Among coffee lovers, there is a secret rift seldom talked about: the “great divide” between those who swear by traditionally brewed coffee and those who actually prefer instant coffee. I am one of these. To me, nothing beats a good instant coffee.
However, I am very picky about instant coffee. …

Another product that I purchase frequently is Great Value Strawberry Preserves. This is a food product that I use mostly when making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Like most Great Value products they are sold at a lower than average price compared to name brand items. …

Metromint - Orangemint Water is a variety of flavored water that I enjoy, although I do not quite like it as much as the peppermint and spearmint varieties that are made by the same company. However, I do have this flavored water once a week generally because I still …

By just stirring in 2 cups of water and bringing this powdered mix to a boil, you can have a tasty gravy to put on fried chicken or biscuits. A little heavier on the black pepper than I might have originally wanted, still it’s an easy and relatively quick …

I used not to like Mee Siam. In case you are wondering what this is, it is actually a gravy type of noodles, but the very thin strips one. Not the thick noodles like your spaghetti, though.
The gravy has to be spicy for me and in …

The Cadbury Bliss is a new chocolate bar, and one which seems to be aimed at women judging by the little advertising that I have seen for it. I am, as usual, slightly irritated by this assumption that it is only women who want a nice, comforting chocolate hit …

Recently I’ve had the chance to try out one of Betty Crocker’s newest products, Betty Crocker Homestyle Reds. These are made with 100% real mashed potatoes. It’s a blend of red and russet potatoes with butter and natural flavors which equals 80 calories per serving. There …

I’m generally not an M&M candies kind of person but I enjoy it from time to time. When I saw that they had gotten fancy with their candies, my guess is to compete with the gourmet chocolates, I have to say I was curious. The way the M&Ms looked …

The Meat Lovers Pizza that arrived from Dominoes wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. I think that I was hoping for a lot more meat, and they just didn’t deliver on that promise. The pizza itself arrived hot and smelling strongly of pizza sauce, but there were not enough …

This April, to celebrate the Holy week of 2010, my husband, friends and I went to the beautiful island of Boracay in the Philippines. It was 2006 when I last visited the island, and after 4 years I was surprised that there are double the number of existing establishments …

Southern Grove Crunchy Fiesta Peanuts come in a nine point five ounce bag at ALDI Food Market stores for one dollar and fifty-nine cents. I only purchased one bag of these peanuts once a couple of weeks back, but the one bag I purchased was quite satisfactory. I enjoyed …

When I go out to the mall with friends or on beach trips with the family I like to have Kentucky Fried Chicken (more fondly known as KFC) at times and one of the many side dishes they offer with their standard fries and fried chicken meal is cole …

Super Sub sandwiches usually appear every couple of weeks as a lunch item at the J Cafeteria at Humboldt State University. Super Sub sandwiches come in meat and veggie versions. Each includes lettuce, tomato, onion, and cheese. It is about a 5″ long, very thick sub …

When I started to read about the benefits of tea, I wanted to find someplace to buy good quality tea. I came across the website for Adagio Teas, adagio.com, and saw that they sold a variety of loose tea leaves and accessories. I liked that they had …

I am not a lemon person although I know that it is one of the good sources of vitamin C. I drink calamansi juice whenever I feel like getting sick and it works. However in my country, lemon is not always available typically. We rely more on calamansi (family …

5 sugar free gum, Elixir flavor is a very wonderfully flavoured gum! It is fruity and delicious. It is in the traditional stick form, unlike the more popular tiny sticks seen in other gums. The packaging is very nice too. Sleek black package with a …

I do not feel that the Dillman Farm - All Natural Cherry Butter Fruit Spread goes quite as well with my morning breakfast as the apple or pumpkin or blueberry spreads do, but I must say that this spread does have a very strong and quite rich cherry flavor …

I am not the most avid vegetable eater, but like to try to get vegetable nutrients. I tried regular V8 and was highly disgusted at it’s high amount of tomato juice. I couldn’t enjoy it at all and figured I should try something more subtle. I saw the V8 …

I had bought a pint for only about $5 of Ben & Jerry’s Pistachio / Pistachio Ice Cream and this was a new flavour in our supermarket and I was very eager to try it out! I do love their flavours and there isn’t really a flavour that I …

I just love these. I remember my Grandmother serving them to us kids because she was afraid we would choke on regular popcorn. We loved it then too. This delicious salty and buttery snack is the alternative for getting popcorn kernels and their skins stuck in your teeth, tastes …

Shed’s Spread:
I never really liked butter, but that changed once I tried Country Crock’s Shedd Spread. There’s nothing more delicious then Shed’s Spread on some bread. Shed’s Spread is made from Country Crock and is very delicious. It is very easy to spread and tastes delicious. Shed’s Spread can …

I like Fillets of mackerel but I don’t eat them very often because they are too heavy and sometimes I feel the taste of them in my mouth for hours so I prefer not to eat them very often.
This Fillets of mackerel in Olive Oil come in small golden …

Here in my country there is a brand of ice cream by the name of Flavarite and I have grown up eating this brand of ice cream. Over the years I have started to see new flavours being released by them and one of the flavours I recently had …

I tried some Indiana Kettlecorn Popcorn the other day, and I must say this is pretty good popcorn. I think that this is a very good popcorn that tastes very fresh. I also really like the flavor of Indiana Kettlecorn Popcorn because it does not taste greasey and …

We ended up having a leftover turkey dinner last night and, to go with it, my wife made some Birdseye Freshlike brand Green Beans.
Normally, I like frozen vegetables like this particular brand. But, I have to admit, I was somewhat disappointed with them.
First, they just didn’t seem to cook …

Entenmann’s Little Bites 100 Calorie Carrot Crème Snack Cakes is a treat that I look forward to having from time to time because I find the carrot cake flavor of these snack cakes to be rather delightful! I was pleasantly surprised that the flavor had not been removed along …

