Loacker Chocolaterie Milk Chocolate Wafer Bars (Ocado) By @Cinabar

I love wafer biscuits. It is the texture for me. Not everyone likes wafer, but I am a fan. In fact, I often pick up a square bar of Loacker wafers in coffee shops, as they tend to put them by the till and lure you in while you wait for them to make your drink. I have not really bought them for home before, but that changed when I spotted this was newly listed on Ocado—Loacker Chocolaterie Milk Chocolate Wafer Bars. I added some to my latest order.

Once they arrived, I checked the ingredients and saw that they contained hazelnuts, which is very common for Loacker, but they also contained peanut butter, which is a bit more unusual for the brand. As always with allergies, make sure you check the ingredients on the box before eating, as they do change things from time to time.

I opened the box, and inside were four wrapped oblong bars. The bars were small and thin, but at only 91 calories, they are a light snack.

I gave one a try and really loved the flavour. There was the lovely thick milk chocolate and a rich hazelnut taste. This worked well and was a good combination. The wafer was there too, giving it that crispy but light texture. All of this was good. The only issue is that they were not as substantial as the big wafers you get in coffee shops. All the flavours and the texture were there, but it was gone in a few bites, and I would have liked the bars to be a little bigger.

Dylan's Handmade Welsh Crumpets - Luxury Baking! [@NLi10]

 Fresh bread is great, and easy to get - so why not fresh crumpets!

Wales has you covered with Dylan's baking these on Anglesey

It's all good healthy ingredients - and needs to be opened then eaten - which was a shame, we had to feed the last one to the gulls because it went off.

Super luxury - almost to thick for the toaster in the caravan.  Spot the Welsh Tea hiding there too.

It's a squeeze!

Worth it though - like eating fresh in a café - probably after a long walk in the rain.

I'd have these again, but plan ahead and bring jam, a big toaster, and an appetite to eat all 4 between us in one lunchtime sitting.

 

Bertha - The World Famous Chocolate Cake Stout (Morrisons) By @SpectreUK

I have steak pie and chips tonight. I'll probably have something chocolatey for dessert, washed down with this pudding beer, Bertha - The World Famous Chocolate Cake Stout.

I haven't tasted Bertha's World Famous Chocolate Cake, though I'm sure it's lovely. My favourite Chocolate Fudge Cake was made by an old lady when I was on holiday in Combe Martin, in Devon, when I was about 8 years old.

Produced by Northern Monk, at 8.4% in volume, this Bertha - The World Famous Chocolate Cake Stout is going to be very rich indeed. The original cake is sold in Fortnum and Mason, and produced by Get Baked.

On opening the can there was a luscious aroma of chocolate fudge cake. On pouring, Bertha was a thick almost gooey jet black stout with a frothy head.

There was a creamy vanilla flavour to this malted chocolate milk stout. This must be the creamiest, chocolatiest stout I have ever tasted. Bertha was the perfect pudding stout in my mind. Simply gorgeous.

Minecraft Apple Cake McFlurry and Happy Meal Toys for Grown-Ups! (McDonald's) By @Cinabar

The Minecraft movie is hitting cinemas next week, and in its honour, McDonald's has gone Minecraft mad! The Big Mac box has had a Minecraft makeover, and of course, the Happy Meal toys are all Minecraft-themed too. But the most exciting part? McDonald's has finally launched Happy Meals for grown-ups, complete with a toy! My inner child couldn’t wait to place an order.

In terms of new products, we have the fab-sounding Minecraft Apple Cake McFlurry. It’s the usual vanilla McFlurry, topped with candy apple pieces, shortcake chunks, and a bright green sour apple sauce. Once I’d finished my Big Mac and opened up my toy, I dived into dessert.

This was a really nice McFlurry. I was super impressed because I love a mix of textures, the candy apple was soft but firm, while the shortcake added a little crunch. Both the candy apple and shortcake were sweet, but the sauce was sour and zingy, which really mixed up the flavours. I loved it! It reminded me of sour apple sweets, and I found myself scraping every last bit out of the carton.

