I would say that these Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes Snack Cakes - Chocolate are about average in terms of taste, and above-average in creativity. The tree cakes are covered with chocolate fudge and feature white creme frosting serving as the garland and red and green sprinkles while on …

Aunt Jemima Buttermilk Pancakes are alright as far as frozen pancakes go. When I am heating a couple up in the microwave, they do give off a pleasant smell, and when I sit down to eat them, they do taste okay. The quality certainly is not very high as …

I absolutely love to save money. Really though, who doesn’t? One of the best ways to save money is at the grocery store. Food prices are so high though that this task can be difficult. I have seen a huge dip in my grocery budget by buying generic products. …

One of my favorite varieties of chocolates are dark chocolates. One of the brands which I have recently had the opportunity to purchase is Wawel Dark Chocolates. The ones that I bought contain little orange bits. I decided to try this particular flavor because it sounded very good. …

While browsing through the chocolate section of one of my favourite supermarkets I happened across a few new chocolates. Among them was a Lindt Milk Chocolate bar which contained Liquid Raspberry Filling.
I love raspberry and I have a major sweet tooth so I had to try one of these …

Chunks O’ Fruti mango fruit bars are frozen fruit bars that I discovered in my mom’s deep freezer. She always has the best selection when it comes to frozen fruit desserts and ice cream. I began purchasing them for myself after trying their strawberry fruit bars which are also …

Growing up, I remember living off butter pecan ice cream. Well, not really but during the hot summers in the South, my grandma and I would sit on the porch eating mountains of butter pecan ice cream. My grandma is no longer living, but I do make it back …

It has been my morning ritual to drink hot chocolate together with newly baked wheat bread. When I am traveling to western countries during winter season, a cup of warm chocolate is the best thermal blanket for me. This is one of the most important beverage I would have every …

I have already reviewed here Idahoan roasted garlic instant mashed potatoes, of which I am a big fan. Recently, I noticed a Great Value version of this same product; it was a bit cheaper, and I decided to try it.
A 7.6 oz box contains 2 pouches, each one makes …

I love to make ice cream, but sometimes I don’t like to use the heavy cream that is often called for in most recipes. In order to save on calories, I like to look for non-dairy alternatives. One of the things I’ve discovered that is perfect for this purpose …

I had already tried the Dolmio Sweet Tomato & Chilli stir-in sauce and that was lovely so I thought I would try this other variety which is made of oven roasted vegetables. I have discovered that roasting vegetables is the best way to bring out their flavour and …

Summit Diet Cherry GT Cola retails for one dollar and ninety-nine cents at ALDI Food Market stores. In one twelve pack comes twelve-ounce cans. It’s not all that easy to describe the flavor of this diet cola. Sure, it has a noticeable cherry flavor to it, but beyond the …

Clancy’s Focaccia Sticks Roasted Garlic and Herb can be purchased from ALDI Food Market stores for one dollar and ninety-nine cents. The focaccia sticks come in a five ounce bag. ALDI Food Market stores also carry this product in another flavor: Clancy’s Focaccia Sticks Four Cheese, but I’m not …

Today for lunch, I had creamed peas as a side dish. The person who made it, showed me what to do. She said to take about a cup of milk, and heat it on the stove top, with a stick of butter. When the butter is …

White oats, a good product for easy cooking and preparing a healthy and enriched meal; you can use it to bake cakes, make deserts and prepare soups and meals. Or if you’re run out of time in the morning just pour 2 spoon full of it to a cup …

One of my very favorite chocolate chip cookies are from the Mother’s label. They’re called Mother’s Chocolate Chip Angel Cookies, and boy do I love them!
These are square cookies, probably something like two inches by two inches. They’re made of shortbread with chocolate and they have a …

Have a sweet tooth? Company on the way over for coffee and dessert? Having a small party and need something to serve? Whatever the reason for the occasion, Pepperidge Farm has what you need.
The Pepperidge Farm Chocolate Fudge Three Layer Cake can be found in your grocer’s freezer. It …

Lipton tea bags are the best inexpensive tea bags I have found at my local grocery store. They are usually on sale for one dollar and ninety nine cents for the 24 pack of family size tea bags but if not, they don’t cost more than two dollars …

Hormel Compleats have many different varieties out there now. I’ve tried several because I love how quick and easy they are to prepare. The latest one I tried was Hormel Compleats Chicken Alfredo which is chicken with penne pasta in Alfredo sauce. It’s one serving of …

I’ve reviewed several meals from this company before and have recently tried a new one that I’d like to share. I wasn’t totally sure about Marie Callender’s Beef Tips in Mushroom Sauce for a couple of big reasons. The first is that I don’t like mushroom anything. …

Being conscious of what I put in my body often means reading the labels beyond the labels. With canned foods, this usually means doing the research to discover whether or not a particular can contains BPA in its lining. Unfortunately, the answer is, most of that time, that yes …

I wanted to use my garden vegetables for a pizza last weekend and, as a result of that, ended up running to the local grocery store in search of some pizza crust.
Since my daughters don’t really like pizza with toppings, the plan was to buy two crusts, one for …

It seems everything in this day and age becomes new and improved or changed into a hundred different varieties. Okay, that’s a slight exaggeration, but I’m sure you know what I mean. The latest example came in the bread department with Sara Lee Soft & Smooth …

Today I am going to be reviewing Good Earth Decaf White Tea. I have been a White Tea drinking for a while now. What is very awesome and unique about Good Earth Decaf White Tea is that it has a vanilla blend. Also being decaf is is a little more …

I decided to finally try the banana ketchup. How is it different from the normal Del Monte or Heinz tomato ketchup? I love to put ketchup on everything, and when fried fish or chicken is cooked, I put ketchup on it. I really think that food is not complete …

