If I knew this cost 12$, I would not have bought it. Alas, my store is under renovations and the price tags have mysteriously disappeared on all the most expensive products. This was for a recipe, and so it served its purpose, but it didn't 12$-serve it. Tastes like powdery cheese all right. I think grated cheese isn't my favorite, in general, although for meatballs we don't have much choice do we?
Overall
Cost: 3/10
Taste: 6/10
Do I have canned tomato opinions? Not really, yet I liked these. In the aisle at the store I spent a super long time looking at the many tomtato options, and there was another woman right in front of these so I left to do the rest of my shopping, came back, and she was still there! But no woman can hide me from the tomato I choose. I got the no salt added for health, but they tasted like regular tomatoes -- no weird flavor, and in fact they were the highlight of the dish I made (at least when it was fresh). Really plump, juicy, and pleasant stuff. No complaints!
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10
I don't have a lot of experience with bread crumbs because every other one has pea, soy, or sesame in it (usually all three). And these don't! So I like that. They're easy to use, added the right texture, and have no real flavor (which is what I want most of the time). There's 2c in one box, which isn't really that much it turns out. Decent product, so thanks, progresso.
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10
Alas, not all dunkins are slam dunkins. This wasn't my favorite canned coffee of all time, let's say. You can taste the cinnamon here, but not any other coffee cake muffin bits, including: coffee, cake, or muffin. No buttery creamy crumble, which is the best part of the muffin. There's also a STRONG can flavor in this one. Not worth the squeeze (or cals), dunks.
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 5/10
Whew. This makes quite a lot of pancakes -- it says 17, but I think I got like 14 out of mine. It's easy to make though, you only need water and cooking spray (I used a wee bit of canola oil). The taste is better than I thought, but not my favorite -- it's a sweet, cakey graham flavored pancake, and the choco and marshmallow frosting make it mostly a fudgey flavored pancake, which is tasty (and filling, and a lot of calories) but I think I prefer the butter/syrup/plain pancake vibe. Still, not terrible, and would feed like 5 people at once if you wanted (or me for a few days). Not sure if they give you enough sauces for the amount of pancakes, but we'll see.
Overall
Cost: 4/10
Taste: 6/10
This is pretty decent, maybe it deserves a 6.5. My first sip made me think: wow, it's chocolatey! So it does reflect the creamy, sweet, frosting of a brownie batter donut. At first. After that, you realise it's just a slightly more luxe version of any mocha-flavored canned coffee. The can taste slowly seeps in. By the time you get to the bottom of the class, you really notice the can flavor. Nevertheless, it's one of the better canned coffees I've had, and better than the other Dunkin' flavor of these I tried!
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10
Wait, these are spelled frOOt loops? I'm mandala-effecting myself here, because I thought that's what I thought, but was wrong. But I was...right? Yikes. This really is magic milk. OK, so, I like plain froot loops, but these are weird. The look is bad: they look like they have specks of dirt, bugs, or, charitably, poppy seeds in them. The smell is not promising: they smell like berry or bubblegum medicine. Not the horrible medicine, the tasty medicine, but still - medicine. And finally, the taste is basically froot loops proper but with some strong blueberry-muffin flavor added in. It isn't as bad as the look and smell made me fear, but it isn't an upgrade on the OG by any means. The milk was fine, but it wasn't particularly colored or special. Do better, Willy!
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10
This is pretty solid! The grape is "bobal", which I believe is new to me, and is a fun name. My first reaction was that this is weirdly thick! At first the texture reminded me of a medicine, although it tastes much better. Just a little....chunky? Kind of like fruit juice. The taste is strawberry juice with hints of lemon, apple, apricot. Pretty solid. When cold, the weird texture goes away, but so do a lot of the fruit flavors. Either way, I like it.
Overall
Cost: 5/10 [15$]
Taste: 7/10
I mean, who doesn't love mac and cheese? And the spidey theme is cute. The cheese here is paler than Kraft Dinner, and somehow that makes it taste less cheesy, which is either stupid OR it actually tastes less cheesy (I can't know for sure). It also wants you to put in a lot of milk and the butter is optional. I used butter but mine was still very wet, which I like but probably contributed to the less-cheesy-ness. I also added brocco. It was filling and decent but I do think I prefer a Kraft mac, sorry Annie.
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10
Noooooo I bought these thinking they were just little cups of the tostitos QUESO which I've had before and like. But this is not QUESO! it is some horrible cheeseless oil paste they call DIP. Why didn't I look closer!? Booo. It's unpleasant. No good. I gave the others to my parents; if they report that they love it, I'll edit this post.
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 4/10
I never quite got the hang of cheez-its. They're not as pure as a goldfish, denser maybe, and this flavor has a weird sweet/umami powder. At first I don't love it, but the more I eat the more I want to eat (the power of MSG?). I think I prefer plain cheez its even though I don't love plain cheez its either. There is a little jack flavor, I guess, not sure if there's really "toasty" flavor. I need all the permutations of toasty/non-toasty x cheddar jack/cheddar to know what's really happening here. And that's too many cheez its for my future!
