After many miles of hiking it is common for me and my three kids to want a snack to help boost our energy levels back up. One of the best snacks I have discovered for carrying in my pack is Hershey’s really nuts trail mix. It only weighs 1.8 …

Previously, I’ve reviewed other varieties of the new Jimmy Dean Breakfast Entrees, and today I’m adding a new one to the list — the Ham and Cheese Croissant. When Jimmy Dean gets a product right, it’s usually dead on right and so yummy. When they get it …

I do not normally go for instant foods because it is not healthy. It is good to have them though because when you are caught in the middle of a very hectic schedule, you can have this as your quick remedy for hunger. But this is not a great alternative …

I loved eating fish sticks when I was a kid. Recently I was feeling a little nostalgic, so I bought a box of store brand fish sticks from my local grocery store. That ended up being a big mistake, because the fish sticks were mostly breading, and …

Being in the kitchen is one of my favorite places to be, and I am always looking for ways to incorporate my family, especially my son. It was either the end of last year or the beginning of this year when I found the Jello chocolate and vanilla pudding pops …

Who doesn’t love Chicken Marinara - the combination of fried chicken breast with meaty spaghetti swimming in savory marinara sauce? It seems like a travesty to “healthify” this satisfying dish but Healthy Choice has dared to attempt this. I’ve tried a lot of Healthy Choice Café …

I really do love Orville Redenbacher’s Gourmet Popping Corn, but I’ve rarely tried any of the various flavors except for butter flavors. However, I had a chance to try their new Cheddar Cheese variety and decided to give it a shot.
I was actually surprised how much I liked …

I typically by Flavor-Aid Kool-Aid because it is a cheap affordable drink that my all kids like. Normally I purchase the 12 pack from Save-a-lot because it’s only 79 cents for the 12 packs compared to paying 10 cents each for them individually. That is a savings of 41 …

Roli’s Napoleones really is a wonderful pastry. This is a local pastry that was only available in Bacolod, a province in the Philippines. Napoleones is a small square-sized layered pull pastry that has a sugar glaze on top of it filled with a custard cream in its center. This …

Product Description: Two pound package of fruit filled fig bars available at our local Walgreen’s for $2.
What I liked about this product: The obvious answer to that is going to be the price. I like fig bars but I can’t find a decent-sized package around here for a reasonable …

Eggo: Chocolate Chip Pancakes turned out to be rather bland and tasteless according to my taste buds. Although the picture on the box makes it appear that there are chocolate chips aplenty in the pancakes, upon examination of the actual pancakes, one can relatively easily see that there are …

One of my favorite times of year is around the holidays because of all the cool foods that come out. One of my favorites is Thomas’ Pumpkin Spice Bagels. I bought mine at Kroger for $2.86 per back of 6 pre sliced bagels.
Personally, I like them a lot. They …

This one’s my favorite coffee mix since way back 2008. My eldest sister introduced this to me one morning when I was hurrying up and had no time for breakfast. She asked me to sit back and relax while she’s preparing for coffee. I hesitated and after just a …

If you are lactose intolerant, you know how miserable you can feel after eating most foods containing dairy products. Bloating, stomach pain and other unpleasant symptoms likely prevent you from enjoying some of your favorite foods. One of my favorite dairy products is chocolate milk. My mouth would water …

Sracciatella has alwazs been my favourite flavour, I adore everything with the taste of stracciatella but specially yogurts and ice cream, that’s why I just couldn’t resist when in the store I saw Sterzing Vipiteno Yogurt for just 22 Euro cents a piece I just couldn’t resist and I …

I’ve been seeing Must Be Mom’s booths in a lot of malls and bazaars selling their delicious looking baked goods, but I have never tasted any of their products until last night, as someone gave a box of it to my dad. My dad was given the box …

Kinder had always been my favourite chocolate I think that I actually really like the milk taste of it. That’s why I also adored Kinder eggs. My sister was crazy about the toys you would get in them while I was looking forward to the chocolate itself. You can …

I love to cook and I don’t mind admitting I use a few shortcuts.
Here’s one of the best–one of the essentials, in my kitchen. Vigo Italian style breadcrumbs with romano cheese. This stuff saves me so much time and trouble, and makes my foods fantastic. There are so many …

Normally, I’m a soda drinker. In fact, my family tells me I drink too much soda.
However, whenever I get sick, I crave something different; lemonade.
I started buying Minute Maid Lemonade 12 packs simply for the convenience. I don�t need to mix anything. Even though it’s not real lemonade, it …

I love bagels with a good savory cream cheese spread. Usually I make my own but I was pressed for time and bought a flavored one, Rondele Bagel Temptations: Garlic and Herbs Flavor. The price for this product was more than twice the amount I would have paid for …

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 …

I love making pasta salad in the summer time along with my own ranch and Caesar dressings. However, I find myself going through a lot of mayonnaise often, which is why I always purchase my store brand mayonnaise, which is My Essentials Real Mayonnaise. The mayonnaise comes in a …

I have tried several OnCor frozen food products, and our family likes them all: Lasagna, Salisbury steaks, and now these “barbeque ribs.” They are not real ribs, of course, which is clearly stated on the box: they are pork patties, shaped in the form of ribs, but they taste …

I recently purchased a bag of Bucky Badger Cheese Puffs for my family to snack on during movie night. They were cheaper than the other brands that were available and I figured there wouldn’t be much difference in taste.
I was sure wrong about that.
These are some of the most …

