Winners!!!!!

And the winner of the exciting competition is:

• Leigh, F from Leicester

I have also chosen some runners up who get a smaller mystery prize:

• Karen, S from Gloucester
• Keith, S from Woodford Green
• Amy, M from Bradford-on-Avon
• Loretta, C from Portishead
• Sue, S from Walsall Wood

Your parcels are on their way - do hope you enjoy!!!

Loacker Coconut Wafer Biscuits (Waitrose)

I love the foreign goodies that make their way into Waitrose, I do love finding things I can’t get elsewhere. These biscuit originate from Italy and consist of light and crispy wafers which give way easily when bitten. They have a wonderful thick creamy coconut filling, and further coconut flavour is added by the desiccated coconut covering the outside. Which reminds me, these biscuits are dangerous, the coconut topping creates a snowfall wherever it goes! I ended up with a tissue close to hand to avoid getting it everywhere!
The chocolate on the biscuits is thin but of a very good quality and compliments the creamy rich filling perfectly. They sort of melt when you bite them, and coconut fans will be in heaven. The only negative thing I have to add is that there aren’t very many in the box. They are in layers of one, and spread out inside the packaging, but there doesn’t seem to be many for your money. I’m torn though because despite this, I loved the biscuits and will probably repurchase.

Warburtons: Snack A Doodle Sweet Chilli [Wholegrain Snacks] (Nisa)

It is always nice to see new low fat snacks on the market, well it is if they manage to combine the wonders of healthy and tasty. These particular snacks are made from wholegrain, and in appearance remind me of Snack-A-Jacks, and in name too I guess, Snack-A-Doodle is similar in style to Snack-A-Jack.
I like the texture of these snacks, they are lightly crunchy and dissolve nicely in the mouth. Sadly I wasn’t so keen on the flavour. For a product to be labelled as ‘Sweet Chilli’ I would expect a decent full flavour and spice. Oddly they smelt nice, they had a salty, sweet aroma, but the taste seemed very muted to me. Even a direct lick didn’t show up much of a taste sensation. What did come through when eating these was the base flavour of ‘wheat’ and cereal, not sweet but sort of dull on the taste buds. Sadly they tasted ‘healthy’ and I know that they are indeed good for you, but would some extra chilli flakes and seasoning really have upped the calorie content that much?
I have other flavours of the new snacks from Warburton’s to try; I do hope I get on a little better with them.

Nestle Kit Kat Pop Choc Yoghurt (Nisa)

I was really pleased to see some innovation from the Kit Kat brand for the UK market. I realise that there are a ridiculous amount of strangely flavoured Kit Kats available in Japan, but just seeing this new yoghurt on the shelves made me smile.
This is a ‘corner’ style yoghurt where you have one pot of plain yoghurt and one pot of something to tip into it. The yoghurt base if a rather lovely sweet creamy vanilla, it has a good flavour, and is nice and smooth.
The chocolate section consists of Kit Kat pieces made of small chocolate coated chunks. This essentially is the same as a product that used to be available here in the UK, and is still around in Europe called “Kit Kat Pop Choc”. Eaten individually these chocolates lack the firm Kit Kat texture. Despite all the ingredients being present, the specific Kit Kat crunch is missing. When you bite in, these are a little crispier overall and not as solid as a regular Kit Kat. Also the chocolate is pleasant but doesn’t taste exactly like Kit Kat chocolate, nice but I think a fraction sweeter. The product is supposed to be eaten together with the yoghurt and chocolate all at once. When mixed there was a definite taste of Kit Kat and I liked the chocolate pieces with the yoghurt. It was a tasty treat, and a rather yummy concoction, proving the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Lightning Bugs - Cyber Candy (by Nli10)

Grown up birthdays are hard. Everyone has their own money and better ideas of what they actually want so to avoid spending lots on something disappointing I tend to give cash or vouchers. This is a little impersonal though so a little novelty gift is also required to indicate that I did try to think of something but failed. This is where these lightning bug sweets come in. They are just a bag of typical jelly sweets. Very nice ones as it turns out, soft and squidgy. The important thing is the plastic tweezers. These have a little battery and two led lights which cause the sweets to light up as you pick them up. This adds a lot to the experience and we were talking about how great it would be at Halloween to give out glowing sweets to visiting children. Over all these are well worth the inflated price for the few sweets you get and you can reuse the tweezers with future jelly sweets.

By Nli10