Homemade Cracker Jacks

2 gallons of popped popcorn (32 cups)

1 cup butter or margarine

2 cups brown sugar

½ cups molasses

½ tsp. salt

2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. vanilla

*And some prizes to put in your bags

  

In a large sauce pan melt butter or margarine add in the brown sugar, molasses, and salt.  Bring to a boil and boil one minute. Remove from heat and add in the baking powder and the vanilla. Stir real well pour over popcorn and in the peanuts and mix until the popcorn is well coated.  Pour into a* large paper grocery bag and microwave 1 minute them stir.  Repeat to more times.  Pour popcorn onto a clean counter and separate while cooling.

*If you do not have a paper bag you can use a large microwave bowl and do it in batches if you need too.

**I like to make this when we are going on a road trip.  I like to place a small prize or toy the kids can play with in the car at the bottom of a lunch sack then add 3 cups of popcorn.  This recipe will fill about 7 lunch sacks about ½ way.  Enjoy

Food for Thought:

 As important as it is to leave home every day with a full charge on your cell phone, it is far more  important to be fully charged spiritually. Every time you plug in your phone, use it as a reminder to ask    yourself if you have plugged in to the most important source of spiritual power—prayer and scripture study, which will charge you with inspiration -Randall Ridd