Food Reviews
Mariani Premium Sun Ripened Mixed Fruit No Sugar Added
Mariani Premium Sun Ripened Mixed Fruit No Sugar Added comes in a thirty-six ounce bag and retails for fourteen dollars and ninety-nine cents. Dried fruit isn’t cheap in stores and even the small bags that contain five or seven ounces or so run for five or six dollars on …
Hawaiian Punch Singles To Go-Fruit Punch
I love these Hawaiian Punch Singles! I wouldn’t say they’re the same as the regular hawaiian punch, but the flavor is close enough. To be precise, these are the fruit punch, but Hawaiian Punch has these in several other varieties as well. They come …
Sea Dog Blueberry Beer
I used to not really be a beer drinker, but spent time with people who were. i would often have difficulty infinding something to drink when we were out at bars that had primarily a beer menu. Then, I tried this beer.
This beer atstes almost like a blueberry tea, …
Haggen Bran Muffin
For those of us who are of a certain age, getting enough fiber can be problematic. Our local Haggen store has a delicious Bran and Raisin muffing that has lots of flavor and lots of fiber.
Besides the much appreciated fiber, these muffins can, with a cup of the mandatory …
Grandessa Signature Frozen Fruit Bars Strawberry
Grandessa Signature Frozen Fruit Bars Strawberry aren’t the best. I kind of expected more from the frozen fruit bars because the packaging stated that they were all natural and filled with real strawberries. When I took a bite into one of these frozen fruit bars though, what I got …
Hamburger Helper Bacon Cheeseburger flavor
I usually make Hamburger Helper a few times a month for dinner and I really enjoy trying new flavors. The Bacon Cheeseburger flavor is one of my favorites. When I purchased this flavor, I was skeptical about whether I would actually be …
HoMade Tea Biscuits
Like Shirley biscuits, I can remember that these tea biscuits have been around since I was a little girl. I used to like them at first, but my parents bought them a lot for me to snack on and for lunch so that after a while I got very …
Magnolia Powdered Calamansi Juice
The new Magnolia Calamansi (Philippine Lemon) powdered juice that comes in a pack is really a good alternative to bottled juices (ready to drink). I bought one pack good for one liter a while ago in a drugstore, with mini supermarket on my way to work and one pack …
Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc Wine (2007)
This is a great tasting wine. I gave it to quite a few friends at a party and every single one of them said they enjoyed the taste. It’s a tasty wine, and the alcoholic and acidic content is down to a minimum - indeed, it’s probably the closest …
Fresh Express Double Carrots
I like carrots in my salad because I feel that they add flavor to my salad as well as contribute some essential nutrients and vitamins to my body. When I came across this pre-cut salad mix with double the carrots, I naturally thought that I would love having one …
Nature’s Own Honey Wheat Bread
I had never really liked wheat breads before, then one day my mother got me to try this nature’s own brand bread. Wow, I have got to tell you I loved it right away.
Everything I put on it was so easily spreadable including butter and even peanut butter. …
Gelatelli Chocolate ice cream
I really like going to Lidl shops because there you can find a lot of stuff of unpopular brands which doesn’t cost much. I like Lidl stuff because they are usually very good although they aren’t pricey. I went to Lidl yesterday and I bought a whole bunch of …
Cliff Energy Bars
Some days I wake up and just don’t have any energy at all and this lasts for hours, so I usually turn to the heavy duty arsenal for energy like Cliff Energy Bars to give my body the boost it needs to get going. Cliff energy bars …
Almond Breeze Almond Milk: Vanilla Flavour
When my daughter was first diagnosed as lactose intolerant I was clueless as to the type of soy based milk I should use as a replacement to the cow’s milk we had been using at home. A colleague recommended that I try the Almond Breeze range of products. She …
Vitakone Tomato Ketchup
It isn’t very easy to find a good ketchup these days and specially if you don’t want to pay a lot of it. Although I must admit that I’ve tried a lot of expensive ones in my life and that most of them weren’t good. Anyway, about a few …
Lays Cheesy Garlic Bread Flavored Potato Chips
There comes a time when I have a craving for something crunchy and flavorful. I am self-professed crunchy snack fanatic and usually have something on hand that is satisfying and crunchy. In this case, I was able to grab a bag of Lays Cheesy Garlic Bread Flavored Potato Chips.
