Crash diets are not always the answer to have a healthier and slim body. At times these lead to ulcers, hyperacidity and other digestive disorders that will bring more harm to our health. If you are searching for something to eat without being starved out, Instant Quaker Oats Original …

Steak —˜N Shake Grilled Chicken Sandwich
I know when you go to a hamburger joint you’re suppose to get the hamburger. But when there are little healthier options on the menu, I generally go for it. So when I saw a menu item called the Grilled Chicken sandwich …

This is a delicious chocolate bar that I have just discovered from Tesco’s own label. I only paid 66 pence for a big, 150g, bar of this which is very good value as you can easily pay that price for a much smaller bar. The bar consists …

It’s sort of ironic that I use Country Crock honey butter because my butter of choice is Land O’ Lakes. I don’t put the honey butter in any meal I’m preparing, just on toasts and biscuits.
The thing I like about the Country Crock honey butter is that it …

Are you someone that loves to eat sushi and Japanese food? If you do then you are probably someone that likes to search for new restaurants to explore. One of the myths about eating sushi is the notion that you need to spend a lot of money to enjoy …

Metromint - Orangemint Water is a variety of flavored water that I enjoy, although I do not quite like it as much as the peppermint and spearmint varieties that are made by the same company. However, I do have this flavored water once a week generally because I still …

Lipton Pasta Sides are a quick and easy to make. They are also cheap. Eveyone in our family enjoys them. I especially like to stock up on them, when they are on sale at Price Chopper. They have a 10/$10 sale, so thats a dollar a bag. They have …

Spices such as garlic and onion add and bring out the flavor of the ingredients. In some Philippine cuisine, spices wouldn’t suffice; soy sauce is needed to complement the taste of the food. Our family has relied to Datu Puti Soy Sauce as far as I can remember. Since …

I am a chocolate lover and I don’t like anything better than chocolates with crisps in them. I am always on the lookout for these wonderful little treats called Crispy M&M’s but lately I have not been seeing them at all on the shelves.
These sweet little confections come in …

We were visiting my cousin recently and the only sugar free drink she had was cherry coke zero. I didn’t particularly like the regular coke zero, but thought I’d give the cherry one a try.
Much to my surprise I liked it! I haven’t had cherry flavored coke in …

Ulker Coco Star is actually a coconut bar covered with milk compound. I really like coconut mixed with chocolate so I usually try out most of the stuff that has this combination. Ulker Coco Star comes in a pale blue wrapping and it has Coco Start written in even …

I just came from a very stressful trip just today coming here to the office. I just wish I would be able to forget about how stressed I was, not to mention bringing with me almost 3 kilos of baggage, my laptop included. Luckily I saw a Starbucks coffee …

Milk Maid Caramel Candy Corn is a very sweet and a real addicting treat that I really like to have around Halloween. One of the reasons I look forward to Halloween is because of all the delicious sweet treats that flood the grocery stores and this is one of …

Ah, my favourite peanut butter! Very tasty, healthy, and has been recognized as America’s Best-tasting natural Peanut butter. This top- rate peanut butter does contain a large amount of peanut chunks, but a very good ratio of peanut chunks to creamy spread.
My kids are very picky, but my whole family …

If you are eating on a budget, and by budget i mean, absolutly no money whatsoever then Mr. P’s pizza is a fabulous thing. Mr.P’s is the only pizza I have ever seen taht you can purchase for less than a dollar. In most cases a small sized pizza …

I really like banana splits. They’re one of my favorite “retro” kinds of ice cream desserts. I like the I was interested in finding out how Haagen-Dazs would combine all the typical flavors of a banana split in a single ice cream. So when I saw this in the …

When it comes to sweets I always think of Moti Choor Laddu. I don’t have a sweet tooth but I do love a really good and well made laddu.
Even though it is my favorite sweet I have never tried to make it myself. I just think …

I just love Bumble Bee tuna and now that it’s in a pouch, I eat it more than I have in a long time. I used to buy the cans, but I hated having to strain it and getting my fingers in the water or juices, depending on …

While these cookies are relatively tasty, I’m not really that wild about them. Oatmeal cookies are not my favorite kind of cookie, and so I don’t snack on oatmeal cookies as often as say peanut butter or chocolate, but there are times when I’ll be ready for something a …

I like coconut and I like chocolate, so Mounds are a perfect combination of a candy for me. I have bought some today at Walmart, a pack of 8 individually wrapped bars for only 97 cents. Each bar is a .6 oz little thing, filled with coconut and covered …

Chowking is one of the most popular Chinese fast food restaurants in the Philippines. They have a lot of branches already and they have been in the business for years now.
One day while shopping at the streets of Quiapo, I was so hungry that seeing Chowking in the corner …

Novi is an Italian chocolate although people usually think that it is Swiss, but it isn’t. I like Novi chocolate in general because they taste great, although the regular Novi chocolate is not as good as Novie Nocciolato. The difference is that Nocciolato has whole hazelnuts in it and …

In the winter time I love to make casseroles, but I was tired of making the same old thing. While picking up some cleaning products at my local Dollarama store I happened to venture down the food aisle and picked up a package of Clover Leaf Inspirations Tuna with …

I’m a fan of black currant flavored teas, and also a bargain hunter. Last month the two met up in an unfortunate mistake. I was ordering my usual brand of black currant tea (Twinings) from an online retailer and I saw that there was another brand of black currant …

