Happy Happy Wednesday everybody and welcome to another Junk Food Review.  At the expense of possibly offending people with the title today, to be honest, I really just couldn’t think of a better one.  I really didn’t want to call it ‘trash food’ or ‘redneck food’ because nowadays people are always taking offense to something, amiright? so I thought Hillbilly might be less offensive possibly?  What I was really trying to get across, is that sometimes there are foods that you’re mildly embarrassed to admit that you eat, or even want to be seen buying.  I mean, just so y’all know, I had those Fried Twinkies hidden under a bag of lettuce in my cart, and then did self checkout, because I was just in no mood to get that kind of judgement…

Anyways, let’s get to it shall we?  First off, we have Snoballs.  I know that these things have been around for forever, but I recently realized that I had never had them before, which is shocking because they have marshmallows, chocolate cake and coconut, a few things that I love.

seems promising, even with the scary green color…

looks pretty yummy…

Alrighty, so I genuinely had high hopes for these bad boys because as I mentioned above Snoballs contain some of my favorite ingredients and wow were these disappointing.  At first bite, I thought that they were similar to just a regular Hostess creme filled chocolate cake, then the almost plastic taste & texture of the coconut kicked in and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how they managed to mess up coconut so badly.  The only thing worse was the marshmallow, which left the funkiest after taste in my mouth.  On the bright side, the chocolate cake was soft and moist and the creme filling was pretty tasty.  Overall I give these a 5 out of 10, and I will definitely not be partaking in these again, probably ever.

Okay next we have the Fried Twinkies, which yes, come from the frozen food aisle a special place in hell…

mmm…

Okay y’all, I want to preface this review with the fact that I really, really, really wanted to dislike these things for a multitude of reasons.  First off, I figured anything that is normally consumed at fairs and is freshly (I’m using the term “fresh” loosely here) fried on site wouldn’t translate well to a freezer to be reheated at home.  Secondly, this product is embarrassing to buy and I was hoping to never again have to wear a disguise to buy food again (just kidding, kind of).  Boy was I wrong, y’all, these Fried Twinkies are awesome! I swear, the moment I opened the little bags that they came in and before they were heated up, they totally smelled like the fair (with a side of shame obvi).  OMG, they’re 100x better than regular Twinkies, they come out perfectly hot and decadent from the oven and you will have to control yourself not to burn the ever loving out of your mouth because they smell so amazing.  They are crunchy on the outside and super gooey in the middle.  These are a must taste, they definitely get a 10 out of 10, just let your inner hillbilly out and go get some of these.  Just fyi, I have seen these at Kroger and Wal-Mart, and luckily both have 24 hour locations and self checkout so as not to be seen purchasing this shamefully delicious food haha.

Thanks again for stopping by and I hope you all have wonderful day!!!

 

Happy Happy Friday y’all!!! Oh my is it a happy Friday too.  Someone recently asked me the question, ‘what is your ride or die cheat food?’ Even though I can get in certain moods for certain foods on my cheat days, doughnuts will always be the treat I will go out of my way to get.  I mean, what’s not to love? Delicious yeasty dough (unless cake obvi) fried and covered in sugar?…drooooll.  So anyways back to it being a happy Friday, I will be reviewing a few new-ish doughnuts, one from a very well known establishment and one from a local one, because let’s be real, local is always better—food-wise in my opinion. 

First up, we have a couple of doughnuts from Dunkin Donuts, and to be honest they may have already taken them off of the menu because they gotta keep things fresh, but anyways. 

Here we have the Chocolate Pretzel Cake Donut…

noms…

So, first off I will admit that I ignored this doughnut for a month or two because I am not a fan of cake doughnuts, solely for the fact that every time I’ve had one they have been dry.  Well, Dunkin, y’all did me good, because this doughnut was incredible.  Moist chocolate cake, with a slight all over glaze, and then topped off with caramel and salty pretzel pieces.  No joke, my mouth is watering even looking at this thing.  I have never been so wrong about a doughnut before, the mixture of the sweet and salty was perfection and this was quality tasting chocolate cake, super noms.  This doughnut gets a solid 10 out of 10.

Here we have the Dunkin Donut cake batter filled doughnut…

mmm, look at that filling and sprinkles…

So this cake batter filled doughnut pleasantly surprised me, I was fully expecting the middle to taste just like every other thick custardy filling in your standard doughnut, but it totally didn’t.  The filling really tasted like cake batter and that mixed with the chocolate topping & sprinkles made this taste especially birthday cake like.  Overall, this is a rich & decadent doughnut.  This one gets a solid 7 out of 10.

