I do not know why these dried fruit apple snacks taste so bad – but, they do. The manufacturer says they use granny smith apples – which may be the problem because granny smith apples tend to be a little more tart than other apples. In any …

I love krispy fried chicken. For me, that is so much better than the bread crumb fried chicken version. But, I am a little picky about the type of krispy. I do not like the Colonel Sanders “chunky” krispy fried chicken; I just look for something …

I bought the Snikiddy Baked Fries Original Flavor online from Alice.com because we wanted to try something different as a salty snack alternative the potato chips. These little baked fries snacks are supposed to be better for you because the manufacturer says they are gluten and wheat free, …

OK, I do not think I know anybody who does not love those hot, soft and sticky Cinnabon Cinnamon rolls. I look forward to going to the mall or the airport because I can usually find them and buy myself a sweet cinnamon and frosting treat. So, …

Another flavor I have tried under Selecta is their Fruit Salad. This is a conventional Filipino dessert. Selecta made it a flavor of its ice cream given the popularity of this food. Last Christmas, I bought half gallon. Together with another flavor, this was the least favorite and it took …

Mission Tortilla Triangles Restaurant Style is a snack food that’s ideal for parties and gatherings, especially big day gatherings like for the Super Bowl, but also for individual snacking too. Although I wish that this snack food was shaped with dipping in mind, like the Tostitos Scoops! Hint of …

Tostitos Salsa Con Queso Medium is a dipping sauce that goes great with tortilla chips. I like this dipping sauce quite a bit because it’s more than a Monterey Jack cheese dipping sauce. It’s got other ingredients mixed in there that give the dipping sauce extra flavor and a …

Fit & Active Chocolate Fat Free Pudding retails for eighty-nine cents at ALDI Food Market stores. In one package comes four three point five ounce cups of fat free chocolate pudding. The price for this fat free chocolate pudding is about the lowest out of all the stores that …

Market Pantry Toasted Oats Cereal is a store brand cereal carried only at Target locations. The cereal is practically identical to General Mills Cheerios. If there is a different in quality, it must be insignificant as I was unable to make out anything that would differentiate this store brand …

While I was on vacation in Helen, Georgia, we went to the Nora Mill Granary located just south of Helen in the Sautee-Nacoochee Valley district. This is actually a historic stone grinding that opened in 1876. The mill is right on the Chattahoochee River and it is …

This is a brand new gum and I just tried it for the first time last week and I am not sure if I like the taste of the gum or the really cool packaging better!
I bought the green apple and golden pineapple flavor gum. I only buy …

After years of searching, I think I have finally found a freeze dried apple fruit snack that I really love. I have been looking for a packaged dried fruit snack that tastes like the ones you get in the old fashioned barrels in the old country stores. …

If you are a barbecue lover like me and my fiancé, then you probably try a lot of difference sauces on your food. We love barbecue and have tried all the popular sauces and they are pretty good. But, when we found Jack Daniel’s Original No & …

I found the Breezy Spring Harvest of Heaven Select Pure Apple Crispy Snack online on Alice.com. These little apple snacks cost me $1.89 for a little 0.67 ounce pack – but, if you buy dried fruit, you know that none if it is cheap. Dried fruit is …

Our Christmas holiday meals will not be complete without a special dessert on the table. My relatives will never forgive me if I just pick-up the usual cakes that are sold in commercial bakeshops such as Red Ribbon and Goldilocks. Our dessert has to be unique and extra delicious, …

Traditionally, I have been in charge of the arrangements for the holiday meals of the family. My relatives are so picky and I have to confess, the kitchen is not my domain and so I exert extra effort to make our holiday meals festive. I spend most of the …

When our local daily newspaper came out with a list of 25 of the best desserts in the Philippines, we kept it aside for the holidays. Traditionally, dessert is our family’s highlight and we wanted to serve the best we could buy to make our celebration a little bit …

I have always been a tea drinker so with that being said I try new teas all the time. I don’t have an issue with that. The thing that I do have an issue with is trying things that I know are not going to work. I mean the …

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 …

My parents brought over some snacks for the kids once again (one of these days we will manage to keep the junk food to a minimum in our house). Included in those snacks was a couple bags of Dolly Donut Gems.
This is not the first time we have had …

As I mentioned in another review, my wife decided to make spaghetti for dinner last night. While cooking dinner, she remembered we had a loaf of Food Club Garlic Bread in our freezer and asked me to make this for her.
This was the first time I have had this …

My wife decided to make spaghetti for dinner last night and, since we were using up the last of the spaghetti pasta we already had open, she decided to open up a box of Great Value spaghetti.
We bought this product a few days ago while doing some grocery shopping …

I’m trying to lose a little bit of weight and, one way I am doing that (successfully, I might add), is by cutting back on the amount of soda I drink simply by not drinking any while I’m at work; just water.
A side effect of that is, by 2 …

I was not aware that the brand “Nicies” that makes a popular banana chips her also made drinks until recently, as I was only familiar with their more popular product. When I saw it selling in a small shop my curiosity was increased, and I decided that I was …

For the new year my husband and I decided like many others to eat healthier. We have changed our diet totally and while I was at the store I saw this and thought it looked healthy and easy. I was right on part of it.
To make the …

The Great Value Cheddar Cheese Crunch comes in an eight point five ounce bag and retails for just under two dollars. As a snack food, these cheese puffs are moderately enjoyable. They’re a little less crunchy than potato chips because they’re kind of airy on the inside, but they …