If you are tired of the same old meal choices and are looking for a new, inexpensive meal option that is tasty and easy to prepare, then Maruchan Yakisoba Noodles should be on your list of products to try. I had never tried Maruchan Yakisoba Noodles until recently when …

I am a big Chinese and Japanese food fan I especially enjoy a good miso soup. That is why when I saw this at the grocery store I knew that I had to buy it. I paid a little over $2.00 for it which was not too bad and …

I have a lot of cheese in my diet and even before I became a vegetarian I always loved cheese and ploughman’s lunches and macaroni cheese are still a staple of my diet today. Apart from nice and creamy cheese that you can spread on bread or crackers, …

If you are in a pinch to serve a great meal…something that will impress a date or just a group of friends, you will have to try one of these Bertolli frozen meals. They are bit on the expensive side. One bag (which claims to feed two …

I like most types of chips, from banana chips to plantain chips, corn chips and even potato chips. However, one thing that has caught my attention recently is Cassava chips. I started seeing packs of them being sold as soon as the recession started, since for some reason, bananas …

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 …

Nandini ghee is the new product, which my aunty brought to my home recently. Actually I had seen this ghee many a times in the departmental stores but it is for the first time that I am using it. After using this ghee I must say that …

These corn flakes are a bit of an unusual choice if you, like me, are generally the sort of person who sticks to either the supermarkets’ own brands or the traditional fall back of Kellogg’s. They are also fairly expensive, with my local Sainsbury’s supermarket selling only a smallish …

I love making homemade macaroni and cheese, but sometimes it can be a chore when I’m cooking a large dinner. I never like to cheat–that much–when I’m cooking, but for one particular dinner I was tired and couldn’t put out another dish; therefore, I decided to go to my …

Pepsi is my vice (along with Spaghetti). I drink it all the time. I can’t stand Coke. As a child, my parents originally did purchase Coke, but when Pepsi really began to pop up, they switched, and we never looked back. Now what is funny …

I have been using Great Value Tomato Condensed Soup for quite a while. Usually, we don’t eat it as soup, I use it for cooking other dishes, like hamburger pie, or as meatball sauce. The soup comes in a 10.75 oz metal can. Cooking directions are provided on the …

These Chicken and Cheese Quessidillas are fantastic. I am getting hungry now just thinking about them lol! They can be cooked in about two minutes depending on your microwave, and there is actually taste in them! The spices are just right for these things.
You get two per box, …

So nothing special this time. Just the most popular peanut butter in the US. Maybe the second most popular, oк the third, I haven’t really checked the ratings. But for me, this is the best creamy peanut butter from the store so far. A few weeks ago I got on …

I am not the most avid vegetable eater, but like to try to get vegetable nutrients. I tried regular V8 and was highly disgusted at it’s high amount of tomato juice. I couldn’t enjoy it at all and figured I should try something more subtle. I saw the V8 …

Of all the white breads I’ve had in the past year or so, Sara Lee Soft and Smooth Whole Grain White Bread is probably my favorite. That said, I really haven’t had a white bread that I truly love in a while. Rainbo used to be my favorite, …

If there is one noodle brand I love, that would be Nissin Yakisoba spicy Chicken. I just adore the flavor so much that I make sure I have it in our pantry all the time. Compared to other instant noodles out there which are mostly bland and tasteless, Nissin …

I have been a fan of Knorr soups as they are easy to make and my family loves the soups. The soup powder comes in a 52 g pack and is produced by Hindustan Lever Ltd in India. It is very easy to make the soup from the powder …

I am on a tight budget so I often find myself at the local Dollar General among other discount stores in order to meet my needs. One of the sections of the stores that I always check is the grocery isle to see if they have any deals or …

While at the liquor store in my neighborhood with the intention of picking up more Skinnygirl margarita I noticed that they had started to carry a few more varieties of premixed cocktails that were also low calorie and carb. The new products were also stocked right next to those …

I’m beginning to feel like my mother. I used to always get on her case because she’d go shopping and come home with the wrong thing, not intentionally but because she’d reach for one thing and end up pulling something else off the shelf. I guess it’s …

Every year I like to buy Hershey’s Holiday Assortment candies. This year, the big package was 55 ounces. Sometimes it’s a little more than that and sometimes less. Also what the assortment contains can vary.
One of the reasons I like the assortment is that it’s always …

Grandi is a very cheap Croatian brand which you can buy only at Getro shop chains. Some of the stuff are OK but most of them aren’t. They usually have a very nice design with a small elephant on it. Grandi Coconut chocolate bar has a really nice little …

Mother’s is a caffinated energy drink that is availiable here in Australia. Having been a bit addicted to energy drinks since I was in highschool I thought I’d give this one a try. I do very much like it. Mother’s is sweeter than a lot of other energy drinks, …

I’m a person who enjoys eating vegetables. Usually on a daily basis, I eat baby carrots, broccoli, cucumbers, celery and sometimes a handful of raw green leafy salad. With the stock vegetables, I like to dip them in dips or dressing, usually low fat dressing, a squeezed of …

I became a green tea drinker about 5 years ago. I first started with Liptons Green Tea and have been drinking this brand ever since. I have tried 2 other brands of Green Tea, however only drank 1 cup and went right back to Lipton. I am sharing …

I think these are fab little snack bars from Tesco’s own range. I have tried several of their own brand confectionary that are direct rip-offs of well-known brands of chocolate bars, like Mars bar for instance. This one is a carbon-copy of a Snickers bar, although they …