flavored cream cheese

 we decided to get some bagels and flavored cream cheese, because why not?

we got chive philadelphia cream cheese (they only had the whipped kind) & brown sugar cinnamon wal-mart brand.

we got plain bagels for the brown sugar cinnamon & double cheese for the chive.

both taste ok, the chive is not as strong tasting as i thought it might be. the whipped cream cheese is kind of odd, but i'm used to the regular cream cheese consistency. the BSC is the consistency of a butter spread.

we've had flavored cream cheeses before.  philadelphia cream cheese smoked salmon, which is good if you want a cheap lox & cream cheese bagel. mixed berry, also from PCC (or was it wal-mart brand?), very berry flavored. and PCC garden vegetable, good in small doses.

the spring weather

 it has been cool and very rainy the past few days.

it's supposed to warm up to nearly 80c next week, but still might be a bit rainy though.

tropical mix sprite

 my brother found this at a local convenience store the other day & decided to split it with him, in case it was bad.

according to the coca-cola site (they make it, if you don't know);

"An ode to our past for all the Sprite Remix fans from the early 2000s. Rediscover the combination of the crisp, familiar Sprite lemon-lime taste with delicious strawberry and pineapple flavors."

it smelled coconut-y when it was first opened & tasted a bit mango-ish. and later on i had a vague "fruity" taste in my mouth. 

not anything to get again.

easter 2024

 

hope you have a nice holiday.

and find a lot of discount candy tomorrow.

st. patrick day 2024

 

i decided to skip looking for irish soda bread this ear. too dry & too many raisins. 

anyway, don't drink too much green bee and watch out for this that do.

dollar general bbq potato chips

 when we went to dollar general several day back we also go their brand of bbq potato chips.

not a lot of flavor on them. which isn't all that bad, don't want to be overwhelmed like with the chili cheese corn chips. but still, not something to get again.

spiced coke

 my brother picked this up from a convenience store a few days ago because he thought it would be similar to the cinnamon coke he missed out on 3 or so years ago.

he didn't see the small print on the lower left of the label that it was raspberry & spice flavored.

we split it so it would too much to put up with. 

it smelled a little like raspberries when it was first opened, but not afterwards. and kind of tasted perfume-y, like you walked past someone with a lot of scent on & took a breath through your mouth. 

it is not anything we want to get again.

dollar general brand chili cheese corn chips

 haven't been in a dollar general in along time, so we went on tuesday.

discovered they had their store brand of chili cheese corn chips, so we got a bag. 

very spicy probably to cover up how cheap they are. cheap corn & stuff in the chips, fried in cheap oil.

super bowl food

 for the super bowel we had digiorno classic crust meet lovers pizza, wal-mart cheese bread sticks from the take & bake area near the deli, buffalo chicken dip, burnt ends dip (wal-mart) & pretzel sticks to tip in them.

the digiorno pizza was a disapointment. first; "classic crust" is no different than then. second it wasn't as good as the red barron pizza we had a week earlier. and it's more money. we used to get their rising crust, but then it was always really wet in the middle(?). d for disappointment.

the cheese bread stick produced a lot of oil, i'm so glad used the cooking sheet with the sides (jelly roll pan?) or it would've been everywhere in the bottom of the oven and maybe started a fire.

the dips were OK, but just a bit too much in terms of spices & "coming back" later.

the pretzels were fine, just basic stuff in a back from the chip section.

valentine's day 2024

 

hope you had a nice holiday, even if you spent it alone.

hopefully you can get some discounted candy tomorrow, before all of the easter stuff is put out. even tough some places have had a section of easter stuff since the beginning of january.

strawberry shake* M&Ms

 a limited time flavor thing for valentine's day we got from target.

not good, as is the case with most strawberry-flavored things. i should've said no when my brother suggested them. but he never agrees to it when i suggest getting limited time flavors of M&Ms.

 

*they can't be called "milkshake" because that  requires there be milk in them.

two more little debbie ice creams

 found apple pie & turtle brownie at wal-mart in the discounted frozen area. we had never seen them before, so i don't know why they were discounted. wal-mart will do that sometimes. you see stuff you never saw before in the reduced/discount areas and it's nearly expired, but you've never seen the product before in the regular prized area.

apple pie tastes cinnamon-y & no apple taste to be found.

turtle brownie is a nice chocolate-y ice cream, but i didn't notice any caramel & there were very few nuts.

cheesecake factory brown bread

 we've heard about this "famous" bread for years. wal-mart sells it and after years of going back and forth on getting it, we decided to try it.

nothing special. it really is just pumpernickel with a bit of molasses.

Chocolate Frosted Donut kit kat

 the latest kit kat flavor discovered at wal-mart.

not really good. kind of smelled like coffee, as happens with cheap chocolate.

they keep trying with these flavors & none have been that great.

it is cold!

 winter is finally here.

freezing temperatures with either snow or sleet.

it might warm up next week, but not as much as it has before.

Veggie Blends Cheerios

 a new cereal we discovered at wal-mart. we got the blueberry banana one.

it has a 1/4-cup of added fruit and vegetables per serving. and it doesn't taste good.

but if you're looking to eat more fruit and vegetables it might be helpful.