Since the economy has taken a downward turn, our family has decided to cut as many expenses as we can at the grocery store. One of our usual purchases is frozen hashed brown potatoes. We use these as a breakfast item as well as a side dish …

I’m a huge peanut butter fan and everything peanut butter flavoured immediately goes into my cart. I really love Reese’s peanut butter cups, however, I’ve been hearing a lot about Justin’s Dark Chocolate peanut butter cups lately, which are also organic, lower in sugar and vegan. I haven’t seen them …

I am a huge fan of Knorr Lipton products, and have always had a minor addiction with their Sidekicks line of side dishes. Being sick and tired of every kind of potato under the sun, I decided to buy Sidekicks Mexican Rice in a 150 gram package at my …

Let’s discuss vanilla extract. When baking cookies recently, I ran out of vanilla extract, and went to the grocery store. I was in an immediate rut. My cookie dough was still in the bowl requiring vanilla.
Some of the prices of grocery store pure vanillas are outragous, and I …

One of the most difficult decisions you can make in the morning is what to eat for breakfast. There are just so many options. Do you go for cereal? For toast? Cold pizza? The options are limitless. One suggestions that I have is …

In n Out French fries first caught my attention with its extra quantity being offered at no extra price than other fast food chains. But later on when I came to know more about their fries, I think In n Out French fries are very different in preparation and …

I like chocolate chips cookies, sometimes I make them myself but then I usually make a bunch of them and that means putting some weight on. So although it is much cheaper to make them than to buy them I started buying them. For 1E I can make at …

My whole family loves Mahatma Saffron Yellow Long Grain Rice. It’s really nice for my “rice kid”, my son who at the moment would live on rice if we let him, loves this stuff I love this rice. It’s a nice change to give him …

This medium cheddar cheese is particularly tasty as it has cracked black pepper strewn throughout it. What I like is that as I am eating it, I will bite one of the black pepper bits and some good heat hits my tastebuds. This was pretty economical cheese …

I usually don’t buy or eat Oats and Raisins cookies but when my mother came to visit she bought a couple boxes of Craver’s Haulin’ Oats & Raisins Gourmet Cookies with her and left me a box for myself.
Craver’s Haulin’ Oats & Raisins Gourmet Cookies are different from cookies …

Metromint - Peppermint Water is more or less about as good as hint peppermint water, and if I had to choose the better tasting flavored water, I do not think that I could. Much like the hint flavored water line, this water is also pretty pure and healthy. The …

I love oreos and I have always seen white fudge covered oreos being sold. I love white chocolate personally but is is obviously the sweetest “chocolate” you can get out there and I actually wondered if white fudge would be just a bit too sweet (compared to chocolate) to …

An awesome dessert that is in my love book of food favorites would be Millefeuille. This is a French dessert and the meaning in English is something like ‘A Thousand Leaves’ or something.
And if you go to any restaurants that are having some form of credibility to …

Grapefruit is a fruit that’s delicious sweet and very nutritious, and grapefruit is also something that can be eaten when on a diet, so it’s good for weight-control too. I have to say though, I haven’t touched another actual grapefruit since I tried this grapefruit juice from Florida’s Natural …

I have never tried something so unique, The taste is completely indescribable. So what is Mountain dew? Mountain dew is a carbonated soft drink which is made in America. From what i can tell it has a tangerine citrus taste. Whistle it’s caffeine and sugar …

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 …

I’ve long been a firm believer that in most cases, food items do not vary much from brand to brand and therefore, the variables I employ are usually price, flavour, fat content or size. Manufacturers usually use much the same ingredients, so the taste of the product varies little. …

Banquet Frozen Dinners are known for being inexpensive. You can buy them in almost any supermarket. I usually go shopping at Pathmark and they always have them there. They are the cheapest frozen dinner I can find in Pathmark. They usually cost only a dollar …

I made Martha White cheese garlic biscuits for dinner. This was the first time I had tried this product. I got it at the dollar general and thought that it looked like an interesting product to try. They are very easy to make and all you have …

The apple pies baked at the Kroger bakery are quite enjoyable for a number of reasons. One of the primary reasons that I enjoy this store-baked apple pie is because it is quite moist. It is even more moist when I heat up a slice in the microwave for …

Ginseng Up is a local beverage which is sold in all grocery stores and supermarkets in my country. It comes in a 275ml glass bottle and contains no alcohol. The original flavour of the Ginseng Up drink is actually just what the name of the product suggests. It is …

Gone are the days that you still need to squeeze the orange to make it a yummy fruit juice. Because today, the market now offers the real pulp of an orange juice drink, it’s Minute Maid Pulpy Orange Drink. I was able to try this drink when I …

This Panini brings two cultures together: italiano and cubano. This sandwich is served on focaccia Italian bread/flatbread) with Cuban-inspired fillings (smoked chicken, ham, pickles, mayo and Swiss). The best part of a Panera sandwich (be it their signature, café or Panini) is the bread. They specially …

While looking at the ice cream aisle this week, I saw Snickers Minis Ice Cream Bars, a product I didn’t even know they made. Well, I knew they made or used to make full size bars, but I haven’t bought those in a very long time and haven’t …

During summer all of us love to have the different kind of juices and in the same way I love to have the Maaza soft drink. The maaza soft drink tastes exactly like the mango pulp. It is very think and also gives very good and delicious taste …

Nescafe which is a subsidy of Nestle has recently came up with several varieties from using brown sugar, sweet and mild, to the strong and rich variety. The latter is one of the variations that I really need. With my busy schedule and oftentimes extended hours at night, I needed …

