Ever since I attended my first parade candy apples have been my must have treat. My grandma and I would sit along the parade route enjoying our sticky heaven of red sugar coated on a nice red apple. I have always wanted to make them at home, I just never …

These cornflakes are from The Co-operative’s own brand, called ‘Simply Value’. When I saw this big bag of cornflakes (500g) for only 48 pence I thought it was a bargain. I have been having a big bowl of this for breakfast every morning since and I think …

Everyone assumes diabetics don’t get to eat candy. According to most nutrition specialists, none of us should be eating much candy. Well I found Russell Stover candy. It doesn’t have that diet tanginess we all hate. These pecan delights are scrumptious. No, you cannot …

Today I tried a new cereal drink and it is called Quaker Good Start Oat Dairy Drink. You got it tight! It is healthy oat in a drink, and it is very delicious because I got the Banana Creme flavor. This drink costs 28 pesos and it is available …

Most of the time I buy rice pasta but it is not as easy to come by. I have to drive all the way to my closest Trader Joe’s, which isn’t too close or I have to pay too much for some online. Since I don’t have celiac disease …

I purchased a box of Nature’s Path Organic Coconut Chia Granola Cereal from my neighborhood Aldis for $2.79. As a lover of all things crunchy and granola, I was excited to give this granola a try.
The idea of getting whole grains, AlA Omega 3’s, and fiber all in one …

Ok so I started a diet recently and decided to try Country Time Sugar free lemonade since I love the regular Country Time Lemonade. I mixed it exactly according to the instructions and decided to give it a try. Blahhh! This lemonade has the worst after taste ever! It …

Red Gold Tomato Ketchup is available at our United Grocery Outlet Store for .59 cents a bottle. The bottle is 20 ounces and it is a shorter type of bottle which fits better in the door of my refrigerator. Ketchup is one of the condiments in our house that …

San Miguel came up with a new of line of instant coffee dedicated to coffee drinkers who also want to lose weight at the same time. I have already reviewed San Mig Pro-Slim and this time I tried San Mig Pro-Fiber.
The theory is that in order to lose …

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 …

I don’t particularly care for mangos, but oddly enough, I do care for this mango sorbet. I guess it has to do with the sorbet being at a frosty temperature and the texture of the treat being really similar to sherbet and Italian Ice. The flavor of a mango …

Another flavor I have tried under Selecta is their Fruit Salad. This is a conventional Filipino dessert. Selecta made it a flavor of its ice cream given the popularity of this food. Last Christmas, I bought half gallon. Together with another flavor, this was the least favorite and it took …

Back in college, I had my first hoagie sandwich ever, and let’s just say after having one, it just wasn’t enough. I just loved those things. Since then, I have naturally enjoyed many hoagies and similar sandwiches. One of my favorites is the popular sub sandwich, …

When you are on a diet, you have to choose the food that you eat. But supposing you wanted a “Creama De Fruta” but then the ingredients are not fat free, diet becomes impossible. I always appreciate the various brands that have come up with less-fat formulas to help …

Now if you read some of my other reviews you all should know by now I love chocolate. To be quite honest, as much as I love chocolate I am not the biggest fan of dark chocolate although it is said to be good for you. I’m not saying …

Often when I am looking for a tasty appetizer to have at home, I’ll reach for some finger foods. I’m not much of a snacker. So chips and cookies aren’t really an option for me. In any event, I love Asian food, especially egg rolls. …

Pizza Hut’s pizza is usually tops in my book. Their pizza is the best you can get and you can find great specials going on at times. However, the new item, Cheezy Bites Pizza wasn’t anything to write home about.
It’s designed to be breadsticks and pizza in one, thus …

I’ve been a fan of Bethenny Frankel’s sarcastic humor since I first saw her on The Real Housewives of New York. It was there she created a low calorie margarita and decided to offer it to the public. The Skinnygirl margarita came first and was the only margarita on …

Chunks Ahoy is a brand of chocolate chip cookies from the company Christie. I’m a very picky eater, and usually I only eat chocolate chip cookies from the bakery section of my grocery store, seeing as those are the freshest and softest. However, my friends all told me that …

Dieting has come a long way in recent years in offering great tasting foods with few calories. One fad that has been catching on and gaining momentum is the portion controlled way of dieting. Basically, you’re eating real food that tastes great but you’re just limiting yourself to regular …

Maxim has come out with Mocha Gold, a coffe mix of instant coffee, powdered cream, and sugar, all wrapped neatly in an individual-sized package. Lovely. I’m drinking a cup of it as I’m writing this review, in fact. It’s sweet, without being too sugary, as the sugar content is …

I feel that the name of this cereal is not very appropriate because I do not feel that there is much apple cinnamon flavor at all and also the cereal is only slightly crispy, but also a little on the soft side, and this is all without milk. This …

I love crabsticks and when I went to the grocery store for our weekly grocery, I saw this one at the frozen section and was eyeing a lot of brands but some were very cheap and I immediately knew they weren’t going to taste as good as they would …

Ice cream comes in so very many flavors nowadays, but come the autumn season, I tend to buy pumpkin-flavored ice cream the most because this isn’t something that is available for sale year-round. Pumpkin ice cream isn’t usually too difficult to find in October and November, as a variety …

The Garlic and Rosemary Savoritz Crackers offer a pleasant change of pace from Ritz and Saltine Crackers. These squarish crackers are seasoned with garlic and rosemary, and that seasoning helps make these thin, crispy crackers quite good and an addicting snack item too in addition to being good with …