Now we’re going to go local and yes I did save the best for last…I had heard for forever that I needed to run over to Paradise Donuts because their doughnuts are just so incredible and fresh, and the only reason I didn’t head over earlier is totally me just being lazy.  I’m not lazy, but looking like a swamp monster in stretchy pants on my cheat day is usually what’s happening in my house, and if it’s not being delivered or cooked by me then I’m not getting it.  This time I planned ahead and showed up when they opened and before I went into full on land monster mode.

I had to show the box because I just thought it was so cute…

  like Heaven in a box…

drooling…

Here we have the most wonderful mix of flavors that include your basic vanilla glazed, Fruity Pebbles, Salted Caramel, Blueberry Cake, Old Fashioned Marble Sour Cream, Raspberry filled and Maple Bacon.  Holy crap y’all, these were absolutely incredible! Like, all of them were incredible.  What’s extra cool is that when I went to the store, after telling the very nice man who worked there that I had never been there before gave me one to try for free.  He handed me the Marble Old Fashioned which I would never have chosen because it’s a cake doughnut, but I am reformed solely from this doughnut.  I loved it so much I bought some too because it was sooo soft and moist.  Oh, I also got an Apple Fritter which was roughly the size of my head, and I gobbled it up before even thinking of taking a picture, oops…Anyways, definitely go and check out a local doughnut shop near you, and if you’re in the Atlanta area, I highly recommend you go check out Paradise Donuts.  My whole experience,  from the insanely nice people who work there to the quality doughnuts they’re creating gives this place a solid 10 out of 10 and if I wouldn’t sound like a complete dork a 20 out of 10 😀 

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderfully doughnut filled weekend!!!

Happy Wednesday everybody! and welcome to another installment of my Junk Food Review Series.  Recently I mentioned my lifelong love of cereal, and that it is always a staple on my cheat days because having just one measly serving is just not going to happen.  I have my favorites (hello Golden Grahams & Lucky Charms) but I’m always on the lookout for new ones to try. 

First up, we have the new Cinnamon Frosted Flakes…

look at all of that cinnamon goodness…

I have to preface this review with the fact that I absolutely love Frosted Flakes, so I really had high hopes for this one.  From the moment I opened the box I could totally smell the cinnamon, which is a good thing because, yum.  This cereal has all of the awesome sweet crunch of regular Frosted Flakes but the addition of the cinnamon totally gives this such a wonderful warm toasty taste, and it totally stays crunchy.  This cereal is a new favorite and it definitely gets a 10 out of 10, I absolutely love this cereal!

Next up we have a cereal with apparently no real name, just Keebler Cereal, which should have given me an idea at the quality of this particular item.

seems promising…

Alrighty, I was initially intrigued by the whole cookie and chocolate thing, and there really wasn’t much of that to be found in this cereal, like at all.  When I say that this was basically mildly chocolate flavored cardboard with milk on it, I’m really not exaggerating.  This is hands down one of the worst cereals I’ve ever had.  I really didn’t think something that was supposed to be cookie and chocolate flavored could taste so bad.  Y’all, I didn’t even finish the bowl if that tells you anything, this cereal gets a 1 out of 10, womp, womp.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Happy Happy Thursday everybody!!!  So we have Part 2 today for the review of Oreos because I didn’t want to throw 5 Oreo reviews into one post.  I dont want y’all to start thinking I’m obsessed with food or something hehe.  

I think I got lucky and easily found these Coconut Oroes in a store –the only Oreo that I have reviewed I might add.  I was pretty stoked to try these, because coconut is one of my absolute favorite flavors and the addition of chocolate to it is pretty much an A+ always…

look how thin…

These are the first Oreo Thins I’ve ever tried, and honestly I have had zero desire to do so because why would less creme filling and thinner cookies be a good thing?  I’m seriously regretting having had these be the first thin version I’ve ever eaten because ewww.  Y’all, the absolute first thing I thought when I bit into this cookie was, ‘OMG this tastes like Hawaiian Tropic sunscreen!’  To clarify, obviously I have never actually ingested sunscreen but you know when something tastes like the smell of something? Yeah, that is what these Oreos are, a bit of chocolate mixed with tropical smelling sunscreen.  Wow these were disappointing, I sooo love coconut but these were a disaster.  I’m not sure how they packed so much flavor in so little creme filling, for that I will give them some credit.  On the bright side, I did like the thin texture of this cookie and am now considering trying the regular chocolate Oreo thins minus the awful that is this version.  These get a 2 out of 10.