Feeling a little thirsty while waiting for my husband, I stepped into a 24-hour convenience store to get a drink. It’s funny that there are no tetra pack drinks available there. I checked the refrigerators twice over just to make sure.
I knew that getting a normal-sized canned drink of …

My children just love the chocolate. I introduce them with Kit Kat because it has a wafer biscuit inside. I thought its better to give them some thing better than a chocolate. By eating Kit Kat they are also eating some portion of Biscuit also. I also like …

Who in this world does not need to try to save money at the grocery store today? Some of the prices are so high that people are unable to buy the products they used to enjoy. Our family is always struggling with spending too much money at the grocery …

Many years ago, on a hot summer day, I had discovered the refreshing power of iced coffee. I make it regularly ever since. My favorite recipe includes vanilla ice cream. Both instant and brewed coffee works well for it. For instant, you can even use cold water, to speed …

If you like barbecue potato chips, then these are the chips for you! These chips have to be my absolute favorite type of barbecue flavored chips! I think it’s my favorite out of all the pringles flavor. Although the pizza flavored ones comes pretty close.
When I …

Ever wondered why Filipinos love eating fastfood and for a majority of them would probably vote Jollibee as their choice? Unlike other burgers that taste bland, although there are a few foreign brands that are great also, but being “untried” or “advertised” well enough have not gained a …

My family never used to buy the Lasco Brand of Corned Beef, but would instead buy Grace corned beef for many years. However, some time ago they had begun to buy the Lasco Brand of corned beef. Now personally, I did not mind trying other brands even though I …

I am an absolute coffee lover and for me there is nothing like the first cup of sweet, black coffee in the morning. It has to be Nestlé’s Nescafe Instant Coffee. I can’t drink anything else in the morning, not even brewed coffee. I like brewed coffee for the …

Cranberry and raspberry go together pretty nicely, as this energy drink demonstrates. There’s a tasty blend of two flavors at work in this energy drink, with the raspberry flavoring being the more dominant of the two, but the cranberry flavoring in the drink is still noticeable and able to …

I recently tried Alexia frozen sweet potato fries and I was very pleasantly surprised by them. I was looking for a good alternative to regular french fries that would provide some extra nutritional punch while still tasting good, and Alexia sweet potato fries fit the bill.
Just like regular …

Yoplait Trix yogurt aren’t just for kids. Now I’m not a big fan of yogurts and I’ve tried a lot of them. Some are chalky some are very sweet. Others are runny, grainy, too tangy, too bland, too thick. The thick ones you gotta eat slow or you’re liable …

Gelato is an Italian version of ice cream that is widely know to be more rich and more creamy than regular ice cream. Well the first gelato I ever tasted came from Paulo’s Gelato. The flavour I opted to try was their Raspberry Cheesecake Gelato.
When I first ordered my …

I was on the way to work when I crave to eat an early lunch. I decided to have some pizza and pasta. I called my friend to join me to try Pizza Hut’s Super Panalo 99 Peso (Philippine Peso) Value Meals. There’s only few other customers when we …

Macaroni Grill now has a line of “Restaurant Favorites” boxed dinners. I decided to try the Creamy Basil Chicken Parmesan Pasta version. I can always find these at Walmart for $3.50, but I saw them at the local grocer’s for $7, so I’m not sure why there’s such a …

I was at a friend’s BBQ several months back when I had the opportunity to try a new kind of soda called “Stars and Stripes”. I really enjoyed the pineapple soda that I had and I was very curious as to where she had gotten these sodas. …

Recently I went to Mini Stop a famous convenience store here in the Philippines because I wanted to buy some beverages and cellphone load. After doing so, I saw the sign that they are selling Hershey’s Dark Chocolate Sundae for only 15 pesos which in dollars is just $0.31 …

I am a lover of instant food. I do not cook much, so instant foods are my loyal companion, especially at night.
One of the instant food I love is Kraft Mac and Cheese, spiral macaroni. I love them! I just have to add milk and butter. …

I bought a bag of Magic Noodles from a craft store in hopes of entertaining my 4-year-old niece for a while. To my surprise, that bag of noodles not only entertained her, but also entertained her 11-year-old brother, plus three neighborhood friends ages 8,6 and 5! My 11-year-old nephew …

I know that the healthiest chocolate is the one that has highest percentage of cocoa in it but I got Lindt Excellence 85% cocoa for Christmas and I really couldn’t eat it. The fact is that it tastes like dirt. I understand that this chocolate is not one of …

The Cheesy smothered Charbroiled Patty Meal by Banquet looks rather gross on the box. Usualy the picture on the box is better than the actually meal but this is opposite. I kept over looking it when I would go to by my frozen dinners just because the picture on …

I like cold drinks. Almost any kinds of cold drinks. If I don’t have the time or energy to make some cold drinks, I opt by buying some of them. One of the drink I love to buy is Vitazone, it is a vitamin isotonic drink. …

One of my favorite luncheon meats is Hillshire Farms Oven Roasted Turkey - Ultra Thin. I like it for various reasons.
Hillshire Farms is a trusted brand, so I know the turkey is going to be top quality. Of great importance, it tastes great. I love making …

While Entenmann’s Chocolate Chip Crumb Loaf Cake might sound like a tasty combination treat, I most certainly did not care for it when I tried it! The chocolate chips hardly have any real flavor them. I see them, and they are there, but when they come into contact with …

Stouffer’s Easy Express Cheese Manicotti makes for a fairly tasty meal! Admittedly, this meal is more about flavor than it is about being filling, but in the case of this food, I am okay with that because the flavor comes from cheese! Lots and lots of cheese! Cheese is …