This new Minecraft Apple Cake McFlurry and the grown-up Happy Meal toy made me smile in a way McDonald's hasn’t since I was little and getting a Happy Meal.

Biscoff, but as a knock-off Viennetta (Biscoetta?) [@NLi10]

For years I never really paid attention to the little free biscuits with a coffee - and then suddenly they became this thing that everyone loved - and also knew the name of.  Lotus Biscoff is one of the most successful brand-but-ordinary things out there - it's just a fairly boring biscuit.

But my god do some people love them!  And because of this they are now appearing everywhere.  And in a Tesco on holiday we spotted this perfect mash-up

That's an off-brand Walls Viennetta, but with on Brand Lotus Biscoff.  It seems that the official Unilever/Walls version had knock-off Biscoff on top so this is only fair.

I mean - is it feasible that others have unlocked the Vienetta technology or is this going to be disappointment

 It certainly looks the part - and has the same signature tray - maybe the factory gets hired out at weekends.  The ice-cream doesn't feel like Walls though - I'd say it's not creamy enough.  It works the same as the real thing though so no disappointment in texture or shape.

The sparse bit of Biscoff on top, and the fun little layers are both present and correct though.

I'd say that they should sell Biscoff wafers to stab in this to be proper 80s - but they almost certainly do.

Perfect for the Biscoff lover in your house, and perfectly edible.  But I'd rather have a normal Viennetta and some shortbread.

Peelers Gummy Peach Peelable Sweets (B&M) By @SpectreUK

I have no idea why you would have peelable sweets. These Peelers Gummy Peach Peelable sweets were recommended to us by a friend who also sells at the comic cons.

 

They are made with real fruit juice, which is something I like in sweets, with added sugar and sweeteners. Being made with real fruit juice makes me feel like I'm at least trying to be good, whilst eating something naughty.

On opening the resealable packet these Peelers Gummy Peach sweets had a half peach shape. I don't really get the peelable quality of these sweets, as on trying it was really messy. Taste wise though these Peelers Peach gummies were spot on. They had a squidgy texture and a lovely fruity peach flavour, not too sweet, in fact just right.

Information on the packet; The 65g bag has 317 calories, with 0.2g of fat, 55g of sugar, and 0.03g of salt. Please see photograph for the ingredients.

Nestlé Munchies Orange (Ocado) By @Cinabar

There’s another new flavour from Munchies on the shelves. This time it’s Nestlé Munchies Orange, and since it has been a while since the last fruity variety, I was keen to give these a try. The packaging isn’t very different from the regular version, just the word Orange added with no major design changes.

I opened up the bag by tearing where instructed, and as always, I was disappointed that so few products these days have those handy resealable stickers that used to be popular. I didn’t want to eat the whole lot in one go, but with the bag left wide open, it felt like an invitation to do just that.

I took in the aroma, but there wasn’t much to it, just a standard chocolate scent. I had expected the orange to come through at this stage. However, as soon as I bit into one, the flavour kicked in. There was loads of zesty goodness. The usual Munchies mix of textures, crunchy biscuit, gooey caramel and smooth milk chocolate, was there, but the burst of orange in the caramel was an absolute delight. Sweet, fruity and with the perfect citrus balance, it made these dangerously moreish.

I loved them, ate far too many and had to resort to a paperclip to close the bag before I demolished the lot.

Fry’s Turkish Delight Orange Flavour (Asda) – By @Cinabar

Turkish Delight isn’t everyone’s first choice for a sweet treat, but I have a soft spot for it. I always look forward to indulging at Christmas, when it comes coated in so much icing sugar that it ends up everywhere. It is still so delicious that I don’t mind the mess. For a quicker, more affordable snack, Fry’s Turkish Delight is a favourite of mine. Their bars are always coated in milk chocolate, which is another big win.

Now there is a new addition to the range: Fry’s Turkish Delight Orange Flavour.

The multipack contains three bars, each wrapped in bright orange packaging. I opened one and gave it a try. The texture is just like the original, with a soft, jelly-like centre and a solid chocolate coating that cracks as you bite in. The filling has a delicate orange flavour, not sharp like the lemon variety available at Christmas, but sweet and soothing. If you enjoy orange cream chocolates, this will be right up your street, even if you don’t usually go for Turkish Delight.

