Food Reviews
Mentos Candies with Lemon Juice
I always liked Mantos candies because they are not too sweet. They are not fresh like candies with mint and they don’t make my breath fresh but they are very good. I like to have them in my purse because I can eat one or two of them when …
Heinz Tomato Soup
I’ve grown up in the UK, and it’s been instilled in me from a young age that Heinz soups are the best! Heinz prides itself on its high quality and natural ingredients, and this tends to be reflected in its prices.
The famous adverts that used to show …
Grape flavored Powerade (Sports Beverage)
I usually never drink these things. The taste is usually not sweet enough for me. And there is sometimes a very strange after taste that I can’t seem to get rid of. This is why Gatorade has never been a drink of choice, even when …
Sans Nom All Dressed Potato Chips
Sans Nom All Dressed Potato Chips are ruined due to the strong mustard and vinegar flavor overwhelming the other flavors presented in these chips. It does not help matters that I do not like mustard, either! When a company sets out to create a chip that offers more than …
Betty Crocker cookies
So I just bought a bag of Betty Crocker Cookies ( double chocolate chip)
They have very easy to follow instructions.
They taste very good, a little on the rich side.
However considering the price and what it says on the packet I wouldn’t buy them again. It says that it will …
Kroger Value Snack Crackers
The Kroger Value Snack Crackers come in a twelve ounce box for one dollar and forty-seven cents. These snack crackers resemble the original Ritz Crackers in size, color, but not in taste. I only purchased these snack crackers once, and I didn’t even finish the box because I found …
Gipsy Gold —“ soft aperitif
I don’t usually like bitter products but here in Italy everyone drinks soft aperitifs so I decided to try the out too, when they were on discount, of course. So I bought Gipsy Gold, 10 bottles of this soft aperitif for 1.19Euro only instead of 1,49Euro. I must say …
Sun-Rype Fruit to Go Squiggles
These new fruit snacks come in a variety of flavors. The are 100% fruit which is great news for parents everywhere. While each piece is only 60 calories, it also has 15 grams of sugar and you can definitely taste it.
These fruit snacks are almost sickeningly sweet to me …
Baci Perugina Milk Chocolates
I thought Baci Perugina chocolates comes from a different manufacturer but I was surprised when I read the label that it is from Nestle. This is one of the latest chocolate brands that I have tried. I love chocolates because of my inborn sweet tooth. I got my package from …
Cascadian Farms Organic Chocolate Chip Chewy Granola Bars
My most favorite organic granola bars to eat are the Cascadian Farms Organic Chocolate Chip Chewy Granola Bars. I like these granola bars because they are made from purely organic ingredients like brown rice syrup, vanilla, chocolate chips, rolled oats, cocoa butter, sunflower oil, soy, sea salt, cream, baking …
Loven Fresh Whole Grain White Bread
I came upon this bread about a month ago. I’d purchased Aldi branded breads in the past, including their 12-grain bread, but hadn’t seen the whole grain white before. I have to tell you, it’s really quite good.
You can’t beat Aldi’s prices on bread, first of all. …
Dolly Donut Gems
My parents brought over some snacks for the kids once again (one of these days we will manage to keep the junk food to a minimum in our house). Included in those snacks was a couple bags of Dolly Donut Gems.
This is not the first time we have had …
The White Hat Frozen Yogurt
Each time I see this shop - The White Hat, I feel really curious about why is it called the white hat. It is intriguing to see a white colored store in a crowded and busy mall. Every time I pass by I thought of figuring out what’s in …
7 eleven Quick Bites Stuffed Pandesal
Filipinos loved pandesal for breakfasts; they can eat a pandesal or two in the morning paired with a hot cup of coffee or chocolate and we will all be ready for the day. I got really thrilled seeing how this Filipino bread pandesal is innovated and stuffed to make …
Figaro: Hickory Liquid smoke and barbecue marinade
So, I was introduced to this product by my older sister, who came over to dinner. She bought over this little bottle called Figaro: Hickory Liquid smoke and barbecue. I had never previously heard of such of thing as ’smoke’ in a bottle. I thought who ever made this …
Nesquick Chocolate Milk
I really do love chocolate milk and I miss having it, but the only really good chocolate milk I’ve had is produced by Crystal and to get that, I have to make a special trip to a convenience store. I try, but I just can’t get there like …
Lipton Ice Tea Green Tea Apple
In the recent heat wave, hydrating was of primary importance and purchasing cold beverages turned to be one of the most important household purchases. I personally spent quite a lot on drinks, and imagine that millions of people must have done the same; this made choosing the right drink …
Pepperidge Farm Chesapeake Dark Chocolate Pecan Cookies
Since I have already indulged in some high quality cookies by the name of Pepperidge Farm, I then purchased one more pack just to be able to taste a different variety.
