Walkers Salt & Pepper Chicken Multipack Crisps (Tesco) By @Cinabar

Walkers invited people to suggest new flavours for their crisps, and two of the winners have now been made. The one with the most sales will be deemed the winner and the flavour will stick around. We have found both, but first up we are trying Walkers Salt & Pepper Chicken Multipack Crisps.

I opened up the bag and the aroma was lovely. I am biased, as chicken crisps are my favourite, but these had all of that lovely chicken aroma along with lots of seasoning too. There was even a slightly paprika tinge of red to the seasoning.

I gave them a taste and the flavour was so me, it is untrue. They are like chicken crisps, but with the volume turned up. I loved all the spices and the pepper, along with lashings of roast chicken meaty goodness. They were amazing. It would be hard to imagine anything beating these.

So I will be buying another multipack of these, as purchases are essentially a vote for this flavour to win. But I will also be trying the Chilli Jam ones too. It will take something special to beat these, though!

Now! Chocolate Bar (Marks and Spencer) By @Cinabar

This is another of the re-released retro bars from Marks and Spencer. Here we have Now!, where the exclamation mark comes as part of the brand name.

The packaging is wonderfully 80s retro, with its block colours of pink and yellow. The chocolate bar consists of a biscuit stick topped with caramel and coated in milk chocolate, which kind of makes you think there should be two of them, like a twin bar, in the packet. They are singular though.

I gave the chocolate a taste and the biscuit was crunchy, with a strong, wholesome wheat flavour. It was almost like a Hobnob, although the biscuit wasn’t crumbly like that. The caramel is thick and a little chewy, but in a good way, with plenty of flavour. It is a classic combination and it works well, but this is also worth picking up just to enjoy that wonderfully retro packaging.

Knoppers -new- Peanut Bar [@NLi10]

 We love Knoppers - and so when the option arose to try a new variation on their more normal Euro-bar I jumped at the chance. 

It's essentially a fluffy Snickers

You get three in a bag for a pound or so

Still has wafers, still has 'milk creme' but also has peanuts

Looks like a choc bar

But behold - it's a wafer bar!

The peanuts are not as chunky as I'd hoped, but otherwise it's a tasty but unremarkable bar.

I'd buy and eat these again, but then there are lots of other unhealthy bars to review too and I'm trying to cut back.

Nescafé Lion Mocha Flavour (Ocado) By @SpectreUK

I’ve always loved Lion bars. That crunchy chewy chocolate sweet caramel goodness. I don’t particularly like instant coffee like Nescafé. I drink fresh coffee. I don’t drink instant coffee sachets, and I’m not that fussed about flavoured coffee. However, maybe, Nescafé Lion Mocha Flavour could change my mind.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a fair judgement if I didn’t have this Nescafé Lion Mocha Flavour as an afternoon drink, accompanied by a Nestlé Lion Bar. I mean, it would be rude not too.

I followed the instructions to a T. I stirred the mixture in twice from the sachet, and strangely tapped my mug on the surface three times. There was a chocolate caramel and a coffee aroma from the frothy liquid in my mug.

On taste of this Nescafé Lion Mocha Flavour, there was a sweet caramel taste of chocolate mixed with coffee. Of course, there wasn’t the crunchiness from a Nestlé Lion Bar, but the flavour of the drink was similar, asides the added coffee.

I must say, it did go rather well with my Nestlé Lion Bar, for an instant coffee sachet, that is.

Information on the box: Per mug is 77 calories, with 1.4g of fat, 11.2g of sugar, and 0.19g of salt. Please see photograph for the ingredients.

Costa Salted Caramel Latte Sachets (Ocado) By @Cinabar

I am back on the coffee sachets and found these Costa Salted Caramel Latte Sachets under the new products listing online. I love a flavoured coffee, so they went straight into my basket.

I don’t normally see Costa sachets, so I was interested to try these, even though salted caramel isn’t exactly the most exciting flavour compared with some of the other autumnal drinks around. I always think salted caramel is a little bit of a lazy flavour, but it is popular for a reason: pretty much everyone likes it.

I opened the box and found a decent six sachets inside. That’s not quite as generous as Nescafé, which often gives you seven or eight, but it is much better than Starbucks, where you can get just four.

I mixed one up and it made a lovely frothy latte with no annoying lumps. The flavour was really good, with plenty of coffee, creamy milk and sweet caramel, followed by just a touch of salt for contrast.

The caramel was the bit that won me over. It had a lovely, soothing, almost toffee-like taste that made the drink feel really comforting. So yes, salted caramel might not be the most adventurous flavour, but it is undeniably nice. And sometimes that is exactly what you want from a coffee sachet.