tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66722480692183930892024-03-19T08:48:21.346+00:00FOODSTUFF FINDSFoodstuff Finds: A blog which covers snack reviews, biscuits, chocolate, crisps, beer, new products, UK groceries, import goodies and foodstuff news!
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FoodstuffFindscinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.comBlogger5821125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-1828836716831717342024-03-18T20:03:00.005+00:002024-03-18T20:03:34.212+00:00Sparkle The Melting Unicorn Hot Chocolate (Aldi) By @Cinabar
I have bought another novelty hot chocolate, and it doesn’t get more novelty than this; Sparkle The Melting Unicorn Hot Chocolate. I found this in Aldi as part of their Dairyfine range, and it did make me smile. Here we have a white chocolate unicorn, filled with marshmallows and milk chocolate drops. The idea is that you drop in hot milk and have an amazing hot chocolate, which is really quitecinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-23681119212929054362024-03-17T17:58:00.002+00:002024-03-17T17:58:32.032+00:00Chocolarder 72% Ashaninka Peruvian Rainforest chocolate [@Nli10] We first found this brand because of the insanely dark 100% variety we found on holiday once, but now it's showing up in a few more places it's worth dipping back in - especially as this version is likely to be a bigger hit with the masses.This is purest chocolate, treating the raw product like an art form or an expensive wine. At nearly £5 for a 70g bar you'll instantly know if this NLi10http://www.blogger.com/profile/09384451945964690542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-7191427414944053352024-03-16T17:45:00.002+00:002024-03-16T17:45:00.127+00:00Play Brew Co Minty Breath Beer (The Wee Beer Shop @WeeBeerShop) By @SpectreUKIt's Saint Patrick's Day on Sunday, and I fancy a stout to celebrate. I do have a bottle of Guinness in my beer fridge, but I guess most beer and stout lovers know what that tastes like. So, Cinabar found me this Minty Breath, Dark Chocolate and After Dinner Mint Stout to write about instead. I do love After Eight Mints, and generally receive a box in with my other Christmas presents.
At 5.7% cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-85423484428863490542024-03-15T20:06:00.004+00:002024-03-15T20:06:24.325+00:00Mini Cheddars Cheesy Specials: Cheddar and Roasted Tomato (Tesco) By @Cinabar
Cheese and tomato is a classic combination and a favourite filling for when I do toasted sandwiches. I admit I’ve never actually roasted a tomato, but I’m sure the heat in the sandwich maker part counts as something similar. Today I’m trying the new Mini Cheddars Cheesy Specials: Cheddar and Roasted Tomato, which sounds like something that was just waiting to happen for a new product.
Inside cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-63361807993741389522024-03-14T17:55:00.001+00:002024-03-14T17:55:00.129+00:00Tyrell's black garlic & sour cream crisps from Waitrose [@NLi10] My partner brought home this big sharing bag of Tyrell's black garlic & sour cream crisps from Waitrose for alongside lunchShe's already had a decent amount before I got to the bag so this isn't a full portionAs you'd expect it's the good quality Tyrrells crisp with the strong flavours and ingredients that are the thing that you are supposed to be tasting.Thing is - I just wasn't NLi10http://www.blogger.com/profile/09384451945964690542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-29702267583219518092024-03-13T17:55:00.011+00:002024-03-13T17:55:00.261+00:00Yorkie Orange Duo (Texaco) By @SpectreUKI haven't seen one of these before, and I haven't had a regular milk chocolate Yorkie for quite sometime. On the side of this Yorkie Orange Duo it states, "one for now, one for later." That statement amused be greatly. I just know I'm going to eat one after another. I'm way too greedy to just have one at a time.
On opening the wrapper there was a strong smell of orange from the regular looking cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-56198177321090445322024-03-12T20:45:00.004+00:002024-03-12T20:45:38.522+00:00Strawberries and Clotted Cream Hot Cross Buns (Tesco) By @Cinabar
Oh my word, here we have pink Hot Cross Buns. How fun do these look? I thought that the pink was just the cross on top, but when I split the bun to toast it, the inside was pink too. I haven’t tried the Strawberries and Clotted Cream Hot Cross Buns yet, but I can assure you, I’m loving the novelty already.
So these new fruity-flavoured hot cross buns are part of Tesco’s Finest range and cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-89949520109364703712024-03-11T20:09:00.004+00:002024-03-11T20:09:45.977+00:00Aero Choco-Hazelnut Flavour Chocolate (Morrisons) By @Cinabar
I’m not sure how I feel about fake hazelnut. It seems to be the in thing at the moment, with brands choosing it over the actual nut. I guess it has advantages in that I suspect it is cheaper, and I guess it is easier to have a factory without allergens. Still, I like actual hazelnuts, and that feels more natural for those of us that can tolerate them.
