Cocoa Puffs Loaded Cereal

The back of this box is so weird -- it's like "living cereal rich" and "tell us how you live cereal rich" and what does it mean, living cereal rich!?!? I guess if anyone's doing it, I am, because I have a hell of a lot of cereals. Cereal rich and milk poor. Anyway, the cereal itself is also weird. The texture and stuff is similar to the cinnamon toast crunch one, but with no cinnamon flavor. I guess there's a vague chocolatey flavor, but even that is subtle? And then the filling is vanilla. They're kinda like those orange/pink/choco wafer rectangles, except less tasty and a worse texture. The first time I ate them they also made me nervous and cut up my mouth. So, not my favorite cereal.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 5/10

Kellogg's Frosted Flakes - Chocolate Milkshake

Huh, OK. So these taste a bit like the chocolate(?) necco wafer -- a weirdly minty malt flavor. Similarly to the strawberry milkshake flavor, the milk is impressively milkshake-flavored, but the cereal itself is kind of weird and less good than the plain frosted flakes. So IDK if it's worth it to have these just for the milk.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

That's it - Apple + Cherries

Aha! I actually got a bit of the cherry flavor underneath the overpowering apple! It's pretty good -- a little dry yet sticky at the same time, but the simplicity of the ingredients really perks me up.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Smartfood Simply Sea Salt

Ah, now here's a safe sort of food. Smartfood is made by FritoLay/PepsiCo, and they're good about allergies (they have one Kettle Corn variety that may contain nuts, but they say so). But wait!! I just saw a Cheetos that has pea protein in it. So that's terrible and depressing. However, this has like 3 simple ingredients, which I think is kind of the point. So that's good. What's not good is that it makes me want a cheese or kettle popcorn instead of a plain popcorn, which is the most boring kind of popcorn!! It's still pleasant, nice texture and less depressing to have eaten than microwave popcorn, so I do like it. Tastes like popped corn with light salt vibes. And so it is.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Marie Callender's Sides - Cheddar Broccoli Casserole

This looks nice and simple -- brocco, cheese sauce, bacon bits. But nothing's ever simple when you have allergies (and/or when you're me, take your pick)!! I had a little bit of a psychosomatic (assuming the label is legit) reaction to this because bacon bits are so often Legume Protein, even though these are just meat. (I think it's legit because I got a pretty sizeable gross chewy meat piece in there too). It's not helped by the fact that this is very "soup"y. 

Now taste wise, I like soup! I like brocco! I like weird goopy cheese-sauce. I'm neutral on baco! So it was good and only 370calos, and it has a veg in, so those are good things. It also gave me a little bit of a stomacache though. But then again I did eat all 2.5 servings myself. Which, 2.5 servings is an annoying number. Just make it 3, guys! Anyway. I made it in the oven, which took 50+ minutes, and it was fine but I suspect the microwave would be very similar. I just wanted to give it the best chance to shine. And it was: fine.

Overall
Cost: 4/10 (7$!)
Taste: 6/10

Simply Watermelon

Watermelon juice!? Now I've seen everything. This was very sweet, like a watermelon candy, but as a juice. Still it was tasty and dare I say complex. I liked it! It would be a great mixer.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10

DeLallo Mini Potato Gnocchi

I know this isn't really pasta, but it's in the pasta aisle, OK!? So the backstory here is that I saw an ad online for a free calendar from DeLallo, and I like calendars and free things, so I signed up, and they actually sent it. So it's hanging in my office and each month has a food pic and a recipe. So this month was the Best Chicken Gnocchi Soup recipe. So, I made the recipe, which of course calls for their brand of gnocchi, which I bought as you can see. It cooked very quickly and seemed fun. However, the taste is not that great for me. But the texture is good, and in the recipe (a creamy chicken soup vibe) it is good. So I enjoyed it, but outside of the recipe context, IDK. Here is the soup for your viewing pleasure by the by. 

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10
Soup recipe: 7/10