Nescafe Gingerbread Latte (Ocado) By @Cinabar

Firstly, how cute is the box for this Nescafe Gingerbread Latte? I love the gingerbread house design, which gives it a really lovely wintery feel and makes it look like a cosy seasonal treat.

There are 7 sachets in the box, which is a decent amount (I'm looking at you, Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte, with just 4 sachets in the box!).

I opened a sachet and mixed it with hot water. It dissolved nicely, with no lumps and a light froth on top. The aroma was fab, with warming spices that immediately gave it a festive feel.

The flavour was just as good. There was a lovely sweet gingerbread taste alongside the coffee, with a rich sweetness that reminded me of dark sugar and treacle. It was warming, comforting and really rather soothing.

This is a proper treat of a drink, perfect for warming up on colder days. I can see this being a lovely little addition to the winter hot chocolate and coffee collection!

KFC Doom Mania [@NLi10]

 It’s Doom Season in KFC.

(Meal - pics to follow - Blogger is so bad)

Well it’s Doom and Christmas too.

But mostly Doom. You get some Doom Dust for your chips

Which is sugar and salt and lime, with parsley for greeness. It says open and consume immediately, but I’d put it on the food instead.

It makes your chips look diseased but does taste of spicy lime. The tea unfortunately makes the burning stronger.

The burger bun is black, and it’s full of green things

And most of them are nice, but you have to gulp it down as the bun is too friable and it drips. I got some on my coat

You can also pay £2 extra for a toy.

My friend bought one and got Colonel Thing

Overall it’s a decent meal, and while it’s a faff to eat it was a novel an enjoyable experience. At £10 it’s a little much, and you could certainly pay extra for green shakes and green other things.

And the movie is 6 weeks away so there are plenty of opportunities to get the same toy 4 or 5 times.

Spare Crunchy Apple Crisps (Gloucester Services) By @SpectreUK

Gloucester Services is a place to behold. There is so much foodstuffs in the farm shop there. On the way back from a comic con with a fairly full car, we stopped off and filled the rest of the car with all manners of snacks and drinks.

These Spare Crunchy Apple Crisps seem like a healthy snack. Spare Snacks transform wonky apples into these Crunchy Apple Crisps. They are 100% fruit, fat free, with no added sugar, and are one of your five a day.

On opening the packet there was an aroma of apples. Some of the dried slices of apple had skin still in them. These crisps tasted of baked sweet apple, and were ridiculously moreish. If you don’t particularly like the experience of crunching through an apple, but you do like apples, these Spare Crunchy Apple Crisps are definitely for you.

Information on the packet; The 22g bag contains 80 calories, with less than 0.1g of fat, 16.1g of sugar, and less than 0.1g of salt. Ingredients: 100% apple.

McVities Jaffa Elf (Iceland) By @Cinabar

No apologies, but I’m officially onto the Christmas snacks. Here we have McVities Jaffa Elf, a cute impulse buy spotted in the supermarket. I do like Jaffa Cakes and am enjoying the different products they keep bringing out, and this Christmas one made me smile.

This McVities Jaffa Elf is also super cute once opened, with very detailed moulding and a smart elf uniform. The only obvious thing to do next was to snap him in half. This didn’t feel very seasonal, but it was that or bite his head off.

Inside, there is a lovely thick chocolate filled with biscuit pieces and a generous layer of Jaffa orange filling. This is more liquid than you might find in Jaffa Cakes, but the flavour is very much the same and has that familiar zing. The chocolate is milk chocolate, whereas Jaffa Cakes use dark chocolate, but this probably makes it more appealing to those wanting a chocolate snack. The biscuit pieces are more like shortbread than the sponge you find in Jaffa Cakes.

Now that I've put all that together, there isn't actually that much that makes these relate to proper Jaffa Cakes, apart from the design and branding! Oh well. It's still a lovely piece of thick milk chocolate, with loads of orange flavour and crunchy bits, so what's not to like?

Walkers Crispy Roast Potato Crisps (Ocado) By @Cinabar

This new packet of Crispy Roast Potato Crisps is part of this year's Christmas range from Walkers. Whenever I hear about potato-flavoured crisps, I get taken back to the M&S Jacket Potato Crisps that used to exist. They sound plain, but they were salty and buttery, with an enhanced potato flavour that really popped, making them pretty legendary. Walkers have tried other versions over the years, but none have beaten those original ones.

These, though, are roast potato rather than jacket potato, so they won't be as buttery, but I'm still keen to give them a try. I opened the pack and the first thing I noticed was just how herby they were! Much more so than when we have roast potatoes at home, as we never use that many herbs. The rosemary flavour is particularly strong (and I do love that herb), but there are other flavours mixed in too, including a gentle hint of onion.

They tasted lovely, and I really enjoyed the combination of flavours. Rosemary has such a fresh taste, and it works brilliantly here. I think these crisps are all about the herbs rather than the potato, and that's fine by me. They work well, and I'll look forward to my next bag. I'm still hoping that one day we'll get those jacket potato crisps back, though!