Food Reviews
Jimmy Dean Original Premium Bacon
After purchasing many other Jimmy Dean products over the years, I recently tried Jimmy Dean Original Premium Bacon. Overall, it was pretty good.
The packaging definitely keeps in the natural juices of the bacon. The packaging is solid, but I do wish it was easier to open. …
Rocket Fuel Instant Coffee with Guarana
This sure is an instant coffee that will put hairs on your chest and, speaking as a severe coffee addict who enjoys a cup with a kick, I am a big fan of it. Although, this coffee may not be advisable if you have a heart condition! …
Truvia Natural Sweetener
I really do not know what to think about this natural sugar alternative. The makers claim that Stevia is used in its manufacture, but to be honest, I don’t think it is used, or if it is, it is used in extremely minute quantities. Stevia has a distinctive bitter …
Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey ice cream
Ben and Jerry’s is an ice cream brand that you’ve probably heard of and have even tried. They’re known for homemade ice cream that is pretty eccentric, not just in name but in flavor as well. They’re probably the most creative brand of ice cream out there. One of …
Parry’s refined pure sugar
Now it is a big headache for the housewife’s to choose the good or the best products for her house. Especially while choosing the products for my kitchen. It is also my responsibility to buy the good products for my house, and particularly for kitchen. But …
Total 100% Whole Grain Cereal
At first, I was skeptical of Total 100% Whole Grain Cereal but I saw it on a television commercial and was impressed with the claim of providing 100% daily value of 12 vitamins and minerals. I found it on sale at my local Kroger for $2.89 and …
Miss Vickie’s Jalapeno potato chips
I love potato chips. They are one of my favorite types of snack foods. Although I realize that they are not the healthiest snack foods around and I try to moderate my intake, I am always on the lookout for a new potato chip taste sensation. Recently, …
Abita Mardi Gras Bock, seasonal beer
We picked up the Abita Mardi Gras Bock to go with a southern-themed dinner one night, and it paired really well with the somewhat heavier, spicier food that we ate that night. It’s drinkable and versatile enough for a number of different seasons and dishes.
The Abita Bock is a …
Little Debbie Easter Puffs
I am not all that crazy about Little Debbie Easter Puffs, although I would be if they would just remove one thing from the puffs. These puffs have chocolate on the inside and marshmallow on the outside and there is also a white icing coated beneath the marshmallow. There …
Marvel Superhero Candy Sticks
During the Halloween time of the year, some stores sell Marvel Comic Superhero candy sticks. They are small sticks of candy that come in small boxes (two to a box and 60 boxes in a bag) with different superheros on them. It seems like the majority of …
Kraft Manhattan Gummi Land
I purchased these sweets for my kids who deserve the occasional treat once they finished their homework. My oldest daughter is particularly hooked on sweets. As I saw it was from Kraft I thought they must taste good. I also looked at the see through cellophane and thought it …
Purefoods Corned Beef
It has always been a Filipino habit to buy canned foods. There are several reasons for this. One is that it’s cheaper compared to buying foods that still needs cooking. Another reason is that it does not easily spoil. So, storing it is not that hard. Corned beef is …
KFC Food: Popcorn Chicken
I’ve always been a fan of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) but one food on the menu makes KFC my favorite fast food restaurant there is and that food is popcorn chicken, it is my favorite KFC food on the menu. I like it because it is boneless (unlike Chicken …
Culver’s Fried Chicken
Being a huge fan of fried chicken, I have ordered it in many different places, and I believe I can say that fried chicken served at Culver’s is very close to be the best of the best. It is always soft and juicy inside, while the outside is that …
Velveeta cheese grilled sandwich
As I was sitting her today trying to figure out what I wanted to eat for lunch. Not having a lot of stuff other than the usual over done left overs in the house and not really wanting a can of soup I thought about running over to McDonald’s. …
San Mig Coffee Extra Strong
I love coffee and tea (but mostly coffee). When I have the time, I prepare it myself, brewing it as strong as I can. But I usually do not have the luxury of time, and so I have tried looking for instant coffee that is really strong. I stumbled …
Eggo Blueberry Waffles
I’d strongly recommend these waffles to any waffle lover out there. They are truly a great way to wake up in the morning! I always look forward to having a good breakfast to start my day and usually eat these waffles 4 to 5 times a week. They’re regular …
Mountain Dew
I have always seen Mountain Dew advertisements on the television with it’s catch slogan “Do the Dew” I never thought much of it or even thought about trying it, till recently.
