I like taking chewy bars to work because they serve as an easy on the go breakfast or a great snack for lunch. I saw these Kelloggs bars at Wal-Mart and the thought of dark chocolate and almonds made me drool so I decided to go ahead and …

I have been a loyal customer to Dezato café because of their great Mochi ice cream balls. My husband surprised me one day when he purchased a Red Velvet Cake from Dezato because the only place I know that serves great Red Velvet cupcakes was Sonja’s Cupcakes. It was …

I had the best bowl of cereal for breakfast this morning. Kellog’s Frosted Mini Wheats is a great way to start your day. There are many reasons to try this cereal. First, if you follow the serving suggestion on the box, you get just the right …

This Pasta Side suffers from the same problem that plagues some of the other Pasta Sides, like the Cheddar Broccoli variety. The problem I’m referring to is the lack of beef. That’s what the Pasta Side is called, and yet the pieces of beef are so super small that …

I tried a bag of Kolak Kure Green Chutney Flavour Maize Snacks for the first time today, but I would not buy these again. They may suit you if you have different tastebuds to me though. These come in a largeish, green and yellow 90g bag and …

I love making Chinese food at home, so when I found Chef Woo’s 160gram Szechuan Stir Fry Kit on sale for $1 I bought it immediately. Chef Woo is a respected name in packaged do-it-yourself Chinese food kits so I had high hopes for this package.
The Szechuan Stir Fry …

Alaska Evaporated Milk I should honestly say is the best tasting evaporated milk of all. All the other local brands are unable to match its excellent taste. Globalization has brought in a lot of other brands of evaporated milk from other countries but so far Alaska Evaporated milk remains …

Perhaps all of us have heard about Skittles Candy. This confectionary or candy sweets looks like an m & m chocolate. Skittles is a chewable candy packed in thin plastic-like paper sealed for freshness. This chewable candy is really enjoyable to eat, it has different colors are each color …

I wanted a light snack for at work this morning so I ended up stopping off at one of our grocery stores. After looking at a few other things, I ended up buying a bag of Gold Award beef jerky.
This product cost me only $1 so I wasn’t expecting …

Alexia Crunchy Snacks - Waffle Fries Hot Pepper is a flavor variety that I never really cared for and thus never purchased again. I do enjoy spicy chips and flavors, but I personally did not think that these waffle fries offered a very hot or spicy or strong flavor. …

I find this Jell-o No Bake Desserts - Strawberry Cheesecake to be reasonably decent in terms of texture and flavor, although I personally prefer the taste and texture of a homemade cheesecake or one that is sold ready made at the grocery store. The reason for my preferences is …

There are a lot of different flavors and varieties out there of peanut butter, and even saying that might be an understatement! Sometimes, too many choices can make making an actual choice quite hard and, sometimes, if you’re just looking for something simple, it can get lost among all …

The Great Value: English Double Fork Split Muffins are the cheapest English muffins that I am able to find in a grocery store. Compared to the name brand companies that make and sell English muffins, these are just as good and at a price that is significantly lower than …

I have become so bored of store-bought salad dressing that I have been making my own dressings and vinaigrettes for a long time now; sometimes, if I am in a hurry, I quickly mix olive oil, extra virgin of course, and balsamic vinegar together and use that for a dressing. …

Whenever I have an eating outing with friends, family or my boyfriend, I will go to my favorite hawker center and request for this special dish which is Grilled Brinjal with Sausage.
And I match it up with a bowl of rice and let me tell you, I could …

Frozen chopped broccoli is a great addition to casseroles and main dishes. I have always bought name brand chopped broccoli, like Green Giant, but am feverishly trying to cut down on my grocery bill. I recently tried the generic version of chopped broccoli offered at our grocery …

This is by far the best tea you could ever have, at least in my opinion.
The taste is incredible, you can really taste the Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmeg and Vanilla. Those four spices are the strongest, but all the other ingredients blend together nicely, making this tea a perfect after …

No more hungers now just a delicious and healthy fast food. I am a bachelor and work in a stock exchange. I don’t have that much time even a second of movement can make loss to me so I can’t move my eye from the system until the stock …

Instant noodles are often considered a cheap meal - after all, you can get a package for pennies. The brand I like is Sapporo Ichiban, which cooks quickly and comes in several flavours, such as shrimp, chicken, and beef.
The noodles are quite salty if you use the entire package …

I only really care for two of the four varieties of mini donuts found in Mrs. Freshley’s Variety Mini Donuts and really the only reason that I purchased this variety pack in the first place is because it was on sale for a pretty appetizing price. The two flavor …

Ran to the grocery, as we had guests craving for some ice cold soda. To my disappointment, they had ran our of my favorite soda brand. So, I was left to buy Virgin Cola and was finally given a chance to try something new.
When I started pouring the cola, …

Every day for the past 2 years, I’ve eaten Kashi GO LEAN Cereal for breakfast. For anyone that’s looking for a healthy, tasty, and satisfying meal at the start of the day, Kashi GO LEAN Crunch! Honey Almond Flax is a great option. With 200 calories, 500mg of omega-three …

I started eating cereals a couple of years ago when I first went to college. It was the easiest and simplest thing to prepare in the morning and it was also pretty cheap. But I was eating them every morning and although I was buying many different brands and …

As a big popcorn lover, I have tried many brands of microwave pop corn, from Orville Redenbackers to no-name brands.So far, President’s Choice Trans Fat-Free Butter Flavour Microwave Popping Corn is the best.
While other microwave, butter-flavoured popcorn brands are often drenched in butter and have smells that are …

