Food Reviews
Sara Lee Soft and Smooth Wheat Bread
Sara Lee Soft and Smooth Wheat Bread was tried by me for taking a break from usual white breads that I buy and also because of health conscious decision to get some whole grains in the diet. As the name suggest, the bread was soft and smooth. To my …
Chips Ahoy - Big Pack
Recently, I purchased the Chips Ahoy - Big Pack as I call it. It’s a large box that contains four packages of 12-ounce packages of Chips Ahoy! cookies. I made the purchase at Sam’s Club. The reason for the buy was that not only do I …
Lien Cuisine Panini
I take my lunch to work everyday, and Lien Cuisine panini sandwiches are some of the best things that I can find to take with me. The are easy to heat up if you have a microwave, and they are very delicous. There are many different flavors to choose …
Schwans Orange Strawberry Banana Drink Concentrate
As I scanned through the Schwans August-December 2006 magazine the drink concentrates cought my eye. They have a variety of flavors, but the Orange Strawberry Banana flavor caught my eye. I think it is a delicious mix of fruits that blend together very well. The …
Sea Dog Blueberry Beer
I used to not really be a beer drinker, but spent time with people who were. i would often have difficulty infinding something to drink when we were out at bars that had primarily a beer menu. Then, I tried this beer.
This beer atstes almost like a blueberry tea, …
Apple Jacks Cereal Straws
Apple Jacks Cereal Straws left an unpleasant taste in my mouth. Normally I enjoy the taste of cinnamon but I found these to be very unpleasant. I couldn’t eat more than the one and I forced myself to finish that one. I was surprised they didn’t taste better as …
Wendy’s - Jr. Cheeseburger Deluxe
Wendy’s - Jr. Cheeseburger Deluxe is a relatively small yet flavorful burger that is ideal for those days when I simply need something to keep me going and not something that is going to put me to sleep in the afternoon. The burger patty is smaller than the normal …
Nescafe Decaf
Nescafe currently had a campaign to encourage people to drink coffee at night even before you head to bed for a good night slumber. The challenge though is to erase the preconceived notion that coffee, being rich in caffeine will keep you awake. Thus they manufactured a different mix, this …
Cascadian Farm Sweet and Salty Peanut Pretzel Chewy Granola bars
Cascadian Farm is one of those brands that offers organic foods. I’ve come to discover them in recent years when going to stores like whole food and changing up my eating patterns. They are a bit pricy but well worth every penny. I had an opportunity to …
Healthy Choice Tortellini Primavera Parmesan
Healthy Choice Tortellini Primavera Parmesan is a frozen entree that is both low fat and low calorie when compared to “regular” frozen entrees. I tend to eat a lot of these types of frozen entrees. others. One of the reasons I eat them so often is convenience. …
Cadbury Chocolate - Caramel Whip
Caramel Whip is a new product from the Cadbury chocolate range. This is a new, exciting product because it combines the taste and textures of a chocolate bar in the format of the 230g chocolate block. In each square of chocolate is gooey caramel combine with a soft nougat …
Great Value Sugar Cookies
The Great Value Sugar Cookies come twenty-four to a pack and sell for one dollar and twenty-nine cents. Once I opened the package, I had to put the sugar cookies in a ziplock bag because they aren’t individually wrapped or in a bag that can be resealed. I found …
Great Value Imitation Vanilla Extract
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 …
Season’s Choice Vegetables
One of the things my wife picked up in a recent visit to our local Aldi store was a bag of “steamable” vegetables from the brand Season’s Choice. We ended up having those as part of dinner last night and I was very impressed with these.
I like vegetables that …
Sprite Soda
During break time in school, me and my friends are always going on our school’s canteen to buy some snack for our merienda. We prefer buying some bread or crackers with matching a soda. Speaking of a soda, I am buying Sprite Soda. I still prefer drinking this drink …
Hong Kong City Fried Rice
One evening I went to the mall with my grandparents and while at the food court they decided they wanted Chinese food, so I went along with the “crowd” if you want to call it that and decided I would get Chinese food too. Besides, my grandad was sponsoring! …
Elledi apricot jam tart
There’s one shop near my home where they sell different interesting things that you can’t find in other shops. Some of them are Elledi trademark product. I’ve already tried some waffles of the same brand and they were good but on one shelf here are Elledi tarts and there …
Betty Crocker Wild Blueberry Muffin Mix
Betty Crocker wild blueberry muffin mix is a discovery I just made on my last grocery shopping venture. When it comes to large boxes of muffin mix, I tend to stay away from them because A) I have a preferred muffin mix and 2) there is too much muffin …
Diet Coke
I like diet soda, but I love diet coke it is by far the best tasting diet cola on the market in my opinion. I am not embarrassed to admit that I suck down a ton of diet coke every day. It is my vice, I am addicted to it, …
Bornvita
Bornvita is the name of the health drink, which is used by many families in India. It is said that the bornvita contains all the nutrition values, which are needed for the growing kids and also for the young generation. I don’t know about the nutritional values …
Danon Activia Yogurt
Being a yogurt fan with poor digestion, when Danon introduced Activia for good digestive health I was eager to try it. After trying it in my favorite flavor of strawberry, I was hooked.
