During the cold nights of the winter months, or the unusually cold nights of other months, I enjoy sitting back and relaxing with a nice cup of hot cocoa brewed just right. I have tried a variety of flavors, and brands of cocoa, but never have I tried something …

I really enjoy the rare occasions when my husband get to have a date night and go to dinner without the children. We usually go downtown to eat and one of our favorite dining establishments is TGIF’s. For the appitizer we always get the potato skins which If I …

In summer non frizzy drinks are more refreshing in my opinion than frizzy drinks, so I tend to look for drinks like Aquarius in that season.
This drink is known to be created for sports people after doing exercise, but I have found it to be great for any other …

I have discovered a new candy dish filler: Strawberries & Creme Creme Savers. If you like the taste of strawberry, you’ll love this hard candy. I bought a bag for my husband who is a strawberry fan, and we both liked it. The 6 oz bag costs a little …

I really like Jaffa cakes and I like them fresh soft and hydrated. Well maybe the word hydrated aren’t the best one but what I want to say is that sometimes these Jaffa cakes can be very dry and not very tasty. So I don’t like to experiment with …

Great Value Pieces & Stems Mushrooms come in a small 7 oz metal can, priced at only 50 cents. The mushrooms (champignons) are cut into large pieces, which I prefer to another brand that has really small ones, hard to even pick up with a fork as you eat …

Lately I’ve been shopping at Dollar Tree Stores here in Grants Pass Oregon. You see, like a lot of Americans I’ve lost my job so I’m trying to stretch what money I have by buying certain products as cheaply as I can.
While in my local Dollar Tree Store …

Devils food cakes have been a favorite of mine ever since I was young. Even now, when I’m not really supposed to have them, I’ll get them occasionally for a treat. I usually get the off brand ones at Dollar General these days, and they taste just …

My wife and I had the house to ourselves Friday morning. OK, we had our youngest daughter, but she’s only 3 months old and, when she’s sleeping, it’s like having the house to ourselves.
In any case, she decided to make us a pancake dinner and, even though we had …

New York Style - Pretzel Flatz Everything is a tasty chip that is actually a pretzel. It is a pretzel that is in the shape of a chip and designed purposely that way for holding dip and making pretzels more convenient when it comes to dipping. What I most …

I have never really developed the good habit of drinking milk as I was growing up, but recently I’ve been really getting into yoga, because I want to lose some weight, and yoga has helped me with that, and with dealing with everyday stress. My instructor recommended that …

So Camel is test marketing a new tobacco product, Camel SNUS, in my area. I haven’t tried it yet but I can tell you one thing: this is one Camel product I am not going to be buying.
Basically the Camel SNUS is like chewing tobacco, except you don’t …

I am a huge fan of chinese food, but have never found a low-fat pre-frozen chinese dinner before. I just happenned to pick up Michelina’s Lifestyle line, Oriental Chicken and Peppers dinner at my local supermarket.
This was an excellent dinner for me to choose. There was plenty of peppers …

I have been watching the commercials for Jell-o Temptations for months now wondering if they were as good as the commercials claimed. I mean watching parents trying to scare their children out of a snack seriously made me wonder. Yesterday after taking my daughter to the dentist her father …

Ferrero Rocher is one of my most favorite kind of chocolate. My husband was the one who introduced me to this chocolate. One Valentines Day he gave me a heart-shaped pack of this chocolate and since then I did not stop loving this chocolate. This chocolate is more …

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 …

Pringles Baked Wheat Stix - Honey Butter flavoured taste a bit odd, to be honest. Like crackers with butter and honey on them I guess. (Although they are sticks, obviously). There’s a satisfying crunch to them and enough in the package to share with another person and still feel …

An important part of any diet is fruit. One of the easiest fruits to grow in a small amount of space is Blueberries. I was in our local Wal-Mart the other day I grabbed two Blue crop Blueberry plants for $3.96 each to set out in …

This product from the seasoning and spices range at Tesco is a welcome addition to any spice rack. It’s a garlic powder/salt type of thing, so doesn’t have the potency of a fresh alternative or the flavour of a paste, but for the money, it’s a good alternative that’ll …

Sometimes when we are on the go and I need to prepare easy to cook meal or food, I do stock canned goods as well as noodles and soups in a cup. I have tasted different varieties of noodles in a cup and it was my first time to …

The Ravioli bowl is a bit to bland for me mostly because I do not really like the tomato sauce that they use on the ravioli. This is one of those meals I usually have to add a little bit of my own seasoning to. That does annoy me …

I was looking for a different kind of desert and found Presidents Choice brand name Pecans First Explosion, pecan and nougat candy log. I had never seen anything like it, but I love pecans and nougat so I bought this 198 gram log desert.
I really didn’t know what to …

I decided to pick up this cake slice because, let’s just face it every once in a while we’re in a cake sort of mood.
I like the idea of buying a small amount of cake. This slice as they call it is actually enough to slice up and feed …

I had not even heard of peanut butter cheerios before but must admit that the thought has crossed my mind that there should be more peanut butter flavored cereals. So, when I walked in to Wal Mart I was so excited to see that my dream came …

I am always in a hurry and most often than not cannot afford to have a decent breakfast. So I always rely on Nestle Nesvita Cereal Milk Drink. It has Original, Sweet Corn and Choco Malt flavors.
What I love with Nestle Nesvita Cereal Milk Drink is that it is …

