In the eastern part of the capital of the Philippines lies my little city called Marikina City. It is nestled in a valley with the Marikina River running mightily through it. It has a picturque bike ways that goes around the city. Recently, I was in a hiatus from …

I do like my crispy savoury snacks, and so when I came across the extremely cheap Tesco Value Onion Rings I had to give them a chance. As you would expect from these people, the packaging is really very simple indeed, with no more than the name of the …

As a tie in with the new Batman movie, Reese’s is making a new version of their Reese’s Pieces. I love the candy and I grabbed a small bag from the gas station recently without giving it much of a thought. I saw the Batman picture on the front, …

After several years of fishing, mainly unsuccessfully, in almost every river, lake, creek, pond and even ocean in the Northwest US and Southwest Canada, I decided to try something I had always regarding as —˜cheating.’ On my next visit to my local fishing store, I purchased salmon eggs to put …

Voortman Turnover Soft Cookies are one of my favorite kinds of cookies. I usually purchase the strawberry flavored ones, but this week decided to try the blueberry flavored ones. These cookies are delicious, soft cookies with a dollop of fruit flavored jelly in the middle of them. The jelly …

Van’s Wheat Gluten Free Waffles
When I started eating gluten free foods, I got used to nothing tasting the same. Everything I ate was almost unrecognizable, nothing tasted quite right and I actually found it quite depressing as I have always enjoyed my food. That is why I was so …

I enjoy eating snacks and treats that have an apple-cinnamon flavor to them, like cinnamon apple sauce and cinnamon apple pie with a crumb topping, that sort of stuff. These apple chips are included in the things that I enjoy snacking on that have an apple-cinnamon flavor because they …

Like Shirley biscuits, I can remember that these tea biscuits have been around since I was a little girl. I used to like them at first, but my parents bought them a lot for me to snack on and for lunch so that after a while I got very …

Pepsi Lime is another combination of citrus & cola taste, somewhat like Pepsi Twist only the lime flavor is a bit more intense. The taste is great, especially on a hot summer day, it is refreshing and thirst-quenching. The bubbly, cooling sensation is very pleasant. Pepsi Lime is sold …

I’m not much of a coffee person but every now and then I get a craving for some coffee, something to give me some energy first thing in the morning. I cannot drink just plain black coffee. In fact, the only kind of coffee I can drink is a …

I love chocolates and I love to look at the different types and brads at the grocery stores and candy shops in the malls here. One chocolate I had started seeing around a lot was Guylian Sea Shell Chocolates along with some other forms of chocolate from this same …

I am not a huge fan of pre-packaged meals, but I do like Chun King. I love making Chinese dinners and often find preparing everything from scratch takes too long, so I bought Chun King Vegetables and sauce mix.
This particular boxed package said it served five people. Inside there …

Sports drinks are like my best friends because such beverages give me comfort after an extremely tiring activity. 100 Plus Isotonic Sports Drink is no different. It is the newest sports drink out in the market and I decided to try it after watching its very compelling advertisement on …

Let me start with I love the original grillers. I grew up eating them. I have been a vegetarian all my life so i consider myself a expert on soy products. Morningstar Farms makes a lot of great soy stuff. but things went horribly wrong with the …

I am so grossed out and sick! I just went shopping at my favorite grocery store Albertson. I spent around $60 bucks, and decided to buy something new that I usually don’t buy. I decided on some yummy looking White Fudge Chewy Chips Ahoy Cookies, they were on sale …

As a vegetarian, I have a hard time finding food on the go. My choices are limited to the bean burrito at Taco Bell or the veggie burger at Burger King. However, the quality of these foods gives me severe gas and doesn’t satiate my appetite. …

One day I was on my way to Turkey Hill to get gas, and out the corner of my eye I saw a display of what appeared to be M&Ms. So I walked over to take a closer look and sure enough that’s what it was. …

Product Description: Can of mushroom pieces and stems. I found this product at my local grocery store for 89 cents per can and used them a couple nights ago when I was making spaghetti for dinner.
What I liked about this product: I usually avoid spending more money on products …

Coming from the Jolly Time Company, America’s Best Butter Flavor Microwave Popcorn is a product that is grown without chemical pesticides. That’s the draw of this fairly new ‘green’ product. Per the packaging, it’s 94 percent fat free and it contains Better-Life Grains. There are no artificial …

My 2 year old son loves it so much. Even I like to take a few at times but I mainly like the chocolate taste and thick color coated sugar coating. It tastes nice if allowed to melt inside the mouth. For me, this choolate …

It’s breakfast time once again! And once again, I have an old favorite brand “returning to the ring” with a new flavor on toast– Cooper Farms Fig Preserves. But, how is it? Is it up to the spreadable snuff? As always, you guys know I’m going to find out!
In …

I am not really a fan of the Kool-Aid brand of artificial drink, but I sometimes buy it because it is cheap and when I can’t afford to buy another much better brand of even natural juice. I also can’t say whether or not I have a favourite flavour …

I have heard about Diet Dr. Pepper Cherry Chocolate from my friends and seen about it on TV but I have not tried it. I like cherry and chocolate together. I was an exclusive diet coke drinker in the past.
But in the last year I had some problems …

Like most people, I adore chocolates. I especially like them with almonds. I read about an allegedly delicious concoction in a magazine that is baked and sold exclusively by The Classic Confections. They started out as a home business making delicious desserts with chocolate cake as their bestseller. Eventually …