I’m very in to buying turkey in place of other meats whenever I can. I don’t eat pork and turkey is much healthier than beef too. I do love a good sausage with my morning breakfast sandwich though and so it was only natural for me to …

I’m not the healthiest food eater in the world. In fact, I’m far from it. I’m a persnickety eater, especially with foods that say they are healthy. I need that old school taste that I grew up with. I have, however, found a couple of …

Wow must bites, I just love them to eat. It is a very good, tasty and interesting snack from Parley Company. It gives made of some flour and creamy cheese and very good taste maker. The taste is just too good. It is a very …

I’ve long been a firm believer that in most cases, food items do not vary much from brand to brand and therefore, the variables I employ are usually price, flavour, fat content or size. Manufacturers usually use much the same ingredients, so the taste of the product varies little. …

Apparently, there’s a lot of people that like Pizza Hut’s new Pizza Mia. I have not met any of them.
Pizza Mia is a wallet friendly pepperoni pizza from Pizza Hut. At $5 dollars each, you may think it’s hard to go wrong with one. That price is deceiving. It’s …

Product Description: Frozen pieces of breaded shrimp available at Walmart for about $4.
What I liked about this product: Normally, when I buy popcorn shrimp, I can expect very small pieces with little meat in them. That was not the case with this brand. The Great Value brand’s idea of …

Witor’s is an Italian company that makes chocolates and very good ones I must admit.
Torroncino chocolate candy made by Witor’s looks like this: it has a shape of a small dome, it has about 10g and it has 2 white strips of glaze on it. It looks very nice. …

I wanted something simple for dinner last night and didn’t want to drive out of my way to go to a grocery store. So, I ended up stopping off at a convenience store just up the street from work and buying a couple pizzas there from the brand Cheese …

I first saw Mojito advertised on a poster in a KFC outlet about a year ago, and, curious customer that I am, I bought it to drink with my sandwich of choice. Frankly, I hadn’t expected much, and I had even been a little afraid that it might taste …

Because of a recommendation from a clerk at the grocery store, I decided to try out the Hershey’s Cookies ‘n’ Creme Milk Shake product. Hershey’s individual milk shakes are the best ones I’ve found out there right now that you can buy at a store. No, they …

Munchies Traditional Mix is a pretty average, run of the mill type of mix that does not really do anything different or special to set it apart from the other snack mixes that can be found in grocery stores and supermarkets. It is actually a mix that is inferior …

I was always fond of biscuits with chocolate, although I must say that when I was little I liked more cakes and similar stuff with creams but still I liked chocolates cookies and biscuits. Now when I got older I try not to eat too much sweet stuff and …

Lyons Golden Syrup has long been used and loved in the homes and bakeries of Europe to add a rich, sweet flavor to their confections and recipes.
It has the thick consistancy of honey but has a rich, buttery sweetness that is distictly its own.
I have used this product in …

This review is for the new to Canada McDonald’s Iced Coffee. This is quiet possible the worst tasting drink that I have ever had. If you are expecting something close to a Tim Horten’s Iced Cap., forget it. I took a drink of my McDonald’s Iced …

I recently tried the new “Natural Grape” flavor in Veryfine’s Fruit-2-O line available in the beverage aisles and fridges of grocery and convienience stores everywhere. This flavor was my favorite of all in this line so far and I intend to purchase it again very soon.
Veryfine Fruit-2-O have 0 …

So the other day I tried Red Hook Long Hammer IPA India Pale Ale. And wow let me tell you it was great! I would have to rate Long Hammer IPA as one of my favorite beers of all times. I was really impressed by the quality and potency …

Colacao is not just any cocoa powder, but my favourite one. When adding Colacao to my morning milk, it makes it taste really wonderful, with a clearly defined cocoa taste.
The container hasn’t changed much since I was a kid, so it is very easy to identify. It doesn’t taste …

In one package of Lunch Buddies Chocolate Pudding comes four three point five ounce cups of chocolate pudding for eighty-nine cents. It’s the cheapest pudding I’ve found, and it’s sold at ALDI Food Market stores. Pudding mixes are cheaper, but this pudding is already made and packaged, so it’s …

Mama Cozzi’s Pizza Kitchen Bakery Style Cinnamon Sticks with Icing is a dessert that comes shaped like a pizza. For three dollars and fifty-nine cents, a person can purchase this nearly twenty-two ounce dessert that goes in the oven. This is a dessert that’s best suited for a family …

Ingredients: beef and chicken meat, water, cornstarch, sugar, iodized salt, soy protein, spices, prosphates, sodium nitrite, sodium erythorbate, and MSG.
Serving Size: 2oz. (56g/about 2 slices)
Servings per container: about 3
This is one of the new products out in the market today, Ligo Beef Loaf. It costs only …

I love to eat popcorn. Problem is that most popcorn has alot of fat due to the butter. I am currently attempting to watch my weight (today anyway) and I have discovered a wonderful snack that you can eat the whole bag (6 cups) and it is only 100 …

My sister really likes marshmallows I don’t like them that much but i always buy them for here and I end up eating them too so I really can’t complain they are bad because they aren’t.
Few days ago went to Lidl and so this Mallow cocktail marshmallows, they didn’t …

Little Debbie Snacks Zebra Cakes offer a welcomed change of pace from all the chocolate snacks and dessert items in the grocery store today. Now, there is some chocolate to be found on these cakes - they are called Zebra cakes after all - but the amount of chocolate …

Its cold, I’m tired and I just want a warm meal fast. We have all had nights like this. For me there is nothing better then soup at these times. When I do not have homemade soup I reach into the freezer for Tabatchnick barley & mushroom soup.
I got …