Vanilla extract is something I always try to keep on hand. Although I don’t do much baking, I love to put a drop or two into my coffee to give it a little added flavor. I don’t like bland-tasting coffee, so I love to always have this …

I spotted a box of NRG (Intense) Energy Mix in the grape flavor at my local discount store. Being a fan of energy products, I decided to try it out, especially because it was such an excellent price. At $2 for a box of 30 individual packets, …

I enjoy these seasoning blends because they have a lot flavor to them and don’t contain any sodium, which I think my diet could certainly use much less of. This Italian-style variety has a nice, pleasant, slightly sweet and slightly spicy scent and flavor that seems to me like …

I wandered over to the Waterview Café for lunch one day and decided upon one of their “homecooked” meals. One of their specials was the Chicken Cordon Bleu, a breaded mass of chicken breast, stuffed with cheese and ham, and then covered with some kind of sauce. …

Monterey chicken lollipops are ready to cook meals. They can be ordered, however at any Monterey meat shops near your place at least a day or two before you need them. Monterey caters to all your meat supply needs, and sometimes they too have vegetables available for sale; this …

I’ve tried many of Haagan Dazs flavors but the most interesting flavor that I’ve tried was their Caramelized pear and Toasted Pecan ice cream. I know, the name is a mouthful and I wasn’t sure what to think of it. I enjoyed pretty much all of the Haagan Dazs …

I’m not even sure where my mother bought these, but all I know is that I haven’t seen this product in years. It was one of those cheap snacks my parents used to buy for me when I was much younger, and then when a lot of the Trinidadian …

The McVities Jamaica Ginger Cake is a classic as far as I am concerned. I remember it as a favorite from my childhood and I enjoy it now as much as I did then. As it says on the packet, the recipe has stayed the same for …

Besides coffee that i love so much, i also sometimes drink tea. Especially if i went to a restaurant and i don’t have any kind of drinks in mind i usually order some tea (ice tea, sweet ice tea). But i rarely find a good tea that make me …

Cloverhill Bakery makes packaged cherry donuts that can be found in supermarkets. I personally wish that I would not have come across these donuts because then I would have never tried them. While the cherry donuts are certainly not what I would consider horrible, I must say that I …

I personally love dumplings usually made with seasoned chicken broth, and rice. Now I do like to try different kind of dumplings. This time around I decided to try Streits Matzo Ball Mix. They are Jewish dumplings that I was introduced to me by my mother who also likes …

Although this does not really sound very much like a dessert, Entenmann’s Sour Cream Loaf Cake is certainly worthy of a person’s time and money if that person enjoys the flavor of sour cream. This loaf cake really will set a person’s taste buds ablaze with the strong sour …

Like many people, I love snacks, especially exotic snacks that aren’t really common. Usually I browse through my neighborhood grocery store, looking for a new item to try or a new flavor of a traditional items I usually buy.
I spotted Blue Diamond almond’s roasted coffee flavored almonds, …

Roli’s Napoleones really is a wonderful pastry. This is a local pastry that was only available in Bacolod, a province in the Philippines. Napoleones is a small square-sized layered pull pastry that has a sugar glaze on top of it filled with a custard cream in its center. This …

I have always been a very comitted supporter of the Coca-cola company and all its products. From all it brought out in the past decades, Coke is largely known, obviously, and could with no doubt be the world’s number 1 softdrink. But eversince Pepsi made a turnaround (there was …

One of my favorite canned product is Century Tuna brand. This product comes in different varieties. One can choose from Century Tuna Afritada Style, Adobo Style, Century Tuna Flakes in Vegetable Oil, Flaked Light Tuna in Soya Oil, Corned Tuna and more. I have tried almost all the varieties …

The L’oven Fresh Caramel Shortbread and Almond Sugar Cookies come in a circular platter at ALDI Food Market stores for three dollars and ninety-nine cents. The platter consists of two “sections”. There’s the outer, circular ring which is where the caramel shortbread cookies sit and then there’s an inner …

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. …

In my home my husband and my children and also my father and my mother, brother all of us are the fans of the American sweet corn. We love to have it either boiled or also with some added spices. Actually the sweet corn itself itself is …

This cream liquour is made of fresh milk and an exotic fruit called marula. This fruit, that I didn’t know beforehand, seems to have a lot of vitamine c. More important than that, mixed with milk makes an unique mix with a soft and delicious taste.
This drink has a …

Choosing a brand of coffee can be difficult and annoying at times. There are so many brands and flavors to choose from. One specific brand that I like to drink is Harmony Bay French Vanilla Creme Coffee. This particular brand represents a wonderful value for all …

Another nice ready to drink that was introduced is the Fab!. I guess they meant Fabulous; hitting two birds with one stone here, emphasizing on your soon to be wonderful body and the product as a fabulous drink, Fab is a juice drink that also offers the goodness of …

I can’t honestly say that I’m a fan of most of the pastries that come from the different branches of Captain’s Bakery, but for some reason when my mother bought a twist donut from the bakery for me to eat for lunch, I expected more. It wasn’t that the …

This is a drink that I enjoy having once in a while, and I really should drink it more often, because it contains 70% pure fruit juice. It is basically like a grapefruit cocktail, because it is grapefruit juice (along with apple, orange, and other juices) combined with sparkling …

Munch chocolates have been my all-time favourite chocolates. They taste very delicious and yummy. It just melts in your mouth as soon as u put it in your mouth. I like it because it is not very heavy unlike any other chocolates and it has a munchy …

I am not a huge fan of potato chips. In fact, I only really eat them if I’m having a sandwich or burger. And even then, I prefer kettle chips to regular ones. They are not as salty and have a nice gritty texture that I …

