Food Reviews
Lean Cuisine Cheddar Potatoes with Broccoli Frozen Entree
This classic hits all the “comfort food” spots. I can’t say anything bad about roasted potatoes, and when combine with cheese sauce and steamed broccoli you have a well-rounded and delicious meal.
I really liked the Lean Cuisine version of this meal. The roasted potatoes are really nicely roasted, …
Farmer John Ham Steaks
I’m a little surprised I like this as much as I do, but I’ve enjoyed Farmer John Ham Steaks off and on for several years. The only reason I’m surprised is that it’s really not a brand I’ve heard of that often, aside from seeing a handful of …
Dr. Lushus Corn Bread and Cheese
Some time ago when I had exams, I didn’t have enough time to eat dinner at home since I had to leave early. I also didn’t feel like eating much because I was still nervous even though I was a bit hungry. Therefore, what I ended up doing …
Tim Horton’s Boston Cream Donut
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 …
Lender’s Onion Bagel Shop Bagels
I love onion bagels! I like to eat them more than I like to eat regular or plain bagels. Because I don’t like to eat cream cheese on my bagels, it’s important to me that the bagels taste great all by themselves. My favorite kind is the savory type …
San Attiva Rosso
When a few days ago I went to a cheap shop near by I really got surprised when I saw a collection of new juices. Usually at that shop they always have the same cheap stuff so each time when I see something new I get excited because those …
Sunflower - Chinese takeaway and delivery service
The Sunflower Chinese takeaway in Kempston, Bedford, UK is a place always near the top of my list if I would like to enjoy Chinese in the comfort of my own home.
I discovered this takeaway when I started living in Kempston. Not many Chinese takeaways deliver in Bedford, but …
Arby’s Deluxe JR. Sandwich
I love Arby’s and yesterday I finally got a chance to try their new Deluxe Jr. Sandwich. I had seen the ads on TV and I was thrilled that they finally jumped on the “value menu” wagon and had a special sandwich—“ and it even had lettuce and …
Fruit-Filled Pancakes by Purity
I am in the belief that frozen, micro-waved pancakes are an oddity. Often they end up cemented or soggy. While grocery shopping recently, these frozen treats caught my eye: Strawberry Fruit-filled Pancakes by Purity Baking Company.
The box is cheery. The setting on the picture depicts a home-like …
Splenda
When products are flavored with Splenda, I acutally do enjoy them. They generally do not have that infamous diet taste, but rather closely resemble products that are made with regular sugar. I have found that the benefit of Splenda is that it obtains far less calories, and …
Kroger Value Peanut Butter Cookie Mix
Kroger Value Peanut Butter Cookie Mix makes very tasty peanut butter cookies! The peanut butter flavor is rich and real and present throughout the cookie. I can say with much confidence that the peanut butter cookies from Kroger are every bit as tasty and enjoyable as the name brand …
Trader Giotto’s Fusilli Pasta with Tomato and Basil Sauce
I bought this at my local grocery store as I have never tried this particular brand before. It was about $2.50 plus tax and seemed to be great way to have a warm pasta dish for lunch. The italian inspired ingredients really sounded delicious so I bought it. i …
Moon Cafe’s Beef Burrito
I went to the Limketkai mall in Cagayan to stroll and have lunch with my husband. I was looking for a Mexican infusion cuisine. I saw the Moon Restaurant on the Ground Floor of the Limketkai Mall. There are different Mexican dishes to choose from, but I chose their …
Del Monte Fit and Right
Del Monte Fit and Right is being advertised as a fruit juice that will help burn fat. In fact in the advertisement it is suggested that drinking this juice would enhance your figure and will make you as sexy as the image model Marianne Rivera. Well, I think this …
MorningStar Southwestern Style Veggie Cakes
MorningStar Southwestern Style Veggie Cakes can be purchased for two dollars a pack. For those that are looking to eat healthier, MorningStar is a good brand to look into as the brand offers some nutritious and tasty breakfast, lunch and dinner items. The MorningStar brand allows individuals to enjoy …
Our Family Chili
I decided to make chili dogs last night and, in the interest of not spending too much (since I didn’t get paid until today), I ended up buying a bargain brand can of chili; Our Family.
When I purchased this, I remembered buying it before. But, I couldn’t remember much …
Thomas’s English Muffins
Thomas’s i think makes some of the most fantastic english muffins ever. They taste great and are very easy to prepare. The package comes with eight english muffins you can toast them on eat them right out of the package.