Dylan's House Blend Coffee roasted by Poblado Coffi [@NLi10]

Local tea and coffee is a weird one, on one hand it's great to have something tuned to the local water and supporting the local area - but on the other hand it's all from thousands of miles away!

Here we have a great example - they beans are shipped to Wales and the local company makes local coffee blended exactly to the restaurants requirements.  Can't argue with that!

 

Brazil, Guatemala & Ugandan beans - but with it's date of birth on the bag it's all pretty fresh too

And it all smells amazing - and it isn't perfectly homogenous too which I love - it feels like it was crafted instead of being manufactured.

And it makes a good cup of coffee - just a shade too dark for my taste, but I can tune some of that out with a dash of milk, macchiato style.

I'm glad I picked this up as it'll be a great pick me up for work days

And before we went in the shop we had the local food from local ingredients in the restaurant in Conwy - which was fantastically luxurious and a lovely way to recharge after going round the castle for hours in the wind.

Cornish Best Ale (Morrisons) By @SpectreUK

The beach scene on the front of the bottle of this Cornish Best Ale helped me pick my dinner tonight. I have jumbo fish fingers, so I'm hoping this session ale will wash them down well.

At 3.4% in volume Cornish Best Ale was produced by St. Austell Brewery. I was very happy to read that this beer has rye in its ingredients, as well as malted barley, oats, and hops. The oats and malted barley should give it a healthy hearty biscuit flavour, with added spice from the rye.

On opening the bottle there were lovely biscuit and toffee aromas from the reddish brown beer inside. There was a mild herbal bitterness from the hops, coupled with a good spiciness from the rye, with a little fruitiness, as well as biscuit flavours with toffee like sweetness into the aftertaste. Gorgeous, cheers.

Seabrook Authentic Fish and Chips Crisps (Morrisons) By @Cinabar

These are the other new flavour that has been brought out by Seabrook to celebrate Bradford becoming City of Culture 2025. The first ones we tried were Seabrook Authentic Chicken Curry Crisps, which had a lovely spicy kick. Here we have another favourite takeaway flavour, Seabrook Authentic Fish and Chips Crisps.

I do not think there are enough fish-flavoured crisps. I am not including prawn cocktail, as that is more about the sauce than the prawns, but I do like Scampi Fries when I can find them.

I opened the bag and found some pale-looking crisps inside. They had the advantage of having nice crinkles to collect plenty of seasoning. The aroma was mostly salty. I gave one a try and found it to be rather nice. I could pick up on a gentle batter taste, then some salt and a little fish. The flavour was there, but it was a little mild. They are delicate, but I still really enjoyed the taste and thought they did a good job of recreating that fish and chips feel. The curry crisps they released were very full-on and not shy on flavour at all. It is a shame they did not turn the volume up on these ones, as that would have made them perfect.

Kelloggs Oaties Choco Crunch [@NLi10]

 Kellogs make a lot of high sugar breakfast cereals, but they also do some healthier ones (usually based around fibre).  This is somewhere between the two - with a few vitamins thrown in for good measure!

They are 55% oat, but still contain wheat, maize and malted wheat as we crave the gluten

They are relatively low in sugar and fat compared to the kid focused cereals, but it's there - you won't need to sprinkle sugar on this one.

As a bowl (tiny holiday caravan bowls) it looks good - if not a bit uniform.  It does have a good scent of chocolate 

And it just about turns the (almond) milk chocolatey 

The crunch is good, and the sweetness is fine, but overall this is an oaty serious cereal with a little bit of fun added in.  I don't think anyone will go wow over it, but as a no-thought reasonably healthy start to the day it works well.

Walkers Smokin’ BBQ Sauce flavour crisps (Morrisons) By @SpectreUK

I like a lot of different sauces. I'm not going to list them all, as there is so many. My favourite sauce is probably BBQ, I say probably, it's my go to sauce I have with pretty much everything.

So, these Walkers Smokin' BBQ Sauce flavour crisps should go down rather well accompanying my chicken, hot sauce and red pepper sandwich for lunch.