We all have heard of the “Zagu”, the Healthie fresh fruit shakes, Fruitas, and even Quickly; just this afternoon, I had a sudden craving for a melon shake, and the first I saw was the “Black Pearl” kiosk just at the entrance of the shopping mall. It was …

Just from the name frappucino, you might already know that this one come from the Starbucks. I enjoy coffee, infact i can say that i am addicted to coffee. A glass of coffee is a must for me. But not all coffee are good, i prefer the best taste …

I will not purchase Betty Crocker Halloween Candy Fruit Snacks again because I find the snacks to be of poor quality. The reason that I feel that they are of poor quality is because I do not taste anything close to authentic fruit flavor. I am well aware that …

The Blue Horizon Four Cheese Fettuccine Pasta is a frozen pasta that I have only noticed in ALDI Food Market stores. That’s actually an okay thing since I wouldn’t buy this frozen pasta again even if it was easily found in other stores. I simply didn’t enjoy this pasta …

I can remember that when I was a little girl, one of my favourite things to snack on was Butterkist sandwich cookies. I would open the sandwich cookies and lick the cream in between before I would eat the cookies themselves. However, as soon as I got tired of …

It is clear that for better health, one should be very conscious about their food. Medical science says that you should have perfect balance diet to cop up with your daily body wear and tear.
But as we all know that it is not easy to maintain balance diet just …

Cadbury’s Chocolate Fingers are one of my all time favorite treats and they have been around as long as I can remember. There are about thirty of these delicious fingers in a long box and you can get them at the bargain price of about £1 if you …

I am getting on in years (almost 35) but I still reflect on the days when as children going to a Birthday was special because you knew that there would be a cake, games and other amazing goodies. Sometime in the 80’s the commercial for Fudgey the Whale ice …

Our family usualy dines out on special occassions. As it is common with everyone, we always start with soup and our first choice is tomato soup. During one of those dinners, we gave tomato soup for taste to my 3 year old daughter. She liked it very …

I am very particular with my coffee; actually, that is the dialogue of my father. He drinks coffee four times a day. In the morning, he has to have black coffee and after lunch a sweetened coffee and at night, two cups of coffee with Coffee-mate. Maybe I adopted …

I love Diet Pepsi. I think that I am addicted. The problem is they are not good for you. I don’t know if it is the carbonation, the taste or the caffeine.
The label says that there are 0 calories, …

Typically, if I’m looking for a quick lunch, I can’t go wrong with Chunky Soup. But, after trying their Vegetable Beef Stew, I have to say I don’t intend on buying that variety again.
Flavor wise, it was OK. It was a bit too salty for my tastes but it …

Diet Coke is one of the best soft drinks on the market. For those people watching their weight or dieting, Diet Coke has no calories, fat, etc. It tastes great.
A common problem with diet soda is a lack of carbonation. Diet Coke has plenty and maintains it well. It …

I bought this cereal thinking that it was a healthy source of fiber, protein, and along with the added vitamins and nutrients that make up a complete breakfast. However, I was misled because if you look at the nutrition facts, it does not have any fiber. The …

I’ve been wanting to try Idahoan Four Cheese Mashed Potatoes for a very long time, but only just recently decided to give it a go. As my readers know, convenience is my driving goal with foods, from preparation to cooking and through cleanup. I judge just about …

These chips from the Dollar Tree are really no deal. Although they only cost a dollar, the bag size is just six ounces. I can get twelve ounce bags from Walmart for under two dollars when I purchase the Great Value brand and for even less at ALDI if …

What really attracted me to this liquid yogurt was its bottle. It is made of plastic and has a very nice dinosaur on it. Its name is Prezzemolo and he is really cute. The background is blue and there are a vanilla flower and raspberry picture close to …

When I first indulged in Pepperidge Farm’s cookies it was the White Chocolate Chunk Macadamia Nut Cookies that caught my attention, simply because white chocolate is a definite favourite of mine. But I eat a lot more milk chocolate as it is readily available.
Now, how I actually came about …

Although I like the cherry variety the best, this Little Debbie Snack Pie - Lemon variety really is not that bad at all. The lemon flavor is quite sharp and tasty, and the lemon filling is pretty plentiful as well! What I also like is the fact that the …

I don’t usually buy juices because I find them to be calories which I can easily stay without. I mean, juices never usually manage to kill the thirst so it is much better to drink water and sometimes I drink vitamin and mineral tables which dissolve in water and …

I have tried a variety of cookies in my time and I like Devon Chocolate Chip cookies for one main reason. It is absolutely wonderful when it is spread with or dipped in peanut butter or Nutella.
I had written earlier about Devon Oaties and I went to the grocery …

I have found a perfect combination: a blend of peanut butter and dark chocolate. I’ve always liked chocolate candy with peanut butter inside, and often wished someone would come up with the idea of mixing these two tastes in some kind of butter or spread. Well, it turns out …

It was my mother’s birthday a few days ago and she invited a few of her friends for a dinner. One of them brought her a box of Ferrero Rondnoir. Everyone in my family like Ferrero Rocher but we’ve never tried this new Ferrero Rondnoir.
Ferrero Rondnoir comes in a …

The photo on the package looked inviting. Lasagna noodles with veggies stuffed in between and a nice-looking red sauce graced the top of the entrée. I had another Kashi frozen dinner before and had enjoyed it, so I was inclined to give the Tuscan Veggie Bake a try.
After having …