I drink a lot of pepsi. So when pepsi came out with their pepsi points I was thrilled because it meant I could get a little something back from all the money I spend on their product. I like most people am skeptical though of contest though at first. …

The Cadburys is an old and a very famous company, which produces many kinds of chocolates. Such as the dairimilk milky chocolates, chocolates with nuts and fruits, etc. The quality and the taste of the chocolates are maintained very well. The regular dairy milk chocolates bar …

I know, many would agree with me if I say that this is the healthiest food ever made by Nestle. Nestle Nesvita Pro-Digestion Yogurt is a new innovative product from Nestle that helps me a lot in regulating the normalcy of my bowel movement. Ever …

I have always been one for snacks, especially the exotic ones that catch my eye when I’m browsing in my neighborhood grocery store. With that being said, I decided to try Stacy’s Simply Naked Bagel chips. When first spotting them I thought, “Hey would you look at that? Bagel …

This boxed brownie mix has chocolate chips in the mix. The chocolate chips that end up being baked right into the brownies provide “pockets” of richer, stronger chocolate flavor amidst the more subdued but nonetheless good brownie cake, hence the “double chocolate” name on the box. Although I wouldn’t …

I love juice drinks and I simply enjoy them cold or with ice, mostly bottled or canned juice are the best for me because I do not have the luxury of time to make fresh juice myself. With the entire fad about dieting and pills going on, juice drinks …

This rice cake is one of my favorite foods I love to take with me in my nappy bag for my toddler’s snack food which I am also grateful enough since he also loves eating it. One good thing about it is that my baby also loves so …

I never know the differences between different types of tea, so when I first saw this product, Sabah Tea, I seriously wondered, how different could it be from green tea? Aren’t they all tea?
One sip of Sabah tea and I know the difference immediately. …

Milkmaid tea is the first nursing tea that I tried and tested without any complaint. The tea is use to boost production of breastmilk because it contains varieties of herbs that are useful for lactating mothers. I personally likes the taste but somehow my breastfeed baby does not like …

One night I was in a hurry to make dinner, so I picked up a box of Village Oven Roasted Honey and Garlic Chicken Wings at my local supermarket. I had often seen Village brand chicken wings and kept meaning to give them a try. Being on sale for …

This is one of my absolute favorite treats! At less than ninety cents per donut, it is also a very cheap snack. I love that I don’t have to feel guilty about the fact that it’s a bad treat AND expensive, because what’s ninety cents?
I get a Tim Horton’s …

I happened to buy the curry Puff in IKEA Malaysia. This is the curry puff that I like most and there is no other places curry puff can beat it. The size is a bit bigger than the regular one, it has chicken meat, potato, onion, curry …

I am not too fond of Blue Bunny Premium Ice Cream Butter Pecan. The ice cream is certainly edible and to an extent enjoyable, however the butter pecan flavor is not really quite as rich as I was hoping it would be. I expected the flavor to be richer …

The first thing that struck me about this chocolate was the wrapping because it looks really great. There’s a picture of the chocolate on it but what’s so special is that this chocolate is half white and half brown, so I really couldn’t resist it. I am not a …

Sometimes the ice cream truck passes by, and when we see it we almost never buy ice cream either because we don’t have the money, or I’m on another one of my diets or trying to cut down on the amount of dairy I’m eating. Well, this evening my …

I frequent the Great Mall due to the size and options available in their many stores. My kids, Jonny and Sue, often accompany me and can be found playing around the kiddy fountain near Entrance One. One day, I stopped at Sportsters to buy my husband a …

It has been maybe over 10 years since I had last ate one of Xtra Foods Oreo Slice Cake (from their Grand Bazaar branch in Valsayn, Trinidad) and recently the Xtra Food branch in Chaguanas, Trinidad re-did their whole bakery section and while I was shopping I decided I …

The Market Pantry Cini Mini Crunch cereal comes in a twelve point eight ounce box for just under two dollars. This is a cereal that can be found only at Target stores as it’s a Target store brand item. I only bought this cereal once as I never had …

I always purchase Mixes made by Jiffy. I always have stocks of the little blue boxes in my pantry because it always comes in handy when I am too tired to cook from scratch. The Jiffy Mixes are manufactures by Chelsea Mills of Michigan and it has been a …

Raley’s Fine Foods Sesame Hamburger Buns are the latest of the store brand that I’ve tried. I was skeptical and didn’t break down to try the hamburger buns until they went on sale a couple of months ago. The reason for my skepticism is that one of …

I wanted something simple for dinner last night and didn’t want to drive out of my way to go to a grocery store. So, I ended up stopping off at a convenience store just up the street from work and buying a couple pizzas there from the brand Cheese …

Lemon Square Whatta Tops is a typical chocolate cupcake with a hard chocolate frosting on top and a cream filling on the inside. This product is from the Philippines. As for the price, it could cost around Php6 or $0.14 per single pack. This one is …

I was somewhat hesitant to purchase the Safeway Select Garlic Chicken Ultra Thin Crust Pizza. Although I most certainly like garlic and while I also enjoy chicken, I wasn’t very sure if I would like the two together on this pizza. It turned out though that I didn’t have …

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 was so bored one time so I went to the supermarket to get me some snacks. I shopped for popcorn because I wanted to eat microwaveable popcorn. I actually miss the movie theatre’s buttery popcorn taste so I opted to get just a bag of popcorn to …