Food Reviews
Pantry Blends Tortilla Soup Mix
I enjoy soup, whether it be on a cold, rainy day, snuggled in front of the TV or on a warm day, served up with a side sandwich or crackers. My favorite way to enjoy soup is when it is homemade. Yes every now and then I take the …
Sunshine Snacks Corn Chips
Sunshine Snacks is a popular local brand for snack foods and one of their products is Corn Chips. This snack comes in a very light .28g package. This is not surprising since the chips themselves are pretty light but also very crispy. Since it is so small it is …
Topraman noodles
My kids are the fans and they always insist me to prepare the noodles for them. I have tried many brands of noodles and they have liked almost all of them. But now I am going to write about the topraman noodles, which I tried. Actually …
L’oven Fresh Take & Bake Baguettes Twin Pack
The L’oven Fresh Take & Bake Baguette Twin Pack costs one dollar and fifty-nine cents. Two baguettes come in a package. The L’oven brand is not a well known one, but I personally think that these baguettes tastes fine. After all, it’s just bread, so why should I pay …
Jack-N-the-Box Strawberry Milkshake
One of my favorite things on the menu at Jack n the Box is their strawberry milkshake. The first time I had one was a few months ago and since then I’ve made it a treat to get one every time I stop by the fast food restaurant. In …
Flavor-Aid Koolaid
I typically by Flavor-Aid Kool-Aid because it is a cheap affordable drink that my all kids like. Normally I purchase the 12 pack from Save-a-lot because it’s only 79 cents for the 12 packs compared to paying 10 cents each for them individually. That is a savings of 41 …
Stouffer’s Frozen Food - Spaghetti with Meatballs
Stouffer’s Frozen Food - Spaghetti with Meatballs is a product I’ve purchased for several years now. I’m a spaghetti fiend and am always searching for good and easy spaghetti to prepare.
Stouffer’s is actually the first frozen food brand that I ever liked. Until their products came out, …
Dempster’s Flax Bread
This is the first and last time I will buy Dempsters Flax Bread. The packaging boasts that this bread is 100 percent whole grain;a source of omega-3 and also has the health check from the Heart and Stroke Foundation. None of those qualities can redeem this bread.
I had …
Clipper Organic Freeze Dried Arabica Instant Coffee
This instant coffee from the Clipper brand —“ Organic Freeze-Dried Arabica Coffee —“ is a very ethical product indeed. It is marked as —˜Fairtrade’, it is organic and therefore cultivated without the use of pesticides I presume and even the jar is made of 60% recycled glass. …
Snyders honey mustard and onion pretzels
Snyders honey mustard and onion pretzels are by far the tastiest, best pretzels I ever tasted. Although onions never did agree with me, somehow there pretzels always agree with me. The taste is tangy yet not spicey enough to cause a stomach ache. They …
Cheerios cereal : Dulce de Leche
Cheerios has a new addition to the line called Dulce de Leche. If you’re a Cheerios fan and love the taste of caramel then this is for you. It’s lightly sweetened with the natural flavor of caramel, though it’s not sugary sweet. This is great because you won’t get …
Marks and Spencer French Bread Rolls
These French bread rolls from Marks & Spencer are sold individually and are to be found in the bakery section of the store. They are only priced at 25 pence each. These are my all time favourite rolls and are absolutely delicious every time. Marks & …
CHEEZ-IT Hot and Spicy Crackers
As a lover of the well known cheese cracker snack, I tried another one their flavors. Cheez-it hot N spicy. Cheez-it that’s flavored with original Tabasco hot sauce. Next to the original cheez-it crackers, these have become my favorite. I found that I can eat them by themselves, with …
Priano Alfredo Sauce Four Cheese
The Priano Alfredo Sauce is a product that I’ve only seen at ALDI Food Market stores. At ALDI Food Market stores, one jar costs one dollar and eighty-nine cents. There were two different varieties of this sauce on display, a “Four Cheese” variety and a “Roasted Garlic” variety. Upon …
Ceres Cranberry and Kiwi Pure Fruit Juice Blend
I bought this juice drink at Spencers grocery in Inorbit and it says 100% pure fruit juice blend so I selected it for a try. I did have a brand for fruit juice but since I wanted to try and taste other brands, I got curious on Ceres.
Ceres offers …
Heinz Tomato Soup
I’ve grown up in the UK, and it’s been instilled in me from a young age that Heinz soups are the best! Heinz prides itself on its high quality and natural ingredients, and this tends to be reflected in its prices.
