We decided to make tacos last night because we had some hamburger in our fridge and figured it would be something different.
When we looked in our cupboard to see what we needed, we discovered we had an Old El Paso Soft Taco Dinner Kit.
I have used dinner kits in …

My wife did some grocery shopping yesterday and, since I told her to pick up some lunch meat while she was at the store, she also picked up a couple loaves of bread.
Normally, we have a few brands we choose from when shopping for bread. But, the store apparently …

Darjeeling Black Tea has always been know for it taste and quality and is no doubt one of the fines products sold around the world. People pay about a 3-4 $ just for 100g of the tea and is really quite an expensive product but it has plenty of …

Hubby bought green colored lime syrup which he used to combine and mix with his own concoction of a cocktail drink. He bought Manama Fruit Twist Green Lime Syrup at Hypercity Mall in Malad.
I am not a fan of hard drinks. If I do, I can only appreciate ladies …

It is very difficult to describe The Cookbooks Company Cooks store in Calgary to anyone who has not been there before, other than that it is a Calgary institution and it is a store for everything and anything to do with cooking. It is eclectic and has specialty and …

Product Description: Bag of barbecue flavored beef jerky. I found it at one of our local grocery stores this morning for $4.99.
What I liked about this product: Well, for one, I like the fact the jerky is much softer than most other brands. I usually end up buying jerky …

I can survive a whole week eating pizza alone, that is how much I love pizza. I go loco when I see a pizza with different kinds of meat and an overwhelming amount of mozarella cheese. Thus when I passed by a Greenwich pizza store one day, my eyes …

My husband likes to eat chips to match with any authentic Indian curries and dishes. Most of the Indian cuisine offers side dishes like papad and chips and I found it really great because most foods are spicy hot and chips tend to neutralize the chili that my tongue …

Tropicana real fruit juice is a kind of juice which is made of real fruits. That is true it is made of real orange fruit juice. It contains no artificial preservatives and no added chemicals. It is completely pure. It is available in many big …

Packaged brownies will never, ever taste as moist or as fresh as freshly baked brownies at home. That being said, these pre-made brownies aren’t bad, but they aren’t as moist and soft as I would have liked them to be. They get softer if I warm them up in …

Fairly crispy and excessively flavorful essentially describes how I feel about the cheese sticks made by Farm Rich. I have no doubt that these cheese sticks would come out crisper if I were to deep fry them - one of the three means of preparing the cheese sticks according …

I have seen the comercial for Kimbo about 3 years ago, there’s a man who says that ke likes Kimbo in some Italian dialect and all the comercials are funny.As we often buy things that we see on tv just because we see them on tv I bought Kimbo …

If I feel hungry and there’s no time to cook, Lucky Me Instant Pancit Canton is the way to go. It’s very easy to cook and gives you an instant fill when you’re on the go.
I Have tried other instant pancit cantons in the market but this …

Why is Zubrowka the tastiest vodka in the world, unique among the rest? Well, it’s from Poland, so you know it’s good. And it’s made from grass that the Polish buffalo roam on when they roam across the Polish lands. So it’s a yellowish color and …

Great Value Seasoned French Fries are indeed a great value - a two pound bag for just two dollars and twelve cents cannot be beat. Unfortunately, the fries themselves are not that spectacular. After cooking them for the recommended amount of time at the recommended oven temperature, the fries …

I recently purchased a two liter bottle of soda called Clover Valley. I got the strawberry flavored soda, because I personally love fruit flavored drinks. I have always preferred them to colas and other flavors. I placed the soda in the refrigerator to let it get cold of course, …

Crystal Light On the Go Packets are a neat little product. They are little tubes of powder that you can tuck in your pocket or purse and use individually.
Crystal Light On the Go Packets, Lemonade flavor came with me on a trip to Florida recently. They were so easy …

Nissin Cup Noodles have been famous now especially with people who have to work all day, those who do not have time to go out and buy food in fast food chains with long lines. Cup noodles really do come in handy. You just need to pour in hot …

Yogurt Land was a place that I had often heard of, but I assumed it was because it was a new place and people who were “yogurt crazy,” but did not trust that it was legitimately good. When I first tried it however, I was proven wrong. First of …

Mother dairies lick lolies is the name of the ice candies. It comes in many flavors and many shapes. The banana, apple, pineapple and mango many such flavors are very tasty. These ice candies are only available in the ice cream parlors. The cost of …

When I had went on vacation in the USA I had encountered truffles made by a company by the name of Lindt. I soon found out that these were delicious Swiss chocolates and I was very delighted when around Chrismtas time I saw a new assortment of the class …

I don’t usually buy wantons because I make my own at home which come out quite nicely if I do say myself. One day I decided to try Wai Loong’s Chicken Wantons from their extensive menu of differently filled wantons, because I was not going to be home for …

As I mentioned in another review, my wife and I decided to do some much needed grocery shopping recently and, because we needed to go there anyway, ended up at our local Walmart Super Center.
One of the items we needed was breakfast cereal because, once again, we seemed to …

Salchichas con curry by Gebirgsjager 1.95 euros per pack of 3
I have been shopping at Lidels supermarket on a weekly basis for the last 9 months since I have moved over to Mallorca from England because I recognise a lot of their foods that they sell in England. …

Breyers French Vanilla ice cream is not bad, although I also really cannot say it is fabulous or even decent. It is sort of just alright or average. For an ice cream that is supposed to be of the French Vanilla variety, I really am disappointed. The ice cream …

I walked by a coffee shop that was familiar to me and so curious, I stepped in at once. It was late in the afternoon and by that time, I already had my daily coffee quota. I spotted their Arizona Green Tea which they sold in several flavors. I …

