The little shop at the end of our road has been getting some exciting new things in recently.  We've had the Italian wafers, and the pr...

 I do like having a San Pellegrino while out at the Italian restaurant - it feels more authentic even though it's just Orangeade (or lem...

 Everyone is coming up with new brand and ideas these days, and it turns out that Mother Nature is joining in and has 'dropped' a ne...

 We love pink on this blog, and it's a fight to see who finds and reviews the latest pink things. We also have a pink bedroom, which is ...

 I like apples and the idea of a less intensely sugary breakfast but with flavours and texture too really appeals - so when Holland & Ba...

 Shreddies do all kinds of limited editions these days, at least a couple a year it seems.  Here we found the latest in Sainsbury's - Ra...

 I've been cutting back on the old dairy recently, but I'm yet to find a truly satisfying yogurt - but as Alpro make decent breakfas...

People of a certain age reading this blog are about to go all nostalgic for this Um Bongo drink. It was a staple of my childhood, then it ...

 It was recently Eurovision Weekend (hooray!) so I found and saved a slightly topical beer - Appel Strudel with Custard! Apple beer is intri...

 I don’t like mince pies, so instead of clearing up all the left over ones I’ve invested in Mr Kipling’s latest offering for us non sultana/...

I'm not sure whether apple & pears are a genuine dish - or this is just playing off the Cockney Rhyming Slang (for stairs)  - but as...

 It's very hard to do some flavours of Jam justice.  Take the Blueberry Jams we looked at a while ago for example - the real thing just ...

We - book people - went to Hay-On-Wye - city of books - and didn't buy any books!  In our defence it was day 0 of our holiday and there ...

 In my childhood we were often told we could have absolutely any snack food we wanted - as long as the health food shop sold it!  This led t...

I remember having golden raisins from Sun Maid as an afternoon snack when I was very young. I used to like opening the box and pretty dumpin...

A friend of mine has a knack for spotting oddities in his local shops and bringing them to work for me to try.  Here we have a Sip Shack - S...