ITSU - Vegetable Tempura Fries at home! [@NLi10]

 IT's nice to add veggies as a side when cooking, and it's convenient to have them bagged in the freezer.

These are designed to replace fries due to the light crispy batter, but it's kind of somewhere in between.

There is an awful lot of text on the bag.

But it's just carrot, pumpkin and green beans.

Even though it looks more varied in person.

And they crisped up well and tasted great! Half a bag was decent for two people as a side, but I think you could excuse doing the whole lot if you replaced both the fries and veggies with these.  A lovely, vegan hit!

Seabrook Prawn Cocktail Flavour Mayo (B&M) By @SpectreUK

Seabrook usually make crisps not sauces. There is something odd about there being a packet of crisps flavoured with a sauce that has become a sauce flavoured from a packet of crisps.

Seabrook have brought out Salt & Vinegar Flavour Mayo, Cheese & Onion Flavour Mayo, and this Prawn Cocktail Flavour Mayo. I wasn’t allowed to pick up the Cheese & Onion Flavour Mayo on account of the repetitive nature of Monster Munch Pickled Onion Flavour Mayo sometime ago.

This Seabrook Prawn Cocktail Flavour Mayo really does taste like their Prawn Cocktail crisps, without the crisp part, of course. It went very well with my fishy picky-bits meal. I dipped in salmon, prawns, calamari and tempura prawns, as well as my French bread. Yum.

Wonka Kinder Joy (Morrisons) By @Cinabar

I spotted this Wonka Kinder Joy in the supermarket and realised it was a crossover between Kinder Egg, Funko and Wonka. To be fair, the two chocolate brands are both owned by Ferrero, so I guess that makes things a little simpler!

I'm loving the relaunch of Wonka and really enjoying the fun products they've brought out. The chocolate hats were amazing! I couldn't wait to see what I would get in my Kinder Joy.

I opened it up and found a green Willy Wonka Funko figure. He's pretty cute and will be joining our shelf of novelty and lucky figures. I have to admit, though, that despite being a grown-up, I was a little disappointed that he came in one piece, with nothing to build.

The chocolate section was lovely to scoop out, with the two wafer balls on top adding a nice bit of crunch too. I think if I'd realised, as the leaflet seems to imply, that all the Wonka Kinder Joys contained solid Willy Wonka figures in different colours, I might have picked up a regular egg instead.

Muller Bliss Baileys Corner Yoghurt (Ocado) By @Cinabar

You can tell it is getting close to Christmas when all the luxury Baileys items start appearing in the shops. I picked these up along with a few other Baileys goodies, which I'll be writing about soon. I decided to have one of these Muller Bliss Baileys Corner Yoghurts as a lunchtime treat.

I opened the pot to find a whipped yoghurt section, with a sauce underneath and some Baileys and chocolate biscuit balls to mix in. I gave the yoghurt a try and found it very pleasant and sweet, but the flavour was much more like caramel than a proper hit of Baileys.

To be fair, it was lunchtime, so I wasn't necessarily looking for a strong alcohol flavour, but I did feel the taste could have been a little stronger. Other Baileys biscuits and treats I've tried usually have a much more identifiable flavour. This was more yoghurt and caramel, with just a hint of something resembling Irish cream.

It was still a nice yoghurt, just not quite the Baileys treat I was hoping for.

IKEA - Meat and not meat balls - and potato cakes! [@NLi10]

 As part of my trip to IKEA to buy spooky lanterns for Halloween (and still get no Trick Or Treat visits) we bought a big meal's worth of meatballs - and because of the veggies - non meat balls too!

HUVUDROLL red bags are meat - pork and beef mix - and these are the classic IKEA meatballs.

These are some mushed together vegetables pretending to be meatballs.  They'd be better as a side.

These are shredded potato pancakes - they are most awesome - a little fry and they are sorted.

This is the gravy that brings it all together - but - it required ingredients added to it to make it sing like in the IKEA café so we have saved it for later.

Potato cake goodness

With the veggie balls as a 'side'

With the goodness of the actual meatballs.

Forgot to buy the lingonberry jam, but cranberry works too - but we were at nannas so had no supplies.

Tastes as good as I remember, but I could have sworn that they were much bigger!  Maybe I'm just getting old.

Either way, a classic meal, and we still have the frozen IKEA pancakes to try another weekend.