Food Reviews
York Peppermint Pattie
I just adore a good chocolate mint candy. My favorite is See’s, but to get that, it means a trip to a See’s store, and that’s not real convenient. So, I have to find something at the grocery store to tide over my peppermint craving. There …
Fleischmanns Rapid Rise Instant Yeast
I never used Fleischmann’s rapid rise instant yeast until I purchased a bread kit that contained it, and even then I was nervous to handle the yeast. In the kitchen, yeast is my kryptonite because I never actually learned how to properly use it. I know you are to use …
Hellmann’s Creamy Balsamic Mayonnaise
Mayonnaise is one of the many products on the market now that has gradually taken over more and more space on store shelves. Popularity of it and its multitude of foods that it goes with is surely part of the reason, but also, companies like Hellmann’s has been making …
Nabisco Oreo Cakesters
Twelve Nabisco Oreo Cakesters come in a box for two dollars and thirty-nine cents. They’re sold in a number of grocery stores, with some grocery stores carrying the original variety, namely this product, along with other varieties, such as a peanut butter cakester as well as a vanilla cakester. …
Pringles Potato Crisps - Ranch
Although I certainly do enjoy ranch dressing in my salads every now and then, I did not find the ranch flavor that is baked into these potato chips to be overly enjoyable or particularly tasty. Yes, the ranch flavor is most certainly zealously zesty and tremendously tangy, so one …
Goya Dark Chocolate (38 grams)
I have been reading a lot about the benefits of dark chocolate specifically that it can lower bad cholesterol and lower blood pressure and so I decided to make it a point that at least I can eat not more than 100 grams a day. I went to the …
Sprite
Soft drinks are gaining daily in popularity and two companies Pepsi and Coca Cola are the major players in Indian market. Honestly I prefer coca cola over Pepsi as cola products are much more stronger in taste, Pepsi has a sweet kind of flavor which isn’t very good to …
Bondis Vanillin powdered sugar
I use large quantities of Vanillin powdered sugar because I like my cookies and cakes to have this great fragrance of vanilla so I put it everywhere. Vanillin powdered sugar usually comes in small bags of 5g and it is not very cheap so I was really surprised to …
Froot Loops Cereal Straws
Froot Loops cereal straws are surprisingly yummy. I have to admit I was unimpressed with the idea at first. I thought it was gross. Now that I’ve eaten a few I can see their benefit. They are great for on the go, however, they are very fragile and crumbly …
Edy’s Slow Churned Ice Cream
Ice cream is one of my weaknesses. I could eat ice cream everyday and never get sick of it, but the trouble is, the calories start to creep on when I eat to much. I as so happy that I found Edy’s Slow Churned Light Ice Cream. …
Millville Honey Puffs cereal
Millville Honey Puffs is a cereal sold at ALDI Food Market stores for one dollar and ninety-nine cents. Fourteen point five ounces of cereal comes in a box. That’s a generous amount of cereal for that kind of money, especially these days. with the prices of cereals on the …
Oishi ponkan juice
This is a fairly new brand of powdered juice drink in the market which can compete with the leading brand because of its flavor and what it offers over all. Oishi Sundays ponkan powdered juice drink is very delicious and I especially love its sweet taste and very flavorful …
Little Debbie Cherry Cordials
I find these Little Debbie Cherry Cordials to be decent, although nothing truly incredible. This snack consists of vanilla cookies that are coated in chocolate fudge and have cherry creme in the middle. Now the reason I simply consider these cookies to be decent and nothing more is because …
Green Giant Chopped Spinach
This is a frozen boxed food that doesn’t have any sauce at all. It’s just spinach, plain and simple. While this frozen boxed spinach can’t compare with fresh spinach found in the produce section at supermarkets, it’s not that bad. The spinach in this box isn’t all chopped up …
Little Debbie Holiday Snack Cakes - Vanilla
Although these Little Debbie Holiday Snack Cakes - Vanilla variety are only available around Christmas time, I do manage to hold them over for a couple months after they have left the grocery store shelves by sticking them in the refrigerator. The reason I do this because I enjoy …
Durkee Citrus Grill Seasoning
We had a picnic in a park last summer. We all agreed to bring a little something for potluck and a friend of mine brought this lemony steamed whiting fish. It was a hit in the picnic table. My husband and I loved it. We asked her how she made …
Nestea Peach Ice Tea
Until recently I had never tried iced tea, as I don’t like tea very much when it is hot. My fiancee however loves Nestea iced tea, and she usually has a bottle of it around the place, so that is how I came to try it.
