I wasn’t able to buy my favorite brand of chocolate that has fruits and nuts in it because my budget did not allow me. In this kind of festive season, prices of some branded chocolates tend to increase. So in short, I opted to buy a new chocolate brand …

These protein bars are really quite delicious, however they have one major problem: there is 170 calories in just one bar! There are other protein bars on the market that have less calories, although I must say I have never had a protein that fills me up like this …

I absolutely love eating Rusks with my coffee. It’s an age old tradition in our house since I can remember! I recently discovered the Honey and Almond flavour of the Cape Cookies Luxury Rusks range, and I am very impressed!

The rusks are packaged in foil packaging and this keeps the …

I make tacos a lot and I have tried several different sauces but I certainly have to say that my most favorite taco sauce is McCormick Mild Taco Sauce. This sauce is sold in a package and I usually pay about 1 dollar for the package. McCormick …

3 roses dust tea is a very old and good branded tea, which is existing since more than 8 years in India. Actually the quality of this tea powder is very good and gives a avery good aroma. The 3 roses are the 3 good qualities of …

I decided to try this “All Natural Asian Cuisine” Soup only partially because of the meal it provides. It came in its own microwave bowl, and I thought it might be reusable enough to microwave my customary bowl of morning oatmeal. When I spotted it in the grocery section …

Since the economy has taken a downward turn, our family has decided to cut as many expenses as we can at the grocery store. One of our usual purchases is frozen hashed brown potatoes. We use these as a breakfast item as well as a side dish …

Today I saw Nestle Mio Cremoso with apricot was on discount for only 0.39 Euro I got two glasses of 125g of the product. I haven’t actually known what it really was but I decided to take it because it was cheap. Don’t think that I buy junk food …

Water for thrust or for luxury..?
A new arrival in bottle water is Bling which cost $40 for 750 ml. The bottles are available in glass as well as plastic bottles. Baby Bling Frosted Bottle Case cost $480 (Case of 24 375ml Bottles). While Bling H2O Plastic Bottle Case (Case of …

I love Crystal Chocolate Milk, but it’s just not sold as widespread as it used to be when I was child. In fact, I only know of one place where I can buy it now, and that means making a special trip just for it, which I often …

The Creme Egg Twisted bar from Cadbury’s has been out since last year but I have only just noticed it so I had to try it. I adore Creme Eggs which I am sure you will be familiar with —“ white and yellow sugary fondant within thick, egg-shaped …

Ramen Noodle Soup Cup is very easy to make and it tastes good. You open the styrofoam cup, fill it with boiling water up to the line inside, close the lid and let it sit for 3 minutes or so. After that the soup is done (it will be …

One day I worked too hard on my shift that I forgot to eat my lunch. I was working in a busy unit and I barely noticed that it was already almost the end of my shift and I still have not eaten at all. I was so tired …

You should be aware of those cookies, because they are really addictive. I can finish the whole box in just one day. Self discipline is useless when it comes to those cookies. And the interesting thing about it, is that those cookies are taste and look much better than …

I love Hamburger Helper, at least most kinds of it. But, I don’t like paying full price for it so I end up looking for cheaper boxed dinners instead.
This search recently led me to Skillet Masters dinners and I was able to give them a try last night.
Overall, I …

I’ve tried many of the Café Steamers because I think the product design is an ingenious idea. They have managed to healthify the original calorie-packed, rich dishes that we all love. Yes, there is considerable less fat and calories, not to mention sodium and cholesterol; also, they …

I have a large family, and we have four kids total. They all love to eat, and one of their favorites is nachos. While shopping at Sam’s Club, we found this product. It comes in a very large can that weighs 6 lbs 10 oz and …

I just recently discovered a very nice Tesco Italian original bread sticks and I’ve decided that this could be my latest all time favorite afternoon snack because it really do taste so nice plus of course it can be easily fill up my empty stomach. With just 3 …

Stouffer’s Easy Express Skillets Broccoli and Beef is a meal that I found to be fairly satisfying in flavor and quite filling as well. What I like about this meal is the beef that is used is both tender and flavorful, so it is quite easy to enjoy. This …

We go through a lot of jelly in our house, both grape and strawberry. So, we naturally are always looking for the best quality for the best price.
This is why we started buying the Great Value brand.
We weren’t going to do this at first. But, I couldn’t pass up …

I had been to the super market last week to buy some sweet corn, which is the favourite movie time snack for my family. It was for the first time that I bought the sweet corn the brand name for which is Amul. I had seen the …

Clancy’s Tortilla Explosions Pizza and Ranch Tortilla Chips come in an eleven ounce bag for one dollar and forty-nine cents at ALDI Food Market stores. I was eager to give these tortilla chips a try because I enjoy tortilla chips, especially and really only with dip, and I had …

I am not too keen on the Tesco Swirly Chocolate Cheesecake as it is basically too sweet for me and seems less like cheesecake and more like a vanilla and chocolate mousse on top of a sweet, crumbly biscuit. Apart from the fact that I did not like …

Aldi Markets are small self-service discount grocery stores with reasonable prices on bulk items, mostly dry goods and everyday staples. The stores I’ve visited in the Pittsburgh area remind me of tiny Costco-like stores. I just returned to the East Coast, so I don’t know how long …

Ever since I have read that a person who drinks milk about 3 times daily have better endurance when it comes to fighting of cholesterol, I started drinking milk to help myself become more healthy in terms of this aspect. I am, as a matter of fact suffering from …

