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 …

I think a lot of people are not familiar with capers and how to use them in cooking. Capers are little flower buds that come from the caper bush, which grows in the Mediterranean. The buds are pickled in vinegar. They look something like peas, but they are a …

My mother, knowing that we are having a hard time making ends meet, has been buying us groceries from time to time. She buys us things that she absolutely knows we like and then throws in some surprises to let us check out. Even though she does …

Maybe all of you already know this product. Yup the zero sugar of the great coca cola taste. But that just the tag of the product, and it’s not all right for me. I always love to drink coca cola when i’m eating outside, especially when i eat fast …

Annie Chun’s Miso Soup is something that is easy for me to fix and have for lunch, although admittedly, the soup does not look all that fabulous. Still, what really matters is how the soup tastes and not so much how it looks. While the soup looks rather bland, …

I am like most women, I like chocolate. There has been a lot in the health news about dark chocolate being good for you. So, I started trying different brands of dark chocolate that was at least 60% cocoa. Of all the dark chocolates out there, I believe Ghiradelli’s …

Priano Cheese Tortellini Soup with Chicken is a canned soup sold at ALDI Food Market stores that comes in a nineteen ounce can for one dollar and thirty nine cents. The soup sounded pretty tasty and filling too, with there being cheese and chicken as well as some vegetables …

I am not what you would call a beer fan, and hard liquor turns me the color of a freshly boiled lobster ready to be served on a silver platter after one shot while wine coolers pretty much taste nasty, even if they do smell yummy.
In short, the only …

Betty Crocker Four Cheese Mashed Potatoes are a really easy side dish to make. I just put water on to boil, then pour in the contents of the pouch to moisten them and then let them sit! They are so super easy and fast to make.
Betty Crocker Four Cheese …

I love crepes. There are a lot of restaurants serving crepes but no one has ever topped my favorite from café Breton. This restaurant has been in the business for years and they are still number one in my book.
This afternoon my husband and I were so hungry we …

I find these Little Debbie Easter Basket Cakes - Chocolate variety to be a relatively simple although nonetheless enjoyable treat to have come Easter time. The chocolate cake is quite moist and so very soft that hardly any chewing is required at all. The chocolate cake also tastes as …

My daughter loves chocolates and I want to get her the best of them whenever I get a chance to. I know it is not good to pamper your child with chocolates but I cannot resist because chocolates are my favorites too. ‘Leonidas Belgain Chocolates’ are utterly one of …

I ate a spicy chicken sandwich at Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburger Restaurant today for lunch. This is my favorite sandwich at Wendy’s and I must admit I go there just to get one of these. I like spicy food on occasion but the rest of my family doesn’t, so …

Since I just ate at Charlie’s Grind and Grill the other day, yesterday I had another urge to eat their famous Angus beef burger. What I like about their restaurant is that they have something that I have not seen in other burger joints. They have a Shrooms patty. …

Sbarro is a well known Pizza shop found in nearly every mall in America. I had lunch with two other people at Sbarro yesterday in the Mall of Ontario Ohio, outside of Mansfield Ohio. I enjoyed the meal as I always do. Sbarro makes great pizza and Stromboli.
I think …

My boyfriend and I got the regular family share as our first CSA experience from Farmer Dave’s in Dracut MA with our pick up location at Groundwork Lawrence. We absolutley loved the CSA! We got more than enough vegetables every week to feed 2 adults dinner and lunch all …

I’ve been a frustrated cook for many years, though I am not that expert I still love to try different dishes or recipe for my family.I prefer lunch and dinner at home, breakfast is never been a problem because I we just prefer coffee and bread in the morning. …

The Aro brown bread is big size bread and the shape of which is square. This bread is made using the wheat flour. And that is why it is called as brown bread. As I have already mentioned in my earlier reviews that the Aro branded …

This cereal from Tom Thumb is a little above average, but the quality isn’t high enough to justify the size of the box or the price of the cereal. The size of the box is twelve ounces and the price is almost three dollars. I really like strawberries, so …

The Pillsbury Pumpkin Shape Cookies are kept in a refrigerated section in grocery stores and must be refrigerated at home. When ready to be baked, the cookies are already separated, so it’s just a matter of placing them on a baking pan and sticking them in the oven. There …

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. …

MITR PHOL natural granulated sugar is my first choice when it comes to white sugar. It comes in a transparent, yet durable packaging. To me, it’s very important that the packaging for sugar is good.
After all, I’d tried buying other sugar brands in the supermarket, and I’d …

This is one of the most delicious frozen pizzas available. I have tried several brands of frozen pizza and found most to taste like cardboard; flat and flavorless. Palermo’s, however, has lots of tangy flavor without being spicy. Their flavor comes from the generous amount of toppings, not spice. …

When you are a child and you are thinking about bread, which really doesn’t happen too much since children aren’t really thinking about bread all that much only when you’re hungrying for a sandwich, I think that Wonder Bread is the first one to come to mind. It may …

I actually discovered this type of crackers by accident since when I was in the “National” section in an aisle in the supermarket I saw this and for some reason thought it was their oat bran crackers. However, when I finally got a chance to eat it at home, …