Again, another flavor of Oreo that I went to umpteen thousand stores and an empty spot where they should be was all I found.  Sooo back to Amazon to order these bad boys, and since salted caramel is always a yes in my book I didn’t complain too much when I ordered them.  Update—the morning I was going to review these, I went to the grocery store to pick up some odds and ends and they had 4 gazillion bags of these, a good thing too,  because the bag that was shipped to me had apparently been dropped numerous times and the cookies were basically dust.  

inside of the cookie thins…

It is a darn good thing that these cookie thins ended up being totally awesome and delicious because I went through a lot of irritation to get them haha.  First off, I absolutely love the texture of these cookies, they have a nice little crunch, but still a bit soft, and for such thin cookies, they packed a lot of flavor into them.  These are on my new favorites list because I just couldn’t stop eating them.  They don’t necessarily have a strong salted caramel flavor, but it’s still a rich, caramel-esque flavor.  I love these, go get some for yourself I think you’ll love them too.  These get a solid 10 out of 10.

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Happy Happy Wednesday everybody!!! I’ve been such a long time fan of Oreos in general,  as well as all of their limited edition, usually seasonal flavors.  Obviously,  the plethora of new and fun flavors that have recently come out has basically been like Christmas for my inner chubby kid.  I do want to point out that these were almost all impossible to find,  which is super irritating because I don’t at all live in the middle of nowhere, I live in a large bustling city and I swear there is a conspiracy or something haha.  If anyone out there has a BFF or cousin or something at Nabisco would you please pass along the message to send all new Oreo flavors directly to Atlanta, mmkay, thanks!  Anyways, onto the first one…

In keeping with the whole couldn’t find theme, after visiting a million stores, I finally broke down and ordered these Waffles & Syrup Oreos on Amazon (for triple the price they should have been she says bitterly to herself) and I have yet to see these in any stores even as recently as of this morning, sigh.  But, these were everywhere on social media and I just couldn’t wait to get my hands on them…

the inside, and I do appreciate the attempted ‘syrup’ look…

Okay, so in typical Oreo fashion, these are tasty, but I don’t go ‘holy cow are you sure these are really cookies and not real Waffles and Syrup?!’  There is maybe, just maybe a hint of syrup you can taste and if you close your eyes and imagine really hard, they might taste like waffles with syrup.  Still, these were still super yummy golden Oreos that were just a little bit different, if you have them in your area, by all means give them a try.  These get an 8 out of 10.

For the second Oreo, these Fireworks Oreos were also ones that I had to originally order online because they were nowhere to be found, but now they’re everywhere haha, oh well.

look at those popping candies…

So, my biggest concern was that the popping candy was going to be overly fruity and be a weird mix with the chocolate cookie part, and I totally had nothing to worry about.  These cookies are super duper awesome.  They taste like a typically delicious classic Oreo cookie except the extra fun of the mild crunch of the candy and a bit of popping.  Don’t worry there’s not enough candy in the creme filling to make you look like you’re foaming at the mouth or anything, just a little bit of fun.  I like these so much,  I just bought more for my next cheat day 🙂  These get a solid 10 out of 10.

I want to let you guys know that I literally stalked Wal-Mart waiting for these Jelly Donut Oreos to arrive there, like, to the point I actually got weird looks from people there if that tells you anything, that’s how obsessed I was to try them.  On the bright side, I didn’t have to pay 3x the price to order them online see above bitterness…

Again, nice little visual for the ‘jelly’…

It didn’t dawn on me until later that it is not denoted anywhere, or at least where I’ve seen what flavor jelly this is supposed to be.  Grape? maybe, but I do have a preference for raspberry filling in real doughnuts, just FYI.  Anyways, again, this ended up being another typically tasty Golden Oreo, but that ‘jelly’ flavor leaves a lot to be desired.  Can you see how ‘wet’ it looks in the picture above? yeah, that’s weird, not sure why it had that texture,  and the flavor was ambiguous in it’s fruitiness (literally words I never thought I would put together).  That ‘jelly’ part was pretty acidic tasting which wasn’t exactly what I was hoping for.  I only ate one of these if that tells you anything, I literally don’t do one of anything when it comes to food.  In the future, I’ll just stick to real jelly filled doughnuts instead of cookies pretending to be them.  These get a 6 out of 10 and only that high of a score because me and Oreos go way back, I am still a loyal Oreo fan after all haha.

I hope you’re having a wonderful day and as always I totally appreciate every single one of you for stopping by…Also, anything you want me to review? Give me a shout!