Fritos is that brand that many commonly know for their corn chips, and bean dips. I’ve always personally liked getting the original bean dip, served with tortilla chips, or Doritos. With all that being said, I gave one of the different flavors of bean dip a try, which was the …

Nestle Koko Krunch is a chocolatey cereal made for kids and the kids at heart like myself. Nestle Koko Krunch is a favorite of my kids because not only does it taste wonderful, it also makes them healthy. If you take a look at the packaging of this product, …

Picked this stuff up on sale, thought it might be an interesting treat to buy. And I spread it on a piece of bread, and ate it, and it had an interesting taste. I’m not sure I would say it was good, but it wasn’t bad either.
My …

I was recently given a bottle of the Ben’s Sugar Shack Pure Maple Syrup in Grade A Dark Amber and I have to say, it was one of the best maple syrups I have ever used on my pancakes and in my sweet pork tenderloin crock pot dish.
The …

Among all the chocolates Lindt are really one of those that I can’t resist. I like chocolate but Lindt is a special kind of chocolate, they have different kinds of chocolates but as I like dark chocolate Lindt Berne is one of my favourite. Lindt Berne small chocolate comes …

The chocolate hob nobs from McVities are in my opinion one of the nicest biscuits there is. I can remember when they first came out back in the 1980s. They are delicious rolled oat biscuits with a thick layer of milk chocolate on the top. You …

I bought Cloud 9 for the price of PHP 71.00. It has already has 10 pieces of Cloud 9 Bar. I have been eating Cloud 9 bar since I was young. There is something different with this bar as the taste is still the same even on the available …

Arizona is a company that mostly makes beverages in a variety of flavors. In this review I will be focusing on the Peach flavored ice tea that they have on offer. I am not sure if this a newly produced drink by them that they introduced just this year …

Fast Fixin chicken breast nuggets was put under promotional items in Albertsons and that was how I found about this. The pack was huge and for five dollars there was good value for money since there were good number o nuggets inside the pack. The packing was resealable which …

I’ve always like Nestea ice teas because they always had really nice taste, until not that long ago my favourite taste was peach one and I never liked lemon ones because they were too bitter for my taste. I really like ice-teas specially during the summer because they are …

Barq’s hast bite. So goes the slogan for Barq’s root beer and one that is quite true. It has a much more pungent flavor than the other root beers on the market (such as A&W or Hires). Diet Barq’s tries to keep the bite even in …

I tried the Dr Oetker Onken Biopot Fat Free Strawberry Yogurt, although I only picked up the fat free one by mistake to be honest! I have not tried this brand of yogurt before so I do not know what the full fat one is like, but …

I have already made a separate review on Oishi Cracklings Salt and Vinegar flavor. That was the first variety that I have tried with this brand. I was really satisfied with its taste and crispiness. I discovered one time a different flavor–”Spicy Vinegar”. I love everything that is spicy from …

Sainsbury’s Eric & Friends Fruit Gums are basically kids’ sweets, but that doesn’t stop me from eating them sometimes! That goes double as they are really very inexpensive - a 75 gram pack costs just 39 pence, and the supermarket usually offers a “buy three for a pound” deal …

Chowking is one of the most popular Chinese fast food restaurants in the Philippines. They have a lot of branches already and they have been in the business for years now.
One day while shopping at the streets of Quiapo, I was so hungry that seeing Chowking in the corner …

Ice Moutain water is my favorite brand of water on the market. It has never dissapointed me. Whenever I am thirsty Ice Mountain water is the first thing I look forward to drinking, it is just so refreshing, and just tastes very clean. Ever since I have been drinking …

Recently, I have been giving myself the treat of a Warm Delights snack cake on Saturday afternoons. It’s a once a week treat that is inexpensive and tastes good, but last Saturday I came up with a new reason to keep them on my shelf–emergency comfort food.
My upstairs neighbor …

I have tasted ginger on a list of foods, snacks and drinks be it healthy or not. Being a dedicated Starbucks droid, stopped for my early morning tall, decafe, non-fat, white mocha while keeping the whip, I decided to try the gingerbread loaf. OMG, I fell in love with …

I really enjoy Kirkland coffee. It is great because it comes in a very large 48 oz or 3 pound container. This coffee is a blend of different Columbian coffees and I think it is a good tasting blend that
comes together and is smooth and …

There is just something scrumptious about hummus. Ever since being introduced to the lovely dip, I haven’t been the same since. In this case I decided to try The Fresh Hummus Co. Spinach Artichoke Hummus.
In the beginning, the thought of the two very distinct vegetables in this dip …

One of the trusted brands of noodles is Lucky Me Pancit Canton. For me this is the number one. This becomes my favorite viand for rice when I was in college. Lucky Me Pancit Canton is the witness to all the rollercoaster ride of my life during my thesis. …

On the Butterfinger Buzz Bar, it proclaims “crispety, crunchety, peanut-buttery bar with caffeine!” Aah, the C word caught my eye. So I bought it. It is a 2 piece Butterfinger Buzz bar, very large, probably more calories than the regular bar, that I don’t know.
I bit into …

Beng-Beng Hazelnut is the newest variant (although it is not that new, so maybe you have already heard about it, or even tried it before) of Beng-Beng chocolate products.
It has the same ingredients with all other Beng-Beng variant, with one biggest difference. As it is called, this new product …

Now as an admitted Starbuck’s fan for 10+ years and also a near-constant dieter, I’m always on the lookout for new low-fat food offerings carried at any Starbucks. Most recently, I tried Starbuck’s Reduced Fat Egg White and Turkey Bacon Breakfast Sandwich. This breakfast option is basically …