This morning I was at the store and decided, while I was there, to pick up something easy for lunch. I decided to buy Tai Pei brand garlic shrimp. And, I was impressed with my purchase.
I’m a big Chinese food fan. But, you can’t always find decent Chinese food …

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 …

I have been a vegetarian for many years now and although I do not miss meat in the slightest and I do not even see it as food anymore but —˜dead bodies’, I do sometimes lack the imagination to know how to put a well balanced vegetarian meal together. …

Tasteless is the word that I think best describes Cooper’s Toasted Beef Ravioli. The raviolis are quite generously packed with beef, but the problem is not with the quantity, but the quality. The quality of the beef isn’t all that hot. The beef is pretty much devoid of flavor …

Healthy choice has reinvented their frozen meal line with new and exciting flavors. The cuisine ranges from Italian to Chinese, each sounding like a gourmet concoction. I love Chinese food but you can’t have it every day because it’s so fattening. I decided to try the …

For anyone who has not caught it in one of my other reviews, my daughter has become a vegetarian. I want to be as supportive as possible and allow her to explore this. I do not want to scar her for life or make her feel unimportant. So as …

I’ve bought my first de cecco spaghetti pasta for my son’s birthday party and since it was quite an expensive sort of pasta I thought that maybe I should better give it a try on a special occasion. I followed all the cooking instructions on how to make …

Ferrero Rocher hazelnut chocolate was my choice of candy for conducting an inexpensive treat. This is a perfect economic candy which is high in quality and rich in its contents. Ferrero Rocher is looking great in its round shape and small pieces of nuts embedded in dark chocolate. And …

Stouffer’s Southwest-Style Chicken Panini is a variation on the Grilled Chicken Italian Panini with a few differences. I really like both sandwiches, actually, and I feel that each one offers up a very enjoyable eating experience that I look forward to at lunch time. As for this particular sandwich, …

Since I bake a lot and like to make fancy drinks McCormick’s Pure Vanilla Extract is a staple in my kitchen! I first learned about McCormick’s Pure Vanilla Extract when I had first gotten into baking quite a few years back. I could not find it in my country …

Diet Sunkist is absolutely my favorite diet soft drink ever! It is amazingly similar in taste to the original Sunkist, but it has no calories! I highly recommend Diet Sunkist to anyone who is looking for a good tasting soft drink but does not necessarily want all of the calories …

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 …

Once upon a time, whenever we packed our daughter’s school lunch, we made sure to have only the healthiest foods inside it. However, we learned she would rarely eat the entire lunch and I came to the realization I would rather have her eating something rather than making sure …

I love frozen yogurt and I need my fix at least once a week. I went to a trip to Hong Kong and surprisingly, yogurt isn’t everywhere unlike in Manila. When I saw the Yo Mama shop in Windsor House, Causeway Bay, I of course tried it …

It seems that every time you turn around these days there is a new limited edition package of Oreo cookies tempting you at your favorite grocery store. There are a lot of flavors out there and some are worse than others.
I’m happy to report that the Key Lime Pie …

I purchased this brownie mix for $3.15 at my local grocery store Friday night. We were entertaining guests and rather than spending close to $6.00 for the already made up brownies I decided it would be thriftier (And homier I might add.) to just make my own. As soon …

There so much wonder about tomato juice. This is very good to one’s health. Being a health conscious myself, I make sure that I always have tomato juice at home. Tomato juice has lots of vitamins and minerals. Other’s say this is the fountain of youth. I made it …

The last time I was at Aldi’s I bought Cambridge Cinnamon Grahams. I love Graham crackers and cinnamon grahamas in particular. These crackers are quite good and probably taste almost as good as Nabisco brand graham crackers.
I like these because they have plenty of cinnamon on …

I really wanted to like these cheese enchiladas. They looked so yummy and I generally really like frozen Mexican food. Unfortunately, I really wasn’t that impressed with them.
This nearly 10 ounce package provides two cheese enchiladas in a microwaveable container. However, the microwaving instructions were confusing. They tell you …

My husband and I really like treating ourselves to a Moo-Latte from Dairy Queen. They are a blended drink with a coffee base. It’s not a smooth consistancy but has small icy crystals in it which my husband loves. The Moo-Latte comes in Mocha, Hazelnut, Vanilla …

While grocery shopping last week, I had the urge for some popcorn and noticed Full Circle microwave popcorn was on sale. It’s organic, which I’ve never had before. I was hesitant, but decided to take the plunge since it was less than my regular brand.
I purchased the …

Everytime I do my groceries, I always hit the snack section right away to find my favrorite comfort food snack — the Nagaraya Cracker Nuts Original Flavor — a popular cracker nut in the Philippines and has been my favourite since childhood. Nagaraya has many other flavours such as …

I have tried Nirapara iddli podi, but I am not satisfied with this product. Because its quality is not good. I found some dust and mild stones in this mix. Even my hubby also got one stone while eating iddlis made by Nirapara iddli podi. Preparing idli with this …

Most of us have a fond memory of childhood. It may be our Granny giving us her special recipe fish pie for dinner. It may have been a teacher who would allow you one of his mints when you made a school visit to a museum and you were …

get up plus is an energy drink my sister bought a couple of days ago. I don’t like energy drinks because they smell and tastes funny and sweet, like Hubba Bubba bubble gums and it also has CO2 in it and I don’t like that. But my sister always …