Happy Happy Wednesday everybody!!!  Thought I would offer y’all some hump day fun and review some Ben and Jerry’s ice creams.  In all honesty, I only know for sure that one of these ice creams is brand spanking new (because I no joke waited for it’s arrival in stores), but the others, no idea, I think they are probably considered new-ish.  Anyways let’s get to it…

First we have the ‘One Love’ ice cream which is a banana ice cream with caramel swirls and little chocolate peace signs.  This was the ice cream that I knew was about to be released and went on the hunt for the day it was supposedly out, and obviously the one I was most excited about trying…

don’t we all like to see what the ice cream looks like when the top is first taken off?…

all that delicious caramel goodness and just enough chocolate…

Ok y’all, this ice cream met every expectation I had and then some.  The banana ice cream is sooo good, it tastes like fresh banana bread, not that artificial banana candy flavor that leaves an after taste.  The caramel was super gooey (the way it should be) and perfectly swirled throughout, seriously the ratio was perfect.  Again, the little chocolate peace signs were just enough, not too much and the mix & ratio of everything just worked, it is sooo good.  I really hope they keep this flavor around,  it does not need to be a limited batch, this is a for sure 10 out of 10. 

Okay, next we have the ‘Oat of the Swirled’ Ben & Jerry’s Ice cream which is a buttery brown sugar ice cream with fudge flakes and oatmeal cinnamon cookie swirls…

nice and opened…

nom…

So first, the brown sugar ice cream is just as delicious as I had anticipated, and in my opinion,  brown sugar ice cream should really be the base far more than it is because, yum, it is nice and rich and is just different enough without being crazy.  The oatmeal cinnamon cookie swirl, is also as amazing as I had hoped it would be.  The texture is just like raw oatmeal cookie dough, which is swirled throughout.  Ok, so onto the fudge flakes, which were more like giant fudge chunks, which there were too many of and at times overpowered the whole flavor scheme.  The chocolate could have been left completely out and I would have been thrilled and if they I had,  I would have given this ice cream a 10 out of 10, since that is not the case, I give this ice cream an 8 out of 10.    

Here we have the ‘Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core’ ice cream which is a dark caramel and vanilla ice cream with Speculoos cookies and a Speculoos Cookie Butter core.  Ever since my discovery of cookie butter I’ve basically been obsessed, so I had to try this one (think I would have preferred if it was Biscoff cookie butter but whatevs). 

I scooped out some of the ice cream so y’all could see more of the cookie butter core, mmm…

look at all that cookie butter…

First off, the description says that the ice cream is dark caramel mixed with vanilla ice cream, but honestly I did not get a hint of dark caramel which was disappointing.  The ice cream base tastes like a basic mild caramel flavor which is fine but not mind blowing like I had hoped for.  They also said there were cookie pieces, and honestly didn’t find too many of those, so that was meh.  Now, the cookie butter core is a another story, that thing is throughout, thick and absolutely delicious, I could have sat there and dug out the core, eaten that and been totally fine.  Overall, this is a good ice cream, just not as good as it could have been.  If the ice cream base had been a full on dark caramel, it would have bumped this stuff to a 9 out of 10, instead I give it a solid 7 out of 10. 

Lastly, we have these Pint Slices in Americone Dream.  The flavor Americone Dream has been one of my favorite flavors for a few years now because, sweet a little bit salty, and some crunch,  so I was way excited to try these.

looks promising…

the inside…

Y’all, this has to be hands down the most disappointing ice cream item in the history of ice cream!  I absolutely love Americone dream ice cream, it’s totally awesome with all the crunchy semi-salty bites of chocolate covered waffle cones and the swirls of caramel, noms! Unfortunately, these pint slices literally contained none of that stuff.  This was basically cruddy vanilla ice cream wrapped in cruddy chocolate.  The whole thing tasted like freezer burn and I threw them all out—I NEVER throw out ice cream! Do not waste your time with these things, I give them a solid 1 out 10.  Sounds harsh, but seriously, just Ben & Jerry’s just stick to what you know, awesome ice cream.  

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Happy Wednesday everybody!!!  I would like to think I’m a bit of an M&M connoisseur, because you know, me and M&M’s go way back, so I’m always super excited to try their new flavors when they come out.  In my opinion, most of their limited edition ones have been  a bit meh (I’m looking at you pumpkin pie M&M’s) but most of the time their new ones that end up sticking around have been pretty good and these are no exception, so here we go.  Just FYI I obtained all of these different flavors of M&M’s at Wal-Mart. 