The product …
Dolci Frutta: Hard Chocolate Shell
For my Valentine’s Day, my friend and I decided to make chocolate covered strawberries for dessert, so I went out to get the chocolate that we would use as the hard shell. My sister always makes chocolate covered strawberries and warned me that there is a brand of the …
Cadbury Mini Eggs
My absolute favorite type of Easter candy is the Cadbury mini eggs. I’m sure you’ve seen them, in their dark purple bags in grocery and department stores around Easter time. They usually seem to disappear fast because a lot of people them! The eggs are small …
Deli Creations Sandwiches
Looking for something quick for lunch? Needing a quick-fix supper food? No matter the reason, when you need to find something good to eat, these Deli Creations sandwiches will go over well. Oscar Mayer has found the perfect combination to make the deli sandwich easy and affordable.
The best thing …
Knorr Asian Sides Teriyaki Noodles
Well, I can’t say that I didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I purchased this Asian Side. I knew it was going to be sweet, and I didn’t think a sweet side would go well with dinner, but I still wanted to give it a try, …
Coke zero
The only thing that we get from soft drinks are sugar it is always present at any soft drinks that we drink and we dont really need it so that is the reason why Coca-Cola’s company release Coke Zero and believe that will benefit for those people loves …
Mac’s Brewery Spring Tide, Lower-Carb Lager 330ml
I like keep myself in, what we kiwis like to describe as, pretty good nick. I run, watch what I eat, all that good girl stuff. But at the end of a long hard day of “being good” sometimes you just feel like a beer. Everyone …
Hershey’s 100 Calorie Crisp Wafer Bar
Everywhere you look, there seems to be some type of 100 calorie snack or snack pack around on the store shelves. I’ve tried a lot of these over the years and there are a few I like and a few that I don’t. Hershey’s has started making a couple …
Choco Lava Chocolate Drink
Drinking hot beverage is something we love especially in rainy season or winter season in Western countries. When I was in Shanghai, one of the drinks I ordered in their Starbucks branch was hot chocolate because I did not know any of their drink. It has always been a …
Swiss Miss Hot Milk Chocolate Mix with Mini Marshmallows
After I was introduced to the regular Swiss Miss Hot Milk Chocolate mix, I had started to look on the grocery store shelves for other varieties of this mix. Believe it or not, even though I am a hot chocolate lover, I guess I am a bit of a …
Dr. Oetker Ristorante Pizza Funghi
I have long been a fan of Dr. Oetker desserts, and when their pizza went on sale at my local grocery store I quickly bought Dr. Oetker Ristorante Pizza Funghi. To be honest, I had to laugh at the ‘Funghi’ part of the name as this is simply a …
Annie Chun’s Thai Tom Yum Soup Bowl
As a fan of Annie Chun’s soup bowl products I recently saw a new soup called Thai Tom Yum Soup. I have to say that although it took me awhile tog et used to the smells in preparing it, the soup is yummy.
I followed the directions on the …
Tortilla Corn Chips Restaurant Style 150g
I discovered the Tortilla corn chips during my last visit to Dollarama, the famed dollar store near where I live. I thought I’d try some crunchy corn chips at home for a change, while I watched TV.