There are three lemon-flavored and three strawberry-flavored Italian Ice cups that come in a box for two dollars and fifty cents. Thia is a reasonably fair price considering the quality and flavor of the Italian Ice. While neither flavor is particularly super rich, the lemon-flavored cups offer an unmistakable …

“Chubby” was a Trinidadian soft drink product which came out in the nineteen nineties in Jamaica when I was about six or so years old. I guess the product was named Chubby because it was in a small stout plastic bottle, which at the time to me, made it …

Hidden Valley Ranch dressing is the only dressing that I like in my salads. It’s the best dressing if you ask me. It’s thick and creamy and has a taste like no other dressing out there. I had a Kraft ranch low fat dressing once and that is alright, …

I like most of Coke products and I like vanilla, so when Vanilla Coke was announced I couldn’t wait to try it. I thought the taste was going to be divine. However, when I had bought my first little bottle, I was disappointed. I don’t think I ever bought …

Although these chicken breasts look small, the taste definitely makes up for the size. Anyone who loves a good sesame tasting chicken should give the Omaha Steaks Sesame Chicken Breasts a try. I’m a tall 27 year old female and cook eat you out of house and …

When my father’s friend and his family came back from abroad a few days ago, they brought a few products with them. One of those products was a very large bag of rice, which I late found out was a bag of Carolina Gold Parboiled Rice. As weird as …

The other day at Lidl shop I saw FirstNice Peanut Chocolate; I like Snickers, which is also made of chocolate and peanuts so I wanted to try this chocolate too. It didn’t cost much, about 50 Euro cents so I decided to buy it, you get 100g of chocolate …

Mulino Bianco is a very popular Italian brand; they make mostly bread, biscuits but different kind of rolls too. The other day my sister wanted to try Pan di Stelle chocolate rolls, we don’t usually buy similar stuff because they just make you fat because they are sweet and …

Britania chutkule is a new product in the market. It is the snack which just tastes like the salted and spiced biscuits. I saw this product in the general stores and I brought it home once to try. We all tasted it but the taste is …

Stouffer’s Deluxe French Bread Pizza is, unfortunately, quite bland in flavor and turned out to be an overall disappointment. The reason I found it to be bland is because neither the pepperoni nor the sausage delivered on the flavors that I have come to enjoy. Compared with the sausage …

I’ve grown up with M&M’s Peanut Chocolate Candies and they’ve continued to be a favorite. I will have to admit up front that I’ve cut back on the peanut version quite a bit because several years ago, I bit into one of those and broke my tooth. …

As I am over 40 years of age I of course think of Starburst fruit chews as Opal Fruits, their original name. Whenever there is a name change of my favourite sweets or confectionary I always refuse to call it by its new name until I have to …

There are many brand of tomato ketchup that you can find in the store here. But so far, the best taste of tomato ketchup are only from Heinz Tomato Ketchup.
When you go to the Tomato Ketchup section in the grocery stores here, you probably will find their product …

My aunt just got home from the US and brought home some of these Dole All-Natural Fruit in Light Syrup. It’s in a plastic jar of 695 grams of fruit slices. She gave us two different flavors, Mixed Fruit in Light Syrup and Sliced Peaches in …

Albertsons Half and Pieces Lightly Salted Cashews was picked by me because of price advantage over full pieces. Around half of the box was broken pieces and rest was halves of cashews. The cashews seemed roasted and processed. Evidently the quality grade of cashews was pretty low. This was …

I’ve been wanting to try Idahoan Four Cheese Mashed Potatoes for a very long time, but only just recently decided to give it a go. As my readers know, convenience is my driving goal with foods, from preparation to cooking and through cleanup. I judge just about …

I often eat cereal for breakfast, and have been trying to eat more healthy cereals. I am now on my third box of Oatmeal Crisp Triple Berry, which I like because it is crunchy and flavourful.
I like the bits of dried berry, although I do find the strawberry pieces …

I have tried every skittle out there…I like them ok but they are a little to sugary for me. So when skittles came out with the Ice Cream Limited Edition Flavor I thought why not. I purchased a bag and tried the first flavor, vanilla. Amazing, it taste just …

My kids love cotton candy so much because it is fun and addictive to eat. I have seen an Old Fashion Cotton Candy stall in SM City Fairview early this afternoon, and this was my first time to know that there’s such a stall like this …

One of my favorite flavored herbal and spiced black teas to drink when I need a little pick me up in the morning and afternoon is Good Earth Organic Apricot Ginger Black Tea. It has a very light ginger and apricot flavoring that helps give the black tea some …

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 …

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 …

Do you ever keep cookies or hidden chocolates around the house to snack on at your leisure? I love little fancy chocolates. Keeping them around lets me have a little something fancy to devulge in every once in awhile, just for me. Ghirardelli Squares Pecan Pie are the …

Stouffer’s Baked Chicken Breast is a pretty enjoyable and nutritious meal that I like having every now and then. What I like about it is simple, really. The baked chicken breast has a pretty good flavor to it, and it is tender, too! Plus, the chicken breast is a …

Dole 100% Pineapple Orange Juice is one of our family’s favorite juices. It is a frozen concentrate - actually a blend of two concentrates, orange and pineapple - that comes in a 12 fl. oz. can and needs to be kept in the freezer until you are ready to …