The famous adverts that used to show …
Campbell’s Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup
Campbell’s Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup is my personal favorite of all the variety of Campbell soups. I like it as soup, and usually only use it as such. For cooking other dishes, like stroganoff or tuna casserole, I use the Great Value brand, which is just as good …
Turkey Hill Mojito-flavored Green Tea
I have been drinking green tea for quite a while. But I have been drawn to the Sobe variety. When I strolled through my local supermarket, I was surprised to see that Turkey Hill had a mojito flavor. Mojitos are alcoholic cocktails that are flavored …
Selecta Gold Series Vanilla Almond
One day I was craving for vanilla ice cream so my sister went out to buy some. She came home with two pints of a 465ml Selecta Gold Series Vanilla Almond ice cream. The packaging is simply black and gold but it looks quite sophisticated.
Upon opening the lid, …
Country Crock Loaded Mashed Potatoes
When it comes to brand name mashed potatoes I stick to Betty Crocker, but I liked the fact that the loaded potatoes had bacon and chives in it.
I purchased the Country Crock loaded mashed potatoes because I didn’t really feel like cooking one night, and I decided to take …
Carnation Instant Breakfast
If you live a life constantly on the go, the you will really appreciate carnation Instant breakfast. What it is, is a drink taht is packed with all the vitamins ntrients and protien taht you will need for the day, but its all in a drink.
This makes having a …
Cajun
No doubt many have used the name “Cajun” in their efforts to sell recipes and famous New Orleans style Cajun dishes as served in New Orleans. Beware as they are and introduction to heartburn and disappointment. You will do well if you just add a few choice ingredients to …
Branston Mayo with a twist of Hot Peri Peri Mayonnaise
Ever since I saw a television commercial for this spicy mayonnaise sauce I have been fantasizing about getting some and now I have tried it, it really is fantastic —“ it is so, so tasty. In the advert, they squirt it onto a tortilla wrap, add chicken pieces …
Friendly Farms Aerosol Whipped Light Cream
The Friendly Farms Aerosol Whipped Light Cream comes in a seven ounce can for one dollar and forty-nine cents at ALDI Food Market stores. Although more whipped cream can be bought for less in a standard container, this aerosol can offers a degree of convenience that the standard container …
Biguerlai Slimming Tea
I’ve been overweight since I gave birth 7 years ago. A month after giving birth, I started getting heavier. I didn’t pay any attention to it at first thinking that I will soon loose the extra weight again since I had never been fat before. But I was wrong. …
Tesco Mineral Water 1.5L Bottle
So far, this is the cheapest 1.5L mineral water that I found in the market that tastes quite as good as Spritzer. I usually bring my own water bottle but somehow I left it in the house the day we went shopping with the kids. I know that bottle …
Breyer’s Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream
When I went to the USA for the first time which was years upon years ago. I had encountered a lot of new brands of ice cream. One of them was Breyer’s and even though it was pretty much more expensive than some other also popular brands I …
Active Lifestyle Instant Oatmeal
I love oatmeal. Today, I picked up a box of Active Lifestyle Instant Oatmeal raisin, apple and walnut. Oatmeal is has many wellness benefits. Active Lifestyle brand claims to “supports your weight management plan”. My family had mixed reviews on this product.
Active …
Pillsbury Original Crescent
Let’s face it, when it comes to breakfast pastries the crescent has it in the bag. There is just something about how flimsy it is and the flakiness you get when you break it in half. Pillsbury is the only brand I’ll buy when it comes to crescents and …
Saffal frozen pees
Who does not like to eat the recepies made using the fresh pees. But the fresh pees are only available in particular seasons. But now we don’t need to worry because now we can get the Saffal frozen pees, which are sold in the shops. These …
Hostess Cupcakes
I find Hostess Cupcakes to be a positively delightful snack treat to enjoy from time to time. The chocolate cake and the chocolate frosting both have a rich and exciting flavor and the creme that is both on the top and in the middle is equally rich and exciting. …
Alf Farms Chicken Luncheon Slices
I went to the grocery to buy easy to cook meals and I found Alf Farms Chicken Luncheon slices which I can put for our sandwich or I can fry it straight good to match for our lunch or dinner meals.
It was vacuum sealed and it was really fresh …
Francisco Extra Sourdough Bread
I’ve eaten several different varieties of bread from Francisco International, but I believe my favorite is Francisco Extra Sourdough Bread. It’s a product I’ve enjoyed off and on for years and have been purchasing a bit more in recent months.
