I have been trying to cut down on my spending lately and have been sampling the delights the Tesco Value range has to offer. At the ridiculously low prices they are selling for, you should not expect anything to be of the highest quality, but some products in …

I have had a craze on instant hot chocolate lately and I have tried lots of different brands, but this is by far the nicest, by the brand name Percol. Actually it is really gorgeous. I bought a sachet of Percol from Tesco for about 30 pence …

This ‘Crunch Duo Mix Muesli’ yoghurt from Tesco was only cheap at about 35 pence but it is really gorgeous. I have eaten this as a snack and I have taken them to work to have as a breakfast as they are ideal. As you peel back …

I found this fresh Ciabatta roll in Tesco’s in-store bakery section and it was only 30 pence. I have tried other brands of Ciabatta and this relatively cheap one from Tesco was fresh and tasty and as good as any of them. You can often find the …

Today I tried DiGiorno For One - Pepperoni Pizza for the first time. I’ve been wanting to try some for a while since the commercials make it the brand sound so wonderful.
One thing I’m noticing now in the microwave trays that food is cooked on is that some …

I am a lover of chips snacks. This Pringles really give me so much satisfaction. Though it cost higher than the other but taste wise, it is really the winner. Most of my free time i always take Pringles as my way killing the time. It makes me awaken …

I’m not a junk-food junkie but I just couldn’t resist Pringles sour cream and onion. I love the crunchy crispy, creamy taste. I usually buy a can every time I go to the grocery. There are a lot of Pringles flavor available like barbeque, cheddar cheese, pizza, bacon ranch, …

I had been making or cooking spaghetti in so many occasions. Before i only used catchup to taste and color. I have some ways of my own to make my own variant of spaghetti. Until i discover that Del Monte Spaghetti sauce could just simplify all of it. I …

When I was a weight-obsessed teenager, I would often have an Options hot chocolate drink, taking a couple to work to have instead of coffee. I can see why because they are only 33 calories per drink which is nothing. The Options instant hot chocolate drinks are …

I am a big fan of Malteasers and so when I spotted this Malteasers Instant Hot Chocolate I was quite looking forward to trying it. I bought a single sachet of this from Tesco for about 30 pence, just to try it out. You can find these …

These are delicious, high quality chocolate croissants from the Brioche Pasquier brand and I bought these from Tesco at £1.50. For that you get six croissants in a packet and you can find them amongst the other packeted bread goods in Tesco. Each croissant is oblong shaped …

I tried this roll, bought from Tesco’s instore bakery section, and it is absolutely beautiful. I could never give up carbs as I love bread too much and I like trying out different kinds. In the instore bakery at Tesco you can just buy rolls individually so …

I intended to buy the full fat Coffee Mate but I picked up this light, lower fat version instead. I do not mind as it is fine. I personally prefer a full fat milk in my coffee and, even if I am trying to cut down on …

Just because an item is cheap does not mean that it is necessarily unpleasant, but this ‘Pasta in a Tomato & Onion Sauce’ from the Tesco Value range is not one of them. This was only 28 pence for a 110g sachet which gives you one portion, so …

The package for DiGiorno Flatbread Melts - Chicken & Bacon Ranch flavor promises fresh baked taste in just minutes.
DiGiorno Flatbread Melts - Chicken & Bacon Ranch, per the package, is made with “toasty flatbread filled with white meat chicken, applewood smoked bacon, reduced fat mozzarella cheese and smoked gouda …

From the Mars company, Twix Cookie Bars are a combination of chocolate and caramel that have a cookie crunch to them versus just a candy taste.
Quite honestly, I’m not a big fan of Twix Cookie Bars. They definitely do have that cookie crispness and that’s probably one reason …

Previously, I’ve done a review for the spaghetti and meat sauce from Marie Callender’s, and now they’ve redone the product. This is the third redo that I know of in terms of product. Originally, there was the spaghetti and meat sauce and then last year they added …

For me, the joy of holidays sometimes mean treating myself to seasonal candies I wouldn’t normally buy, especially if they are on sale. Recently, I took a chance on Elmer Candy: You’re a Purr-fect Valentine box of candies.
The box is heart shaped and features an adorable kitty cat …

I am lover of instant coffee. To be more precise, I like it strong, sweet - and preferably cool. And yet, I am not a great fan of iced coffee… with the exception of one single brand: Jacobs Ice Coffee.
I have noticed there are two “ice coffee” produced by Jacobs. …

I was unusual as a child in that there were several things that were regarded as being outside my immediate family that I had never experienced. Early on, I was one of the few whose house did not have a television set. If I wanted to see TV, I …

Little Caesars large pepperoni pizza is cheapest pizza with enough meat and pepperoni. They pizza costs only five dollar and its size is good enough. For five dollars there was no much choice for the bread. The usual bread was not anyways. Little Caesars outlet is not seen at …

I am from the southern United States where our staple foods include fried chicken, collard greens, corn bread, and sweet tea. When it comes to drinking sweet tea, I am just like all southern people who believe the sweetness of the tea is an indicator of how good …

Well, we had a steak dinner last night and I was getting sick of potatoes (we had them three nights in a row) so I ended up digging through my pantry for something else.
I ended up finding cornbread stuffing mix from the brand Chef’s Cupboard.
This is a generic brand …

We made a steak dinner last night and planned on having corn on the cob to go with it. However, we only had four ears of corn; not enough for our family. So, my wife made another vegetable to go with it, peas from the brand Happy Harvest.
These were …

