In my experience, you can have a healthy, fibre-filled granola bar that bears some similarity to cardboard, or you can have an unhealthy, fat-filled sugar-and-rolled-oats bar masquerading as health food, luring parents to include them in lunch boxes under false […]
Tag: chocolate
Review: Fry’s Orange Cream chocolate bar
In case you hadn’t noticed, I kind of like the combination of orange and chocolate flavours. I also love British candy, a vice that has been cheerfully fed by a new U.K. specialty import shop in Edmonton, just south of […]
Review: Nestle Milo
Nestle Milo will forever be etched in my mind as a hot, comforting beverage that helped lift my spirits at a roadside rest stop in rural Ghana. After a very long, very bumpy start-stop bus trip on the road from […]
Food Fight: Cooked vs. Instant Chocolate Pudding
When I was a kid, cooked chocolate pudding was the norm. The process of cooking then cooling was all we knew, with dibs being called over who got – or avoided – the pudding skin that formed on the top […]
Review: Kerstin’s Lemon Dream Chocophilia bar
White chocolate is a polarizing foodstuff. Some call it a pretender to the chocolate name, something quite unlike either milk or dark chocolate and thus undeserving of being lumped in with “real” chocolate. Others, me included, see it as a […]
Review: McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes
Unless you’ve spent the past month in solitary confinement in a North Korean prison, watching the same two pirated I Love Lucy DVDs over and over again on a black and white T.V. you paid for with a kidney, you’re […]
Review: Savi Seed
One bite of Savi Seed and you’ll appreciate Mary Poppins’ view that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Though in this case, more than a spoonful is needed to distract from the awful taste of this latest […]
Review: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites
When was the last time you plopped a spoonful of uncooked muffin batter into your mouth, or eagerly chowed down on a chunk of raw bread dough before putting a loaf in the oven? But cookie dough? Who hasn’t tasted […]
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