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10
Do I have food poisoning? Covid? Stomach flu? Or is my diet just chips and fruit snacks and my body is in a full scale rebellion? It's not clear. But I did eat these, anyway. Compared to a Mott's fruit snack, these are stickier and sweeter. The taste is also more pineapple-y on the whole. They're more like candy, which I guess tastes good, but it hurts my teeth a bit. Also I'm vommy anyway. I do like Bluey though, so that helps.
Overall
Cost: 6/10
Taste: 6/10
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10
Oh, blog. It's been a rough one. With every good news (the roads are now open as the convict is caught!), comes some bad (lightning struck my house and my fridge is broken and I can't lift it and my parents are on vacay and I have no friends and all my food went bad and I had just started hoarding food again and it was a big mistake!!!!!). So this wine had to be drunk immediately. It's pretty good. Sweet, but not too fruity. It reminded me a little of a boxed wine, which I don't hate at all.
The cobb salad that I bought all the ingredients for was a little bit imperfect, since I didn't want to risk the already-warmed chicken, cheese, or eggs. But even with that, the dressing didn't wow me, especially for the amount of work! So I'm OK with not getting the real deal. Obviously corn, baco, avo, tomato are tasty, but we already knew this. Sorry, wine -- you deserved better, but it's just not in the cards right now.
Overall
Cost: 5/10 [15$]
Taste: 7/10
Well, this looks a lot like ranch and smells a lot like ranch. It tastes like pickle. Actually, it tastes like glorpy mayo pickles on a fast food burger. I never really liked this, but I do think it's better than ranch without pickle flavor. If you love burger pickles or the idea of "cream of pickle", you'll love this. I imagine it'd be decent on a sandwich, like a chicken sandwich or something. Big dill energy. I don't hate it -- better than pickles, better than ranch, but not better than, say, mustard or ketchup or thousand island.
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10 (1 point for novelty)
G'day, wine! This was tart, spicy, thin. It had a cherry/oak vibe. I thought it was pretty solid. I paired it with the extremely-too-much-meat Slow Cooker Barbecued Pulled Pork, which was OK but not as good as BBQ sauce from a bottle may have been (alas). Also, it was very fatty and made me sweaty. But such is meat.
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10
I love a sweet potato fry, especially when compared to a normie potato fry. These are cute and well-separated, so it's easy to have just one serving. However, 10 minutes is not enough cook time! They aren't super flavorful, but I like them just fine. A few more minutes on the clock and I expect good things.
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10
This is cute and fun, and it was on sale which is the most cute and fun. Basically, it tastes like cauliflower, although the purple ones will turn your food purple, which is neat but also a bit gross looking. I thought the green ones might taste like brocco, but no, they're all just cauliflowers. The orange one is the prettiest. Thus ends my opinions on this product.
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10
The existence of this product is kinda fucked up, but I guess I did like the Dunkin' flavored goldfish. Anyway, unlike the cool ranch dorito dip, these guys actually taste like ranch. Luckily they don't also taste like dorito. Just salty ranch powder, kind of like the ranch chicken in a biscuit crackers. I don't love ranch, as discussed previously, but I do like that there is a lot of strong seasoning which covers the Lays flavor completely (which I more than don't love....I dislike). No corn chip flavor either, just oily, butter, salt, chip. Cute speckles on there too: black, red, AND green? It's like a christmas cookie! Better in dip though.
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10
This is pleasant enough. They're much puffier than expected! They remind me a bit of a big Amazing Fruit gummy bear, which is nostalgic. The different flavors are actually distinguishable, which is cool. All three are paired with cherry, perhaps to enhance the "lips and tongue" imagery, which is the biggest downside for me (the imagery, not the flavor). Cherry is a neutral flavor so that part works. The peach is good and peachy, the lemonade basically tastes like lemon candy, which I like best, and grape is very grapey like a grape Popsicle, which I also like because it's just a little strip of it. So, pretty decent.
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10
Aw, these are so thematic! The shapes are really cute, and you can truly smell and taste the honey in these! Honey is kind of weird in fruit snacks, though. But the firmness is just what I like, these aren't chewy but instead nice and firm/pliable. The taste is OK, even if the honey notes aren't my favorite. The three different flavors are different, but not different enough for me to rank them, really. They don't say it on the package but there are also bunny shapes in here, too! The four Bs!
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10
Doritos.....dip? I mean, yikes was my first reaction. And a cool ranch dip? Sounds horrible. But I'm into trying all the new (nut free) foods I can, so I gave it a shot. I was very pleasantly surprised! It doesn't taste like doritos or ranch at all, which is a massive relief. Instead it tastes like a mix of tostitos queso dip (which is good) and helluva good sour cream type dip (which is also good). It's spicy, cheesy, and not too ranchy. I put it on a bagel because I didn't have any chips, and it was solid, but I think tortilla chips or plain chips or pretzels would all go well. Solid stuff!
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10
A friend brought this over, so it was only polite for me to drink it. I like the cool bottle with the "I'm ready when blue" snowflake. It was very very tropical fruit-y (typical SB!), with flavors of sweet papaya and pineapple. Tasty. Only got a little bit acidic around day 3.
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10
A snack from my childhood that still exists? Pretty rare! But, these don't taste quite like I remember. They're still an OK snack - not particularly sweet, just a vaguely honey tasting wafer. Nothing special. I think the other flavors are probably stronger/better! But, they are cute.
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10
