Around the holidays, and sometimes just plain in general, it’s not always easy to maintain one’s weight. A higher than usual calorie intake without sufficient supplemental exercise, it can be far too easy to add on extra pounds without realizing it right away. That’s why it’s important to offset …

I’ve been trying to find a perfect plant-based milk for my coffee for the last few months or so, but I couldn’t find the one that would froth well and taste good at the same time.
However, I’ve always known that soymilk frothes well, but it tasted disgusting when I tried …

Yesterday I was in the candy lane at Walmart, trying to decided what type of candy I wanted. There were some of my favorites, Hersey Kisses, and Reese’s Peanut Butter cups. Well, I don’t do this often, but yesterday I did. I went out on a limb and bought …

I like to do a lot of hiking in the summertime. While I go hiking it is my habit to chew gum in order to keep my saliva going. I had been trying for quite a while to find a gum that does not have aspartame in it. Then …

This weekend, I finally visited one of the places I have been wanting to see for some time now, the Springbank Cheese Company. It is advertised as one of Calgary’s premier cheese stores, and as cheese is one of the highlights of my life, I was looking forward to it. …

Twinings has the best line up for flavored green tea. It is my favorite brand of tea and surprisingly it has lots of flavors in their website as regards green tea variety. Sadly, only jasmine, mint, lemon and earl grey flavors are sold here. One of my favorite kind of …

Blue bonnet margarine is a great butter alterative for cooking I have found. I typically only use butter when I make baked good like cookies and cakes but recently was encouraged by a friend to give margarine a try. I have been pretty impressed with the quality I have …

Cedarlane Low Fat Garden Vegetable Enchiladas are great if you are looking for an alternative to the usual and somewhat unhealthy enchilada! Not only is this kind of enchilada loaded with nutritious vegetables, but it is also low in calories and fat, too, so there are two pluses right …

I’ve been purchasing more Keebler products lately simply because they’ve been on sale. I just can’t believe how ridiculous cookie prices are these days. I just won’t buy them at regular pricing because they are more of a luxury to me. Thus, I’m experimenting a tad …

If you like mild but flavorful salsa, you MUST try this salsa I found at Dollar Tree. Now, I’ve bought their 16 oz. jars before and they’re very good, but this one is 24 oz., which is 50% more for the same price!
We use a lot of salsa …

Anyone who lives in the United States has seen a commercial for Digiorno pizza. Their big claim is that you cannot tell the difference between this pizza and delivery pizza. I have tried several varieties of this brand and yes, you can tell the difference. This …

There’s one thing that I really like a lot about DelGrosso Meat Flavored Spaghetti Sauce, but there’s also something that bothers me more than a little about this spaghetti sauce, too. First, what’s quite nice about this spaghetti sauce is its texture. It’s on the thick side. Since the …

Out of all the dessert cake varieties, I think that I like the Little Debbie Dessert Cakes - Yellow variety the most. Even still, I will not be purchasing these dessert cakes on a very regular basis because they are still not outstanding. The yellow cake is moist and …

I am so puzzled how many people could love this bar so much! There’s nothing really into it. I have tasted so many chocolate bars, and the 3Musketters is just one of the less than ordinary ones I have ever tried. It is not anything you would go crazy …

Century Tuna is the leading tuna canned goods in the Philippines. It has manufactured so many variety of tuna products. Its main marketing discourse is that it is the perfect alternative for loosing weight. Its commercials features male and female models with perfect bodies. In one of its canned variety, …

I got a free sample of Lipton’s Green tea with Mandarin Orange (Pyramid teas) the other day and was eager to try it out. Turned out to be a big disappointment.
I loved the smell of the tea bag. Very fruity. But, the taste of the …

I think Nescafe Original Instant Coffee is not bad at all and it is one of the cheapest of what I would consider to be quality instant coffees. You can get all sorts of special offers and savings if you shop around as Nescafe Original is widely available …

Knor is the instant soup, which can be prepared instantly. It takes very less ingredients and it is very easy to prepare. The knor soup takes only a few minutes to cook and just in a few minutes the restaurant like tasty tasty and hot soups are …

Aldi and Lidl seem to appeal to shoppers. Look on the supermarket shelves in both stores and you see few branded goods, but we find their food products and cleaning goods represent good value for money. I usually buy a small pot of double cream to serve with a …

One of the great classics of the breakfast cereal world, if I can use that perhaps slightly overblown expression, is Kellogg’s Rice Krispies. This has been a favourite all over the world for very many years now, and there is no real mystery as to why - it is …

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 …

Now that my baby girl is now four months old, I made her try Cerelac Wheat and Milk and she just loved it! I am so happy that she can now eat solid food to make her more strong and healthy. Cerelac is a gentle first food that is …

I don’t often get a chance to buy one of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream pints, but every now and then when it’s on sale, I’ll pick out a flavor or two to try. Normally, it’s priced beyond my dessert budget and I have to pass on it …

Airplane food is not exactly a subject that makes people hungry. It used to be that passengers got meals on the plane for free, breakfast, lunch and dinner choices. Now, the closest image that can be drummed up are tiny bags of peanuts or small and un-filling bags of …

I was absolutely delighted after I tasted Chunky Kit Kat for the first time. It had become my absolute favourite candy bar on the market and with every thing that is great; it’s just human nature to try and make it better.
I was at the mall one day …

