Food Reviews
Utz Natural Gourmet Medley Kettle Cooked Potato Chips
I am a lover of potato chips because I crave crunchy, salty snacks. Of course we all know chips are not good for us. So every time I eat some, I think, “This is the last time and from now on I will be ‘good’ and stop …
Eggo Muffin Tops
We were at the store last night and decided to pick up some frozen breakfast foods. While in the frozen pancake/waffle aisle, I came across Eggo Muffin Tops and, because they weren’t that expensive, decided to give them a try.
After trying them this morning, I do think they were …
Yogi Green Tea Blueberry Slim Life
I’m a huge fan of herbal teas. I think they’re great to settle you down for the evening, perk you up for the day, or warm your bones when it’s chilly out. Really, I’ll take just about any excuse I can for a cup of great tasting herbal tea. …
McCain’s French fries
I had once seen McCain’s French fries packet in a departmental store and decided to give it a try. With children in my house French fries is in heavy demand and they are not likely to listen to lectures on cholesterol.
This fries are available in 450 g pack …
Farmer John Ham Steaks
I’m a little surprised I like this as much as I do, but I’ve enjoyed Farmer John Ham Steaks off and on for several years. The only reason I’m surprised is that it’s really not a brand I’ve heard of that often, aside from seeing a handful of …
Eskimo Pie Snack Size Ice Cream Bars
Eskimo Pies have been around forever, well, since 1921 anyway, and that’s longer than I’ve been on this Earth, so it’s like forever to me. Recently, they came out with a new snack size product.
Eskimo Pie Snack Size Ice Cream Bars is a box of twelve individual bars. …
Burt’s Bees Lemon Butter Cuticle Creme
I’m one of those people that tears at my cuticles. I work with paper a lot, so they getdry and ragged, and I’m twitchy anyway. Thsi means that dry ragged cuticles are almost irresistible for me to bite at and do other ugly nasty things to. …
Maxwell House Half-Caff Coffee
My boyfriend and I are usually faithful Nescafe drinkers. However, we ran out of coffee and a friend was nice enough to give us a brand new jar of Maxwell House Half-Caff. I wasn’t too keen on the whole Half-Caff idea at first, but after thinking about how much …
Appy fizz
Appy fizz is a new drink which is an apple juice, introduced in the market recently. It is a cool drink to hang up with. I have tasted this drink and it is good for adults. It simply tastes like the apple and some what like …
Blue Bunny Original Ice Cream Homemade Vanilla
I did not find anything at all special really about this Blue Bunny Original Ice Cream Homemade Vanilla. The homemade vanilla flavor was nothing spectacular and a letdown compared to the premium all-natural vanilla, also made by Blue Bunny. The premium vanilla ice cream had an incredibly rich vanilla …
F&N Fruit Tree Fresh
For the purpose of juicing and dieting, I had been looking for a good vegetable juice. Recently I am consuming F&N fruit tree fresh. I tried this flavour, fruit and vegetable mixed with wheatgrass and I kind of like it. No sugar was added so it was …
Count Chocula Energy Drink
I have to get up early to go to work and I don’t get much sleep at night with a toddler so I’m always looking for something to get me through the day.
Normally, I don’t like energy drinks. I’ve never cared for their flavor. However, I tried the Count …
Aro sugar
The Aro sugar is the sugar, which was kept for sale in the super market. Actually many times whenever I had been to the super market for purchasing, I used to see the Aro branded sugar but this was for the first time I bought it to try …
Trader Joe’s Tapioca Pudding
I’ll start by saying that I really love pudding of all kinds. And tapioca pudding is one of my absolute favorites.
I was in my local Trader Joe’s the other day and I wanted something sweet to go with all of my savory items. I stopped by the dairy …
Orbit Mist
I recently tried the new gum from Orbit called Mist. I love chewing gum. Especially when I am bored. So I have tried almost every gum on the market. I must say that this gum is at the top of …
Lindt (Lindor) chocolates
Lindt (aka Lindors) chocolates are premium irresistibly smooth Swiss chocolates.
