With the hot weather, Filipinos love to eat and enjoy iced drinks or treats. Well, worry no more because Jollibee offers a new set of “Ice Craze” treats. They are a combination of crushed ice, milk, sundae ice cream, and tropical fruits, and rice crispies. Their flavors include Ube …

Leslie’s Products have been popular in the country now for quite sometime. I remember still enjoying a pack of clover chips at school, or even at home watching tv. Their flavor is unique and they even made smaller packs of chips sold only at one(1)peso per pack! Yes, this …

This is one of my all-time favorite submarine sandwiches. It is not very big but it is very filling. The sandwich is about seven or eight inches long and cut in half. It also tastes very good. The Chocolate Factory is on the second floor of the Grand Avenue …

I prefer bread than cookies. I don’t like cookies, it make me feel like a child and the taste usually boring. But, I have exception with this one, Oreo chocolate sandwich cookies, it’s the product from Kraft. This cookies is really make me eat more and more.
The taste is …

These Belgian Chocolate Eclair’s from the Co-operative’s own brand are absolutely delicious and you can buy a box of six for only about £1. These eclairs are on the small side at only about six inches long and a couple of inches wide but they make a pleasant …

The Starbucks Vivanno is a great treat to have any time of the day; however, I recommend having it for breakfast or lunch because it is very filling. The Starbucks Vivanno that I am reviewing is the Chocolate Banana Vivanno. When you order the drink, Starbucks will put a …

If you ever run across this brand of pancake mix in your local discount grocery, don’t be afraid to buy it. It’s great!! The pancakes come out light and fluffy and there are just so many ways you can change them up to keep from having the …

I confess — I’m not big on organics. I’m traditional with my food, and organic products tend to cost more than regular foods, but I recently took a chance and purchased Newman’s Own Organics - Champion Chip Cookies. I was prepared to hate them. I hesitantly broke …

Weight Watchers Smart Ones, Santa Fe Style Rice & Beans, are a microwavable meal with a serving size of “One Package, (Two-Hundred, eighty-three grams).” The meal contains three-hundred, ten calories, seven grams fat, fifteen milligrams Cholesterol, six-hundred, sixty milligrams sodium and fifty-one grams of total Carbohydrates. All Smart Ones …

Recently I helped a friend with a holiday party. We wanted something different to serve that you don�t always find at parties. We decided to go with a cranberry mold. The primary ingredient in our mold was Ocean Spray cranberry juice. We liked that the …

Everybody likes cakes and all other deserts, but making them might be really time consuming and hard and we simply cant afford to do it (or in my case being just lazy in this occasion).
I had guests announced to come to over in the afternoon and I wanted to …

I am a fan of energy drinks, and I am all the time trying new ones. So far Red Bull has remained the best, that is of course until I ran across Monster energy drinks. Monster has it all: they pack more of an energy punch and …

The new Jack in the Box Sirloin Burger is just great. I had one the other day for lunch and it has got to be one of the best steak burgers I have ever had. It was very good and juicy. The burger was fresh and still warm when …

I find these Little Debbie Cookie Wreaths to be a relatively decent treat to enjoy around the Christmas season. You can only purchase these cookies in December, late November and early January. I purchase extra and store them in the refrigerator so that I can continue to enjoy these …

I have tasted much kind of tomato sauces but the Maggie tomato sauce is totally different. Its taste is unique and comparatively the price is not too much high and it can be very much affordable. It comes in many flavours but the regular or the normal …

I am a tea lover. Well, you can even call me a tea addict. I love my cup of tea. There is in fact not a time when I would have refused a offer for tea and my day does not feel right if I didn’t start …

Banana Splits are really good. They are a really good dessert even for people who don’t really like bananas. Who would have ever thought that bananas would be good in ice cream? Well they are delicious, they don’t even really taste like bananas when they are in the ice …

When our local daily newspaper came out with a list of 25 of the best desserts in the Philippines, we kept it aside for the holidays. Traditionally, dessert is our family’s highlight and we wanted to serve the best we could buy to make our celebration a little bit …

We made mashed potatoes last night and, because we didn’t want to eat them plain, we decided to pick up some gravy to go with them.
The store I went to was a convenience store and they only had one brand to choose from; Heinz Home-style Gravy. So, I ended …

Mama Cozzi’s Pizza Kitchen Chicken Rising Crust Spinach & Garlic Pizza is a twelve-inch frozen pizza that sells for three dollars and ninety-nine cents at ALDI Food Market stores. I haven’t come across this brand of pizza anywhere else, but other stores that specialize in off-brands nay carry the …

I should probably not watch television as much as I do because one is never sure what they will learn. I stumbled across a program about how chewing gum is made and was educated in the fact that the gum base is a mixture of rubber and plastic, …

I am one of those shoppers who is not afraid to try a generic product if the price is right! One product I recently tried was our store’s generic version of Raisin Bran Cereal, best Choice Bran Cereal with Raisins. I am the only one in my …

No matter how hard I try to make my own version of Rice a Roni, it never works! My rice always turns out undercook and never has the flavor that I aime for.
Rice A Roni is an easy alternitive to homemade rich. It has many great flavors …

Samurai is another type of restaurant or food stall that has been around the country for years now. I remember buying the famous Takoyaki balls they offer and I loving it when I was a kid. I really did enjoy the fried Squid flavored balls topped with sweet and …

