Those who have read my grocery reviews know that I do love candy, but as I’ve said, the economy makes that love a no-no today, unless I happen to find a good deal on it somewhere. That’s why I sometimes purchase the Nestle Variety Pack. This product is …

Little gingerbread man cookies are almost as closely associated with Christmas as the candy cane is, or perhaps equally so, so it’s no wonder that this type of Christmas cookie commonly appears in holiday movies and in kitchens across the world come the Christmas season. Not everyone though enjoys …

McDonald’s McFlurries are like heaven in a cup. The fluffly taste and crunchy tidbits are a must-have on a hot, scorching summer day, instantly cooling you down.
They come in many different flavors, in fact, sometimes they even have limited edition flavors. I remember my first McFlurry. …

I was refraining myself to eat food when I am on night shift aside from taking my dinner because my doctor told me that I need to lose weight. However, it is really hard to not eat food when you are awake and working in the night shift or …

One of my favorite canned product is Century Tuna brand. This product comes in different varieties. One can choose from Century Tuna Afritada Style, Adobo Style, Century Tuna Flakes in Vegetable Oil, Flaked Light Tuna in Soya Oil, Corned Tuna and more. I have tried almost all the varieties …

I never usually like fruity candy, but Wonka Runts has become a bit of an exception since the little bags they come in hold a particular set of fruity hard candies that I used to love as a little girl. I can’t even remember the name I used to …

Dolciaria Balconi is a famous brand of confectionary in Italy and at my local bargain Lidl supermarket I picked up a packet of Balconi Mix Max for a mere 99 pence. I thought this was a bargain because you get ten of these snack bars in a packet …

I like to stuff my freezer with those small frozen pizzas. It is definitely not the among the best tasting frozen products. As a matter, it does have that processed cheese plastic-y taste. But at the same time, there are products out there that are a lot worse.
There are …

I used to like these instant Options drinks but I went mad buying sachets of this the last time I went to the supermarket and I am not so enamoured by them. They are only 37 calories per drink so maybe for a very low calorie hot chocolate …

Lee Kum Kee oyster sauce for me is the leader of all brands of oyster sauce out in the market today. The name’s been famous for years and you can be sure that all your cooking needs are met with this wonderful product. Lee Kum Kee oyster sauce not …

Yesterday, my daughter asked me to cook lasagna. So when I went to do the grocery, I was looking for lasagna to cook for our dinner. I was checking on the store to find the right lasagna for our dinner. I saw some lasagna brands but they have expensive …

Best Lanka Spices: Bakery and Tea Center gives an opportunity to fulfill your spicy needs. This gem is located on Saticoy and Louise in Northridge, California. They carry all Kerala and Sri Lankan Spices. They have in stock a variety of teas and other favorites such as ginger beer, …

After watching all of the tempting Pizza Hut commercials for Cheesy Bites Pizza, my daughter and I finally decided to give it a try. When we visit Pizza Hut, my daughter and I usually like to order breadsticks and pan pizza. The Cheesy Bites Pizza was quite …

I don’t always put ice cream toppings on my ice cream, as sometimes, I find toppings to be a bit too strong in flavor and make it hard for me to make out and enjoy the flavor of the ice cream. Usually, ice cream toppings are really rich in …

I’m old enough to remember when Pringles first came out on the market; or at least became popular enough where people actually heard of them.
And, throughout the years, the chips have made some interesting claims ranging from being whole chips because they are in a can and not in …

Sunday we had my son’s birthday party with a lot of family and friends. My son is not very fond of cake, but he loves ice cream so every year he gets his cakes from Dairy Queen. He prefers the Reese Peanut Butter Cup cake.
So Saturday morning I …

On a spring trip to Sichuan, China, me and my family had the opportunity to try one of the famous local dishes: Dan Dan Mian or spicy noodles. We sat down at the table in the restaurant, and a big bowl of red noodles was put on the …

I am not so keen on that kind of icing that is hard and you usually find on wedding cakes, but the soft kind of icing that you find on iced buns, or iced fingers as they are sometimes called, is delicious. Iced Buns are one of my …

Maggi tomato ketchup goes with almost all the dishes and this is my favorite ketchup. The taste of this ketchup is very natural and very close to real. The sour taste is very minimum and sweetness is optimum. This ketchup comes in a glass bottle so it can not …

I have tried Sunbulah springroll pastry to make spring rolls. Generally inorder to make spring rolls we need to prepare both curry and the flour paste to make rolls. It is definitely a tedious process. But these spring roll pastry reduced half of the actual task. Because Sunbulah …

This bread comes in a transparent wrapping, the slices are really thin and although the subtitle on the wrapping says bread with prolonged freshness I’d rather call it extra dry bread. There are 20 really dry slices in the wrapping and if you don’t have bread at home and …

Kids love hot dogs, well mine do anyway. I found a wonderful way for the kids to have hot dogs, without me having to stop what I am doing to boil or bake the weiners. While I was shopping at my local grocery store in the sandwich meat aisle, …

I was drawn to these chips because of their healthier nutrition content compared to regular potato chips. I love that I can still eat a chip without feeling guilty about it and knowing I am not putting so much fat into my body as regular chips. I have been …

This is a great tasting wine. I gave it to quite a few friends at a party and every single one of them said they enjoyed the taste. It’s a tasty wine, and the alcoholic and acidic content is down to a minimum - indeed, it’s probably the closest …

