When the grocery store was out of my usual Ball Park beef franks this week, I decided to purchase Oscar Mayer Bun-length Premium Beef Franks. I didn’t even know that Oscar Mayer made a bun-length hot dog, so that was a pleasant surprise. Of course, I was …

One-hundred percent fruit juice isn’t always priced at what I consider to be an affordable amount of money. Without sales or coupons, juice that isn’t diluted with water generally runs for over three dollars. It’s for that reason that when I came across the Nature’s Nectar brand of mango …

Barbara’s Bakery Puffins are an excellent crunchy corn cereal with a great peanut butter flavor. They are lightly sweetened and made from only natural ingredients so they are good for the whole family. They have no artificial flavors, colors or refined white sugar. They also do not have any …

My first impression of TV like dinners that come in a microwavable box is that I really don’t want to eat them. I imagine chewy meats that are rubbery and full of nerves and bland cardboard spices that I wouldn’t enjoy. But when I came across Michelina’s Beef and …

I remember my mum used to get Penguin biscuits in for me when I was a kid. They are very appealing to children as in a packet, each biscuit is individually wrapped, each one in a different bright color, with an arty picture of a penguin on the …

Edward’s Key lime pie is the best I have had since I left Florida. Key lime pie has always been my favorite, but since leaving Florida I have had many bad experiences with places using limes, instead of key limes and there is a big difference. Edward’s is sold …

I once tried a box of tea bags to make my iced tea and I am here to tell you that there is definitely a big difference in the taste of different tea bags. I can often get away with getting the cheaper brands at the grocery store because …

The Republic of Tea is known for making high-quality teas in a variety of natural flavor combinations. Blackberry Sage is a black tea with layered notes of blackberries and sage leaves. It seems an
unlikely combination of ingredients, but this delicately-flavored, all-natural tea is delightful by itself, in the morning, …

I had never encountered the brand name of cookies called Brent & Sam’s until my mother who came on vacation recently bought a couple of boxes of these cookies with her. She brought a box of Brent & Sam’s Chocolate Chip Gourmet Cookies and a box of Brent & …

When I was working as a Management Trainee for an International company in Makati, we always pass by the Krispy Kreme Store in Ayala Avenue. My Malaysian trainer wanted to try it out and we did. After the first time, she liked it so much that we visit the …

Breyers Dulce de Leche is a pretty enjoyable variety of ice cream that I like to have. It really appears to my taste buds because this ice cream really offers up a whole lot of delicious caramel flavor. The ice cream itself is caramel ice cream, and in and …

Even though I didn’t like the crispy seasoning by Bake N’ Shake, I wanted to try the barbeque seasoning because I love barbeque and the photograph on the box made it seem like it would be the best chicken. When will I learn? When will I learn?
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I got the first taste of Toblerone way back in the early 1980’s when my brother went home for vacation from his work in Saudi Arabia. That was our first time to see Toblerone and we were all excited to see this long bars of …

As Baileys Irish Cream Liquer is one of my favourite alcoholic tipples and as I am a chocolate addict, I got a thrill in anticipation when I spotted a Baileys Truffle Bar in the supermarket today. I fantasised that I could eat it when I got home, knackered …

Guinness has something good going on, not only with their world famous Guinness Draught Beer, but yet again with its lighter Guinness Harp beer. This beer doesn’t have quite the same bold taste as its brother beer but it still taste delicious and gives people an excuse to say, …

I am a HUGE fan of Wing Zone because not only do they offer the best of chicken, but they also allow you to decide on the flavor/sauce you chicken will be drenched in. I’m a barbeque person, therefore, I am always ordering barbeque chicken wings; however, when I …

Trail mix isn’t something that I can find reasonably priced, and really, I don’t know if $1.00 for a 7 ounce bag at the “Dollar Tree” is even worth the money, but I do know that I enjoy this tropical mix and that every package I purchase disappears relatively …

I’m not sure if you have gone to the trouble and huge expense of ordering a Stuffed Crust Pizza from Pizza Hut, but if you have not, you need to at least try it once. Of course you won’t want to do this ever again. The price …

I love using plain yogurt for making homemade dressings, marinades, potato and macaroni salads, Greek and Italian dishes, and my chicken salad and fruit smoothies. My all time favorite plain yogurt to use is the Stonyfield Organic Plain Smooth and Creamy Lowfat Yogurt. I like this yogurt because …

There is a lot of dieter’s tea on the market and some of them are from China. I used the one called Dieter’s delight tea for dieting and I can tell you that it has some safety issues there. The tea is for you to control your appetite …

Little Debbie Pecan Spinwheels Sweet Rolls are really quite good! These sweet rolls have a lot of flavor wrapped into them and both the cinnamon and pecan are represented quite well. You will most certainly be able to taste both the cinnamon and pecan flavors when you bite into …

I have recently decided to save money by taking my own lunch to work. My biggest problem is getting up early enough to pack a lunch. My solution was to buy prepackaged portions. This is easy enough for chips and desserts, but sandwiches are harder to …

Yesterday I was in the candy lane at Walmart, trying to decided what type of candy I wanted. There were some of my favorites, Hersey Kisses, and Reese’s Peanut Butter cups. Well, I don’t do this often, but yesterday I did. I went out on a limb and bought …

Milo is a health drink for children. This is the product of the company called Nestle which is very famous for producing the very good quality chocolates and other milk products. Milo drink tastes like chocolate and it is chocolate flavored. That is the main reason …

The Berryhill Wild Blueberry Fruit Syrup comes in a thirteen ounce bottle for two dollars and forty-nine cents at ALDI Food Market stores. After trying the Smucker’s Blueberry Syrup and being real disappointed, I was kind of hesitant to give this blueberry syrup a try. I didn’t want to …