One of those packs was the Pepperidge Farm Chesapeake Dark Chocolate Pecan Cookies. Again the price was just …
UFC Cook n’ Dip Catsup Blend Honey Barbecue
I suck at cooking big time. I need all the help I can get whether it be a recipe book or a seasoning, and I often turn to the internet for some tips. So when my mother asked me to make a simple Sirloin Tips dish for dinner, I …
Jamocha Shake from Arby’s
I love shakes and find myself ordering them a few times a year. I do not purchase them all of the time because of the price and the calories. One shake that I like to have every now and then is from local Arby’s. It is a jamocha flavored …
Triscuit Original
I’m a big fan of the tricuit brand of crackers. They are wheat crackers taht are thicker tahn your normal cracker and woven
together.
These are perfect when you have a substantial amount of stuff that you would like to put on your cracker. They will hold, literally anything I …
Krispy Kreme Donuts
When I was working as a Management Trainee for an International company in Makati, we always pass by the Krispy Kreme Store in Ayala Avenue. My Malaysian trainer wanted to try it out and we did. After the first time, she liked it so much that we visit the …
Fruit Refreshers by Vintage
I went shopping with my daughter the other night and picked up a few things for myself as well. Decided to get some more soda for the house, but also something refreshing for me as I was very thirsty at that time. It’s not quite as bad …
Doritos lightly salted corn chips
Whenever I am preparing a Mexicali dishes at home that requires me to use corn chips I would normally get the Doritos corn chips ones because it is not only very crunchy when mixed with other Mexicali salsa but also I simply just love the simple taste that it …
Campbell’s Light Chicken Mushroom Barley Condensed Soup
Whenever winter comes around and I’m in the mood for soup, I always grab this variety. It is one of the very best varieties that Campbell’s makes.
This soup contains mushrooms and barley as their basic ingredient. But instead of being placed in a vegetable or beef broth, the …
Jolly Rancher hard candy
Too be honest Jolly Rancher candy sucks and is horrible and the candy sucks, plain and simple the candy is horrible. I don’t like how hard this garbage is because it feels as if it is meant to be impossible to bite and chew this candy which is annoying …
H.K. Anderson Peanut Butter Filled Pretzel Nuggets
This is an entirely different kind of pretzel! It’s a pretzel with peanut butter on the inside. I never gave much thought to how pretzels and peanut butter would taste together. I was familiar with pretzels and cheese, but pretzels and peanut butter? I had to give them a …
Twix bar
Twix has such a nice commercial with propagets love and sharing i think that’s great but in my case if I love someone and I had one twix I would give him both halves of it. I just don’t like it it is too dry and has too little …
Deja Tea
Lately, as the weather has gotten warm again, I have found myself craving Iced Tea.
I’m a bit too lazy to make it myself so I always settle for the canned varieties that are out there. But, that gets expensive so I look for the best tasting at the cheapest …
Nido Nestle powdered milk
I’ve always been a big fan of Nido Nestle instant full cream milk ever since I was a little kid. The reason why I love this milk of all the powdered milk out in the supermarket is because it taste like a real fresh cow’s milk and it …
Cap’n Crunch cereal
I bought this Cap’n Crunch cereal on sale. This 350gram box of cereal boasts that it contains ‘O trans fat’, which I thought was a redeeming quality. The other thing I like was that this cereal contains no white flour, they make it with corn flour and oat flour.