Rolo Gold pretzels have a new package now that may look less fancier than their old one but the price is much cheaper. Their pretzels sell for under $3.00 for a one pound bag and the pretzels are always fresh tasting and never taste stale. They come …

Lindt (aka Lindors) chocolates are premium irresistibly smooth Swiss chocolates.
Lindt chocolates are quite expensive, always around $5 or more for a 150g bag with about 10 or more in there. They are a big size, hard for a small mouth to fit. You might have to bite it in …

Aro Sandwich triangle bread is another kind of bread, which is available in the market. This bread is not made of wheat flour and it is made of maida flour. But it has good taste and as this is particularly in triangular shape and is specially made …

My children absolutly love cheese puff snacks. They go through a bag of them every two days, which can get a little expensive. I normally like to stick to more healthy snacks but I let them eat the cheese puffs as there junk food pick of the week. I …

My son is the great fan of cream biscuits. He loves and enjoys all kind of cream biscuits, but when I bought the Britannia treat cream biscuits, he enjoyed the taste of it very much. Britannia is a very big and famous company, which produces much kind …

Kellogg�s apple jack cereal has a very fruity and sweet taste to it. I noticed when I poured the milk on it that the almost immediately the milk turned colors. I bought the fifteen ounce box of the cereal. Compared to the store brand of the …

Ever since I was a small child I have always enjoyed Lance Cheese on Wheat crackers. The crackers are only sold packaged in packs of six; you can find them sometimes in vending machines. These are by far my favorite packaged cracker simply because of how different they are …

I am not a huge fan of fresh juice, but when it was on sale in the nearest grocery store, I was tempted to purchase a huge bottle. I saw the BERRI brand of Mixed Fruits juice. This came in a huge plastic bottle. This was a 2.4 Liter …

I had tried aloe vera shots when a friend of mine brought me to health/smoothie place that he frequented, and I was surprised with how much I liked it. I was also so impressed with the benefits of aloe, that I sought out to find an aloe drink to …

Like with other treats made by Mrs. Freshley’s with a special seasonal name, pay no attention to the name because there is nothing special about the treats. For example, Mrs. Freshley’s Summer: Racing Chocolate Cupcakes are nothing but chocolate covered and creme filled cupcakes that look and taste a …

Koala Crisp cereal is a crispy rice cereal made by Nature’s Path. They are the size of Rice Krispies, but the difference is that they are made with brown rice and not refined white. One thing that is not obvious from the name is that it is …

I love these Hawaiian Punch Singles! I wouldn’t say they’re the same as the regular hawaiian punch, but the flavor is close enough. To be precise, these are the fruit punch, but Hawaiian Punch has these in several other varieties as well. They come …

I like to always have a soft cheese spread in my food cupboard so I can get a quick snack when I want to without too much effort. I have it spread on a slightly warmed bagel, or on crackers or Ryvita for example, and I have …

I did not know what I was buying with this filter coffee as the label is almost entirely in Italian but it has turned out to be a very deep, dark, rich and strong coffee. The one bit of the label that is in English says that this …

I like keep myself in, what we kiwis like to describe as, pretty good nick. I run, watch what I eat, all that good girl stuff. But at the end of a long hard day of “being good” sometimes you just feel like a beer. Everyone …

I followed directions on the package to boil the separate inner packets for thirty minutes - and they broke open in the boiling water. Next time, I tried microwaving them (the alternate method listed on the package), and a pool of thin liquid filled the bottom of the bowl. …

I only purchased this cereal once from Tom Thumb and that’s because it proved to be a disappointment. The box was only about fifteen ounces and the price was over three dollars and fifty cents, but I recall purchasing it because it sounded pretty good. This cereal was supposed …

How many of u know the quality of honey. The honey is a very good vitamin tonic for every one. For kids it is very essential that they use the honey in their regular diet as it gives the stamina and the vitamins naturally. I use …

Oreo are not only some delicious cookies, as there’s an Oreo cake too that you can prepare yourself at home. When I saw it in the supermarket, I decided to buy it, as an Oreo tasting cake sounds really inviting.
When I opened the box, I found that it provides …

These Milk Chocolate Ovals from Morrisons own brand can be described as a downmarket version of that confectionary I have not had for ages called, I think, Minstrels. If I have got the name right, Minstrels are those flattish milk chocolate buttons covered in a shiny, hard candy …

The Southern Grove 100 Calorie Packs Cocoa Roasted Almonds retails for one dollar and ninety-nine cents. In one package comes seven mini-packs of cocoa roasted almonds. Each mini pack amounts to a suggested serving. I have to say, I have trouble limiting myself to just one pack! I find …

I like sweet stuff very much. Although when I was little I preferred creamy chocolate stuff or just chocolate now I prefer cookies with chocolate of wafers but I don’t like them to be very sweet. Today my sister went to the shop and she came home with Kras …

When I was a kid my mom would on occasion buy Banquet TV dinners for us and I loved them. I think Banquet was one of the first companies to offer them. Anyway, I remember the fried chicken dinners were pretty good overall. They actually tasted like real food …