My dad bought a bottle of what he and his friends fondly call “Dragon Blood” because of it’s green …
Velveeta Shells and Cheese
I’ve never tried any of the Velveeta products before now, but I had heard how good the easy to make macaroni was, and I wanted to give it a try.
The Velveeta shells and cheese box was a little small to be making macaroni, but I didn’t worry about it …
Gardenia Mongo Loaf
One of the best bread in the Philippines is Gardenia. But it’s sad to say that it is not yet available all throughout the country yet. It’s very well known in the National Capital Region but not yet distributed in the Eastern and the Southern part of the country. …
Golden Spoon frozen yogurt
Everybody loves ice cream, and almost everybody I know loves frozen yogurt. It’s healthy, tasty, and practically affordable. I have tasted lots of yogurt and was therefore very excited to taste Golden Spoon’s frozen yogurt selection.
What caught my eye was that I was strolling around the mall one day …
Little Debbie Petites Chocolate Cakes
Little Debbie Petites Chocolate Cakes are rectangular snack cakes that are indeed petite. Two big bites or three moderate size bites, and the snack cakes are history. The cakes are thus on the small side. Unfortunately, the size of the chocolate cake isn’t the biggest problem this snack cake …
Great Value Instant Oatmeal Fruit & Cream Variety Pack
I’ve been attempting to find a flavor of oatmeal that I can stomach because I’d really like to be able to incorporate oatmeal into my daily eating habits as there’s a lot of good stuff in oatmeal that’s beneficial for the heart and body. The oatmeal that I’ve tried …
Nestle Bear Brand Busog Lusog Family Cereal Drink
Nestle Bear Brand launched its Busog Lusog Family Cereal Drink recently and I was given several packets of it. I have grown up with most of Nestle products, and Bear Brand is the milk that I grew up with, and so I thought that was an assurance of …
Kadoya Brand Pure Sesame Oil
Kadoya Brand Pure Sesame Oil is a product from Japan that I like to order from off of the Internet. I think that cooking in sesame oil is a good way to have flavor without a lot of the heavy fats that can clog up the arteries. Using Kadoya …
Albertsons corn flakes
Albertsons corn flakes is so stale a product with pure corn flakes sealed in a package. The problem with the product is its same pure nature. First of all the taste is so bland that it never tickle any of my taste buds. Especially when it is intended to …
Oreos Cakesters Snacks
I have never been a fan of the Oreo cookies. To me a cookie should be soft and sweet with some added chocolate and the hard, not-so-chocolate taste of the cookies never appealed to me. So I was surprised when I tried the new Oreo Cakesters and fell in …
Mango frooti
Mango Frooti is a very popular fruit drink in India. It tastes really good, and even though, they use added flavor to give artificial taste to frooti, still it taste very much like real mango. It comes is different packing, the old and traditional one comes in a small …
Yoplait Strawberry
Yoplait Strawberry is another one of my top favorites of yogurt, along with the French Vanilla and Banana Creme varieties. The reason this variety ranks high with me is because I really like strawberries - be it just strawberries themselves, or strawberry ice cream or strawberry shortcake, whatever. If …
Blue Bunny Chips Galore! Ice Cream Sandwich
Blue Bunny Chips Galore! Ice Cream Sandwich is an alright frozen treat that I really thought that I would enjoy more. The chocolate semi-sweet chips were not sweet at all. I know that they are only supposed to be moderately sweet, but they were not even that. They were …
Iced Coffee with Vanilla Ice Cream
Many years ago, on a hot summer day, I had discovered the refreshing power of iced coffee. I make it regularly ever since. My favorite recipe includes vanilla ice cream. Both instant and brewed coffee works well for it. For instant, you can even use cold water, to speed …
Our Family Baked Beans
I picked up a chicken dinner from one of the local grocery stores last night. And, since I didn’t want to pay deli prices on side dishes, I went to the actual grocery section to pick up a can of baked beans.