There’s …
Hamper Corned Beef
I received a can of Hamper Corned Beef two weeks ago from a package I got from Australia. Hamper is a subsidy of Heinz Foods. Corned beef has been a breakfast favorite here in my country. It is one of my favorite viands and I always savor this food. …
Cinnamon Toast Crunch breakfast cereal
I usually don’t like sweet cereals, but I love Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I bought it because it was on sale, and because my teenage granddaughter likes it. She visits pretty regularly, especially in the summer when school is out. Besides, it’s from General Mills, a company …
Nateway Pierogies
About a month ago, my wife and I picked up a box of Nateway pierogies when we were out shopping at Save-a-Lot. They were very affordable and it was a food item we both enjoyed so I figured it would be worth buying just so we had them when …
N-Snow Sports Energy Drink
I’m not quite sure if everybody has heard of N-Snow sports energy drink. Not all of my friends know about this or even heard about it. I just discovered this drink through my dad. Well, it’s not really the taste that makes this drink different. What really amazed me …
Fit & Active Yellow Cling Sliced Peaches
Fit & Active Yellow Cling Sliced Peaches comes in a twenty-nine ounce can for one dollar and twenty-nine cents at ALDI Food Market stores. They’re cheaper than the canned peaches sold in larger retail stores, even when compared to the store brand canned peaches. One major difference is these …
Eating Right Butternut Squash Ravioli Frozen Dinner
Eating Right is one of my favorite brands of frozen dinners for watching my weight. When I have a week of unhealthy eating habits, I will eat 3 of their meals a day over the weekend, and I usually feel much better and healthier. It is a …
Maggie Noodles
I used to eat a lot of Noodles as a kid. Even now, I do have them at odd occasions but no as much as then : ). Magie noodles are very popular brand here in India. In fact I don�t know if there is any other brand …
Gardenia Whole-grain Bread
I never really liked whole-wheat bread despite its nutritional benefits. I don’t like its quite bitter taste and its coarse fibers. It also smells quite off. Well indeed white bread which is made of refined flour tastes and smells better but the problem is it is not at …
Lucerne Large Grade AA Eggs
While I admit that I am buy more store brand products these days due to my financial situation, I am still leery of some items from certain departments, including dairy. While I’m essentially forced to buy from Safeway sometimes, I usually stay away from their store brand, which …
Deli Pride Fish & Cheese Sandwich
I went home for lunch today and decided to raid the freezer again and make a quick meal using a Deli Pride Fish & Cheese Sandwich I had purchased from Save-a-Lot a few days ago.
I wasn’t expecting too much from this 99 cent lunch. And, to be perfectly honest, …
McDonald’s tragic delivery
One day me and a few school friends of mine decided to grab a quick bite at our local McDonald joint. The nearest one, only an estimated 6-7 minutes in driving distance (round trip) from our school. We choose to go through the drive through thinking it’s faster than going …
Fiber Plus Antioxidents Berry Crunch Cereal
Fiber Plus Antioxidents Berry Crunch is a surprisingly delicious healthy cereal. Fiber Plus has recently become one of the most appetizing options in the breakfast foods section, claiming to provide good and hearty foods that were both delicious and nutritious. Always looking for a delicious, fiberful cereal that does …
Nescafe 3 in 1
Since grade school I always drink coffee. I usually drink coffee when I am busy in making my project, jobs, household choirs etc.
I really love to drink coffee everytime I am working.
My …
L’oven Fresh Triple Chocolate Fudge Cake (Twenty Ounce Cake)
The L’oven Fresh Triple Chocolate Fudge Cake is a twenty-ounce cake available for purchase at ALDI Food Market stores for two dollars and ninety-nine cents. If you aren’t someone that enjoys making cakes from box mixes or scratch and would rather just purchase a pre-made cake that is ready …
Popsicle Fudgsicle Ice Cream Bars
Popsicles are a stable of every child’s life. I grew up with them, in various varieties. My favorite, though, was definitely the Popsicle Fudgsicle Ice Cream Bar. How can you beat chocolate ice cream? For a kid like me, you couldn’t.
Popsicle Fudgsicle Ice Cream Bars …
Creat Value Cooked Ham
Creat Value Cooked Ham comes in a plastic bag, easy to open and re-sealable. The 16 oz pack costs $3.24. The ham is 97% fat free, with some water added for better preservation. The product needs to be refrigerated. The ham is cut into medium-thick slices, very convenient for …
Bud Light Beer
I think Bud Light is an OK beer but not a great beer. I mean the beer does taste pretty good, But I don’t think it is the best beer in the world. The taste is not that bad. I would say Bud Light tastes a lot better than regular …
Post Honey Bunch of Oats with Strawberries
I love Post and it has always been a part of my daily routine to eat Post brand of cereals. I love the Post Honey Bunch of Oats with Strawberries! I bought a double-bag box for about Php 450. The caloric count is about 150 calories per serving with …
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