First up, the new Caramel M&M…

all of the caramel goodness inside…

The caramel M&M’s were definitely the ones I was anticipating trying the most, because caramel and chocolate is pretty much perfection in my book.  For the size of the M&M’s I was surprised how much caramel they were actually able to fit inside, unfortunately, the caramel taste didn’t shine nearly as much as I was hoping for.  The chocolate flavor was still the most dominant but overall these are pretty good, not as good as I had hoped but not too shabby.  I give these a 5 out of 10, mostly because I will not go out of my way to buy these anytime soon.  

Now for the Coffee Nut M&M’s…

ready for their closeup…

I honestly went into trying these with no expectations, kind of seemed even a bit odd, but what the heck, figured I would give them a try, I mean, I love coffee and all.  I would like to preface this with, my absolute favorite M&M’s for years have been the Peanut M&M’s, hello sweet and salty goodness…so with that said, these Coffee Nut M&M’s may replace the Peanut M&M’s as my favorite they are that awesome.  I don’t know how they did it, but just imagine the wonderfulness of Peanut M&M’s with just the perfect hint of coffee, it totally sounds weird but it just completely works.  I give these a solid 10 out of 10, definitely give these a try y’all.

Now for the Strawberry Nut M&M’s…

Again, I went in with no expectations because of the randomness of the strawberry flavor.  When you open the bag there is a noticeable strawberry smell, and I loved the color scheme of the M&M’s for the whole strawberry schtick they had going.  At first bite I thought they might just be garbage but once the flavor of the peanut really started to mesh with the strawberry flavor, you start to get a peanut butter and jelly vibe which is unexpected by kind of neat.  I kind of like these M&M’s, not saying I’m going to buy up all of the bags before they go away but not bad at all.  I give these a 6 out of 10 just for uniqueness.

As always,  these reviews are just my opinion and you may love or dislike the complete opposite of me regarding these junk foods.  Thank you so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!!

 

Happy Happy Wednesday everybody!!!  I’m so excited about this new series I’m starting today, my junk food review! Weee!  Obviously, I love talking and writing about food, and not just the stuff that I make either.  I definitely throw myself into the category of junk food connoisseur, and am always looking for the newest candy or pastries for my cheat day, so I figured I might as well share my opinion here.  Ok, so today’s review are on 2 Krispy Kreme doughnuts because doughnuts are hands down one of my favorite junk foods like ever.  One is the limited edition Sea Salt Caramel with Ghirardelli chocolate and the other is one that’s been around for a bit I believe but I just recently tried, the New York Cheesecake doughnut.

First, the Sea Salt Caramel with Ghirardelli Chocolate…

cut in half…

Alrighty, so this is a doughnut that I’ve been eyeing for weeks and have been impatiently anticipating to try.  The breakdown of this doughnut is, a salted caramel filling, with a dark chocolate Ghirardelli topping with mini dark chocolate chips and big chunks of sea salt on top.  Ok, so basically I thought this doughnut was fine.  I was expecting the whole eye-rollingly good thing to happen, but it didn’t.  I found the dark chocolate flavor to be way too overpowering, to the point that the salted caramel (one of my fav things always) was lost.  Then the mini dark chocolate chips on top then added even more to the overpowering dark chocolate problem, and the salted caramel filling, which only tasted like plain caramel in the middle was a big giant blob and not evenly distributed.  Also, even though Krispy Kreme’s doughnuts are usually super soft and moist, I found the doughnut part to be a bit dry.  I’m not at all craving this doughnut so I give it a solid 5 out of 10.  Just for reference purposes, a 10 is something I will literally daydream about and make sure I eat on cheat days.

second, the New York Cheesecake doughnut…

cut in half…

Ok, so this is another doughnut I was really anticipating eating, and another that I was really let down by.  It should tell you something that I bought 2 of these, and only ate half of 1, that literally never happens.  The filling is supposed to be cheesecake filling, and the topping is supposed to be a cheesecake icing with graham cracker crumbs.  First impression is that the filling tastes nothing like cheesecake, it tasted overwhelmingly tart, like there was lemon in it, definitely a big strike because cheesecake is awesome.  I had high hopes for the graham cracker crumble on top, which I expected to at least be a bit buttery and really, it didn’t taste like anything except hard, dry pieces of stuff.  The doughnut tasted nothing at all like cheesecake to me, super huge disappointment, I give it a 2 out of 10.

Before any of grab your pitchforks because you happen to love these doughnuts, remember this is totally just my opinion, you may love these doughnuts.  Thanks for stopping by!!!