I received a box of Paton’s Macadamia Nuts Covered in Rich Dark Chocolate as a christmas gift from my cousin who vacationed in Beijing. The box had a big sign that read China with a picture of the Great Wall which made me believe that this was made in …

The Great Value Chocolate Chip Cookies come in a pack that contains approximately twenty-five chocolate chip cookies for around one dollar and forty cents. I only purchased a package of these chocolate chip cookies once as I really very much prefer baking the refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough as …

While browsing my local health food store a few weeks ago, I came across Yogourmet’s kefir powder and decided to try it. I’ve tried store-bought kefir in North America, and it tastes nothing like the product I remember drinking in Eastern Europe. I was very excited to try the …

Lasagna is a favorite Italian-American food of nearly everyone I know, including me. So I was eager to try this frozen lasagna. I wasn’t sure what lasagna “Florentine” was, but I soon saw that it was one that included spinach. I like the inclusion of spinach in this dish …

I love drinking tea, especially matcha (Japanese Green tea) and milk teas. I know that this product is quite known or old, but I just discovered this heartwarming drink from Lipton. You really must try this product it is perfect hot or cold.
My colleague gave me a sachet …

I am pretty concerned about healthy eating and living a healthy lifestyle, so these organic pizza snacks really appealed to me because I find it pretty much impossible to find a “healthy” snack. Although these are called snacks, I like to eat them as a quick meal sometimes, I …

Cheese is without a doubt in my top five favorites when it comes to food and snacks. I would go so far as to say it’s even in my top two. I’m not really sure what would beat it out but I love cheese. I enjoy …

Recently I was flipping through a health book on making better choices when you grocery shop and how it will help you stay as full as if you were eating your normal fattier choices and discovered that there were even degrees of ‘better, best and worst’ when it came …

Dole’s salad kits have been a mainstay in the household I live in for years. I recently bought and ate from Dole’s Caesar Salad kit. Let me tell you! From first bite to last, I was in cesar salad heaven.
The package includes Romaine lettuce, romano and paramesan cheeses, …

One of my favorite TV dinner brands is Marie Callendar’s. This is going to sound weird, but these dinners don’t really taste like TV dinners, for the most part. Just because they go in the microwave doesn’t automatically make them bad. These dinners have a homestyle taste that I …

Ferino’s Bibingka is one of the more famous bibingkas stalls in Manila. Bibingkas are rice cakes which are baked using charcoal and pugon leaves and are especially popular during the Christmas season as it is associated with simbang gabi (Christmas masses). It is best consumed right after …

3 Musketeers is a very popular chocolate brand that is under Mars, Incorporated which also distributes other famous chocolate brands such as M&M, Mars and Maltesers. I received a bag of fun sized 3 Musketeers chocolate for Christmas and couldn’t resist opening it immediately and eating a piece …

I was not feeling well when I went to a seminar, year 2008. I suddenly felt cold and my taste buds were going sour. I really wanted to vomit but I was in the middle of a seminar. I controlled what I was feeling with all my might. After …

Since I bought Great Value Diet Green Tea, I became aware and started finding some tea that Great Value brands offer. I started to introduce my family to healthy drinks so I was on the look for those kinds. I bought another one from Great Value and this one …

I enjoy cheese and crackers for lunch often. It may not be a four course meal but it satisfies me for hours. I’ve looked at ways to make this the healthiest meal I can and therefore have tried all sorts of crackers and cheeses. One thing …

I’m a bit of a cheeseaholic. I simply can’t get enough. I don’t really care for the highly ‘fake’ cheeses, like Velveeta, cheese spreads in jars, or liquid cheeses. I do love any kind that comes in a brick that I can cut into chunks and …

We needed to stock up on some canned goods this past weekend because it had been a month or so since we went grocery shopping and, quite honestly, we were running very low.
One of the things we picked up was canned peas. We did this because it is the …

My wife decided to make hot dogs for dinner last night (I think she was determined to make sure the kids ate dinner without a fight so we could get them to bed early). When she made them, I expected her to pull out a pack of Oscar Mayer …

It was pretty cold out yesterday and I’m still fighting a cold so I decided to make chili for a late lunch/dinner.
I had most of the ingredients but, just before I started making the chili, I remembered my wife likes shredded cheese on hers and we didn’t have any …

My wife and I ended up staying home for New Years Eve once again and, since we were stuck at home watching movies, we picked up some snacks to have.
We had been grocery shopping earlier in the day and came across Snapp’s products on sale. After some discussion, we …

The Fit & Active Cinna-Swirl Drizzled Mini Crisps come in a four point five ounce bag and retail for just under two dollars. They aren’t that cheap when one takes into consideration the size of the bag, and if these crisps were just average tasting, I wouldn’t consider them …

The Great Value Sugar Cookies come twenty-four to a pack and sell for one dollar and twenty-nine cents. Once I opened the package, I had to put the sugar cookies in a ziplock bag because they aren’t individually wrapped or in a bag that can be resealed. I found …

The Great Value Devil’s Food Cakes are sold only at Walmart stores as this is a Walmart brand product. For twelve cakes, the price for a box is two dollars. I feel that the price for these cakes is fair considering the quantity and quality. The cakes never taste …

Life has really gotten quite easier since instant spaghetti sauces started coming out. Gone are the days of having to sample the taste time and again while cooking, since we can now buy ready-mixed spaghetti sauces. This is especially …