Firefly Sweet Tea Flavored Vodka is a great alcohol that I would advise anyone to try if they are looking for experimenting with a new alcohol. It is also made in South Carolina, and this way money stays in the US. Many kinds of alcohol send money …

I have been a wine drinker for about a decade now. Over the years I have become accustomed to seeing great wines that happen to have kooky names. This seems to be especially true of wines produced where I live on the west coast. I take it as a …

Have you ever been wandering around your local shopping mall and in the mood for something to eat for a snack? Well, pretzels are always a good option, and chances are you can find a Pretzel Time snack stand at a shopping mall in your area. The pretzels there …

I don’t like donuts, or doughnuts very much. The truth is i find them too fancy, they are sweetened breads with icing on top and nothing more. I have never craved for anything that is donut or looks like a donut until a krispy kreme shop has opened here …

Each Eggo Bake Shop Chocolate Chip Mini Muffin Tops box contains a total of four sets of connected mini muffin tops. Four mini muffin tops are connected to one another, so a total of sixteen mini muffin tops come in a box. One box sells for two dollars and …

If you are like me and like to eat healthy food, but sometimes preparing the food takes time. Not to mention if you live alone and make more than you need.., and you like food that is healthy and quick to make, And if you like rice, than you …

Post Honey Bunches of Oats is a cereal that doesn’t excite me all that much when I sit down to have it in the morning with milk or at another time, as a snack. It’s an okay cereal that manages to rise other cereals down the cereal aisle because …

On a recent visit, my brother gave me a gift of no sugar added fig preserves made my Woody’s Smokehouse, a company in Centerville, TX which sells to various small retailers. My grandmother made fig preserves when I was a child, and I remember them as gooey and sweet …

Selecta has done it again. With this new flavor, they have created another “supreme”.
Chocolate ice cream and almonds is already a good combination. The texture produced by the nuts makes eating more enjoyable. They are also of the right bite-size so you won’t miss it. With the fudge added, …

Unfortunately, there’s no difference in taste when it comes to the spaghetti sauce used for Michelina’s Spaghetti Marinara and Michelina’s Spaghetti with Meat Sauce. In the cases of both frozen pasta meals, the spaghetti sauce is lacking in flavor. It just doesn’t stand out in any meaningful or significant …

Yesterday I allowed my son to have a last minute play date with one of his friends from school. Since the play date fell on a school night, I decided to let them bake holiday cookies instead of playing with video games. I decided on the activity of baking cookies …

Smuckers Uncrustables are a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich with no crust. I get these in the frozen department of the grocery store. These made great snacks for the kids when on a long trip in the car, or for anytime. My older daughter likes to take her lunch …

My parents love drinking tea like a lot of other Jamaicans, and since things have gotten pretty hard financially, usually what they buy these days are brands like “Red Rose Tea” since those tend to be less expensive. However, when they can afford it, I normally see them try …

Breyers Coffee ice cream is pretty bland. Now, I am not much of a coffee drinker, and when I do drink coffee, I usually have flavored coffee or a specialty coffee, so perhaps I should not have expected much from this ice cream and perhaps I should not have …

I bought this 11 1/2 oz. bag of French Onion Sunchips a couple days ago and it is already half gone. Right away the bag caught my eye with the shiny sleek look and bright colors along with the “30% Less Fat Than Regular Potato Chips” remark on the …

I love chocolates. I really do. And my friend knows this very well. So whenever I am in their house, she would often open up their fridge and start giving me chocolates. She’s very picky when it comes to chocolates and she gives me those that are too sweet …

I don’t use any other coffee creamer but only Nestle Coffee-mate. It’s a really a perfect partner for my coffee every morning. It makes my coffee taste good and creamy. I have tried using milk several times on my coffee, but I am not really satisfied …

The Great Value Buttery Rounds Baked Crackers look exactly like Nabisco Ritz Crackers on the box and much like how Ritz Crackers are often depicted with tasty toppings, like slices of cheese or dip across the top of them, as are these. While it may be fun coming up …

EAS Protein Powder, is a protein powder that can be bought at Costco. I started buying it because the price for the amount of servings it contains, was a pretty good deal. I have not tried the chocolate, only the vanilla. I originally bought it just …

Farmstand baby cut carrots are amazingly fresh even after days of the purchase. They are very clean too. I wash them before using but all time I feel that they do not need any washing at all. I do not remember having got such a feel from any other …

A really delicious creamy strawberry yogurt I like to eat with some crunchy sweet granola is Yoplait Fat Free Creamy Strawberry Yogurt. It has a delicious strawberry flavor to it and a creamy smooth texture. It makes strawberry smoothies taste so good and makes awesome banana split sundaes.
The …

I have been enjoying this High Fibre Bran breakfast cereal from the Morrison supermarket own brand label, more than I thought I would. This was really inexpensive at only about 79 pence for a 500g box which is a lot cheaper than the Kellogg’s All Bran that it …

7 up is a cool drink which is which has no colors and it is transparent. This drink is also cool and tasty but it only suits the elders and not the kids because this drink has some strong gases and also contains some chemicals. But the …

I purchased this syrup at the store on a whim. It is a small bottle and they were able to fit it into a little display next to the ice cream freezer. I had not seen any advertisement for it nor had I heard much about it before …

We all need to make a quick meal at times. Sometimes we just really don’t really feel like cooking. In steps Hamburger Helper. I make Hamburger Helper at least 3 times a month. The kids love it. There are many flavors to choose from these days. Betty Crocker is …