I’m glad I tried this brand. These corn chips are really …
Entenmann’s donuts
My husband just loves Entenmann’s donuts. He thinks they are the greatest, and this is what convinced me to try them. They come in boxes of 8, fairly large donuts. They come in different varieties as well. There are boxes of mixed assortements (regular, powdered …
Nestle Cocoa
I am a chocolate lover as long as I can remember. Nestle Tollhouse Cocoa satisfies that chocolate desire in me. This is a cocoa powder that I have used for baking chocolate cake and drinks. The flavor is strong and may be modified by the amount of teaspoons …
Cinnabon Cinnamon Crisps
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, …
Death Wish Coffee
As a java addict, I’ve come to find that I drink upwards of three to five cups of coffee if it was a conservative day. I’ve even fulfilled my prescription to coffee at many different places, from every Starbucks within my area, to grocery store coffee, to even those …
Meijer House Blend Instant Coffee
Many people who are serious coffee devotees shun instant coffee. And for the longest time, I understood why. However, when I purchased this store brand of instant coffee for the first time to use in a recipe, I wasn’t sure what else to do with it besides trying to …
Golden Bantam Corn
Golden Bantam Corn is an heirloom variety of corn that you can save seed from year to year and get the same thing repeatedly. It cost $1.65 a pack for two ounces which contains approximately 230 seeds. When we were setting up our farm this year we decided we …
Entenmann’s Frosted Pop’ems
Entenmann’s Frosted Pop’ems are essentially small and compacted donuts that lack an opening in the center. Only one or two bites are required before these pop’ems are no more. They are quite small and ideal for snacking. Well, they would be ideal if the frosted pop’ems had a better …
Richard Childress Seasoning Blend
I picked up the Richard Childress Seasoning Blend on a trip to Welcome, North Carolina. On our vacation we stopped by the Childress Vineyards to pick up some wine to take back to Ohio with us and I ended up grabbing a few other food products while we were …
Kikoma naturally brewed soy sauce
I learned about this product when I got married because my husband who is paranoid about diets, is very persistent that I should not buy any ingredients that have MSG . I couldn’t find any soy sauce in store that time that doesn’t have MSG and because in …
Knorr Pasta Sides Creamy Chickien
This is a pretty average Pasta Side that could have been more flavorful and enjoyable if more carrots had been used. The carrot pieces are more like carrot particles. They’re super small and because they’re so small, they really don’t contribute much flavor to this Pasta Side. That’s disappointing …
Chevy’s Seafood Combo Plater
So I tried the new Chevey’s Seafood Combo Plater at Chevy’s this week and it gotta say it’s pretty good. The whole platter is loaded with shrimp, I love shrimp so I was very happy. The shrimp on the Chevey’s Seafood Combo Plater were very good. I thought they …
Safeway Rotini Pasta
We recently tried this Safeway brand of Rainbow Rotini pasta, and found that it tastes really good for boxed noodles. If you like Rainbow Rotini macaroni noodles, you really should give this brand a chance. I enjoy it with any kind of pasta sauce. The noodles …
Burger King Triple Whopper with Cheese
My son wanted to try one of these sandwiches. So he ordered one, he wanted it plain, with only cheese on it. He was surprised when he sat down to east his sandwich, this was a big one! Three big burgers, but the most surprising part of …
Nescafe 3in1
I was recently in Thailand on a holiday trip , traveling to beautiful holiday resorts. I really enjoyed the visit with the weather so pleasant and favorable too.
Since I am a coffee addict, I too packages of Nescafe 3in1 so I can have coffee any time any where …
Stouffer’s Chicken Quesadilla Flatbread Melt
Stouffer’s Chicken Quesadilla Flatbread Melt is a something that I like to have for lunch now and then, but it is out for dinner time since I do not find it to be filling enough to last me for the remainder of the night and early morning. However, the …
Jell-o Pudding - Tapioca
Jell-o Pudding - Tapioca is quite good, although I am not as crazy about the tapioca variety as I am about the vanilla-chocolate swirl variety. The tapioca variety is certainly still good too, and the flavor is quite authentic as well as strong! The texture is pretty creamy and …
Jelly Bellies
I’m sure everyone has heard of and tried jelly bellies. They’re tiny jelly beans that comes in over 30 different flavors. Some examples being strawberry cake or coffee or something weird like pepper. It is yummy and delicious, but I love them because it is fun to eat! You …
Knorr Soupy Snax
In a world where everything is constantly changing, right now we have instant for everything–instant coffee, instant noodles and this time instant snacks. I was looking for something that I can immediately eat which also has higher carbohydrates. When you are in a high-rise building working for long hours, …
Healthy Choice Lobster Cheese Ravioli
Healthy Choice Lobster Cheese Ravioli is a frozen entree that you can probably find in the freezer section of your local grocery store or supermarket. In particular, the Lobster Cheese Ravioli frozen entree is one of their line of all natural entrees that do not contain preservatives. …
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