One of my favorite thinsg to do is to make …
Gelatelli Strawberry ice cream
In my family cheap ice creams aren’t very popular. My parents and my sister would rather buy a very expensive ice cream just once a week than several cheaper ice creams so that they could eat ice cream every day in the week. I am not like that …
Candy Crate Halloween Candy Gift Box
Candy Crate Halloween Candy Gift Box comes overflowing with all sorts of Halloween themed candy! While I did not purchase this product with the intention of sending it to someone, after all, Halloween is not exactly a holiday that I associate with gift baskets, I did purchase it to …
Swanson Certified Organic Chicken Broth
Swanson is one of those staple brands that I often times search for when browsing in the grocery store. Whenever I want to skip a step or two in making homemade dishes, Swanson is my goto brand. It effectively makes cooking a breeze.
Swanson has introduced into their line of …
Jolly Time Better Butter Microwave Popcorn
The Jolly Time brand has been around for a long time, and they’re now part of the microwave popcorn parade. They advertise their ‘Better Butter’ popcorn as having ‘no diacetyl’ added, which is a good thing. They also plug the fact that there are ‘no hydrogenated oils’ …
Michelina’s Rice Pilat Florentine dinner
I bought Michelina’s Rice Pilaf Florentine dinner, for something different to eat. This dinner is from Michelina’s Avantage line, they do not call it ‘diet food’, or ‘weight maintenance food’although that is exactly what this Avantage line is.
I thought it would be a tasty dinner, and boy was I …
Crystal Light Raspberry Ice drink mix
We bought these in the new individual sized servings, where you just take the small tube and pour the powder into a glass of water.
These contain aspartame, which isn’t really good for you, but if you are on a diet it is a substitute for sugar. I’m not on …
Lean Cuisine Thai Chicken
Many people have made New Year’s resolutions to lose weight in the upcoming year. As someone who is dieting myself I can tell you that finding good “diet frozen lunches” can be tough. Luckily Lean Cuisine has produced Thai Style Chicken. The Thai Style Chicken from Lean Cuisine is …
Maruchan Oriental Flavor Ramen Noodle Soup
Ramen noodle soup is not just for starving college kids. My college days are long behind me, but I still enjoy a flavorful bowl of ramen noodle soup. Maruchan is my favorite brand of ramen noodle soup and, until recently, I would …
Eggo Waffles Cinnamon Toast Family Pack 24 Sets of 4 Waffles
My kids love waffles. I’m not always sure it is the waffles so much as the syrup, but with Eggo waffles, we can’t seem to go wrong. I do know for certain that the Cinnamon Toast waffles we tried recently were a bit hit in our household, because neither …
Kellogg’s corn flakes
Breakfast is the most important part of our diet and we need to eat something healthy and taste is always a priority these days. I don’t like taking oily stuffs for breakfast and try avoiding calorie and fats, so my wife doesn’t like preparing anything as I am always …
Bake and Churn’s Ice Cream Cakes
We often go to Robinson Supermarket to buy groceries and other stuffs and we always see this Bake and Churn Ice Cream Cake’s stall at the entrance part of the supermarket. I never tried buying any of these ice cream cakes because I thought to myself …
Publix Brand Yogurt
I wouldn’t call myself a health guru, but I do like my fair share of yogurt. There was a time I was eating a variety of yogurts; I pretty much have cut a majority of them from my shopping list, and every since I realized I could get more …
Blue Bunny BIG Neapolitan Ice Cream Sandwich
Blue Bunny BIG Neapolitan Ice Cream Sandwich is not really big on flavor, unfortunately. None of the three flavors here, the vanilla, chocolate or the strawberry really succeed in standing out in any way. I have had delicious vanilla, chocolate and strawberry from Blue Bunny before, and unfortunately, that …
Yummy Earth Organic Lollipops
I haven’t been a kid in a long time and my candy preferences generally run more toward high cocoa content dark chocolate than “lollies” but I received a Yummy Earth Organic Lollipop sample in an order of herbal shampoo, of all things, and gave it a try. WOW! Within …
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 …
Sugar free natura
Sugar free natura is a low calorie sugar substitute, which comes in the form of very small tablets. These sugar free substitutes are used for cooking instead of using the sugar to avoid the extra calories. It is an ideal product for the diabetic patients. This …
Ore Ida Crispy Crown Potatoes
When I can’t get to Burger King or McDonald’s for breakfast, I’ll go to super Wal-Mart and get a bag of Ore Ida crispy crown potatoes. The crispy crown potatoes are the same ones served at Burger King, and it cooked properly, they can have the same crispiness.