Lindt chocolates are quite expensive, always around $5 or more for a 150g bag with about 10 or more in there. They are a big size, hard for a small mouth to fit. You might have to bite it in …
Great Value Fudge Striped Shortbread Cookies
Great Value Fudge Striped Shortbread Cookies are sold in a clear plastic box that is placed inside plastic wrapping. Each cookie has chocolate fudge on it: one side is covered completely, and the other has several thin stripes. The cookies themselves are not very thick, either. When it comes …
H&E jasmine green tea
I preferred and found that this particular brand’s jasmine green tea stands outshine the rest other brand green tea. For its perfectly brew to just nice, it was not too sweet nor taste too bland like water. As a non pure water drinker, i would find this slightly flavored …
Hershey’s Shell Topping
I love Hershey’s Shell Topping. I first came across this product when looking for a chocolate ice cream topping at the grocery store. I love making chocolate covered strawberries, so when I saw the Hershey’s Shell Topping, I thought I might try it with my strawberries. The …
It is healthy to take fibers
Sometimes we have heard about to give our children fibers. The majority of the doctors allways say that we need to improve the amount of fibers in our food. But until last week, I have never heard about a pratical rule that could determine the amount of fibers that …
Land fresh fruit cheese strawberry
Today I discovered a new diary product that I really like. I went to the shop to buy yogurt and in the fridge where I usually take yogurts I saw these six small yogurts connected, they re so cute that I just had to take them. Just when I …
Marie Callender’s Frozen Chicken Pot Pies
I got a whole box of these because I like chicken pot pies and the box said that there’s some inside. The pies can be microwaved or baked, like lots of other frozen foods. Preparing this frozen meal is a breeze. I have tasted the microwaved and the baked …
Skippy Reduced Fat Peanut Butter
I have recently become addicted to Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy peanut butter, which has 25% less fat than regular peanut butter. In fact, I have come to prefer the taste of the reduced fat spread over the tradition full-fat variety. As a health concious individual, I was …
M&Ms Dark Chocolate
M&Ms has been an institution as far as candy coated chocolates are concerned. Nowadays there are a variety of flavours to choose from. Be it with almonds, peanuts or those weird crispies which I haven’t seen lately.
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that my all time favourite M&Ms …
Burger King Value Menu Sausage Biscuit
In the tough economic times, fast food places have value menu items of all kinds. It’s amazing what you can find on one of these specialty menus today. The focus of this particular review, however, is the Burger King Value Menu Sausage Biscuit.
Burger King offers several items …
Grizz Red Wine
Yet another primo find at my local Grocery Outlet, Grizz Red is a Washington State wine delivered in a screwtop — since that’s the next big wave of wine is the screwtop. I found it for $2.99 and thought, well I can cook with it if it’s horrible. …
Wang Gochujang (Red Pepper Paste)
For me, a Korean dish will never be completed without gochujang or fermented red pepper paste. We all know that a lot of Korean loves to eat spicy foods.. and that’s what I really love about them. I thought that I can have some gochujang only at Korean restaurants …
Martha White Banana Nut Muffin Mix
I’m a huge baker. I love to make anything from pies, to cookies to cakes and muffins. I prefer to bake from scratch anytime I have the chance to , but this isn’t always the easiest thing to do. Because of this I have shopped several …
Totino’s Classic Pepperoni Pizza
I absolutely love to eat pizza but I don’t always agree with the cost of delivery or frozen pizzas. I picked up a little inexpensive pizza called Totino’s classic pepperoni pizza. It was a frozen pizza and needed to be baked. I looked at the instructions and noticed that …
Wal-Mart Great Value Brand Ice Cream
Ice cream has gotten really expensive and many of the brands have reduced the size of the container, yet still charge the old price. Since we have been shopping at the new Super-Wal-Mart that opened in the community I have been trying out their generic brands with the label …
Heinz organic Biscotti
I always bring Heinz biscuit with me whenever I go out to travel with my baby since it is difficult travelling on the road with somebody crying all the time because of a hungry stomach. One thing I like about this food is that my baby loves eating …
Super Wal-Mart Great Value Butter
Since shopping at our new Super-Wal-Mart I have been trying out their generic brand of products, called “Great Value”. I’ve found great grocery savings at Super-Wal-Mart, and if I can substitute a product I usually buy with one of their Great Value products, the savings is even greater. I …
Mrs. Freshley’s Jumbo Cinnamon Roll
Although I found Mrs. Freshley’s Jumbo Cinnamon Roll to be relatively enjoyable, I see no real reason to purchase these when I can get Pillsbury cinnamon rolls at a better value price and those come out of the oven tasting more delicious than these do coming out of the …
Craisins (Ocean Spray)
I love craisins!! Otherwise know as dried cranberries there name is so cute as it implies dried cranberry raisins. I use them almost every day. I put them in my salads, I mix them in with nuts and other dried fruit for kids/hubby’s lunch snacks and I put some …
Yancy’s Fancy New York Cheddar Cheese
Yancy’s Fancy New York Cheddar Cheese is great. I just love this stuff and I eat is every week. You can buy this great cheese at any Costco store in your area. These cheese a little more expensive then regular cheddar cheese, but it is still very good.