Anyway, chocolate and nut (flavour) cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-91213395921024143282024-03-10T10:30:00.000+00:002024-03-10T10:46:21.149+00:00Tony's Chocolonely egg-stra special chocolate eggs - Oxfam [@NLi10] Happy Mothers Day to those that celebrate - and what better way to celebrate than with Easter Eggs!Tony's started off in Oxfam and seem to have spread to loads of other places now too. It's nice that they still seem to get all these bonus editions of things like this mixed bag of eggs. Often in the charity shops its just flat bars of chocolate.Look at all those ingredients! And NLi10http://www.blogger.com/profile/09384451945964690542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-15402818685021603762024-03-09T17:35:00.001+00:002024-03-09T17:35:00.153+00:00Summer Session Ale (Sainsbury’s) By @SpectreUKIf you're craving sunshine after a dreary winter, this Summer Session Ale might be for you. Part of the Sainsbury's Taste the Difference range, this golden ale had natural peach flavouring added in the brewing.
At 4.2% in volume this is a traditional session ale with a fruity twist. Not so good for macho heavy machinery workers of the past, probably good for people who want a lightly refreshingcinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-57829788512133435392024-03-08T20:05:00.005+00:002024-03-08T20:05:36.101+00:00Haagen-Dazs Bites Chocolate (Ocado) By @Cinabar
I’m not sure what these Haagen-Dazs Bites Chocolate Edition treats are. I mean, I know what they are made from, but how do you serve them? When do you eat them? They are too small to be a dessert, and they don’t have a stick to make them easy to eat like an ice cream. There is no wrapper to eat them like a choc-ice. They are in a box like a chocolate selection box, but you can’t leave them out cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-34652154808434623222024-03-07T17:55:00.001+00:002024-03-07T17:55:00.130+00:00Reese's Peanut Butter Creme egg but a chick [@Nli10] It's almost Easter - so the great selection of Easter products are in the shop - as is the trashy cash ins!This is the team at Reeses's seasonal version of 'the blob' the chocolate covered peanut slop that they release for every occasion possibleIt aslo has the odd theming of a chick that is shaped like an egg, which presumably contains a chick too?!As usual the ingredients are technically NLi10http://www.blogger.com/profile/09384451945964690542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-64524930480509812862024-03-06T17:55:00.001+00:002024-03-06T17:55:00.143+00:00Marmite Crisps (Morrisons) By @SpectreUKMarmite isn't for everyone. People either love it or hate it. There is rarely a middle ground, just one or the other. However, Marmite snack food can have surprising results. I liked Marmite crisps when Walkers made them. Now for whatever reason the Irish company, Tayto, have started making Marmite crisps instead. I don't know why, perhaps Walkers went off them.
On the bag it states; "Warning: cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-26921746516420137492024-03-05T20:15:00.005+00:002024-03-05T20:15:55.829+00:00Aero Melts Neapolitan Ice Cream (Asda) By @Cinabar
So there is a bit of a theme at the moment, with ice cream flavours becoming popular in confectionery. Aero have decided to go for the classical Neapolitan Ice Cream as their new flavour. I used to love Neapolitan Ice Cream as a kid; it felt like it was a secret way of picking three flavours instead of one for dessert. I would, of course, eat each flavour in order from left to right too, cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-18107273410462268512024-03-04T20:04:00.005+00:002024-03-04T20:04:52.936+00:00Fox’s Chocolatey Hazelnut Flavour Creations (Tesco) By @Cinabar
Today I needed a bit of a chocolatey treat and spotted these Fox’s Chocolatey Hazelnut Creations in the supermarket. I do like to dunk biscuits, which is more awkward with the ones fully covered in chocolate, but not impossible. Here we have a shortcake biscuit topped with a hazelnut flavour creme, milk chocolate, and a dark chocolate drizzle. The interesting word in that description is ‘cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-59273729562831129672024-03-03T17:55:00.002+00:002024-03-03T17:55:00.131+00:00Chocolate Flavour Kellogg's Corn Flakes - but not a cake! [@NLi10] When we were young the default first 'recipe' we ever made was to melt chocolate and to mix in cornflakes. We'd then let it set and claim we'd made cornflake cakes. As we got older we'd only ever do this at Easter and put Mini Eggs in the nest on top.And 30 years later Kellogg's now sell pre-chocolated Corn Flakes!Well - I'm assuming they've not done this before due to the 'new'NLi10http://www.blogger.com/profile/09384451945964690542noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-39982648477516101152024-03-02T18:21:00.000+00:002024-03-02T18:21:09.484+00:00Siren Pompelmocello Juicy Grapefruit Sour IPA (Asda) By @SpectreUKI'm confused by the name of this beer by Siren Craft Brew. A little like Limoncello, Pompelmocello uses the zest of grapefruit, rather than lemon, to produce a sweet Italian liquor. Whereas, this Pompelmocello Juicy Grapefruit Sour IPA is, by the title, a sour beer. I usually don't like sour beers at all, so I'm not looking forward to this IPA.