I live in the mountains and my water comes from a well. Over time, I had thick mineral deposits in the bottom of the toilet bowl. It looked horrible. I tried CLR, Rustoleum, Bam, Kaboom, and about every cleaner I could find. Nothing would dissolve …

I have loved Banquet Chicken Pot Pies since I was a child — at least 45 years I would say. If you have never eaten a Banquet Pot Pie, it is small, just a few inches across, and frozen so it is convenient …

The Maggie cuppa mania is a product which is seen recently. It is another kind of interesting food product from the manufacturers of Maggie noodles. I have tasted all kinds of Maggie noodles such as the Maggie rice mania, Maggie veg palaw and the normal Maggie noodles. …

I enjoy having the Old London JJFlats Flatbread - Garlic be it plain or with a topping spread out across the top of this tasty bread. I find this bread pleasant for more than just a couple of reasons. For one, I think that the bread has a fairly …

Yoplait Whips Yogurt has been a favorite of mine since I first found the product in the super market isle one day. Among their variety of flavors is the chocolate mousse. I have to occasionally remind myself that this yogurt is low fat and not something I can’t afford …

I went to Tesco for something specific today with only a bit of cash and no cards, so when I had got what I wanted I had 50 pence left and wondered what sweet I could get for that price. I bought these six apple pies from Tesco’s …

I love Coffee Beat. It is one of my favorite products of Meiji. A famous Japanese chocolate factory. Coffee Beat is kinda similar with M&M’s it is also a shiny candy coated chocolate. The difference are, it is coffee bean shaped, it has the aroma of coffee and it …

I hate to admit this (especially during these “go green” times) that I like to drink bottled water. In fact, you can find me drinking anything from Smart water to Aquafina to grocery store brand water.
Over the summer I worked outside and was constantly drinking water. The water I …

My boyfriend excitedly told me that there was a new drink released by Gilbey’s that doesn’t taste like beer, and he thinks I should try it, since he knows really well that I hate beers. He described the bottle to me, and when I went to the Liquor store …

I just recently discovered a very nice Tesco Italian original bread sticks and I’ve decided that this could be my latest all time favorite afternoon snack because it really do taste so nice plus of course it can be easily fill up my empty stomach. With just 3 …

Henry Weinhard’s came out with an India Pale Ale not too long ago, and, for a refreshing price, this is a refreshing ale. Henry Weinhard’s Ale line has attached to it a famously low price for a rather decent beverage. This is common knowledge throughout the Northwest. …

Yep, it’s spicy…and… it’s ketchup. Thank-you-and-goodnight, review done Ha! But, seriously let’s have a closer look.
The now familiar “deep-dish” plastic packets of heat you stuffed in your paper burger bags by the fistful are now available in a much more generous (and economical) bottle size. That’s the first …

Mother’s recipe is the name of a company, which is very famous all over India. The mother’s recipe pickles, spices, and many more such products are very good in quality and the taste. Once I bought the Papad (which is used like chips) made of Urad dal …

This is a tasty and refreshing variety of ice cream that I enjoy having every now and then. Blue Bunny Original Ice Cream Chocolate Chip is an ice cream that has real chocolate chips scattered about the frozen vanilla ice cream. The combination of rich vanilla ice cream and …

Dulcinea sells different products like meringue, breads, and cakes. They even have rice meals and pastas like lasagna, baked macaroni and puttanesca. Though their foods are quite expensive, I was able to try one of their products lately which is the Churros Con Chocolate.
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Although these Little Debbie Fall Brownies are decorated quite attractively, they really are nothing more than a different colored version of Little Debbie’s Cosmic Brownies. These brownies simply have orange food coloring and leaf-shaped colored candies on top. The taste, however, is identical to the cosmic brownies year-round product. …

As a lover a tea, I love to try as many new varieties and flavors as possible. Interestingly enough, I have found that good places to find new varieties of tea are renaissance faires. It is at a particular renaissance fair that I found the variety of tea which …

When my family goes to Price Smart, we often buy a box of this granola bar brand. I think they’re good when you’re really hungry, have nothing else to eat, and have the jaw strength to keep chewing and chewing. Otherwise you start to feel like a …

This is an excellent butter-like spread from Bertolli. I do like the taste of real butter but of course these —˜spread straight from the fridge’ type spreads are convenient but they do not always taste so good. This one really does taste good and it has certain …

We bought a bottle of Old Glory Red Table Wine at our local Fox Valley Winery. The standard, 750 ml bottle was priced a little over $13. We had tasted the wine before, so we knew what to expect when we opened the bottle at home for a nice …

The Spanish have a thriving wine industry which produces some of the better-known brands in the world. The Cava brand could be argued to be the —˜poor man’s champagne’ by some, but it must be said that many of the Spanish Cavas are actually nicer than the Champagne they …

On hot summer months, I usually crave Ice cream. However, I cannot afford to purchase a lot of pints from Ben & Jerry’s all the time when I do. When my husband and I are on the go, we just choose to go drive-through and pass by the …

I don’t like biscuit assortments very much because they have all types of biscuits and I don’t like some of them. But this one were awful, the box didn’t contain any good biscuit. They were all too sweet and with chocolate with too much butter. I never eat bad …

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 …