The yogurt texture is smooth and creamy. Bits of real strawberries are mixed throughout with fresh …
Vanilla Coke
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 …
Xtreme Lean
Once when I was at Wal-mart, I noticed a bottle of Xtreme Lean stiing on the shelf. Xtreme Lean is a dietary supplement that promotes weight loss, enchances diet and provides energy. I thought it looked like a great product, so I bought the 120 capsules bottle. …
Cooper’s Cheeseburger
Only at ALDI Food Market stores have I come across a single, frozen cheeseburger from a company named Cooper’s. The frozen cheeseburger is flame broiled, and that’s what caught my attention as I really like hamburgers that are flame-broiled. Plus, the cheeseburger came on a sesame seed bun, and …
Duncan Hines Family Style Brownies: Chewy Fudge Mix
The holiday season is under way, and that means that my holiday baking has just begun. This year, I will be sending my family and friends gift boxes full of brownies, made from the Duncan Hines Family Style Brownies: Chewy Fudge Mix. These were a great deal, …
Golden Home Ultra Thin Pizza Crust
I wanted to use my garden vegetables for a pizza last weekend and, as a result of that, ended up running to the local grocery store in search of some pizza crust.
Since my daughters don’t really like pizza with toppings, the plan was to buy two crusts, one for …
Mighty Mango Nakes Smoothie
I must admit I never was a smoothie lover. I do like fruit and juices, but not really the texture of smoothies. However, I was convinced to try some Naked smoothie flavors by my teenage daughter and after a few purchases I have decided that Mighty …
Dooly Apricot Nectar juice
I don’t usually buy juices because they cost a lot and usually they are too sweet so I prefer to drink plain water. From all juices my favourite one is apricot juice, it is actually the only one I like but the problem is that usually apricot juices are …
Liptons Side Kicks Potatoes with Roasted Chicken Gravy
Being British I have always loved any food product associated with the Lipton name and their Side Kicks Potatoes with Roasted Chicken Gravy is no exception. When this pouch of freeze dried scallop potatoes with accompanying pouch of gravy went on sale for only $1.39CDN, I just couldn’t resist …
Fruit Juice Sticks candy
Some time ago before my brother went on his summer holidays, I was waiting for him to finish classes and since I was feeling a little on the peckish side, I ended up buying a fairly cheap and unusual candy to snack on meanwhile. The name of it that …
Palermo’s Frozen Pizza
My husband is on the road a lot of the time for work. When he is home we have to have the full meal deal. When he is gone, my girls and I slack off in the cooking department. Like most kids, my girls like frozen pizza’s as well …
Country Bob’s Sauce
Country Bob makes the most delicious all purpose sauce for steaks, burgers, chicken and french fries. I tried Country Bob’s sauce initially because I received a coupon to try a bottle free. I had never heard of this sauce before, and I can’t believe that more people are not onto …
Little Debbie Be My Valentine Cakes - Chocolate
These Little Debbie Be My Valentine Cakes - Chocolate variety are quite tasty on both the inside and the out! On the outside, there a moderately thick layer of fudge chocolate that covers white creme interior. The white creme is sweet and delicious! Both the fudge chocolate and white …
Tastees Chicken Nuggets Combo meal
Up until recently I had no clue that the restaurant I sometimes buy from, “Tastees” had chicken nuggets, and much more, a chicken nugget combo meal. It was only recently when I visited it for a change that I noticed the “Tastees Chicken Nuggets Combo meal” on the board, …
Marie Callender’s Beef Tips in Mushroom Sauce
I’ve reviewed several meals from this company before and have recently tried a new one that I’d like to share. I wasn’t totally sure about Marie Callender’s Beef Tips in Mushroom Sauce for a couple of big reasons. The first is that I don’t like mushroom anything. …
Forrelli Snack Crackers
Money has been a bit tight and, since I used the last of my money to put some gas in my car this morning, I wasn’t able to buy any sort of snack for my desk at work.
Since I skipped breakfast again (something that happens whenever my youngest daughter …
Market Pantry Grade A Large Eggs (One Dozen)
The Market Pantry Grade A Large Eggs can be found only at Target stores as the eggs are sold under Target’s “Market Pantry” product line. Since the eggs are a store brand product, they’re cheaper than the eggs that are packaged and sold under name brand names. They generally …
Rold Gold Pretzel Rods
Rold Gold Pretzel rods are one of my favorite of the long (about 7 or 8 inches long) pretzel sticks that were traditional in my childhood years. These are not the little, thin pretzel sticks; these are the longer thicker sticks.
In terms of taste, I really like the …
Sun Belle Blueberries
I picked up a one and a half pound clam-shell package of Sun Belle blueberries on my last trip to Costco. These berries are from Sun Belle Berries out of Santiago, Chile.
I’ve been trying to eat more fruit lately and sprinkled on cereal and just eaten plain, these blueberries …
McDonalds McCafe Frappe
Some days, when I feel like I’ve been constantly on the go and there is no promise of a break anytime in the near future, I need a little pick me up. Something that will keep me going, taste delicious and not burn a hole in my wallet. My …
Shiraz Wine (Trader Joe’s)
I really have no idea about where different wines come from. For years I would order Chardonnay, simply because I liked the light refreshing taste. Then I ventured out to explore red wines, like Chianti and merlot. But when I ran across the Shiraz wine …
Hormel REV #1 Pepperoni Pizza
It’s not always easy to find time to eat during the day. Some, more than others, find themselves rushing about day in and day out, and just need something quick to eat in between going from one point to the next. Hormel has a line of simple wraps designed …
Cedarlane Eggplant Parmesan
Cedarlane Eggplant Parmesan is a frozen dinner that I would recommend to any person that loves or just likes eggplant. Even though I am not the biggest fan of eggplant in the world, I do eat it from time to time and I typically do enjoy eggplant even if …
Hungry Man Chicken Breast Dinner
I’ll admit it. I am a big fan of TV dinners (well, if they’re tasty ones). They’re quick, convenient and easy to make, and it sure beats cooking a whole meal when you want something fast. Since I enjoy TV dinners so much, I decided to …
Old El Paso Soft Taco Dinner Kit
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 …
Best Buy Old Cheddar Cheese 0.473 kg.
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 …
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 …
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