - this was only feasible in the winter - and a few snacks in the pockets.

This would be more difficult in Southern California, I suppose.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

candy. I can get it from Dollar Tree for $1.
Soda & water
sometimes popcorn
sandwiches
mickey D's
etc.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

oh, and i forgot to add that in Brazil movie theaters are obliged by law to allow food in. What they don't allow are cans and icecream. That being said, my Man likes to bring in a few McDonald's cheeseburgers and fries, and the large diet coke. Well, he doesn't really care about my snacks, and neither do i for his.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

the movies ain't the movies for me without gummy bears and jelly beans. With the price the movie theaters charge for a ticket in Brazil, i don't feel bad at all sneaking stuff in. I like taking in sour candy as well, and chocolates. Chocolate covered raisins are also nice, as are the colored mentos and chewing gum... see, even though i bring massive amounts of candy it barely makes it to the middle of the movie... And although i don't really like popcorn, i have a soft spot for the pink prepopped stuff... I just never find it.

The one thing i buy from concession stands are ice tea. Lots!

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

I'll stick a coke from the fridge into the freezer for 30 min. Then just before I leave, I'll pop a single serve 100 calorie bag of popcorn. (The SO doesn't like popcorn) I'll throw them in my huge purse and be out the door. By the time the movie is starting, the coke is still cold, but not frozen at all. You just have to wait for just the right loud moment in the trailer to pop the top! :) MUCH better portion sized, and cheaper!

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

The theatre I usually frequent is part of a mall with a Starbucks so hiding my coffee is never an issue.

I like to sneak in drugstore candies and snacks like pretzels. A few times I've gone so far as to sneak in real foods like burritos, sushi, or a sandwhich. Without fail though, I always buy my drink at the theatre.

But on special occasions, like midnight showings, I indulge in the concession stand and get red vines, buttered popcorn, and a coke.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

Since I was let in on the secret that microwave pop corn is a sham, I make a big batch at home and bring by own popcorn. If you put regular pop corn kernels in a regular brown paper lunch bag, roll up the top and put it in the microwave.. it makes pop corn! No artificial butter, no crazy additives, no lugging out the air popper. It just takes a bit of trial and error to figure out how much pop corn and for how long depending on the microwave.

I usually bring some red nibs and diet coke to go with it. It's so satisfying to make that can crack sound in the theatre. :)

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

My kids bring in baggies of M&M's and water bottles and I make microwave popcorn at home and bring that in with diet sprite or ice tea (movies only carry diet coke it seems). Not only cheaper but less calories and portion controlled.

I don't feel guilty. If theatres didn't charge $8 for .10 of popcorn and $5 for a bottle of water maybe they would make more money because people wouldn't feel ripped off and compelled to sneak food in.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

I'm certainly jinxing myself by saying this, but I am almost always able to get away with walking into the theater with a coffee in my hand. I do try to be discrete about it (e.g., holding it by my side, going with a group of people, etc.), but the theater employees either don't notice or don't care.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

The movie theaters I frequent are all in malls with a Victorias Secret also in the mall, so I always use a Vic Sec shopping bag for my food. Sometimes I even put the pink tissue paper on top. I try to eat healthy at the movies, so I bring in grapes, walnuts,pretzles, etc. Sometimes I bring candy (red licorice is a fave) and sometimes I bring a spiked bottle of cranberry juice. However, I don't hit the movies too often.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

I don't usually sneak stuff in. Sometimes a bottle of water or gum, but that's about it. I *would* buy myself a small popcorn, but even when you get it unbuttered, it tastes horribly oily and salty. I like my popcorn pretty much plain, just the kernels from the bulk bin air popped with either no added oil or just a marginal amount to get some chili powder to stick. When I was little and my parents would pay I used to get Sour Patch Kids, but now that I have a better concept of money (aka using my own money makes me realize it's finite), I have trouble justifying the prices.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

I wonder how many of those calories are from the "butter" vs. the popcorn.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

I mainly bring gum - but my favorite snack to bring is Tasti-D-Lite! Eating time is somewhat limited because of the melt factor - but you can have some delicious trailers. Mmmmmmmm...

Star Trek was awesome!!!

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

i dont mind paying for popcorn at the theatre, but i never, ever get it with butter-so foul. however, i do sneak in a salt shaker, so i can resalt as i munch. occassionally i'll bring along some water, but for the most part i'll indulge in a coke. it's one of the rare times i do drink it & really, nothing else washes down popcorn better than a little carbonation. besides, movie theatres are being hit by the economy hard too-i like to support them, so they don't close.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

I usually just bring a drink -- a 700ml bottle of Diet Pepsi cost more than $3 at the theatre, twice the regular price.

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Large Movie Popcorn with Butter: 1,220 Calories

Great middle eastern bakery around the corner from our most frequented movie theatre=hummus and pita!!!

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