It is already my habit to sip a gourmet cafe everyday. Starbucks and some local brands are always present in my everyday itinerary. The truth though is that these are costly and you are dependent on the availability of it. In some part of the world, Starbucks is not …

Green Tea To Go is a great way to get more water into your diet. For those of you who cannot stand the taste of plain water and just can’t seem to get enough into your day, I would highly recommend trying the Green Tea To Go. They come …

Since they decided to discontinue my favorite brand of cigarettes, I’ve been on a hunt to find something to replace them. Recently a woman at my local gas station recommend I try the Marlboro Smooth 100’s. She said that she started smoking them years ago before switching to Camel, …

Product Description: Red Baron frozen pizza sold in single-serve slices that can be microwaved. My wife bought this for around $3.50 yesterday.
What I liked about this product: Well, I like Red Baron pizza but making one in the oven is pretty much out of the question when it comes …

Nido become my favorite powdered milk when Birch Tree milk powdered was out of stock in the market. Second to Birch Tree is Nido. Nido has the taste of fresh cow’s milk. My father includes Nido whenever he is cooking white pasta. The smell of the pasta is like …

Packaged brownies will never, ever taste as moist or as fresh as freshly baked brownies at home. That being said, these pre-made brownies aren’t bad, but they aren’t as moist and soft as I would have liked them to be. They get softer if I warm them up in …

One day I was shopping through the cookie aisle at the grocery store and I stumbled upon these cookies. I picked up a bag to get a closer look and I was like these look so amazing. I never knew such a yummy looking flavor existed. …

Great Value White Sandwich Bread is the Wal-Mart brand. It’s from 99 cents to $1.10 per loaf for a twenty-four ounce loaf. Being on a budget I always attempt to buy generics and the brands that are on sale. Well, sometimes I have to spend a little bit more …

Although I find this Jell-o No Bake Desserts - Pumpkin variety to be enjoyable, much like the cheesecake no bake line, I prefer a fresh, homemade pumpkin pie because it is so much richer and more moist! This no bake dessert is alight, but it is a little on …

A toaster is a pretty basic thing. Sure, lots of toasters out there come with all sorts of fancy doodads and probably do all sorts of incredible things, but when it boils right down to it, there is only thing you want your toaster to be able to …

As someone that likes not only bananas, but banana-flavored treats like banana nut bread and banana pudding, to name a few, I was very eager to try Yoplait’s Banana Creme variety of yogurt. I sure am glad that I did, too, because I find this yogurt to be positively …

I recently read that banannas are acutally more nutritious than apples. I found that ironic because the old saying, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”, has been around for so darn long! Supposedly, while apples do offer a wide variety of nutrients and vitamins that …

I love my coffee, and I am always trying different perked brands to make at home. Recently I bought a 454gram bag of Presidents Choice Organics Medium Roast Coffee. I could smell a rich strong coffee, even from outside the bag, and thought this would be a good pick …

You’ve probably seen the shirt’s, you’ve probably seen the commercials on TV, you may have even heard the interesting story about the brewery itself, but not many people have actually tried Guinness Draught Beer. My first impression of it was that it was not very good, it sort of …

What I like about this variety of bagged salad is that they mix romaine, iceberg and cabbage together and that gives this salad a couple different flavors and textures. Iceberg lettuce is my absolute favorite, and the iceberg lettuce that I get out of this bagged salad is consistently …

I started drinking coffee when I was about 20 years old because I had exams at University. I usually take mocha coffee but about a month ago I started experimenting with instant coffee powders. On of those that I’ve tried was Jacobs Monarch instant coffee Kraft. It comes in …

Frying potatoes is kind of bothersome, as you have to use so much oil, it will jump in all directions, and someone has to clean that mess. That’s why when I found this fried potatoes for the microwave I had to try them.
As any microwave oriented food, it didn’t …

Triscuits is one of my favorite snacks. However, if you noticed the salt content, you may be turned away from the fact that it is more than recommended by the FDA. Although it is healthier than other snacks in the market, it is still not a recommended …

If you have never been to Panera Bread, there is one item worth stopping for. Actually, there are several amazing treats and sandwiches available at Panera, and I have always been more than satisfied. The bagels are always fresh as is all of the bread and produce. …

The Winter Crumble chocolate bar is one of several limited edition bars produced by the British chocolate makers Thorntons for the winter holiday season this year (ie 2009-2010).
It is described on the wrapper as having a ‘winter fruit mousse centre’, and the fruits included are blackcurrants and blackberries. These …

I use Klass fruit flavored drink mix because it tastes really good and it is quick to make too. I like the way it comes ready to mix and I just have to add water to it. It really helps to save me from having to buy lots of …

When it comes to cake and pastries I prefer Goldilocks product. My old time favorite was Crema de fruta, this cake consists of Fruits like peache, cherry and grapes with a cream on it. It has two layer of chiffon cake that is best when its chilled in a …

Quaker Popped Cheddar Cheese Rice Snacks Is product I grabbed at my neighborhood Kroger, when they were running a two for three sale on them. Given that it was a snack from Quaker, I wasn’t hesitate to give it a try. Quaker is one of those brands that …

While traveling in NJ we came across a little candy store called Nagels Candy Barn located on Route 10 in Randolph NJ. This place was amazing! Every type of candy you want you can get here! We went around Easter time and were in awe at all of the …

“Ackee and Saltfish” is my country’s national dish. I am unsure of it being like any other dish in other countries hence I think it is unique to only my country. I was told that the ackee fruit originated from West Africa in the days when Africans were brought …

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 …