I much prefer purchasing the bags of frozen Pillsbury biscuits over the biscuits that come in a canned roll because I love the convenience of being able to bake only the number of biscuits I want or think I will need. Fresh biscuits always taste better than biscuits that …

I have the best memories going to the Dunkin Donuts shop when I was a kid. The smells alone, great coffee and sugar sweet cakey scents, would keep me excited for a couple of days. The excitement of picking out a donut to eat in sit down shop made …

I find Mrs. Freshley’s Crunch Mini Donuts to be pretty bland, although I really am having a hard time determining if these or the chocolate variety are more dull in taste. The coconut flavor is not all that spectacular and really, a little on the bland side. It is …

If you are looking for a quick and tasty breakfast food, try these french toast sticks. French toast sticks are really easy to cook, and can give you a rsturant like taste, without having to leave your house and go to the restaurant.
French toast sticks are also pretty inexpensive. …

It was my mother’s birthday so we decided to purchase a good birthday cake for her. We were looking for a good birthday cake so we stumbled upon the Red Ribbon Bakeshop. There are lots of cakes to choose from, but we decided to choose the best one that …

I bought Trader Joe’s O’s as an alternative to Cheerios the last time I was at Trader Joes. The taste and texture of the O’s is as good as Cheerios, and there is no aftertaste, unlike some othe immitations. However, there are far too many O’s that …

I grew to like Bounty chocolate bars during my visits to Europe. It is a British product, somewhat like Mounds: coconut-filled bars covered with chocolate. The packaging is different though, Bounty is usually sold as a snickers-sized bar, with two separate, smaller bars inside. Bounty is available with milk …

Dannon Activia yogurt works just like the commercials claim it does. I love how not only does it keep my body working properly because of the active culture and it tastes great! I have a lot of food allergy problems and have problems with indigestion, this yogurt really works. …

My dear old grandmother used to always buy a bottle of this at Christmas and us kids would be allowed a glass to sip while we were watching Christmas television shows, so this drink really takes me back to that and it always reminds me of Christmas. Nevertheless, …

I really like cereal bars, they have such good taste and they are much healthier than other sweets. They are sweet and usually have a strata of chocolate or some other very sweet strata on it.
lately I stopped eating chocolate, cookies and other sweets and I started eating only …

I’ve already done reviews for this product’s ’sisters’ of a sort, Orange Crush and Strawberry Crush, and now it’s time to let Grape Crush Soda take center stage. As I’ve said before, these products were staples in my home as I grew up. They disappeared from sight …

I just tried Barrista Blends. It is a product that you blend with your coffee to add some extra flavor. I tried the carmel macchiato, and found it to be very satisfying. The flavor is just right, and mixes deliciously. It’s perfect for all you coffee …

The other day in the supermarket something caught my eye. In the beer isle I noticed that Anhueser Bush had a new product called Bud Lite Lime. It came in a clear bottle and the label said it had a “lime twist”. I asertained that Anhueser Bush was trying …

I finally found the perfect coffee. I had not noticed Folger’s had come out with a new coffee. Then I was looking for Columbian coffee one day and happened upon Folger’s Black Silk.
You have to try this coffee. If you like a bold, smooth taste you …

Although this spaghetti costs about forty cents more than regular spaghetti, I started purchasing it once I learned of the benefits of a diet that’s rich in whole grains. Whole grains are very good for the body, especially the heart and in regards to lowering cholesterol. I eat spaghetti …

Here in Trinidad fudge is definitely different from the stuff I have had in the USA. One day while walking through the mall I saw a candy stall which was selling a variety of sweets and even preserves and they had this freshly made fudge. It came in all …

Peanut Butter Captain Crunch is one in a line of cereals made under the Captain Crunch logo. There is regular Captain Crunch which comes in a red box, Chocolate Captain Crunch, which comes in a dark brown box, Crunch Berry Crunch which comes in a yellow box, and Peanut …

Recently, I purchased Ore Ida Country Style Hashed Browns. Ore Ida is a brand I’ve used for many years so I’m pretty confident when I buy one of their products that I’ll like it. I guess you could say Ore Ida is a trusted brand for me.
Ore Ida …

With all that candy out there, you’d think it would be easy to latch onto one favorite forever and ever. But no, there are so many choices a hungry person lusting after some sugar finds themself bewildered. But the choice is simple: Go buy a chocolate Tootsie …

This is the only on the go drink mix that I have ever tried. It’s one of the things you put in bottled watter to make it flavored. Well I would rather just buy the flavored water already made. To me this didn’t have enough flavor in it. It …

At 58 cents for a two liter bottle, Sam’s Cola beats Coke and Pepsi by a long shot, pricewise. At the same time it has good, classic Cola taste that is not any worse, in my opinion, than the above mentioned popular brand names. Sam’s Cola wastes no money …

I went to the supermarket looking for great frozen food to cook for breakfast. I was looking around the Frozen Stuff Section when I saw a huge pack of cheesedog. These are hotdogs that are filled with cheese. I went on to look for a good brand of hotdog …

Campbell’s: Cream of Broccoli Soup At Hand is superior to the Chicken & Stars flavor because this particular flavor has a great deal more taste! I enjoy broccoli and this soup certainly does it justice! Plus, it’s so quick and easy to make - I just have to stick …

Here’s another product that I have found along my road of discovery to a healthier me. I love to make homemade spaghetti sauce but thought I had to give it up because of the high salt content in sauces. Boy was I happy to discover this product. I did …

Although Chick-fil-A’s Lemon Pie is not quite as delicious and memorable as the fast food restaurant’s cheesecake, I still found the lemon pie to be a tasty treat that did not fall short of my expectations. The lemon filling used for this pie has a rich and authentic lemon …