The packaging …
7up Soft Drink
Although I generally don’t find myself choosing 7up as a first or even second option when I’m buying soda, there is still that rare moment over a period of time when I’ll crave one. The reason why I don’t necessarily crave 7up a lot is because first of all, …
Sargento - Deli Style Sliced Baby Swiss Cheese
Sargento - Deli Style Sliced Baby Swiss Cheese is a cheese that I used to purchase and enjoy. I really liked this Swiss cheese because it was the type of cheese that I could put on my sandwich, be it a sandwich that consisted of lunch meat, hamburger or …
Pasta Express
When I saw the Pasta Express on television, I had to get one. My wife and I are constantly eating pasta and, even if all it did was free up a burner on our stove, it was worth the investment.
After using it for the first time, I have a …
Tesco Value Salted Peanuts
These salted peanuts are from Tesco’s own range of Value products and you can buy a big 200g bag for a mere 27p. I love peanuts because they are so filling and as I am a vegetarian I can up my protein intake as well, and I recently …
Minute Maid Pulpy Orange by Coca Cola Philippines, Inc.
I discovered a new product on my favorite grocery store shelf that deserves to be patronized. It is Minute Maid Pulpy Orange by Coca Cola Philippines, Inc. I love it and more importantly, my four year old loves it. It also fits right into my budget at less than …
Magic Noodles
I bought a bag of Magic Noodles from a craft store in hopes of entertaining my 4-year-old niece for a while. To my surprise, that bag of noodles not only entertained her, but also entertained her 11-year-old brother, plus three neighborhood friends ages 8,6 and 5! My 11-year-old nephew …
Blue Bell Strawberry Cheesecake Half Gallon Ice Cream
I’m an extreme lover of strawberry cheesecakes and when I walked down the ice cream aisle in super Wal-Mart, my eyes began bugging out of my head.
I knew how fast the strawberry cheesecake ice cream would go, so I had to sneak into it and make my company/friends believe …
Mrs. Freshley’s Lemon Pie
I am really very pleased with Mrs. Freshley’s Lemon Pie, with the exception of the crust, but the crust is bad regardless of which flavor variety I purchase, quite unfortunately. What pleases me about this lemon pie is the lemon filling. Boy is it ever delicious! The lemon filling …
Wrigley’s Doublemint
Just a few weeks ago, I discovered that there are Wrigley’s Doublemint sugarfree mints in canisters available at the grocery store I frequent, Shopwise —“ Pasong Tamo corner Vito Cruz Streets, Makati City.
Each 8.4 oz. canister contains 35 mints and costs P 78.50. This is quite expensive for mints …
Nature Valley’s Peanut Butter Crunchy Granola Bar
I have recently tasted the Nature Valley’s Peanut Butter Crunchy Granola Bar. I think that it was both a healthy and tasty experience. Please let me share this experience with you.
First of all, I would like to mention the fact that I like the way this healthy snack’s individual …
Folgers Gourmet Selections Vanilla Biscotti
I reveived a sample of Folgers new Gourmet coffee in Vanilla Biscotti earlier this week. The sample from folgers was enough for a whole pot of coffee, very generous. THe coffee had a very rich and s very rich flavor, the vanilla was very distinct taste in …
Pepperidge Farm Chesapeake Dark Chocolate Pecan Cookies
Since I have already indulged in some high quality cookies by the name of Pepperidge Farm, I then purchased one more pack just to be able to taste a different variety.
One of those packs was the Pepperidge Farm Chesapeake Dark Chocolate Pecan Cookies. Again the price was just …
Great Value Canned Corn
As I mentioned in another review, we decided to make a big dinner last night with lots of side dishes because the pork ribs we made were a bit lean when it came to meat. Since we needed a vegetable everyone in our family would eat (and I was …
Great Value Sausage Breakfast Bowl
There is nothing like waking up in the morning to a home cooked breakfast , but who has the time to cook one from scratch. I absolutely love Great Value products , because they taste homemade and you can cook them in minutes. One of my favorite foods they …
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