I admit that this product is one of my secret weapons in my recipe arsenal.
I use this product (by Knorr, Unilever) in a lot of my cooking.
It’s excellent as a base for soups and it’s the main ingredient of my gravy.
I buy both the liquid and the powdered versions …

I have become so busy in my life so I decided that I would have to rely more on the microwave than anything else. I have three kids and they need to eat and so do I. I just don’t have time to cook. I decided to get the …

We got our Yamasa Zaru Soba dipping sauce at the local grocery (Robinson’s Metro East mall) for around Php 140. I’ve also seen some available at the grocery at Megamall and UniMart Greenhills. It is packaged in a 330ml bottle which has a sticker that says “Yamasa Zaru Soba …

If u are a busy housewife or a working women and don�t have enough time to go for the outings or for restaurants, no problem, u can prepare the tasty and yummy soups just like restaurant soups at home with a lot of ease and using very less time. …

One of my favorite cereals is (and has been for a long time) Life. There are a few different kinds of Life cereal, I believe, but my favorite one is cinnamon. I like to pour a generous sized bowl of it with milk and sugar. I …

The reason that I like to have Hearty Breast of Chicken Soup at Chick-fil-A is because unlike with the canned soups and some restaurants, there is actually quite a bit of chicken, noodles and vegetables to be found in this soup and not so much broth. It seems to …

Hotdogs are one of the most popular foods in America. They are also one of the least healthy foods in America. Most hotdogs are terrible for your health, especially because they are not only very processed and contain disease-causing ingredients, but they also contain pork, which is …

i purchased this butter made by Wabash Valley Farms because I wasn’t satisfied with the butter flavored microwavable popcorn brands sold in the grocery stores. Even those packages that claimed “extra butter” or movie theater butter” failed to impress me. I figured I’d give butter toppings a try to …

I bought several different Ritter Sport chocolates when they were on discount, about a month ago, I eat one and put them in the kitchen cupboard and completely forgot about them. Yesterday I really wanted to eat something sweet and I remembered that all those chocolates were in the cupboard. …

Ever since I can remember, I have always had an extreme dislike for soup. I like neither the scent of it nor the texture, but I especially hate the taste, especially when people use soup mixes to cook it. Therefore, even though I did not necessarily love it, I …

I decided to give this snack when seeing that it was from the brand I know for making the best cracker jacks. It was intriguing to me to see a snack mix in the flavor of buffalo ranch. For only $2.99 I grabbed a bag with trying it …

I wanted some snacks last week for New Years Eve and one thing I ended up picking up was a bag of meatballs from the brand Great Value.
I love eating meatballs, plain, using a toothpick and this was the perfect brand for that. First, there were many more meatballs …

My daughter loves Gerber Graduates. She no longer is a baby, even though she is a little older now, she still, every now and then gets hankering for the peach cobbler. I must admit, in trying it myself, I have enjoyed it. It tastes just like …

I just recently became a vegetarian and one of the foods that I missed the most was a burger. There’s something so satisfying about a burger. I decided to try the Morning Star vegetarian burgers and wow, they taste just like a real burger, and even better …

Complan is another health drink, which is also good in quality and in standard. It is said that the complan is the complete planned food. If your kids skip their meals very often then the parents do not need to worry a lot if they are feeding …

The Kitkat is such a simple chocolate bar, so when it launched the Kitkat chunky, it was a another great product extension. Always seen as the light chocolate bar, but perhaps some people saw it as not filling enough or even perhaps not manly enough as it was often …

This snack has created some hype in Southeast Asia (especially in Singapore and Indonesia) and I know people who really love the chips, like my friend and some who ordered a whole box at one go because these chip sell really fast and is always short of supply.
Although I …

This comes in a cardboard box container. The box is green in color with a white border. The words Sat-Isabgol appear on the front. This is an ayurvedic powder taken as a drink to cure constipation and is typically found in Indian grocery food stores.
During pregnancy, I suffered from …

This corn flakes brand is my breakfast, perhaps my only breakfast for past two years. I just add this to a cup of hot milk and enjoy as my breakfast. In busy morning schedule Kellogg’s is usually enough for meeting my energy requirements.
My usual pick is the Kellogg’s original …

I bought a bottle of Goya Pineapple soda on a whim the other day when I was shopping at Foodmart. I never had a pineapple-flavored soda before, but I did expect it to taste a bit like a pineapple. Truthfully, this soda has a very odd taste. I noticed …

I am just going to come right out and say that making gravy from scratch is not my forte and I envy those who are capable of doing so. Making gravy from scratch is probably one of the simplest skills a cook should have in their arsenal, but whenever I …

I love having Odom’s Tennessee Pride Sausage for breakfast, it is a great addition to French toast or waffles. This sausage is sold whole or sliced, in a box. We have bought both versions; the taste is the same, but each packaging type has its own advantages and disadvantages. …

OnCor Salisbury Steaks are one of my favorite easy-to-cook dishes. The steaks are sold frozen; they come in a box that contains 6 medium-size steaks and a lot of gravy. I especially like the abundance of gravy, it makes the choice of a side dish very easy: mashed potatoes, …

Great Value Mini Cheeseburgers from Walmart. Not bad right? Wrong! I just wanted a simple dinner that I could have while my husband and my son were camping and I was home alone. I wanted something simple and quick to cook. I have used Great Value products from Walmart …