I …
Edy’s Lemonade Fruit Bars
It has been a super hot summer and one of the popsicles we like to suck on to help cool us down is Edy’s Lemonade Fruit Bars. They are extremely tasty and taste just like freshly squeezed lemons with a hint of sugar. They are so enjoyable too eat …
Best Choice Instant Oatmeal in Maple and Brown Sugar Flavor
Our family is trying extremely hard to cut our grocery budget by sampling inexpensive versions of the usual name brand products that we buy. One of my children’s favorite breakfast items is oatmeal, particularly flavored instant oatmeal. We usually buy expensive versions like Quaker’s. However, I …
Smart Ones Fruit Inspirations Cranberry Turkey Medallions frozen entree
Smart Ones is a brand of frozen foods that is associated with the Weight Watchers weight loss program. Therefore, all of the Smart Ones frozen entrees or other products identify on their boxes not only the nutritional information for the product, but also the Weight Watchers points assigned …
Chick-fil-A Chargrilled Chicken Cool Wrap
The Chargrilled Chicken Cool Wrap at Chick-fil-A is wrap that I found to be flavorful and enjoyable, although it is not my favorite of the three wraps sold by this fast food restaurant. This wrap is really quite packed - there is grilled chicken, which I find to be …
Pringles Restaurant Cravers Onion Blossom
This is one potato chip that will leave you in need of some mouthwash or a breath mint! I really like the flavor and aroma that these crispy, non-greasy chips give off. When I open up a can, I’m hit with an appetizing aroma that reminds me of onion …
Landgut Sunflower Bread
I have been experimenting at Lidl again and tried this Sunflower Bread from the ‘Landgut’ brand. It was only about 79 pence and for that you get a packet of sliced, deep brown bread with visible seeds. I love seeds and am aware of the great nutritional …
Snickers Chocolate Bar
As I have got older I have found that the taste of Snickers has started to appeal to me more and more. I used to find the taste quite bitter and found the nuts ruined the chocolate taste. Since then my taste buds must have developed because I simply …
Mrs. Freshley’s Jumbo Honey Bun
I do not feel that there is anything particularly special about Mrs. Freshley’s Jumbo Honey Bun compared with the other honey buns made by other companies that can be found in the grocery store, but I nonetheless enjoyed what was likely my one and only purchase of a Mrs. …
Phoebe Cakes
I had seen this online food bakery at a blog and was curious to try it out, since the baker’s menu had unique flavours such as Spicy Surprise, which consisted of spicy chocolate cookies with peppers, and red velvet cookies, which seemed so delicious judging by the photos!
I had …
Milka Caramel filled Alpine Milk Chocolate
A couple weeks ago while browsing the supermarket shelves I came across a new brand of chocolate bar by the name of Milka. There are 5 different varieties of this new chocolate to choose from and since I am a big fan of the chocolate/caramel combination I decided to …
Knorr’s Sides Plus Veggies
In my house, finding cheap side dishes that give us both quality and quantity is a must. Knorr’s newest product, Sides Plus Veggies, fits this category perfectly.
For only $1.50 at Wal-mart, the Sides Plus Veggies gives us plenty of food for our money. One pack is enough for our …
Kellogg’s Eggo Maple Syrup Cereal
I did not care too much for this cereal. I did not find the maple syrup flavor to be all that rich or delicious. It certainly did exist, but the taste was not as great as I had hoped it would be. Frankly, I would prefer to eat an …
Sun Chips Multigrain Chips Harvest Cheddar
These have to be my favorite chip ever, and have been for years. I love that Sun Chips has offered a multigrain chip, even long before the whole “green” trend started. They aren’t your typical chip, they have a much lower fat content that regular chips and when eating …
Brookside Dark Chocolate Acai with Blueberry
Everyone has been raving about the goodness that Acai berries have. People have been saying that Acai berries have greater antioxidants than other fruits. It is difficult to find Acai berries here in the Philippines so when there was an opportunity for my aunt to send us a huge …
Pillsbury Pumpkin Shape Cookies
The Pillsbury Pumpkin Shape Cookies are kept in a refrigerated section in grocery stores and must be refrigerated at home. When ready to be baked, the cookies are already separated, so it’s just a matter of placing them on a baking pan and sticking them in the oven. There …
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