We got these delicious cookies as a Diwali present from our landlord. We were thankful for the sweets they have given us and so I was able to write a review about K Rogers Danish Style Butter Cookies.
Most of canned cookies here are imports from other country so the …

If you are a home maker like me, you would also like the idea of preparing food fast and easy and for me the soup is the most affordable and yet tasty and delicious thing I can offer whatever time of the day as my hubby don’t mind it …

My family has recently started making water consumption a priority. Since we have heard of the health benefits and are on a health program, we are attempting to make good health habits. We have been buying bottled water for the convenience and for taking with us when …

For the past few months, I have been trying to lose weight. I exercise a lot, but I have also been depriving myself of foods that make me happy (read: chocolates). Fed up with depriving myself, but fearful of wasting all my hard-earned efforts, I marched to the grocery …

I can most definitely say that I am not and have never been a fan of my country’s famous bulla cakes. However, these days I still eat them regardless of the fact if there is nothing else in the house that I can consume as a snack when I’m …

Some people are really picky with their food and the slightest of things can put them off, so telling people that I enjoy Heinz Oxtail soup often makes people cringe. From the outside it looks quite intriguing, almost like a thick gravy sauce with small bits of meat inside. …

Twix, a lovely piece of chocolate and it’s almost something that is there for Kitkat lovers who want something a little more satisfying. Two think fingers of nougar, biscuit and caramel covered in a lovely chocolate coating. It’s quite a tough centre as well which I think makes …

I love sardines both those produced locally and abroad. Just recently I bought some Spanish sardines in Australia. The product in placed inside an easy-to-open oblong tin can. It is easy to open so this is handy and very quick to prepare. I find it ideal when you travel …

The Hunt’s Snack Pack Pudding Cups Vanilla come in a four pack for one dollar and ninety-nine cents. Although that works out to be about fifty cents per pudding cup, I don’t think these pudding cups are worth even that. Although I’m quite fond of vanilla, I don’t think …

Lean Pockets Whole Grain Chicken, Broccoli & Reduced Fat Cheddar is a frozen food product that retails for one dollar and ninety-nine cents. Two come in a package. This Lean Pockets product was enjoyable to an extent, but I feel it could have been much tastier. First of all, …

Orville Redenbacher’s Poppycock Cashew Lovers Gourmet Popcorn comes in an eight point five ounce bag for three dollars and fifty cents. This snack item consists of popcorn and cashews. Oddly enough, although the cashews are mentioned specifically in the name of the product, the popcorn seems be far more …

Mama Cozzi’s Pizza Kitchen Chicken Rising Crust Spinach & Garlic Pizza is a twelve-inch frozen pizza that sells for three dollars and ninety-nine cents at ALDI Food Market stores. I haven’t come across this brand of pizza anywhere else, but other stores that specialize in off-brands nay carry the …

Whenever my family goes to the province they always bring back lots of snacks like mango tarts, sans rivals, egg tarts, and caramel tarts. My favorite provincial caramel tarts are the ones from Virgie’s from Bacolod City and they are very tasty and very affordable. They come in a …

The other day I had a piece of chocolate that I had not had for years. It really took me back and I enjoyed every bite. The classic bars is awesome. I am sure there are others out there that love them to, but this is for those who …

Maltesers, lovely balls of chocolate and almost perfectly made for women and children. Very similar to Kitkat in away, only this time you do not have sticks of biscuit covered in chocolate, you have have a lighter biscuit that is in the shape of a ball. As much as …

The Kitkat is such a simple chocolate bar, so when it launched the Kitkat chunky, it was a another great product extension. Always seen as the light chocolate bar, but perhaps some people saw it as not filling enough or even perhaps not manly enough as it was often …

The Kitkat is such a simple chocolate bar, but over the years it has really found it’s place in the market. What is odd though, is that as boring as this chocolate bar may seem, when you are eating a Kitkat you wonder why you have not had one …

When I was a child there was a chocolate bar that really won me over. As a fan of Snickers and Mars, this was almost like a combination of the two, but better. It was as though someone had been told that these two chocolate bars were the best …

The good old Snickers bar. Years ago it used to be called a Marathon bar and was associated with people running long distances that wanted that boost to their energy level. However the marketing men in America had an idea and the name was changed to the dismay of …

The GK Snacks Classic Peanut Butter Trail Mix costs four dollars and ninety-nine cents per bottle container. Each bottle container holds seventeen ounces. I generally can find this trail mix at Walgreens, where it’s put on sale every now and then and I end up saving about seventy-five cents. …

I always supplement my diet with a glass of juice so that I can have better appetite in eating. Pineapple Orange is one of the best flavors. When I go to the restaurant to eat, I choose this flavor when there is no available “Four Seasons”. Del Monte has …

I was somewhat hesitant to purchase the Safeway Select Garlic Chicken Ultra Thin Crust Pizza. Although I most certainly like garlic and while I also enjoy chicken, I wasn’t very sure if I would like the two together on this pizza. It turned out though that I didn’t have …

Healthy Choice Bacon & Smokey Cheddar Chicken is a frozen meal that comes in an eight point six ounce box. One frozen meal retails for two dollars and nineteen cents. That’s a very fair price considering the amount of food and quality of food that comes in this frozen …

MorningStar Southwestern Style Veggie Cakes can be purchased for two dollars a pack. For those that are looking to eat healthier, MorningStar is a good brand to look into as the brand offers some nutritious and tasty breakfast, lunch and dinner items. The MorningStar brand allows individuals to enjoy …