I was in the mood for a frozen treat for dessert the other day and needed something everyone in my family would eat without spending too much money (I don’t get paid until next week and our bank account is getting a bit low).
After looking around the freezer section …

Why have half a cashew when whole cashews are so well priced? I use cashews in a lot of my Oriental cooking, and my husband thinks they are what television was invited for…….to munch really good cashew nuts!
The Fisher Premium While Cashews come in a can that is bright …

I found this bread on sale at Publix a few months ago and bought it because I tend to use the lower calorie breads on my diet. Nature’s Own light breads all have only 40 calories and are high in fiber, a big plus for me. The slices looked to …

Paneer is a milk product and it is called al the cottage cheese in English language. This cottage cheese is very fresh and very tasty. The Nilgiri is a very good company, which produces many food products, and all of them are very good in quality and …

Great Value: French Fried Onions are good to have whether I want to add them as a topping to a vegetable or as a topping to my meat. They are crispy and they are flavorful. The onion inside has a strong flavor that will not go unnoticed and the …

I’m a busy man and because of this hectic schedule in work and different things concerning work I do not have time to cook for myself during dinner. This situation leads me to the point where I need to buy canned foods and eat that for my dinner together …

One of the nutritional shake mixes I have been using to help nourish my body since I have been having a hard time keeping down meals is the Natures Plus Spiru Tein Raspberry Royale Shake. I like this shake mix because it tastes good and is easy to drink …

For me, having a slim posture is really important than any other things in my life, I even dare for not eating for a day just to reduce 10 lbs in a week. Sometimes, I can be addicted toward mass diet (even though I know it’s not a good …

For the first time, I tried today Milano’s Italian Grill Chicken Parmesan. I’ve previously enjoyed their Spaghetti with Meatballs meal, which I truly love, and I’ve eaten their Lasagna with Meat Sauce which I wasn’t thrilled with at all. I’m actually happy to report that my review …

One thing that I struggle with at my job is not raiding the vending machines for anything chocolaty whenever I get a sweet tooth. Constantly eating out of the vending machines is not good for my waistline, plus it can get very expensive pretty quickly. To help curb my …

I decided to give instant potatoes another try. I am not big on instant potatoes, but I figured they are handy to have in the house. They only take a few minutes to make, and when you are in a pinch it is nice to have mashed potatoes as …

Trying to eat healthy is sometimes a hard task to accomplish. Especially when our taste buds are craving something sweet. Which is why the Great Value brand of Diced Peaches fruit cups from Wal-Mart really surprised me. Not only was the product sweet, but it was affordable because it …

Cereal was my favorite food before I became hypoglycemic, and I would eat it for most of my meals. After getting sick, I was faced with the realization that I would have to say “Goodbye” to most of my beloved brands. One that I can still enjoy, …

Out of usual, I brought Lipton tea bags this time. I am a great lover of tea and we prepare tea every evening and morning. Lipton tea bags are convenient and I love the aroma of tea when the tea brews. Usually, I boil the water and …

I did not actually buy this myself, but received it along with other toffees which someone gave me recently. I was planning to give them away at first since I am not as big a fan of most toffees since I find them too sweet for my liking. However, …

I think Coffee Compliment is a long standing brand of coffee whitener as I am sure I can remember it from my childhood. According to the label it is a blend of dried glucose syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oil and milk proteins. So it is more than just …

I have recently started purchasing the packaged foods in the meat department. This one was pre cooked and I have been short on time at dinner so it looked like a good thing to try. This was on sale for $4.99 per package and I believe it …

Clearly Canadian Raspberry Cream Flavored Water is something that I used to find deliciously rich and very refreshing. I guarantee that I would still have such things to say about it if I drank it today. However, I have given up this bottled water because I did not like …

When country singer Jimmy Dean first began to market his sausage, the original product was his premium sausage. Nothing was microwaved or conveniently sized in those days, so it was just the basic product.
Jimmy Dean Premium Regular Sausage is a roll sausage that comes in a sixteen-ounce size, …

I have been looking for a long time for a good beverage that is going to keep me refreshed in the hot summer months and Sobe Lifewater really does the trick for me. Even though it is like $1 a bottle, there are a lot of times that you …

I didn’t discover the Marie Callender’s cheese chicken white meat and Broccoli over rice until I noticed my mom purchasing them. She would go to Publix because they would always have a buy one get one free deal going on. Of course, I had to purchase mine from super …

I’m generally not an M&M candies kind of person but I enjoy it from time to time. When I saw that they had gotten fancy with their candies, my guess is to compete with the gourmet chocolates, I have to say I was curious. The way the M&Ms looked …

I had never tried Select Harvest Maryland-Style Crab, but the Campbell’s brand is one that you can count on for quality and I have been enjoying their soups for years. I am all for trying something new, so I decided to give it a whirl.
The label, which shows a …

Gourmet Wrap menu has been available in MacDonalds in my city for about a year or so. And I just had them last night. I was out with my husband looking for ice cream. We then went to MacDonalds drive through to buy their chocolate sundae. …

I had never had nutterbutters cookies until last week when my boyfriend brought over a box. Since then I have been slightly addicted to them. Nutter butters are peanut butter cookies that have peanut butter in between them. Sort of like an Oreo with peanut butter instead have chocolate …

I live within walking distance from a Save-A-Lot grocery store, so when I came home one night to cook and realized I was out of olive oil, I went to the nearest store to pick some up. I wasn’t expecting a very high quality olive oil at this store, …