If you ever run across this brand of pancake mix in your local discount grocery, don’t be afraid to buy it. It’s great!! The pancakes come out light and fluffy and there are just so many ways you can change them up to keep from having the …

Every time I am making an Indian dishes I always abhor that moment when I have to cut into small pieces the garlic because I simply cannot stand the awful smell of the garlic. I decided to try buying a garlic and ginger paste in one of the …

Cheese is without a doubt in my top five favorites when it comes to food and snacks. I would go so far as to say it’s even in my top two. I’m not really sure what would beat it out but I love cheese. I enjoy …

Fresh artichokes are often expensive and what’s worse, it is a seasonal vegetable which you can only find when it is in “season”. When my husband asks for artichokes, I buy the Goldcrest Artichoke Bottoms which are in cans. The can is very practical to have as you don’t …

I bought a few cans of these from Pick N Save this past December and I must say they are much better than I expected. They were on sale, so that was one of the reasons I picked them up. Perhaps I should have bought a few more of …

I have always been fascinated with the taste of Pie Crusts very much. And when we are talking about Pie Crusts, it can range from pizza right up to the different types of pies.
I suppose I will never have any types of specific favorites when it comes …

Healthy Choice Fresh Mixers Sweet and Sour Chicken is a meal that consists of all white meat chicken, white rice and a rich and thick sweet and sour sauce. The food and sauce comes in seven point ninety-five ounce package for around two dollars and seventy-five cents. The size …

When we go to meet our friends and family we gift something to all of them. Lets don’t talk about adult gifts but when it comes to child first thing comes in mind to gift them is chocolates. From child to adults everyone loves chocolates. Well from childhood I …

I’d like to think that I am making an effort to follow a healthier diet but sometimes I crave chocolate like you wouldn’t believe. I fear that one day I will be caught red-handed and covered in chocolate like the tubby kid in Willy Wonka’s factory.
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Puff pastry is a light, flaky pastry made from dough that has been folded and rolled out several times with layers of butter/solid fat in between. This can be used to make croissants, Danish, turnovers, pies, tarts, etc. This is quite a versatile product that you can …

I hate ginger. It’s hot, it’s spicy, and I think it has a horrible taste. Despite how everyone around me tells me how nutritional ginger is, I still can’t bring myself to eat it. I will scoop out all ginger in my dish. I do my best …

I have had a major craze lately on proper desserts and puddings every night instead of biscuits and snacks and I really am going to get fat if I do not watch it. My latest indulgence is this packet of 2 cheesecake slices from Tesco, the New York …

The first time I tried a Two-Bite product, it was for brownies. I liked the product quite a lot originally, but I later became a tad disenchanted. They proved to dry out quicker than I’d like. Even so, I thought I’d try the Two-Bite Homestyle Chocolate …

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 …

What Made Me Try the Product:
I am a lover of cheese snacks — cheese bread, cheese cake, cheese spread and junk foods in cheese flavor. What I particularly love when it comes to cheese flavored junk foods is Planters Cheese Balls. I was craving for it one …

While I still believe that nothing beats the gravy of Jollibee, I found the next best thing. And I found it in McCormick Beef and Herb Gravy. I was shopping for meat at the meat shop when I saw a pack of this gravy mix. I was curious as …

I’m not a huge hamburger helper meal lover. I’ve tried the no name hamburger helper meals and decided in the future I would pass. This one the Family Size Lasanga Hamburger Helper by Betty Crocker was actually pretty good.
It comes in a 335g box that includes egg noodles and …

Traverse Bay Fruit Co. Dried Cherries come in a four pound box for twenty five dollars. That’s a lot of money for just four pounds of cherries! If however one can get past the sky high price, he or she is very likely to find these dried cherries to …

One of my favorite ‘frozen’ food brands is Marie Callender. The brand just always seems to bring a quality product to my microwave or oven that is tasty and fresh. Such is the case with Marie Callender’s Fettuccini Alfredo.
I love pasta, but spaghetti is my favorite, and …

Betty Crocker - Teriyaki Rice is a very potent side dish that will really strike at your taste buds hard! At least, that is what happened when I tasted it for the first time and every other time as well! The combination of soy sauce, sugar, sake, ginger and …

This is my favorite cookie, ever. It may be a simple kind of cookie, but it sure is a real tasty one! The cookie is very easy to bite into and break off, although I wouldn’t classify it as a soft cookie. The underside of the cookie is coated …

I am a big fan of yogurt and have been ever since I was little. I used to love the different flavors of the Yoplait brand yogurt. They had a huge variety of flavors to choose from. The only drawback was the cost of those little individual containers, so …

I’ve tried various Hormel Compleats meals over the past year and like some better than others. This is the first one I’ve tried, though, that is from their healthier line of foods. These are in green to stand out and have the ‘created for a healthy lifestyle’ …

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 …

Halloween is almost here again. Well, to be honest, it’s more than a month away at the time of this article’s writing, but already I’m craving my favorite Halloween treats. Usually I’m perfectly satisfied with generic and store brands, but Great Value candy corn was a disappointment.
In …

