I opened up the packet and found that these Cookies With Chocolate M&M’s Minis were quite chunky, and they were colourful too. I could see the colourful Mini M&M’s shinning through. The taste was lovely. These are firm, crunchy cookies (rather than the American soft style), but the texture still works. The M&Ms are crispy and add a lovely chocolate taste. These are super nice biscuits. They are effectively a chocolate chip cookie, really with a bit of candy shell, but with the the colour they do look a bit more special. These were the perfect treat with my cup of tea, and yes, I dunked. The chocolates melted a bit too when I did, which really worked for me too.
6 September 2024
Cookies With Chocolate M&M’s Minis (Tesco) By @Cinabar
5 September 2024
Harry Brompton's British Lemon & Lime Iced Tea [@NLi10]
4 September 2024
M&S Caramel, Shortbread & Chocolate Crispies Milk Choc Bar (Ocado) By @SpectreUK
Marks and Spencer's Food Hall is a good place to find indulgent foodstuffs. This M&S Caramel, Shortbread & Chocolate Crispies Milk Chocolate Bar sounds like heaven in a heavy 180g chocolate bar for pudding. I've eaten less on the good for me stuff today so I can fit this chocolate bar into my calorie count.
On opening the wrapper there was a caramel chocolate aroma from the heavy milk chocolate bar. On taste there was crunchiness from the shortbread and crispies dotted throughout the bar, and some added caramel sweetness. Melt in the mouth once through the crunch and sheer thickness of the bar, this M&S Caramel, Shortbread & Chocolate Crispies Milk Chocolate Bar was a luscious indulgent treat indeed. Just what I needed after losing a punch up against a punctured tyre.
Information on the wrapper; The 180g bar contained 539 calories per 100g, with 19.2g fat, 51g of sugar, and 0.23g of salt. Please see photograph for the ingredients.
3 September 2024
Jammie Dodgers Banana (Iceland) By @Cinabar
I opened up the pack, and the biscuits look like regular Jammie Dodgers except that they have a yellow-orange coloured centre. I gave one of the biscuits a try and have to admit it was a bit disappointing. It wasn’t that banana didn’t work as a flavour; it was that the banana flavour was a bit mild. It almost had a hint of sweetness and the slightest banana flavour, and that was it.
The biscuits were just pleasantly sweet and not very exciting. I was hoping for a full-on blast of a banana milkshake-like taste, but the reality was so mild I would have struggled to name the flavour without seeing it on the pack. I realise this is because they want to have ‘no nasty stuff', as it says on the front of the pack. These Jammie Dodgers Banana Edition are okay, but not ones I’ll miss when the flavour disappears from the shelves.
2 September 2024
Walkers Roast Chicken and Mayonnaise Crisps (Iceland) By @Cinabar
The first quirk here is the description of the flavour. The picture shows a chicken sandwich, which is significant because with the other new 'sausage sarnie’ flavour, you could really taste the bead. The flavour of these crisps is just Roast Chicken with Mayo; unlike the sausage variety, these crisps are missing the word 'sarnie’ from the title.
I gave one of the crisps a try, and there was a very definite taste of roast chicken, then there was a little spice like black pepper and a creamy finish from the mayo. These were good, tasty chicken crisps. I still have to say I prefer the usual Walkers Chicken crisps, which I reckon is just because they are my go-to variety. I’m still unclear whether these Walkers Roast Chicken and Mayonnaise Crisps should have a bread flavour mixed in too, which I couldn’t pick up on. I do, however, have no regrets over buying two multipacks of this flavour, as they are really good crisps.