I …
Nescafe Gold
I love coffee! Actually I can be considered as coffee-addict already. Why?
I cannot function without a cup of coffee first. I’m not a morning person, but had no choice but to wake up at six in the morning to prepare for work. Coffee particularly Nescafe Gold wakes up my …
Eskimo Pie
I stopped at my parents to borrow a couple things I needed for chili last night and, because they weren’t eating them and knew we would, they sent home part of a box of Eskimo Pies with me.
I got a chance to try them and I have to confess, …
Kinky Vodka
I was having a girls night in and we all wanted to try new alcohols and critic them.
I am mixed drinks type of girl and it usually takes me twenty minutes to pick what I want out of the alcohol aisle. I am very picky when it comes …
Stouffer’s Meatloaf
Stouffer’s Meatloaf is not a dinner that I will be purchasing a second time. The reason I will not be purchasing it again is because I was not all that satisfied with the flavor of the meatloaf. I found the meatloaf to have a relatively dull and bland taste …
Banquet Chicken Pot Pie
If you like meatly chicken pot pies, then you will really like the banquet chicken pot pies. I’ve been a pot pie fan since I was a child. These chicken pot pies by banquet really taste almost as good as my moms chicken pot pies did when i was …
Martha White chese garlic biscuits
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 …
Mc cain french fries
Mc Cain French fries is the very tasty and delicious snack made using potato or it can be called as the Potato finger chips. These fries are very good or ideal food while watching movie, either on television or in the theatre. This snack has some calories, …
Crush Grape Soda
I ultimately decided to try Crush Grape after having positive results with their original flavor called Crush Orange. My neighborhood Albertson was running a sale on two liter bottles of Crush Grape for a $1.69. Now when it comes to fruit flavored soda, I tend to go initially for …
Schogetten Praline Noisettes chocolates
I am quite a fan of the Schogetten range of chocolate, which is easily available, at least in most of Europe, from Aldi and Lidl stores. In my case I tend to go to Aldi, but that is simply because it is the closer of the two to where …
Clancy’s Zesty Bites Sharp Ranch & Fiery Cajun
Clancy’s Zesty Bites Sharp Ranch & Fiery Cajun is a snack food that comes in a nine point five ounce bag at ALDI Food Market stores for one dollar and nineteen cents. The bag contains a mixture of little popcorn-like pieces and the pieces are divided up fairly evenly …
Campbell’s Condensed Chicken Noodle Soup
Campbell’s Condensed Chicken Noodle Soup is okay as a quick solution when you don’t have time to cook - just empty the can, add 1 can of water, and heat. However, I still prefer my own homemade chicken soup and rarely use this product. Campbell’s soup is a little …
Maggi Tangy Tomato Vegetable Soup
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 …
Mama Cozzi Garlic Texas Toast
There is a store not too far from my house named Aldi. This store carries mainly generic brands of food items that are modeled after or resemble products manufactured by big name, national or regional companies. Everything at this store is sold generally at or below the prices found …
Jell-o Pudding - Chocolate
Jell-o Pudding - Chocolate is not quite as good as the instant pudding that comes in the box, this ready-made chocolate pudding that comes in a three pack is still quite enjoyable. The flavor, although not as rich, is still on the same plane as delicious and I never …
Hormel Chili with Beans
I always have made chili by scratch and have never even considered buying chili in a can. I have been fighting and illness recently and had a taste for chili. Not having the desire or strength to make it by scratch, I looked at the many caned chili …
Stouffer’s Pepperoni & Provolone Stromboli
Stouffer’s Pepperoni & Provolone Stromboli was a little bit of a disappointment for me. The reason I consider it to be a disappointment is because of the pepperoni. Although the pepperoni definitely has some flavor to it and while it is a flavor that I do recognize, unfortunately, it …
Natures Place Organic Black Tea Bags
One of the worst organic black teas I have ever purchased was the Nature’s Place Organic Black Tea Bags. I purchased this tea at my local Hannaford grocery store for three dollars for a box of 40 individually wrapped teabags because I thought it was a good deal and …
Low Carb Alternative
As a hypoglycemic, I am always looking for good snacking alternatives to chocolate bars and chips. I have tried a few of the low carb protein bars on the market and this is one of my favourites. Generally, low carb bars are expensive and often they don’t …
Wata
“Wata” is a brand of bottled water in Jamaica which is bottled and manufactured by the Wysinco Group of Companies. The first time I saw a bottle of it I think was when I just started high school. I saw someone drinking it and I didn’t take it seriously …
Krusteaz Pie Crust Mix
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? …
Great Value: Steamable Broccoli & Cauliflower
Great Value: Steamable Broccoli & Cauliflower is a variety of frozen vegetables that I likely will not purchase again. I have been trying to develop a taste for cauliflower, but I have not endured much success and probably never will despite my desire to like it. I thought that …
Kin Dee Instant Rice Noodles in Spicy Seafood
I love Thai food, but often do not have the time to make it. Usually I have bad results with cooking noodles, I either over or under cook. I decided to buy Kin Dee Instant Rice Noodles in Spicy Seafood, to use as a base for a Thai chicken …
Great Value Potato Chips
I don’t know why potato chips are so ridiculously expensive these days, but they are. If it wasn’t for the Great Value brand, I probably wouldn’t buy any.
