HOLLY'S CHEAT DAY

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.

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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.

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