After two weeks of being sick and thinking I had the flu I ended up visiting the doctor where they ran a few test including a urine test. The doctor ended up diagnosing me with a severe bladder infection. However, knowing my history with bad reactions to prescription antibiotics …

I was somewhat hesitant to try Marlboro’s Virginia Blend. Marlboro makes some fine cigarettes, but they also make some real stinkers, too, and I was afraid their new Virginia Blend would fall under the latter category. However the price was right, as they were marketing it with …

While growing up and learning to live on my own budget, I used to purchase Banquet frozen dinners by the truckload sometimes because they were just so cheap and the taste wasn’t all that bad. But as the years went on, I soon moved onto other kinds of meals. …

I’ve always been a fan of the tortilla chip, especially when dipped in salsa. For years I have blindly been purchasing Tostitos tortilla chips by default, and it as only been until recent times that a realized what a large mistake I had been making.
Tostitos are not good! Whenever …

These new granola bars are much tastier than most granola bars. The layer of yogourt on the bottom adds a nice smooth taste to the granola.
It is also a nice portable snack - I like to grab one on my way out of the house to eat in the …

Every Sunday I have made it a ritual that after morning mass, I find a dessert from the super market that I can make from scratch. Last week, my boyfriend was with me and he spotted a dark chocolate fudge cake, that I must say looked absolutely delicious from …

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 …

About two years ago, I was given a prescription for high blood pressure that basically worked by getting rid of excess water. I had such a bad reaction to it that I almost ended up in the hospital. Needless to say, the remaining pills went in the …

Yoplait Light Fat Free Yogurt is always a huge hit in my household. There is rarely a trip to the grocery store where I come home without it.
Most impressive to me is the huge variety of flavors that are available. There are the traditional fruity kinds like …

Krusteaz Buttermilk Pancake Mix allows for the creation of average tasting pancakes. The reason I say average is because this pancake mix requires the addition of water opposed to milk. Pancakes that are made using water typically fall apart easier and do not quite taste as good or come …

L’oven Fresh Hot Dog Buns retail for seventy-nine cents for eight at ALDI. I see that as a price that no other grocery store or supermarket can match, be it with the national brands or store brands, and seventy-nine cents is a regular, everyday low price at ALDI! I …

This is my favorite kind of salad —“ a deep-fried tortilla shaped into a bowl to hold savory, complementary ingredients. When I tried the Tostada Salad at Baja Fresh, I was in the vegetarian phase that all searching college students go through, meaning no meat product and any …

My kids love waffles. I’m not always sure it is the waffles so much as the syrup, but with Eggo waffles, we can’t seem to go wrong. I do know for certain that the Cinnamon Toast waffles we tried recently were a bit hit in our household, because neither …

In an effort to save some serious cash at the grocery store, our family has started purchasing generic products. We used to only buy named brand products because we thought the generic products were inferior. Boy, were we ever wrong! We have found a large amount of generic products …

When it involves cooking I like to incorporate vegetables into my meals, but I don’t necessarily know what type of cooking methods to use that don’t involve instruction on the back of a box. On one of my many shopping excursions, I noticed Green Giants had these little vegetable …

I have a confession to make. When the chill of winter sets in, on many a Friday night all I want to do is plant myself in front of my non-existent fireplace with a heaping pot of the gluey orange stuff. No date or dinner out with friends can …

I don’t know if this brandy is also available outside the Philippines, but here in our country, it’s very popular and known by all men, drinkers or not. It’s cheap price made it another reason for them or should I say “us” to buy the product. It just costs …

I was a little apprehensive about ordering a tea from Starbucks. Typically, I order my favorite Caramel Macchiato, and that is enough to keep me sufficiently buzzed for a few hours. The Tazo teas looked appetizing. So I selected this herbal fruity flavor as a diversion …

Twix chocolate bar is my old time favorite. Since childhood I always asked my relative from states to bought me some dozen of it. This chocolate was introduced by my friend from school, a close friend of mine gave me one pieces of chocolate as a birthday present. And …

Lipton Green Tea is a line of green tea bags which you can seep and prepare. They are in a box, weighing 10 g, and available in local stores.
The green tea sachets are stored in a box. Each sachet had to be torn to prepare a single drink. It …

Sobe Life Water is a big joke as far as I’m concerned. I mean, the bottle is pretty, and the advertisements are appealing, but come on! It is an insult to our intelligence to pay that much money for water that tastes like it has some strange …

I really enjoy eating planters honey roasted peanuts. Im not usually a fan of mixed nuts, or even just regular peanuts. The honey roasted however are a great combination of salty and sweet that I really enjoy eating.
You can usually purchase the honey roasted planters nuts from the same …

I live in the mountains and my water comes from a well. Over time, I had thick mineral deposits in the bottom of the toilet bowl. It looked horrible. I tried CLR, Rustoleum, Bam, Kaboom, and about every cleaner I could find. Nothing would dissolve …

I didn’t care too much for these waffles. I decided to give them a try because of the heart-healthy whole grains being a major ingredient in these waffles, but what bothered me about them is they tasted saltier than the waffles I’m used to, namely the Kroger Multigrain Waffles. …

Unfortunately for me, my favorite grocery store has changed brands again, something they do from time to time, only this time it’s definitely not a good thing. The product in question is a box of ice cream cones. I really liked the other brand they carried, but …

I really wanted to like Mrs. Freshley’s Banana Pudding Cakes because I really enjoy the flavor of bananas and banana desserts and foods like banana cream pie and banana bread. Unfortunately, the banana flavor found in these pudding cakes leaves quite a lot to be desired. The banana flavor …