I had the pleasure of finally tasting and drinking Red Trolly Ale on my trip to Disneyland the last couple of years, and I must say that this stuff is very good and tastes so good once it hits your lips. I had it at this little beer stand they …

Lambertz cookies come in a really nice box, it is thing and in a shape of a cube, on the front part on the pale yellow background you can see Exquisit Biscuit assortment written and under it there’s a picture of many cookies that look really delicious. On the …

As someone who is particularly fond of eating nuts, I was naturally thrilled to find Planters mixed nuts in our house.
Its combination of delightfully tasty peanuts, cashews, almonds, brazil nuts, walnuts, and hazelnuts is certainly something that made my stomach grumble in extreme anticipation.
So, since I was …

Sweet Factory “World’s Smallest Jawbreakers” are my favorite candies. They look just like jawbreakers but are the smallest made anywhere. I have seen them range from about 2mm to about 6mm. I like to chew them instead of suck on them because they are hard but at the same …

Whole grain wheat cereal certainly isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. I know of family and friends that find shredded wheat cereal to be dry and unpleasant in texture. I will say it’s not my favorite kind of cereal, either, but I like it enough to have on occasion. It’s …

I have to say that I’m a little particular when it comes to cookies and cream flavored ice cream. Unless the ice cream itself is really good, I won’t like it. I’ve had a lot that used cheap ice cream and loaded it down with cookies to make it …

One of the truly outstanding values that is available at your Aldi food store is Mama Cozzi’s Pizza. The cost for one of these 16 inch pizzas is about six dollars. You would be hard pressed to find a similar size pizza for that price to be perfectly …

If you’ve ever gone to a Vietnamese restaurant, you have probably encountered this chili sauce. If so, you’ve already had the pleasure of its acquaintance.
If not, let me be the first to introduce you.
For a lot of people, their idea of “hot sauce” usually consists of tobasco or some …

My grandmother loves to shop for bargain stuff in the barter. She loves to buy Apollo wafer sticks and just recently she bought this Munchy’s Munchini Choco Wafer Sticks. It comes in a huge plastic bin with a red handle. For 480 grams of chocolate cream wafer sticks, this …

I am one of those shoppers who is not afraid to try a generic product if the price is right! One product I recently tried was our store’s generic version of Raisin Bran Cereal, best Choice Bran Cereal with Raisins. I am the only one in my …

I am not a huge fan of apple juice, but do enjoy a glass once in a while. Now come the fall when the local orchard makes the fresh apple cider, that’s a different story.
At a recent dinner get-together my mother-in-law brought out Simply Apple juice for our …

Chocolate chip cookies are my favourite ones but it really isn’t easy to find good ones for a good price.
McEnnedy Big Nut Cookies can be bought at Lidl stores and they don’t cost much, they price is usually about 1 Euro for 150g of these cookies. I bought them …

After trying the Blue Raspberry flavored Twizzlers, I am not really sure what I feel about the product, and though I really don’t have a problem with them, I wouldn’t recommend it only because it has that “iffy” quality to it. Where I don’t feel that it something worth …

In my lifetime spanning 55 years on this earth I have consumed more than my fair share of soft drinks. I have tried them all. It wasn’t until my doctor told me to lose some weight or go on medication to control my sugar that I even considered a …

New York Style - Spicy Three Peppers is a snack chip that is not as spicy as the name might suggest. Oh there is a definite bite to these chips and they do invoke a build-up of “heat” in one’s mouth, but I do not think that these chips …

I always buy myself some chocolate when I go grocery shopping so I can get over the stress of shopping with choccie and a magazine when I get back. I tried some of Morrisons own brand —˜The Best’ Milk Chocolate with Roasted Piedmont Hazelnuts and I really liked …

Product Description: A microwavable family-sized dinner consisting of slices of turkey in a turkey gravy.
What I liked about this product: Even though my wife and I prefer making meals from scratch, we don’t always have the time to do so and, because of that, are always searching for items …

I have tried several other name brands of powered cocoa when making recipes that call for it. Each time, I come back to using Hershey’s Cocoa because of the rich flavor it has. Hershey’s has mastered powered cocoa. With the several other brands I have used, I have not …

One thing that I like about the brand Hilo is that they have released a few good quality products and sold them at a price that is lower than any other brand at most Hilo supermarkets I have visited islandwide. However, there are still one or two Hilo …

I loved eating noodles and it is a usual breakfast for me and even midnight snack. But some times due to a lot of work I have no time in cooking some instant noodles that needs to cook at stove.
Good thing, this instant cup noodles of Nissin was introduced …

These dried plums are much better than the dried apricots that are also made by the “Made in Nature” company because the quality is consistently good. The plums are always dried thoroughly through, leaving nothing behind but a tasty, chewy plum. It’s wonderful that they’re already pitted, so …

Lady’s Choice is a sandwich filling by Unilever. The mayonnaise from it is cholesterol free and made from the best ingredients which are rich in Omega-3. There are different variants of it but the one I’ll be reviewing is the Lady’s Choice Sandwich Spread.
If there’s something that can make …

If you have never had corn on the cob before then I must rave about how good it tastes, but these particular cobs - the Supersweet ones from Tesco - are particularly good as they are lovely and sweet. Yesterday at the supermarket I actually picked up two …

It is a real shame that the only thing different and unique about Mrs. Freshley’s Valentine’s Day: Sweet Treats Pink Snowballs is the pink food coloring that was added to give it the typical Valentine’s Day look. I had been hoping that something special had been added to the …