I began the Special K cereal diet this past week as an experiment to see if eating two bowls of cereal per day could actually cause someone to lose weight. After one week sure enough I have already lost four pounds. Now I am a fairly small …

Stouffer’s Chicken à la King is meal that is fairly filling and also fairly tasty, too. The all white pieces of chicken found in this meal are quite good and authentic in flavor. With the chicken are mushrooms, onions, celery, peas, white rice and a creamy sauce. That is …

Mccormick curry powder is not only a great spice but it is often found in countries such as Thailand and Cambodia. I have made two trips to Cambodia and on both trips I ate dishes that contained Curry powder. Curry powder is a mixture of spices mainly found in …

I don’t like to use soy milk too often, but when I am looking for a non-dairy milk to use to make mashed potatoes or another savory dish, I think that soy milk is the best kind to use because it doesn’t have the underlying natural sweetness to it …

I love juices, iced tea of colas! With juices I don’t like the most common orange juice or mango juice. I prefer to drink either calamansi or the Philippine lemon juice or more often than not, I will buy a dalandan juice. I was so thrilled that there was …

I don’t like to get biscuits as little present as people usually buy biscuit assortments just to appear someone big. I really hate biscuit assortments because they contain few biscuits and all of them separated one from other. There is more plastic and paper than biscuits. I prefer simple …

I am relatively pleased with the flavor offered by Mrs. Freshley’s Round Cheese Danish. I like creme cheese, and this danish has a pretty good flavor when it comes to the creme cheese filling. I do wish though that there was not such a sweet, icing drizzle placed on …

Vita Shake has been a lifesaver for me when it comes to fixing a healthy and quick breakfast in a hurry. It is so simple to make. You just put 12 ounces of water or soy milk in a blender. Then you open up the package of Vita Shake …

I like drinking a lot of coffee and I always keep a tub of Nestle Coffee Mate in the cupboard for those times when I am running low on milk to put it my coffee. I do like Coffee Mate but as I drink several cups of coffee …

Although the Starkist brand has been around now for quite some time, I honestly do not understand what the appeal is. I do not think the company makes particularly good canned tuna fish, and the Starkist Chunk Light Tuna in Vegetable Oil is as good of an example as …

I love natural juice sourced from all types of fruits–guava, mango, pomegranate, apple..the list goes on. I like drinking juice in morning, it is a good way to cleanse your body and a good source of vitamins and minerals. One of the products that is hitting the stores …

Recently my mom and I were out grocery shopping and saw a Bertolli Dinner for Two on sale for 4.98. It was shrimp scampi and linguine. I absolutely love shrimp and since my mom was going out to dinner that night I bought it …

Sometimes there really is an advantage to buying at a club store or some place where they sell big packages of items. I love Oreo cookies. The cheapest I can get these now is on sale for $2.50 for an 18 ounce package. However, those $2.50 …

Carl’s Jr. Milk Shake is described as being creamy, hand-scooped ice cream that is blended with real mMilk and chocolate syrup with whipped topping.
I was surprised the first time that I had one of these. It was definitely a ton better than I thought. Yet, there are aspects …

A while back, I tried an Edwards product for the first time and was just insanely happy with it, so recently, I purchased a couple of their other offerings to see if lightning could strike twice. One of these was Edwards Singles Chocolate Creme Pie. I’m not a …

Here in Trinidad there is a little place at one of the malls named Willie’s Ice Cream Parlour. They make homemade ice creams and serve them up just like you would get regular ice creams. You can choose from having it in cones, cups, even fancy banana splits and …

When it comes to making vegetarian dishes tasty there is nothing like Indian Cuisine. The variety of dishes found in Indian cooking is vast.
Each and every state in India has its own unique dishes and variations.
I love to cook a variety of cuisines from all over the …

I had the opportunity to try Ener-G-Foods Wylde Sesame Pretzels when making a trip to the neighborhood discount food store. Every time I go there I always catch a bin of new things, usually little snack packets that is a dollar or less. I thought “Hey for …

Grandi is a very cheap Croatian brand which you can buy only at Getro shop chains. Some of the stuff are OK but most of them aren’t. They usually have a very nice design with a small elephant on it. Grandi Coconut chocolate bar has a really nice little …

I am happy to review Betty Crocker sugar Cookie dry mix. I bought a package for $1.50 at my local wal-mart super center and set out to bake sugar cookies for my family. When I got home, I noticed I needed flour to prepare these as cut outs for the …

I do like sweet things and although I do have the odd Cake, it is more a Chocolate bar or something like that that I prefer. I do look at the Chiller bit in my local Shop and buy the odd Cake and treat like this.
I got a 2 …

I must say that I don’t buy instant soups often but sometimes during the winter it is really healthy too eat soup and I don’t have time to make a real one so it is much easier to buy an instant one mix it with water and voila your …

There are some things that are simply icons. I guess that Jack Daniels falls into that category. It has a —˜Good Ol’ Boy’ stamp that gives it a certain street credibility. It isn’t something that makes people think you’re trying to gain some superiority over them by drinking it. …

If you have never tried Wawa’s Lemon Iced Tea you’re really missing out!
I’ve been a huge Iced Tea fan my whole life, but the big named Iced Tea makers have alwways been a disapointment to me.
I won’t name any names here, but I will say that if you try …