At 6% in volume this so called juicy sour India cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-85574259478038483352024-03-01T20:18:00.005+00:002024-03-01T20:34:27.679+00:00Munchies Cookie Dough Ice Cream (Sainsburys) By @Cinabar
This year I can see that the trend is going to be ice cream flavours. Last week, Spectre wrote about Raspberry Ripple Milkybar buttons, and here we have the Munchies Cookie Dough Ice Cream Edition. Of course, both products are made by Nestle, but I’m still loving the idea of these retro flavours.
The Munchies are the usual milk chocolate square shapes and still have the biscuit inside, but cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-45803758006690526152024-02-29T20:04:00.000+00:002024-02-29T20:04:00.060+00:00Takis USA Waves Fuego - and a beer! [@NLi10] A late one today - we went round to the in laws for dinner (chinese) but as a starter I decided to have the spicy Takis Waves I picked up the other day - along with a lovely Organic Pale Ale from the Westmorland farm shop services.The bag was expensive - these are the 50p bags, but I paid £1.50! The USA Takis are always overpriced - if you can you should seek out the Spanish version.&NLi10http://www.blogger.com/profile/09384451945964690542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-18839111964026561132024-02-28T18:42:00.004+00:002024-02-28T18:42:32.956+00:00Nestle Milky Bar Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream (Morrisons) By @SpectreUK
There seems to be an ice cream theme to Nestle's chocolates this year. When I was a kid, many, many moons ago, I remember the big bricks of raspberry ripple ice cream wrapped in cardboard. My Aunty used to treat my sister and I to huge blocks of it during the spring and summer. On a Saturday afternoon after shopping, we'd go to Aunty and Uncle Fred's. I'd have a Lledo toy vehicle of some kind cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-62152965239910068792024-02-27T19:29:00.004+00:002024-02-27T19:29:50.509+00:00Bacon Mayo (Aldi) by @Cinabar
This is not Peri Peri Mayo. We do a monthly order with Aldi and use their ‘Click N Collect’ service. On that order, I asked for Peri Peri Mayo, and this is what I received as a substitution. I didn’t mind at all, but the person from Aldi who brought our groceries to the car was thoroughly embarrassed. I kept trying to reassure him we didn’t mind and could still use it as a dip, but he listed allcinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-25118397542343848382024-02-26T20:03:00.007+00:002024-02-26T20:03:53.786+00:00Ben & Jerry’s Sundae: Dulce De-lish Ice Cream (Tesco) By @Cinabar
I may have bought more ice cream, despite the fact that the weather has turned colder again. We had a heavy frost this morning, and the central heating is on, but we are still having ice cream for dessert as I bought a new flavour. Here we have Dulce De-lish ice cream from the Ben & Jerry’s Sundae range. Inside the tub, we start with chocolate ice cream, and underneath this is a salt cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-70198823314788799052024-02-25T17:50:00.000+00:002024-02-25T17:50:02.853+00:00Gusto Organic Cola - Real Cola (Gloucester Services) [@NLi10] On the way back from exciting places we stopped off in the Tebay services in Gloucester and picked up a few bits. One we saved for later was this lovely cola.I think I’ve had this Gusto cola before but it’s nice enough that we can have more,This is what’s in it - fairly low in ingredients but high in taste. Mostly spring water, but nice and refreshing.Good strong old-style cola NLi10http://www.blogger.com/profile/09384451945964690542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-6227564554905732412024-02-24T17:55:00.017+00:002024-02-24T17:55:00.136+00:00Allendale Dirty Deeds Beer (Morrisons) By @SpectreUKThe name of this New England India Pale Ale reminds me of an AC/DC song. Brewed in Allendale, in Northumberland, Dirty Deeds strives to present the spirit of freedom and adventure in "England's Last Wilderness".
We had plenty of holidays many years ago in Northumberland, and enjoyed wandering around it's Roman sites, castles, stately homes and gardens. I'd certainly recommend a visit or two. cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672248069218393089.post-63295351430297228902024-02-23T19:57:00.001+00:002024-02-23T19:57:07.241+00:00Starbucks Chocolate Marshmallow Flavour Smores Limited Edition Frappuccino (Iceland) By @Cinabar
And the prize for the longest name of a product so far this year on the blog goes to Starbucks Chocolate Marshmallow Flavour Smores Limited Edition Frappuccino. When the weather is a bit warmer, I do like to buy iced coffee for home. This is probably one of the new drinks for spring, and although the weather might not be there, I still couldn’t resist buying it. I decided to have this at cinabarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609693273201254655noreply@blogger.com0