Who wants refreshing cappuccino drink? I am. I just recently discovered cappuccino drink mix from Hills Bros when my friend visited me at home. He have this different chocolate drinks and that includes Hills Bros. I only drink cappuccino when I bought 3-in-1 coffee from Nescafe but this one …

Arizona Vitamin C Fortified Kiwi Strawberry drink did not do much to tantalize my taste buds. It comes in a cute can decorated with pictures of colorful strawberries and kiwi fruits. For only 99 cents, it is a really good deal volume wise, and it is made …

Malt O-Meal bagged cereals are the only cereals I purchase anymore. Once I discovered the goodness and low cost of Malt O-Meal Bagged cerals, I have not bought anything else. Malt O-Meal has always been a brand I trust, and you cannot beat the bagged cereal.
My kids go through …

One night I needed a fast nutritious meal, so I bought a Lean Cuisine dinner. I’ve bought other Stouffer’s Lean Cuisine meals and usually had good results and taste I had high hopes for the Shrimp in a Creamy Seafood Sauce Meal.
Stouffer’s does some jazzy packaging. The shrimp dinner …

Every morning for the last 10 years I have gotten up and made a standard brewed pot of starbucks coffee. I drink several cups of this in the morning and by afternoon the coffee is stale and gross. Every afternoon I have to decide if …

These wafer thin crackers have become a staple in my home.For people who are used to Ritz or Triscuits these won’t won’t seem like anything to write home about. But, I have tried water crackers before and liked them so I decided I might like this brand as well.
These …

Bake House Halloween Sugar Cookie Dough is found in the refrigeration case in stores that specialize in generic brands such as ALDI Food Market stores. The dough comes in two different designs: orange pumpkins or brown and white ghosts. These are nothing but sugar cookies, so they are somewhat …

The label on this delicious beverage describes it as appropriate for a “champagne occasion — without the alcohol.” As I write this, my better half is scarfing down a saucer of pear wedges over which he has poured a shot of this sparkling treat, and he …

I like this bag of mix vegetables sold under the Walmart Great Value brand. I think all four vegetables have a tasty flavor to them and I particularly like how they are steamed cooked. Steamed cooked is my favorite way to eat vegetables because they seem to retain more …

I am an avid Ice Cream lover! I have several favorite ice creams, but Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey is my absolute favorite! I just love the way the creamy banana flavored ice cream mixes with the chocolate chunks and the walnuts. I also like the fact that it …

Aunt Jemima Original Pancake Mix is, to me, just that — the original. This is the brand my parents used when I was growing up, and there was never a bad meal that came of it.
Aunt Jemima Original Pancake Mix is made of ingredients that include enriched bleached …

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 …

So we finally picked up our girl scout cookies for 2011! I was pretty excited, because well, we only get them once a year! But I was really dissapointed this year at the cookies, they changed a lot of them, like cut back and made them smaller, therefore less …

This week I decided to treat myself to a Russell Stover Mint Dream, a thick, rich mint I’ve had from time to time over the years. Russell Stover is a premium maker of chocolate candies. They do a great job. While I don’t like everything, there …

Recently, I was very fortunate to come across a website which sells a wide range of loose leaf teas: Teavana.com. While I have only known of them for a short amount of time, I have had the pleasure of trying out a particularly pleasing tea of theirs: …

I have a small family; just me, my wife and our daughter. Yet, when it comes to breakfast cereals, it�s nearly impossible for us to agree on one. More often than not, when we go grocery shopping, we end up buying three separate boxes of cereal to take home.
Recently, …

I remember when I first saw Smucker’s Magic Shell. They had not yet have a Caramel flavour, but that was to soon change and I was so delighted when I saw Smucker’s Caramel Magic Shell Topping sitting there on the shelf. I immeadiately grabbed one, I love caramel!
Smucker’s Caramel …

I have been using Great Value Cherry Pie Filling for my cherry cheese cake dessert, and it works very well. The 1 lb 5 oz can has just enough filling I need for one cake. The cherries are medium-sweet, with lots of syrup. The ingredients are cherries, water, high …

Kimball Chili Sauce is one of the best chili sauce brand ever. Whenever I go to the supermarket, I would make it a point to buy this brand of chili. I don’t really know how to describe the taste in details, but if you dip your finger food …

I’m a person who enjoys eating vegetables. Usually on a daily basis, I eat baby carrots, broccoli, cucumbers, celery and sometimes a handful of raw green leafy salad. With the stock vegetables, I like to dip them in dips or dressing, usually low fat dressing, a squeezed of …

What makes a candy or a treat so good that I just have to keep coming back for more? I always ask myself that question when I go to Walt Disney World and I always pick up at least five bags of the Goofy Candy Company Character Gummies.
I …

I never really had an interest in putting hot pepper sauce on my food because most of the brands that were bought before now were too hot for me, and I don’t usually like putting a lot of pepper on my food. Therefore, if I absolutely must, I would …

Ribena is a popular juice drink available in almost every grocery store and supermarkets here in Singapore. It is also a choice of drink for kids.
Apart from the tangy and sweet taste, the kind of flavor many will like, it is the added benefits of the brand’s claim …

Nestle Honey Cheerios are one of my favorite breakfast cereals because not only do they have many health benefits but they are really tasty as well. Made with whole grain cereal, it consists of little —˜o’ shaped puffed corn, oats, wheat and rice which are coated with honey. …