Smart Ones Tuna Noodle Gratin comes in a nine point five ounce package. One package costs two dollars and thirty cents. This frozen dinner combines albacore tune with linguine and coats both with a creamy sauce and sprinkles it all with some breadcrumbs. It’s a combination that could have …

The Millville Pumpkin Pancake & Waffle Mix can be found at ALDI Food Market stores. One sixteen ounce box costs two dollars and seventy-nine cents a box. The pancake and waffle mix box is half the size of the pancake and waffle mixes sold in other grocery stores such …

GK Snacks Classic Cranberry Trail Mix is something that I’ve only found in drugstores, like CVS and Walgreens, and for four dollars and ninety-nine cents, I can get a seventeen-ounce bottle. Contained in this trail mix bottle is a wide variety of sweet and salty, and above all else, …

Ronzoni Bistro Rotini with Tomato and Basil comes in an eight ounce package and retails for one dollar. It can be found in most grocery stores, although I wish that I hadn’t found it considering how unpleasant the meal was to the taste. I had this pasta with a …

The picture on the box that the Tai Pei Chicken Fried Rice came in sure looked mighty appetizing. Large pieces of chicken, assorted vegetables and white rice all decorated the box. One fourteen point two ounce box cost three dollars, a price that I considered to be okay as …

One package of Pillsbury Savorings Mini Crescent Dogs contains ten relatively small sausages wrapped in a pastry for four dollars and twenty cents. The only reason I decided to give these crescent dogs a try is because they were on sale plus I had a coupon, so I ended …

Friendly Farms Greek Blueberry Low Fat Yogurt can be purchased from ALDI Food Market stores for seventy-nine cents per six ounce container. Now ALDI is known for low prices and it’s certainly possible to purchase cheaper yogurt in the larger grocery stores like Walmart and Target, but this is …

The L’oven Fresh Caramel Shortbread and Almond Sugar Cookies come in a circular platter at ALDI Food Market stores for three dollars and ninety-nine cents. The platter consists of two “sections”. There’s the outer, circular ring which is where the caramel shortbread cookies sit and then there’s an inner …

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. …

Carlo’s Pizza is one of places we like to frequent when we go to Tagaytay. Although there are various branches of this restaurant in Metro Manila, we find that the food and the dining experience in Tagaytay is much better.
This is a really great place to …

It was my first time yesterday to see Starbucks offering a Cookie Dough Cheesecake as on of its dessert selections. As I love cheesecake and cookie dough, it seemed only natural for me to order a slice which I shared with my friend. A slice cost Php105 …

Okay, so Missy Bon Bon Breadshop has been in town for nearly three months now and it is a big shame for me for not even coming at their opening ceremony. I admit, I got lazy; but yesterday, I finally had a taste of their famous gelato, bread …

We were in the supermarket when my daughter grabbed this Lucky Me Mac and Cheese and requested to buy it for her. Seeing it from a tv commercial made her want it so much. And so I bought a couple of packs at 15 pesos (if …

I had never bought Cadbury’s Original Drinking Chocolate before recently because I always used other types of hot chocolate or cocoa powders to make my drink in the morning or night. I was prompted to purchase a canister of Cadbury’s Original Drinking Chocolate after looking at a recipe for …

I don’t often buy pre-mixed ready to eat puddings, but I made the exception with Kozy Shack. I was in my local grocery store and came across a cardboard container with four ready mixed, chocolate puddings. The cardboard backing said that these Kozy Shack chocolate puddings only have 60 …

Greenwich is one of the leading local pizza parlors in the Philippines. It started before as a small local pizza chain patterned after the big giants Pizza Hut, Shakey’s and Yellow Cab. This is a subsidiary of the successful Filipino fast food chain Jollibee.
Like its parent company, this has …

When we were young we were taught that ” an apple a day, keeps the doctor away”. Since I can remember that, I have given importance to apple as part of our daily diet. Having extensively read the pages of Men’s Health magazine, I learned that apple can help …

Season’s Choice Rosemary, Garlic and Olive Oil Potato Wedges go great with steak, pot roast, roast beef, hamburger and other kinds of red meat. They sell for one dollar and forty-nine cents at ALDI Food Market stores and come in a sixteen ounce bag. There are a total of …

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 …

Trader Giotto’s Fusilli Pasta with Tomato Basil Sauce comes in a five point one ounce package for two dollars and fifty cents. This is not something that can just be removed from the package and tossed in the microwave. Before it can be heated, water as well as a …

Smiley’s Cheeseburger Sandwich can be found in the refrigerated cases at grocery stores for one dollar and twenty-five cents. In the small box comes one cheeseburger. This is not a mini-hamburger and it’s similar in size to the quarter pound hamburgers sold at fast food restaurants. Served with fries, …

Each Eggo Bake Shop Chocolate Chip Mini Muffin Tops box contains a total of four sets of connected mini muffin tops. Four mini muffin tops are connected to one another, so a total of sixteen mini muffin tops come in a box. One box sells for two dollars and …

The Season’s Choice Parmesan, Garlic and Olive Oil Potato Wedges come in a sixteen ounce bag and retail for one dollar and forty-nine cents at ALDI Food Market stores. These potato wedges along with the Season’s Choice Rosemary, Garlic and Olive Oil Potato Wedges are quite enjoyable to have …

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 …

Eight croissants come in the Trader Joe’s Mini Croissants package and the package retails for four dollars. Four dollars wasn’t a price I was willing to pay for these croissants, so I waited for them to be on sale before I gave them a try. In turned out though …

I normally do not like canned peaches very much but that was before I tried this one. The Del Monte Premium Hand-Sorted Orchard Select Sliced Cling Peaches in Extra Light Syrup is definitely in another league from the normal Del Monte or other brand canned peaches that I’m …