I’m sure by now that lots of people have tried the new Sobe Lifewater. It’s a flavored vitamin enhanced water beverage. I avoided it for a long time because everyone kept telling me that it was gross. I didn’t stop and ask them at the time if any of …

Walkers Crisps Do us a Flavour Promotion Crispy Duck and Hoisin.
In all the time that I have eaten crisps I have come across some wacky limited edition Flavours. Well now we have even more unusual and yet tasty flavours by one of the most popular crisp brands …

Many years ago, I tried Bagel Bites and absolutely hated them. They were cheap and they tasted cheap. In the last couple of years, I’ve been curious about them. They’re advertised so often, and I began to wonder if maybe they improved, which wouldn’t be unheard …

There’s nothing that remarkable about this salsa that I noticed. This salsa is like a lot of other salsas on the market and it doesn’t really do much that sets it apart from the other tomato-based salsas. It even comes up a little short in some regards. There are …

I am greek and we have always Greek food in our home. There is this soup called Avgolemono. It means eggs and lemon. It is a chicken based soup that is really good.
To make this soup you will need to have around 2 quarts of chicken …

Blue Diamond Almonds are a very tasty snack. I like to eat Blue Diamond Almonds while I am studying or I am doing work at home. They just really hit the spot when It’s not time for lunch or dinner, but you need a good snack to keep you …

After having the double strawberry premium ice cream, this Blue Bunny Original Ice Cream Strawberry really did not offer a whole lot of scrumptious strawberry flavor, unfortunately. I guess I really should not be all that shocked as this is not a premium ice cream and this is also …

I first saw Lindt Lindor White Chocolate Truffles when I had went on vacation to the USA, in one of the grocery stores my grandparents like to shop at. I had first seen the milk chocolate variety of these truffles befor I encountered the white chocolate version.
Lindt Lindor White …

My husband is a big fan of tacos, so we often make them at home. I usually used hamburger meat for them; then one day we had come across Great Value Thinly Sliced Beef Philly Steak at Walmart. The picture on the box showed sliced beef inside a hotdog …

Occasionally I love to have a good old school dinner type pudding like sponge cake and custard so I tried this product from Tesco’s own range. A box of two Spotted Dick Sponge Puddings cost only about £1 and each sponge includes custard too. On the box, …

Sweet Talk Bubble Tea is very delicious! This is a bubble tea shop that sells beverages of any kind; you name it, they have it. Actually there are lots of bubble tea shops around and I really have no idea why these types of beverage shops are called …

The Taco Bell chicken soft taco (Canadian version) makes for a nice lunch. It contains seasoned chicken, lettuce, tomato, shredded cheddar cheese, and avacado ranch dressing in a white flour tortilla. The flavors are well balanced but maybe a little salty. The avacado ranch dressing is really the star …

The Ravioli bowl is a bit to bland for me mostly because I do not really like the tomato sauce that they use on the ravioli. This is one of those meals I usually have to add a little bit of my own seasoning to. That does annoy me …

I stumbled upon a fruit salsa recipe a couple of months ago and made it at my daughter’s first birthday party. I was impressed with the amount of compliments I received, it really went over as a hit. I made a couple of …

In a little corner in my town sits my favorite bakery, the Femas Bakeshop. It has a bustling commercial activity with people from all walks of life coming and going here. It is situated in a corner in front of the town market. But its popularity is actually not …

Because of frequent shopper points, we have an opportunity to get a Food Club frozen turkey at half price. It�s a great deal but I would much rather pay full price for a better brand.
We tried the Food Club Turkeys last year around Thanksgiving and I have to say …

I never know how to cook until I went abroad to work. I had no choice, it’s either eating out, which is more expensive, or cooking at home. Eating out is not only more expensive, but I have to eat the same food over and over again. So I …

Since being introduced, I’ve had the Dairy Queen Iron Grilled Classic Club Sandwich a few times. It looks and sounds good, so I’ve continued to try it because I love a really good club sandwich. The problem is that this isn’t really consistently good. It’s more …

I love pizza so much, I never grow tired of going to my favorite restaurants to try new recipes. One of my favorite pizza recipe is from a fast food chain called Greenwich in the Philippines. Its called Greenwich Special Pizza Overload. No matter how many times …

While looking at the ice cream aisle this week, I saw Snickers Minis Ice Cream Bars, a product I didn’t even know they made. Well, I knew they made or used to make full size bars, but I haven’t bought those in a very long time and haven’t …

I am a true macaroni and cheese lover. I am one of those people who actually orders it at restaurants. It seems silly but each version is a little different. What type of cheese will it have, will it have bacon or ham in it, these …

I’m a junk food addict. Our pantry would never be empty of chips, chocolates or candies. One of the products which I absolutely love is Fisher Cheese Balls. I came across it one day while I was scouring the grocery shelves for a similar …

I used to drink Aquafina Wild Berry FlavorSplash because I enjoyed the prominent and flavorful berry flavor that accompanied each and every sip that I took, but, after doing some reading on the dangers of the ingredients in soft drinks were and thus leading me to give up soft …

Gravy is an all around good sauce to go with almost anything. I like gravy, but am not the best at making it. I found a trusted instant gravy brand that I could trust. The Pioneer instant gravy mix is done within minutes and is thick, hot and fresh. …

I find these Little Debbie Easter Basket Cakes - Vanilla variety to be a rather simple yet most definitely delicious treat to have ncome the Easter season. It is a shame that these are only available around the time of Easter as they are quite enjoyable! I really like …