Fresh artichokes are often expensive and what’s worse, it is a seasonal vegetable which you can only find when it is in “season”. When my husband asks for artichokes, I buy the Goldcrest Artichoke Bottoms which are in cans. The can is very practical to have as you don’t …

Previously, I’ve purchased and reviewed Healthy Ones Smoked Ham. I loved it and have continued to purchase it, and now I’ve added Healthy Ones Oven Roasted Turkey Breast to my kitchen deli shelf.
Healthy Ones is certified by the American Heart Association for meeting its standards for saturated fat …

I usually like Lean Cuisine meals, but this one was disgusting. I didn’t even finish it, and that’s really saying something for me! Lean Cuisine’s packaging describes this meal as “chicken tenderloins with cornbread stuffing & whipped potatoes.” There wasn’t one thing I liked about this meal, so let’s …

Recently I went to Mini Stop a famous convenience store here in the Philippines because I wanted to buy some beverages and cellphone load. After doing so, I saw the sign that they are selling Hershey’s Dark Chocolate Sundae for only 15 pesos which in dollars is just $0.31 …

I am a fan of crackers generally, and since I was a kid, I have loved Triscuits. For health reasons, I usually try to buy whole grain crackers, so that if I am snacking, I am at least not eating high-fat junk food. I try to mix it up …

Great Value: Sour Cream & Onion are just as good as the name brand products. Compared with the Lays and Pringles Sour Cream & Onion varieties, the Walmart Great Value brand stacks up very well in terms of flavor and beats the name brand when it comes to value. …

I cannot afford to buy the bulk of my grocery shopping from Marks and Spencer but they do a few luxury goods that I regularly treat myself to, such as their Extremely Chocolatey Mini Bites. You get 18 bites in a tub for about £2.49, but they do …

One of my favorite local chocolates is Cloud 9 Classic. I recently rediscovered it when I was shopping for snacks and candies for my son. I remembered how I used to beg my mom to buy me, not just a single Cloud 9, but a whole box of …

Cookies made up of oatmeal is one of a perfect alternative for those who are mindful about calories. I have been looking for this kind of cookies but there are few brands which manufactures this particular kind of cookies. Pepperidge Farm is one of my favorite brands. There are …

Kroger Value Saltines are fine for snacking, for soups, for chili and more. Compared to the national brands, these saltines are just as crispy, crunchy and flavorful. They hold up about as well in soups and chili and are just about as addicting when snacking on them. Also, like …

I fancied getting in some strawberries and cream to serve to some guests I had recently and as I was a bit strapped for cash I was tempted to buy a big 400g tub of strawberries from the Tesco Value range. They were only £1.50 which is very …

I did not care very much for these Little Debbie Snack Pie - Apple variety because I did not find the apple flavor to be all that rich or delicious, or even all that authentic in its flavor. Although heating up these snack pies in the microwave did help …

In one of the office dinners my husband’s boss hosted, this whisky was recommended as a personal favorite of a colleague. It was really a difficult name to remember, I decided to have him write the name down as I intended to buy it for my husband on Christmas …

I am not one of those people who buy cheap coffee. I usually buy 3 or 4 different brands of coffee that I know that I like when they are on discount and I never buy anything else.
Recently I went to a In’s shop for the first time and …

I love to cook desserts. I like to create desserts even when it’s not the holidays. You will be surprised at how many good recipes call for vanilla extract. I’ve tried several brands of vanilla extract but none compare to McCormick Vanilla Extract.
When I take the …

Two words perfectly sum up fall for me: Bake Sale. I am not part of part of the PTA at my son’s school, but I do like to donate baked goods and other things they may need throughout the year. This baking session was one of the few I was …

When it comes to eating ice cream cones, going to a fancy ice cream shop is never as good as buying the Nestle Drumstick original vanilla ice cream cones. You get the nice toppings with no mess or the fuss.
The box I of Drumstick’s ice cream I purchased had …

Peanut Butter Captain Crunch is one in a line of cereals made under the Captain Crunch logo. There is regular Captain Crunch which comes in a red box, Chocolate Captain Crunch, which comes in a dark brown box, Crunch Berry Crunch which comes in a yellow box, and Peanut …

I bought this block Best Buy old cheddar cheese from the Safeway superstore on November 21, 2009 for just $6.49. The regular price was $8.47, so I was glad I decided to shop at Safeway on that day.
This is the first time I bought this brand of cheddar …

I love cheesy crackers, but I only eat natural ones made from whole foods. Some of the cheesy crackers I like to eat are the Kashi TLC Country Cheddar Crackers. They are tender and crunchy with a nice light cheddar flavor and are not overly salty. They have a …

Eggo: Chocolate Chip Pancakes turned out to be rather bland and tasteless according to my taste buds. Although the picture on the box makes it appear that there are chocolate chips aplenty in the pancakes, upon examination of the actual pancakes, one can relatively easily see that there are …

I have a favourite pepper sauce or hot sauce but recently it was sold out and I was making a dish which absolutely needs to have pepper sauce added into it for it to taste any good! Besides, I love my foods spicy! but I hardly ever cook them …

Tyson Teriyaki Flavored Chicken Breasts have added more variety to our family dinners and are quickly becoming one of our favorite dishes. These chicken breasts are sold frozen; they are pre-treated with teriyaki sauce, so all you need to do is place them on a cooking sheet and stick …

Pizza is a food that is enjoyed in my house be each and every member of the family. Since we all like pizza we decided to try the Totino’s pizza rolls that we had seen advertised on TV. When we went to the store I noticed that there were …