Ever since I first saw Great Value brats at our local Walmart, I have wanted to try them. But, even though they are a store brand, they have always been more expensive than the Johnsonville brats I normally buy so I never did.
This past weekend, however, they were about …

Growing up, Crystal had a product out called Marble Fudge. It was my favorite ice cream. I was probably a child addict to it. Then the grocer began to carry their own brand of product, and it phased out Crystal ice cream to nothingness. I wasn’t …

Most of the spirits that people consume in the leading countries of the west are mixers of one sort or another. I’m thinking of the likes of gin (& tonic), vodka (& anything) and all that sort of thing. Drinks that are designed to be mixed with soft drinks …

In an effort to save as much money as I possibly can I have began rolling my own cigarettes. I prefer to smoke Camel brand of cigarettes. However, the holidays have hit me hard and I am self employed. I have tried several brand of roll your own tobacco. …

I started to love eating chips and junk foods when I worked as a full time call center agent. My work required me to stay awake at night, yes we work during graveyard shift. I don’t smoke, so I prefer to sip a coffee or to eat chips whenever …

Of all the canned tunas on the market - and boy there are are a lot - the 365 Everyday Value Chunk Light Tongol Tuna in Spring Water is my favorite. It is my favorite for more than just a few reasons. I think the reason I enjoy this …

I really enjoy the rare occasions when my husband get to have a date night and go to dinner without the children. We usually go downtown to eat and one of our favorite dining establishments is TGIF’s. For the appitizer we always get the potato skins which If I …

I love potato salad but I have a special technique, if you want to call it that, when it comes to making potato salad. Whenever I buy food outside potato salad is always on my list of food to scout out before I decide to look at rice or …

Tastykake Butterscotch Krimpets were always my favorite out of the whole Tastykake line of baked goodies. I have eaten the peanut butter Kandy Kakes and the chocolate cup cakes, but I think there is something about the Butterscotch Krimpets that makes them the best. I love the flavor of …

Krusteaz Pie Crust Mix is not a pie mix that I will be purchasing a second time. I wish that I had not purchased it the first time really because it ended up detracting from the pie that I made. What exactly is so bad about this pie crust? …

I have probably bought more packets of Polos than any other mints because I like the way they are minty enough to freshen my breath and at the same time because they are sweet, they taste good. I also like the way the Polo mint has an iconic …

I love eating chips and this makes up most of my diet if I am not I the mood to eat a full meal. Junk foods are not really good, I know but at least some have tried to be a bit on the healthy side. Lay’s Products have …

The Coca-Cola company has what I believe to be the closest competitor to its very popular and successful 7-Up competitor. Sprite Soda is a reasonable alternative to 7-Up, and its presence in various restaurants would seem to back that up. For many, the two are interchangeable.
Sprite Soda …

I loved eating noodles and it is a usual breakfast for me and even midnight snack. But some times due to a lot of work I have no time in cooking some instant noodles that needs to cook at stove.
Good thing, this instant cup noodles of Nissin was introduced …

Inspired by my success with Bigelow Red Raspberry tea (love it!), I decided to try another type of tea of this brand: Bigelow Mint Medley. I bought it at Walmart. The tea comes in a nice, distinctively green, box of 20 tea bags. Mint Medley contains no caffeine, and …

While visiting the U.S.A. recently, I noticed there was a much wider variety of Doritos available in stores over there than back home in Australia. Some of these flavours I’d never heard of before like Spicy Nacho, Tangy Cheese, Fiery Habanero and Ranchero as well as many …

In light of the current econimic state, I am constantly trying to save as much money as I can, so I tend to buy the cheapest of everything, including sausages. In this regard, I generally purchase Tescos own brand. However, I recently noticed on offer some Walls sausages so …

Lays is a name of an interesting snack, that is nothing but the crispy, tasty and delicious chips which are made of potatoes. Lays chips comes in many and many verities and many tastes. I have tasted all of them and all of them are very good …

I like macaroni salad once in a while, but I don’t like making it (I would think I’m not alone in this??). Thankfully, Walmart Deli carries a very decent version of this salad, always fresh and not expensive. I recently bought a large, 4 lb plastic container of it, …

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 …

Pan de Manila’s pan de sal is the best tasting pan de sal i have tried so far in my entire life. Pan de sal, which literally means bread with salt, is a common staple food in my country, usually being eaten at breakfast served with coffee or any …

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 …

Grocery stores offer a massive plethora of selections when it comes to bottled water. Deer Park, Acadia, Icy Pure, and many others all produce bottled water, and most of their products are around the same price range. However, Fiji Water is quite expensive when compared with its competitors.
Fiji Water, …

It is already my habit to sip a gourmet cafe everyday. Starbucks and some local brands are always present in my everyday itinerary. The truth though is that these are costly and you are dependent on the availability of it. In some part of the world, Starbucks is not …

Sunshine Snacks is a popular local brand for snack foods and one of their products is Corn Chips. This snack comes in a very light .28g package. This is not surprising since the chips themselves are pretty light but also very crispy. Since it is so small it is …