Normally, I would get Bush’s baked beans. But, …
Blue Bunny Premium Ice Cream Peanut Butter Panic
Blue Bunny Premium Ice Cream Peanut Butter Panic offers a whole lot of peanut butter flavor! This peanut butter ice cream has fudge swirls as well as peanut butter cups. Each and every spoonful is just loaded with peanut butter! The peanut butter ice cream is creamy and quite …
Gits jalebee mix
We all love to eat many kind of food. Especially most of the people love to eat many kind of sweet dishes. But it may not possible to prepare such kind of special sweet dishes perfectly at home. That is why we prefer to go to …
Sam’s Choice (beverages)
Walmart’s generic brand of sodas is called Sam’s Choice. I have tried their flavored beverages, and I still have yet to find one that really closely resembles a major name brand soda. While I can not say that the Sam’s Choice beverages taste bad in any way, …
Lala Chocolates
I love chocolates. Who doesn’t? And when it comes to chocolates, among the first things that instantly comes to mind is Lala. Lala chocolate bars are different compared to the other chocolates you see sold in stores. It is different in the sense that its packaging is transparent. I guess …
Del Monte Pineapple Juice
I love drinking Del Monte pineapple juice not only because of its great taste but because of its high nutrition content.It is a great source of Vitamin C. I rely on it for my supplement of Vitamin C. Del Monte pineapple juice also cleanses our body from the …
Kingfisher Strong Beer
I like Kingfisher beer from the time from which started first taste of beer. But I always felt that Kingfisher beer is not having sufficient strength. This problem is solved when Kingfisher came up with Kingfisher Strong beer. Even though it is little expensive than other beer brands, I …
Sainsbury’s White Bagette with Sesame Seed
This White Bagette with Sesame Seed can be found in Sainsbury’s in-store bakery. They are always fresh and delicious and not only that, they are very cheap I think at only 65 pence for this rather jumbo sized bagette. This is a big, thick bagette that measures …
Potato Pancakes
Potato Pancakes is one of the most ever popular type of culinary and side-dish. You can even label it as snack and it’ll pass off as well.
Normally, my mouth would water whenever I go hungry and I see potato pancakes. It has that ‘market appeal’ and …
Dr.Thunder
I love Dr. Thunder for its pleasant, refreshing “almondy” taste, very close to that of Dr. Pepper and for half the price. I buy 2 liter bottles of it at Walmart for only 58 cents a bottle, and sometimes they even lower the price to 50 cents - hard …
Tyson Chicken Breast Patties
I like the chicken breast patties made by Tyson. I think the patties have a good chicken flavor. The patties are particularly good when I add some lettuce, mayonnaise and even some pickles. They are simple to prepare and I am given the option to heat up the patties …
Coca Cola Reward System
My favorite soda is Coca-Cola, give me a coke, I’ll give you a smile. But thier reward program is for the birds.People can crack the codes too easy and enter codes in which they clearly do not have.I get tired of opening a coke and entering the code just …
Maruchan Ramen Noodle Soup Single Pack Shrimp Flavor
I remember when ramen noodles were referred to a poor’s man meal because only poor people and college students would eat it, and I know I had my college apartment filled to the max with them. They were cheap and good and to this day I still like to eat …
Truvia Sweetener
My family has a long history with diabetes. Three of my grandparents had it the moment they died, and the other one I have left has it as well. Along with several of my aunt and uncles from both sides of my family. So obviously I need to be …
Amy’s Enchiladas
It seems like I can always rely on Amy’s to make yummy packaged food. The Amy’s Enchiladas are no different. Just good and natural.
I love their enchiladas. They take 5 minutes in the microwave, but do not taste like a microwave food. They taste like …
Publix brand rotisserie chicken
I go to my local publix store and any time my family isn’t in the mood for cooking, we usually buy a rotisserie chicken. this chicken comes in a variety of flavors such as BBQ,Lemon Pepper,and original. It’s a good value because it is very filling and feeds …
Budwiser in the Can
It is a 95 degree day here in Detroit and the sun is beating on my brow, as I sit down to review an American classic, Budweiser, to be more specific, Budweiser in the can. Now, the casual beer drinker may say, “so what if it is in an …
Nutella Hazlenut Spread
I seem to remember that Nutella Hazlenut spread was launched onto the UK market when I was a kid in the 70s but when it came out, I looked at it as the Holy Grail of spreads for children. I hope I am not pregnant or anything …
Harris Decaffeinated Green Tea
I love to drink tea, especially green tea, whether it is hot or cold. Green tea has a delicate and subtle bitter taste. As a plus, green tea contains a chockfull of antioxidants for the immune system, so it is very good for your health.
As I am on …
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