I really love mashed potato. Once upon a time my favourite was KFC’s mashed potato, but back at that time I was just a kid and the only place I knew which offers mashed potato was KFC. I love the gravy so much.
Later on …

My sister brought home Choco Chip Chocolate Cookies. She said her friend gave it to her as a gift. Since we like something sweet like that, we ate the food as soon as she opened the pack. The one that her friend gave to her is size 144g with …

The best memory from my former employment at Taco Bell was eating the grilled steak soft tacos. Before working there, I had been the safe Taco Bell eater: Soft taco supremes and that’s it. Before I left Taco Bell, I decided to gamble with my stomach and try the …

Another kitchen wonder you will often see in most kitchens today is cornstarch. It is mainly used to thicken sauces and gravies. I have tried this Cream Pure Cornstarch once and from then on, continued buying the product. It is in a box (200grams) which costs …

Stouffer’s Dinner’s Chicken and Fettuccini is a frozen dinner that comes with fettuccini pasta, chicken and some assorted vegetables, all for two dollars and forty-nine cents. The price for all the food that comes in the package would be perfectly tolerable had the food itself been tolerable. Well, that’s …

Whether you are a vegan, vegetarian or even a meat eater there is no way you wouldn’t love Health is Wealth vegan buffalo wings. I’m a vegan and I love them, but I was a meat eater at one time. So I know what it is like.
Sadly. Health is …

Krusteaz Raspberry Bar Mix offers up a very scrumptious treat! This treat consists of raspberry, almonds, brown sugar and oats. All of these ingredients come together to produce a treat that is really very flavorful and satisfying. The raspberry exists as raspberry filling and the raspberry offers up a …

As someone that likes not only bananas, but banana-flavored treats like banana nut bread and banana pudding, to name a few, I was very eager to try Yoplait’s Banana Creme variety of yogurt. I sure am glad that I did, too, because I find this yogurt to be positively …

For people like me with sweet tooth, you will surely know that this is mouth-watering. When I was craving to eat ice cream, I went to the grocery to buy something. All that was left in the freezer is Selecta Gold Series: Ice Cream Royalty Hazelnut Brownie. I am …

I care about my health. I’m going to be 33 soon and really don’t want to see myself having a heart attack by the time I’m 40 so I am making efforts to eat right.
That’s why my wife and I decided to try Campbell’s Select Harvest Soups when they …

My wife and I were hungry for tacos this past weekend and decided to pick up a taco dinner kit when we were at the store.
We had quite a few brands to choose from so we ended up just picking the cheapest one. That happened to be a taco …

I find it difficult at times to choose gluten free foods that I haven’t tried before because sometimes you never really know what you are going to get. Since the price is a bit higher for these specialty items, I don’t want to buy something that isn’t edible. I …

Obviously you can’t beat the taste of name brand chocolate wherever you may live, be it Cadbury’s, Hershey’s, Lindt or Nestlé but it isn’t always the case to say that cheaper chocolate is an inferior product. Often, I find we pay in excess for a “name” with some products …

My daughter loves blueberry waffles and, since they are the only thing I can get her to eat before school each morning, I usually keep a box in the freezer.
I recently bought a box from the brand Food Club and honestly have not been overly impressed with it.
First of …

I used to like these instant Options drinks but I went mad buying sachets of this the last time I went to the supermarket and I am not so enamoured by them. They are only 37 calories per drink so maybe for a very low calorie hot chocolate …

This is a very healthy cereal that I have been enjoying now for several years. If you are someone that is looking to lose weight and feel good, this cereal can help you do just that! In it is absolutely positively no fat or trans fat and no cholesterol, …

I like having granola bars (or something similar) on hand in our house. This is both because they work great as part of school lunches and because it’s always nice to have something like that within easy reach if I don’t get time to have a big lunch and …

I am in the belief that frozen, micro-waved pancakes are an oddity. Often they end up cemented or soggy. While grocery shopping recently, these frozen treats caught my eye: Strawberry Fruit-filled Pancakes by Purity Baking Company.
The box is cheery. The setting on the picture depicts a home-like …

Folgers Flavors French Vanilla or (Vainilla Francesca) is a coffee that is sold widely in many stores and supermarkets. It was on my weekly shopping trip to Walgreens in my town that I noticed the brand. It was on sale for 3.99. It was marked down from it’s normal …

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 love cake and brownies, but I live alone so it’s often a bad idea to cok a whole pan of browniess. I either can’t eat them all, or I try to eat them all which is a slo a horrible idea. Betty Crocker has just come out with …

Back in the day, it was Bon Bons that reigned supreme in the ice cream bites department. Today Bon Bons has competition from Dreyer’s (also known as Edy’s) Dibs. Dibs come in three different varieties at the moment as well as different sizes. The variety I …

I just finished eating a bowl of Beef Pares at Goodah! Well it was the first time I tried their Beef Pares. I kind of expected something with more sauce in it, the likes of the Korean beef stew. It was not spicy, but sweet so that is okay …

Red Bull is my all time favorite soft drink. I like to drink this sometimes in the morning instead of coffee on my way to work. I actually find it to be a very refreshing drink, especially in the summer.It’s not too sweet or sickly at all in my …

I never liked the fast food chain Greenwich and for the longest time, I felt that their food items were below par compared to the food offerings of other fast food chains. Yes, the food items are very affordable but then the quality of the food is so poor …

M&M’s have been one my favourite milk chocolate in color coated candy form. I like it better over the original peanut version of this chocolate. Infact, the minis are small in size and looks very cute. Easy to attract my son when he becomes cranky with few of …