Great Value Potato Chips offer good quality at a reasonable price. A 12 oz (340 g) bag costs $1.50, still a little …
Aunt Jemima Eggs and Sausage Entrée
Aunt Jemima Eggs and Sausage Entrée is not a frozen breakfast meal that I am likely to purchase again. I did not enjoy either the sausage or the eggs that much. The sausage links really seemed to be devoid of flavor and I also do not feel that they …
Walmart Great Value - Honey Nut Spins
Great Value - Honey Nut Spins is a cereal that is manufactured and sold only at Walmart stores. It is a store brand that is based off of General Mills Honey Nut Cheerios. The large, seventeen ounce box is cheaper than the General Mills twelve point twenty five ounce …
Rich’s Ice Cream Vanilla Sandwich Low Fat
Rich’s Ice Cream Vanilla Sandwich Low Fat is not that bad really. For a low fat product, this ice cream sandwich really retains a whole lot of flavor, quite surprisingly. The vanilla is fairly rich and creamy and even though the vanilla flavor is slightly subdued due to the …
Get up plus
get up plus is an energy drink my sister bought a couple of days ago. I don’t like energy drinks because they smell and tastes funny and sweet, like Hubba Bubba bubble gums and it also has CO2 in it and I don’t like that. But my sister always …
Bel Air Mega Sub
Bel Air’s deli has a bunch of different sandwiches to choose from, but their granddaddy has to be their Mega Sub. This thing is positively huge, and it is definitely far more than one person can eat, or at least, that’s my take on it. For it …
New York Style - Cinnamon Sugar Pita Chips
New York Style - Cinnamon Sugar Pita Chips make for a sweet snack to have in the afternoon. The combination of cinnamon and sugar is rich and does a great job of awakening my senses when I am feeling drowsy. I really like how there is a fine balance …
Betty Crocker’s Buttermilk Complete Pancake mix
I hadn’t made pancakes in years before this past weekend when I decided that I would like to make pancakes for breakfast. I’m not typically a huge cook, so I had to go out to purchase the pancake mix, and decided to purchase a pre-made powder rather than try …
So Delicious Coconutmilk yogurt alternative unsweetened
Trying out vegan stuff has become one of my obsessions lately. There are so many dairy and meat alternatives at the store now, it blows my mind. I’m a vegatarian and I eat dairy, however, I’m cutting it out a lot, I don’t use regular milk in any recipes anymore, …
Annie’s Homegrown Gluten Free Macaroni and Cheese
When it comes to pasta, I am pretty particular but I have to say that this product is a good one. The noodles when cooked right are soft. They need to be salted or they are tasteless but that is the same with most pastas. Also, if you overcook …
Best Choice Frozen Hashed Brown Potatoes
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 …
Hamburger Helper
We all need to make a quick meal at times. Sometimes we just really don’t really feel like cooking. In steps Hamburger Helper. I make Hamburger Helper at least 3 times a month. The kids love it. There are many flavors to choose from these days. Betty Crocker is …
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