This is the best young coconut ice cream I have ever tried. I bought it from the Filipino store for Canadian $11.99. I guess this would make it a pricey ice cream, because Nestle and other brands are much cheaper.
However, I do have a weakness for the company …

I am not one that eats much of the selections made by Chef Boyardee that comes in a can such as their Spaghetti O’s, Ravioli’s, and their other choices, however I was hungry one afternoon last week and came across this can of lasagna I bought for my children. …

Pei Tien Staple Grain 168 is a product made in Taiwan. It is a cream-filled crispy cracker stick which is so addictive that once you start eating you find it hard to stop. The cream in it has a very strong taste of egg yolk which make …

I love spaghetti and meatballs! Who doesn’t? This is one dish I can never turn down because it is just so tasty. And I think Lean Cuisine’s recipe is a classic and so very delicious. It’s also relatively inexpensive compared to some of their other products.
The spaghetti and …

Stouffer’s Grilled Chicken Italian Panini is something that is quite unique as I never do see anything real similar to it in the frozen food sections of the grocery stores that I frequent. It is actually quite a delicious sandwich too, and I hope that Stouffer’s does not discontinue …

I also work for the food industry business and I consider each food establishment around the globe must be like brothers and sisters working hand in hand in providing ultimate food quality and costumer satisfaction. My job requires me to work with the technical aspect of food items served …

San Marino is the first brand to offer corned tuna in the market and the first one to show a tv commercial with a very famous couple celebrity in the Philippines. So at first I wondered what the hype is all about this new food product since I …

I have tried various types and flavors of chewing gum. One of such gum is Trident Bubble Gum Flavored Gum. While at first site the package would imply that the gum is for blowing bubbles, however, it is really just the flavor of classic bubble gum. In …

I love making Cheese Souffle and this is not really hard to make at all. I recommend this recipe for all of you out there wanting to make something real fast and at a very short time span.
You will definitely need lots of butter, some bits of salt and …

In an effort to save as much money as I possibly can I have began rolling my own cigarettes. I prefer to smoke Camel brand of cigarettes. However, the holidays have hit me hard and I am self employed. I have tried several brand of roll your own tobacco. …

Haldiram is a very famous company which produces many kinds of sweets and much kind of snacks. I have tried most of them and all of them have been good. The haldiram potato chips are one of such items produced by this company. These potato chips …

Lately, when nighttime comes around I cannot sleep because my panic attacks seem to take over and my insomnia kicks in. The other day I knew I had to do something about it when my asthma attacks started coming on with the panic attacks and insomnia at nighttime as …

Every year I like to buy Hershey’s Holiday Assortment candies. This year, the big package was 55 ounces. Sometimes it’s a little more than that and sometimes less. Also what the assortment contains can vary.
One of the reasons I like the assortment is that it’s always …

Blue bell is the brand of ice cream that pretty much everyone knows and loves. Sure some people are pretty opinionated and have other brands that they favor, but I know for a fact that Blue bell is a favorite in my household. It’s the sweet surrender that …

Every morning, I love to have cereal. I sometimes have cereal drinks and sometimes Kellogg’s Frosted Rice Krispies Cereal. I have tried different product brands but Kellogg’s meet my standards. Let me tell you some of my reviews.
The Taste and Ingredients
Kellogg’s Frosted Rice Krispies Cereal is very tasty. Being …

There was once a time when I absolutely hated Triscuit crackers. I always saw them on the commercials and they looked so good. But when I was younger, I tried them and was so disappointed by how much “texture” they had. Ironically, it is …

Choc-Nut Milk Chocolate is probably the all time favorite chocolate of Filipinos. Eating a bar of Choc-Nut would lead to one more and more and more. This is a unique blend of grinded peanuts and chocolates in one bite sized bar. For me it is just one bite …

Rollin Oats makes the old fashioned oatmeal which takes about five minutes to cook and the quick oats that take only a minute to cook. I prefer the quick oats. I usually purchase Rollin Oats at my local Save-A-Lot store for a 1.79 for a 42 oz container. Typically …

Here in Trinidad we have a local donut chain (Donut Boys) which actually started from a local pizzeria place (Pizza Boys.) But it became so popular the donut branch now has it’s own branches all over the place.
Donut Boys has a variety of donuts to choose from and it …

As a product of Jamaica, the company label Honey Bun which produces the ‘microwave me’ Cinnamon Roll did a very good job, but to me, it was a little too late as I discovered the microwave method long before they have placed it on their label. LOL. But as …

Quaker Oats Instant Oatmeal is a fast cooking oatmeal made by the Quaker Oats company. It comes in a variety of flavors and usually cooks in the microwave. The microwave preparation takes fromm 2 to 3 minutes depending on the power of your particular microwave. You can also make …

It was my mother’s birthday a few days ago and she invited a few of her friends for a dinner. One of them brought her a box of Ferrero Rondnoir. Everyone in my family like Ferrero Rocher but we’ve never tried this new Ferrero Rondnoir.
Ferrero Rondnoir comes in a …

I was craving something sweet one evening and went in search of something to satisfy my ever so growing sweet tooth. In one of my kitchen containers I had a packet of Marie Callenders Blue Berry Muffin mix, neatly tucked away for occasions like this. For sixty cents …

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 …

We had steak last night and, to go with it, made some garlic mashed potatoes from the brand Valley View; a brand I believe we ended up buying at our local Aldi store or some other discount grocer.
I have had other products from Valley View with some mixed results …