I have always been fond of chocolate cakes but I never really knew that I could be so crazy with one kind of chocolate cake which I tasted first during the birthday party of my lady Boss. The whole staff was looking for a cake to gift our lady …

Subway came up with two different sandwiches; the Chicken Florentine Sandwich and the Steak and Beacon Melt.
Subway’s Chicken Florentine Sandwich is a flatbread wrap creation. It contains succulent grilled chicken strips, tomatoes, olives, spinach artichoke dressing, melted cheese and some Tuscan spice. With all those vegetables I did …

The Friendly Farms Aerosol Whipped Light Cream comes in a seven ounce can for one dollar and forty-nine cents at ALDI Food Market stores. Although more whipped cream can be bought for less in a standard container, this aerosol can offers a degree of convenience that the standard container …

I picked up this freeze dried instant coffee in Morrisons supermarket, not really noticing that it was a really cheap coffee costing only just over £1 for a 100g jar. I do not trust cheap coffee although if I am on a budget, I tend to buy Tesco …

Marpo squashes are the concentrated juices of many flavours. Actually during summer or during the hot days the juices are the best drinks, which all the people do prefer to have it. The Marpo squashes are the new kind of squashes that I saw in the super …

A large, 300-gram bag of Arnott’s Shapes was given to me by a friend recently. It was the first time I saw and tasted this product as it has never really been available in the grocery stores I frequent: Shopwise and Waltermart, both in Makati City.
Arnott’s Shapes is …

Everyone is in a hurry at least once in a while, and it can be very convenient to just grab a quick snack as you run out the door, to eat later when you’re not in so much of a hurry. One such snack that you could try is …

I can’t say I have ever really been a fan of most party mixes, since most of them I have come in contact with contain things like pretzels which I have never acquired the taste of; but recently, when I saw the “Frito Lay All in One Party Mix” …

Just eating the bread without having any spread is really boring.I tried this i can’t believe it is not butter for the first time.The taste is just like the butter abd somewhat salty.A good combination to spread over the bread.It is not butter and it is just vegetable …

I frequent the Great Mall due to the size and options available in their many stores. My kids, Jonny and Sue, often accompany me and can be found playing around the kiddy fountain near Entrance One. One day, I stopped at Sportsters to buy my husband a …

Keeping our body fit and healthy are one of the things that we want in life. A well balanced lifestyle and clean environment could somehow lead to a healthier you. It’s very important that the foods that you eat are good for the body. Junk foods and a lot …

Gano excel - the healthy coffee. I was suckered into this pyramid scheme a few years back. It start at over $300 to buy in now they have had a puppy pack almost as long for under $100. Either way it is no where near as successfull as …

I first tried Vanilla Yogurt Burst Cheerios when I went on vacation by my grandparents. It was a new item that just hit the shelves of grocery stores and my grandmother love yogurt, so she bought a box of the Vanilla Yogurt Burst Cheerios. I was skeptical of how …

Ginger Ale is a great drink and it taste good. In some sort of way it is like other sodas but this one is more special and unique which is quite different from other drinks. It has a strong ginger taste to it and doesn’t have a lot of …

Do you ever have a craving for something chocolate. Something that will hit the spot. Well you should try Hunt’s Snack Pack chocolate pudding made with real nonfat milk. You can buy them at the store in a pack for four for $1. How can you beat that price? …

My mom tends to keep a random mismatch of candy around their house, just for those days when the grandkids decide to drop by or she finds herself unexpectedly baby-sitting. She usually buys a few popular candies, but she also likes to stock the house with the things she …

I just love cashews, they are my favourite nuts ever and I only ever once had the pleasure of trying a Nature Valley Sweet and Salty Granola Bar from a co-worker. It was very delicious and definitely a different flavour from the Cashew Nut Granola Bar.
Well, I was …

Just Saturday, me and a few other people decided that we were going to spend the day somewhere and practice our art techniques so that our portfolios would be good enough to be accepted into a good art institution. We realised that we would need some food to snack …

I’ve been using Silk soymilk for about 5 years now. I LOVE it! I can’t say enough good things about it to be honest. I originally started drinking it because I am allergic to dairy. It took a couple days to get used to the flavor being different but …

What a great idea for Easter - two dark chocolate eggs (2″ tall) filled with colorful jelly beans. These eggs are available from Chocolate.com for $18. They come in a white box that looks somewhat like those carryout boxes at Chinese restaurants; when you open the box, the eggs …

Every time I make a dish at home that requires me to cook rice as an accompaniment, I would usually cook the Veetee Thai rice which I normally get from Tesco supermarket. I normally get the 5 kg pack since it is place in a plastic container and …

Kellogg�s frosted flakes cereal is a sweet cereal but at the same time it doesn�t have an overwhelming sweet taste to it. I liked that the cereal didn�t get soggy in milk the way some other ones that I have tried. The Kellogg�s frosted flakes cereal had …

I am very fond of cooking spaghetti and homemade pizza so my refrigerator should never be without various kinds of cheese. One weekend, I was planning to make homemade pizza for our Sunday afternoon snack so I went to the grocery store and bought all the necessary ingredients. …

One of the products in Max’s Bakeshop that I’ve tried lately is their wheat bread. I don’t actually like wheat breads, but my husband insisted of buying it because he wanted to try the new sandwich he learned from a TV show.
The Max’s …