I wanted something different for lunch the other day but had to find something that wouldn’t take too long to make. So, I ended up going to the store and looking at some of the instant lunches (ramen noodle cups, etc) and eventually ended up purchasing a bowl of …

We were at the store yesterday buying something for dinner. Since we really didn’t have a whole lot in our house for dessert, we decided to pick up something for that too.
We ended up with Big Event Root Beer Float Bars.
The Big Event brand is one of the cheapest …

We made mashed potatoes last night and, because we didn’t want to eat them plain, we decided to pick up some gravy to go with them.
The store I went to was a convenience store and they only had one brand to choose from; Heinz Home-style Gravy. So, I ended …

My brother bought this for me the day before yesterday, and that would have been the first time I have actually tasted this particular set of chocolates even though I have wanted to try them for a very long time.
The candy coated milk chocolates come in a small …

When my sister brought a pack of becel pro-activ strawberry home I was quite excited, the fact is that I adore discount and she got them for half of the usual price. I must say that I have never tasted not ever seen this product before in my life …

I have this anecdote from the time I was little about these candies. I was 5 or 6 and I went to the church with my parents. It was a hot sunny day. My relative who was 8 then, was with me. We started feeling bored so we weren’t …

I bought this tea by accident, I usually buy another herbal tea from this brand and as they were all on discount and I took three packages I guess one box was misplaced among these teas that I usually buy so I took it not even noticing it. The …

Everyone in my house goes crazy about these mini rolls except me. I like figs, I like orange and I like mini rolls but I don’t think they go good together. I would feel these mini rolls with thick chocolate, or something like that although when I think about …

I found this flavor recently at Albertsons. Kettle cooked flavors of Lays has become my favorite now and that is why I decided to try out Lays Kettle Cooked Maui Onion Potato Chips. This is a very new and innovative flavor. Blending the taste of Onion into potato chips …

I wanted a honey and mustard salad dressing and in Lidl, after repeating to the young assistant that I wanted to find the salad dressings and he did not understand the concept, the only brand they had was this, McEnnedy American Way Honey & Mustard Dressing. I think …

I bought this from my local convenience shop because it looked like a good, large slab of milk chocolate but at only 44 pence. This is very economical as you would expect to pay more like £1 for such a large bar. This is 100g. The …

Cadbury’s Star Bar is one of my favourite chocolate bars. Before writing this review, I nipped onto Wikipedia to remind myself when they first came out as I have been buying these regularly since the 1980s. Interestingly, it pointed out that this Star Bar only exists because …

I bought these ‘Rowan Hill Bakery’ muffins from one of my favourite bargain stores, good old Lidl. They had an offer on of 30% off the price so I only paid about 30 pence I believe. For that you get six muffins in a packet. These …

The Bounty chocolate bar is absolute classic confectionary and I bought one recently for the first time in years - I have been concentrating on trying the newer bars I suppose. These are manufactured by American company, Mars, although they are apparently not so widely available in the …

I found Euro Shopper Corn Flakes in my local convenience store and, although I did not have much faith in them being equalled to Kellogg’s in quality, I bought them anyway as there was no other choice. These were very cheap at only 79 pence for a 375g …

These French bread rolls from Marks & Spencer are sold individually and are to be found in the bakery section of the store. They are only priced at 25 pence each. These are my all time favourite rolls and are absolutely delicious every time. Marks & …

Fairly crispy and excessively flavorful essentially describes how I feel about the cheese sticks made by Farm Rich. I have no doubt that these cheese sticks would come out crisper if I were to deep fry them - one of the three means of preparing the cheese sticks according …

CVS Fudge Striped Shortbread Cookies are modeled after the Keebler Fudged Stripes cookies. Not only do the cookies sold under the CVS Pharmacy name look identical to the national brand, but they also taste just as good! The fudge is rich and tasty and the shortbread cookie leaves a …

BARILLA, the Italian pasta maker, is probably the most popular among the “big” commercial pasta producers. Some of its success may be attributed to the variety and the sheer ubiquity of their many products. But they wouldn’t be as popular as they are if they weren’t simply good - surely …

When I’m bored the first thing I gravitate towards to is the internet, there is face book, google, and twitter that can entertainment me for hours, but even they have their limits. So a friend told me to google “get …

These little cups of applesauce come in a pack of 6 - 111g each. Motts makes quite a few varieties of flavours of applesauce but I find these taste the best.
I started buying these applesauce cups to give to my 2 year old daughter, as most flavours are …

In these cold days I like to take nice hot cup of tea. I usually didn’t buy Milford teas because they are more expensive than other ones and also I always buy the same stuff. Last evening I went to shop and I saw that with Milford tea you …

Few weeks ago I saw Becel Pro-Activ Strawberry on sale in the shop near my house so I decided to try it. I saw many times commercial for litle drinks that reduce cholesterol levels in the blood but I never bought one until now. I decided to take it …

I am not so hot on these Ridged Tortillas from the McCoy’s brand, but they are edible. I think when I saw them I thought they were the brand I tried before which I liked but these were not as nice as the other brand. Just so …

I tried this ‘Greek Style Salad Cheese’ by the Milbona brand because it was the closest thing to Feta cheese that Lidl had at the time. I have been craving one of my favourite vegetarian tortilla wraps which contains feta, so I tried this rather than travel to …

Since I discovered how tasty grilled or roasted red peppers are, I have included them in my diet quite a lot, which is good as they are very nutritious. Of course, they are lovely for anybody to eat but as a vegetarian I am glad to have discovered …