While regular sourdough bread is tasty, the extra sourdough …
Kashi Go lean Crunch: Honey Almond Flax
Kashi is one of those brands, that’s catches your eye when you’re on a health kick or are looking for a better alternative to your usual sugary selections. Let me tell you, I was opened to a new kind of goodness, called Kashi Go Lean Crunch: Honey Almond Flax. …
Star Margarine
Star Margarine has always been a family favorite ever since I was little. We would use Star margarine for cooking, even mixing it with rice is your food is a bit boring for you and even tastes good on bread. Star margarine is also a healthy alternative to cooking …
30 Count Chocolate Bar Variety Pack
My biggest problem with this thirty count variety pack packaged and released by M & M Mars is that it’s very uneven in the different number of chocolate candy bars. By that, I mean, while there’s thirty Snickers bars, there’s only three 3 Musketeers. There’s eight Twix bars but …
Great Value Flame-Broiled Hamburger
Two Great Value Flame-Broiled Hamburgers come in a package at Walmart for two dollars and thirty cents. The hamburgers are individually wrapped and come on sesame buns. The hamburgers can either be cooked in the oven or microwave. Since the hamburger patties come already positioned on the sesame buns, …
Bristot Classic Esspresso Coffee
I really can’t do without the coffee in the morning, it is actually the first thing I do when I open my eyes to go and put the moka on the stove to boil. I like to have a lot of coffee at home so that it never happened …
Spitz Sunflower Seeds “Seasoned”
Sunflower seeds, the perfect food for a sporting event, camping, boating… or in my case, passing time at work or keeping myself awake on a long drive. I’ve been a “David” brand guy all my life, but the other day I picked up a couple bags of “Spitz” to …
Romeo chocolate coated cream biscuits
Recently one of my friends brought Romeo chocolate biscuits for my kid. I too tasted them just like that. They are really tasty and I liked them very much. The soft waffer type biscuits are coated …
Vitaminka Portokal
Vitaminka Portokal is actually chocolate candies with orange kernel. I bought them the other day at a very cheap store called Getro. There you can find very cheap stuff but mostly it doesn’t taste very good so I prefer buying things I’ve already tried there but you have to …
Sanderson Farms Packaged Chicken
Sanderson Farms Packaged Chicken is sold at several supermarkets in my area and it’s certainly my most favorite brand of chicken. I love the fact that Sanderson Farms Packaged Chicken is available in many types including, wings, legs and thighs. One of the reasons that I purchase …
David’s Deli - Plain Bagels
I only purchased David’s Deli - Plain Bagels once and the reason for that is the bagels seemed to be on the stale side even though I had my first one the very next morning and the “best used by date” was far off. I always check the dates …
Knorr Real Chinese Soup
There are actually two variants of Knorr soup, the cream soups and the real Chinese soups. Between the two, I prefer the real Chinese soups even though they are a bit expensive. But still both tastes good.Since we love soups and we use them as side …
Great Value: Hot Chunky Salsa
Great Value: Hot Chunky Salsa is indeed quite hot! Prepare to have your taste buds set ablaze as this salsa will most definitely ignite some fire in your mouth and belly! Also, this salsa is indeed chunky, too! Onions and tomatoes and jalapeno peppers and more make up this …
Blue Diamond Almonds Wasabi and Soy flavored
I thought that I would try something differentfor snacking the last time I went to Walgreens. I noticed the can of Blue Diamond Almonds Wasabi and Soy flavored and decided to pick some up for my snacking pleasure.
Almonds are very good at raising the LDL or good cholesterol in …
The Bar - Gin with Lemon and Lime
This was the first and original flavor of The Bar alcoholic drinks line, this was the first The Bar that I have tried, and the first time was really unforgettable. I didn’t think that it would be too strong or anything, so I drank one shot without any …
Chop Sticks Sweet and Salt Prunes
During my childhood, while going to school, salt prunes were a popular thing. Since my childhood days I haven’t eaten salt prunes much but I can tell you they come in a variety of saltiness, ranging from very salty to almost sweet…
The other day while I was going on …
NIPS chocolate parfait candies
Nips Chocolate Parfait 30 calorie candies!
Finally, a candy that does not include 160,523,794 calories per piece! Okay, so maybe I exaggerated a little bit but honestly. Most regular candy will cost you an arm and a leg in the daily calorie department just by eating one piece. …
Epicurious - www.epicurious.com
I discovered Epicurious completely by accident. I googled the Greek dish saganaki, which is deep-fried cheese, and one of the recipes that came up was on the website www.epicurious.com, and I have been referencing this site ever since for almost every new recipe I want to try. Both my …
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