I was on the go the day I grabbed this particular cereal bar. I wanted to put something on my stomach to break my fast, before starting my day. I’m usually not a fan to the whole soft bar scene, but I decided to give it shot. The only …

Sugar Crisp was, and probably still is, my favorite cereal as a child. While my sister liked Froot Loops, and they are fantastic, Sugar Crisp just won me over. My sister was never quite as sold on Sugar Crisp, although, I do believe that she is coming around to …

I have been a wine drinker for about a decade now. Over the years I have become accustomed to seeing great wines that happen to have kooky names. This seems to be especially true of wines produced where I live on the west coast. I take it as a …

Sometimes I get bored with the regular chips and pretzels that lack variety and want a snack that is on fire to make my taste buds water. By eating a variety of snacks mixed together I can get satisfied pretty quickly and will not have to eat …

I recently had the pleasure of trying a pint of Haagen Daz’s Vanilla Caramel Brownie Ice Cream and I savoured every bite! This ice cream consists of exactly what the title entails. It is smooth, creamy, rich and beautifully flavoured vanilla ice cream with swirls of caramel and chunks …

I took this yogurt because I actually think it was stracciatella one, you know those white vanilla ones with chocolate chips, just when I got home I realised it was made of coconuts and not stracciatella, it was a small disappointment I must admit but as I like coconuts, …

A few years ago, Taco Bell developed a couple of condiments that are simply fantastic. I’m talking, of course, about the company’s branded Mild Sauce and Hot Sauce. A few years later, Fire Sauce came along and it has proven popular enough to stick around. Those three sauces are …

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 was disappointed with the Little Debbie Dessert Cakes - Spice variety because the spice cake did not have a whole lot of flavor for me to enjoy, really. I have had deliciously rich and majorly moist spice cake in the past, and these dessert cakes simply do not …

Yoplait Trix yogurt aren’t just for kids. Now I’m not a big fan of yogurts and I’ve tried a lot of them. Some are chalky some are very sweet. Others are runny, grainy, too tangy, too bland, too thick. The thick ones you gotta eat slow or you’re liable …

I’ve been using Silk soymilk for about 5 years now. I LOVE it! I can’t say enough good things about it to be honest. I originally started drinking it because I am allergic to dairy. It took a couple days to get used to the flavor being different but …

There are some things in this world that are dangerously divise. Politics, war, religion. These things have been known to turn brothers against each other in battle. Ranked among these hair-raising topics is Marmite. It is viewed with adoration, exaltation, a veritable black gold. …

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 …

Smuckers Uncrustables are a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich with no crust. I get these in the frozen department of the grocery store. These made great snacks for the kids when on a long trip in the car, or for anytime. My older daughter likes to take her lunch …

Hershey’s 100 calorie pretzel bars were something that I bought the last time I went on a shopping trip to Costco. These bars are unique and flavorful, and the best thing about them is the fact that they are only 100 calories. The bars are small, but …

Post honey bunches of oats cereal is a great cereal that is reasonably priced. I like the flavor of this cereal very much. It has a slightly sweet taste to it but is not overwhelming with the sugar. The Post honey bunches of oats cereal stays …

Now I am sure you guys are thinking, what is a Nut Krak’r? Simply put, it is peanut brittle, Trinidad style. There are quite a few brands of Nut Crackers available here in my country and Diana Nut Krak’r is one of those.
It is so funny to actually look …

My sister-in-law and I were trying a couple of brownie mixes, and we had already tried Betty Crocker’s Hershey’s Supreme Brownie Mix with Walnuts, and they were the most delicious fudge walnut brownies I have tasted in my life and get this —“they’re only a mix and that delicious …

So nothing special this time. Just the most popular peanut butter in the US. Maybe the second most popular, oк the third, I haven’t really checked the ratings. But for me, this is the best creamy peanut butter from the store so far. A few weeks ago I got on …

I maybe health conscious, but I am not that hardcore when it comes to health. I am also human, I also crave for something salty and I also crave for sweets.
Moving on with my review.. I am going review this new product from Oishi called “Gourmet Picks Potato …

I like to chew gum on ocassion, in order to keep my jaws busy. I have never stuck to one brand or type of gum and will try anyone of them at least once. The last time I went to buy some gum I was looking for the …

Smucker’s Goober Grape comes in an eighteen ounce jar that costs five dollars. This product combines grape jelly with peanut butter, eliminating the need to purchase a jar of peanut butter and a jar of jelly in order to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It would eliminate …

A product of the Betty Crocker Company, Hamburger Helper is a line of skillet dinner mixes that come in a variety of flavors. This was the first time I tried the Four Cheese Lasagna flavor though I have tried a number of other …

I must admit I never was a smoothie lover. I do like fruit and juices, but not really the texture of smoothies. However, I was convinced to try some Naked smoothie flavors by my teenage daughter and after a few purchases I have decided that Mighty …

My grandmother gave us a jar of Kirkland’s Macadamia Clusters which my cousins and I shared yesterday. Although it is really quite a sinful chocolate treat, all of us ate several pieces each throughout the day. I’ve tried Kirkland’s Almond Clusters and other products before, but this …