On opening the bag there was a sweet and smokey aroma to the reddened crisps inside. On first crunchy taste Walkers Smokin' BBQ Sauce flavour crisps are certainly smokey and with a luscious sweetness following into the aftertaste. Very nice indeed. I'll have to have these in regularly.

Information on the packet; Each 25g bag contains 128 calories, 7.3g of fat, 0.7g of sugar, and 0.28g of salt. Suitable for Vegetarians, see photograph for the ingredients.

Seabrook Authentic Chicken Curry Crisps (Morrisons) By @Cinabar

When Seabrook announces a new flavour of their crisps in sharing bags, I always get excited. The latest range celebrates Bradford becoming City of Culture 2025. They have chosen flavours from the area and turned them into new crisps. From the branding on the bag, these appear to be exclusive to Morrisons.

First up is Authentic Chicken Curry. At first glance, I thought the flavour sounded a bit generic. Why not take a specific type of curry and go all in with that? Why has no one made Rogan Josh crisps yet? I love a good curry, so I was still keen to give these a try.

We opened the bag and poured them into a sharing bowl. I was impressed by the complex and aromatic smell. These crisps are thick cut and crinkle cut, giving plenty of room for all the seasoning. I took a bite and loved the snappy crunch. The flavours of chicken and spice were really strong, with paprika, onion and ginger shining through. There was plenty of chilli, and the crisps had a proper kick, which was wonderful. Some crisps claim to be spicy but then play it safe with just a little bit of heat. These were bold, making sure my mouth was tingling with spices.

They were seriously moreish. The more you ate, the more you wanted. If you stopped for too long, the chilli seemed to turn up the heat even more.

Wow, Bradford, if these Seabrook Authentic Chicken Curry Crisps are anything to go by, I will make sure to pop by one of your curry houses.

Bounty Crispy Rolls (Asda) – By @Cinabar

Bounty, rather like Marmite, tends to divide opinion. I personally love it. I like the combination of chocolate and coconut, and even that firm but soft grainy texture that some people dislike works for me.

Here we have a new bar from Bounty, the Bounty Crispy Rolls. It is nice to see something new from Bounty. This is a lighter snack, with 61 calories per stick, so 122 for both if you eat them at the same time, like me.

They consist of Bounty coconut encased in a wafer, coated in milk chocolate, and finished with a dusting of coconut. This meant there were bits in the packet when it opened, but thankfully not too many.

I gave the chocolate stick a try and found it to be pleasant rather than anything special. It does not have the same satisfying Bounty feel of biting into a full-size bar. I liked the crispy texture from the wafer, which was nice and crunchy before softening with the coconut filling. The flavour, however, did not have enough coconut. The ratios seem different, and that wonderful coconut kick just was not as strong. The chocolate was more prominent, which was fine, but something else in the taste, perhaps the wafer, added an edge that distracted from the coconut goodness and made these a bit mediocre.

They were okay, but they should have been so much better. I love a Bounty bar, and although I like the idea of a lower-calorie treat, I think I will stick to the original. Also, Bounty, if you are considering bringing out something new, how about bringing back the red Bounty with dark chocolate? Give the people what they want.

Biscolata MOOD - Caramel Macchiato Biscuits [@NLi10]

 We are on holiday in a little caravan park in Talacre, Wales at the moment but I've not found much of the local treats we usually spot when here - but I have found some twists on familiar friends

This is essentially a coffee & biscoff twist on the existing biscuit-and-goo formula we get at home, but with a funky brand to go with the icons now, and actually in English instead of the import we have

MOOD means look at the icon and tell your fortune basically

They have them all on the side - my first two were 'dance frantically'. I shall not be doing that.

Suitable for vegetarians, and with no actual coffee suitable for kids too. Made in Turkey for a company in Bromsgrove which is local to home - they have come a long way!

The prints seem sharp

And the gooey bits are never gooey - but if you eat them somewhere warm you can pretend.

As before, these are like cat treats for humans and you could easily dissapear a tub of these without meaning to.  I'm aiming for these to last all week - see how that one goes!