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Marks and Spencer have excelled themselves with their Halloween goodies this year, and it’s hard to pick what to write about next after our good shop in their foodhall. I went for these Halloween Fizzy Pumpkin Mallows because they look so cute! They have little pumpkin faces on them, which look even better in real life than the camera managed to capture. They really are adorable. The marshmallows

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 We went for a decently long walk in Sandwell Park yesterday, from one end over to the RSPB reserve and discovered they had decent snacks.And if you purchased a sandwich snack and drink you got a 20% discount - win!I chose the biggest sandwich - chicken and chorizo, but mostly salad and good vitamins.Pretty good fillings!I think it needed to sit out of the fridge a bit to get all the

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Halloween is creeping ever closer. Soreen have come up with these Scream Cookies & Cream flavoured Mini Loaves. I love Soreen of any flavour with my lunch. To me, these sound perfect for any scary lunchbox over Spooky Season.On opening the first packet there was an aroma of cookies to the brown mini loaf inside. There were chocolate chips all throughout this Soreen Scream Cookies & Cream.

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This McVitie’s Penguin Bar is a penguin-shaped chocolate bar from Penguin, who usually make biscuit bars. I’d say that was confusing, but to be honest, after their sideways offering of Penguin salt and vinegar crisps, this feels a lot more on brand! Arguably, this is what everyone who has ever bought a pack of Penguin biscuit bars hoped they would look like. This, however, was sold as an

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 I like vegan food, and I like trying new things so when I spotted this variation on the steaks-but-vegan idea I decided to give it a shot.  It was orphaned on the shelf so it's price was a mystery until I got to the till - £7! But fortunately £5.50 as a 'deal'.  This still seems a bit much, but everything does these days.It looks luxury - and there are two!So - what is it? Water!

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Marks & Spencer’s have brought out a lot of different snacks for Halloween this year. These Halloween Wicked Pickled Worms are potato snacks with pink pickled onion flavour seasoning. I do like pickled onion crisps with a cheese and cold meats meal, so that’s what I’ll have with these. I will eat my dinner whilst watching Bake Off. It’s not very scary, but a cheese and cold meats dinner is

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Wow, this Peak Peppermint Fondant chocolate was something I spotted at the wonderful farm shop at Gloucester Services. It took me straight back to thoughts of a legendary chocolate bar from my youth, Pyramint. Made by Terry’s, it was a dark chocolate pyramid filled with peppermint fondant, and I loved them! This particular chocolate is made with dark chocolate too, but it is topped with white

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Having tried the fantastic Spiced Pear tea from Whittard, it should come as no surprise that, as a cinnamon lover, I also picked up this tub of Cinnamon Roll hot chocolate. This time of year is perfect for those of us who love the warming spices that make an appearance as the weather gets colder. Cinnamon is my favourite spice, so I was really looking forward to trying this drink. It has a white

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I'm a big fan of noodles, and the hand cut ones at Brummie Noodle Company in the Han Dynasty food hall are the best ones (even though I think they changed their name on the big sign!).  So - I decided to try and do my own at home.  The newest oriental grocer is mainly Korean, but does have other nations included and it's a younger, fresher selection than Day In (but only they sell my

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Halloween is fast approaching. We need to stock up on sweets to give out to Trick or Treaters. There are ten mini-bags of these M&S Sinister Sour Sweets in a multipack. If they’re really good, they may not make it to those pesky kid’s sticky fingers.In each mini-bag of these M&S Sinister Sour Sweets there are sour sugar coated gummies of different spooky shapes. There are ghosts that

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The Wonka brand has had a bit of a relaunch, and thanks to a new show on Netflix, we now have lots of new goodies to try, all inspired by the magical chocolate and sweets factory. I was very excited to find the new range in the supermarket and couldn’t resist picking up these Wonka Oompa Loompa Sweets, along with a stash of other goodies from the brand. Don’t worry, reviews of those will follow

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 The new Oriental grocers in Birmingham is Korean focussed but has a good mix of Thai and Japanese things for me to eat too.Here we have authentic Thai Pocky!I've never seen mango flavour - but it's a big part of the typical Thai tourist breakfast - along with dirtmelon which we didn't enjoy. Pocky still sounds like cat-treatsEven the ingredients are of interestBut the Pocky are still

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Believe it or not, but this is my breakfast. I have a pub meal out tonight which takes up all of my calories for the day, so I don’t usually eat beforehand. I like a really good pub meal, like a mixed grill with a gammon steak, and sticky toffee pudding with custard to finish it off. So, these limited edition Golden Wonder Thai Sweet Chilli crisps are to keep me going before I go out tonight.

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Sometimes you just need a bit of chocolate and a bit of a treat. Work has been draining, so I thought I’d have a look for one of my favourite chocolate fillings, praline, and spotted this smart-looking Moser Roth Smooth Praline Belgian Milk Chocolate bar in Aldi. Nothing says after-work treat quite like a big bar of chocolate. I love nuts and chocolate, so this had to end up in my basket.I opened

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I really do love hot drinks, and Whittard is one of those places I always seem to end up shopping at when I fancy a treat. I love their hot chocolate flavours and their instant fruit teas, so obviously this new autumn Spiced Pear Instant Tea ended up in my basket on my last shop. I opened up the tub and put three heaped teaspoons into my mug. As usual with Whittard's instant teas, it dissolved

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 Japan has an amusingly named rehydration drink called Pocari Sweat.  It's basically powdered grape juice and electrolytes but it's fantastically compulsive and really does seem to hydrate better than most drinks.And I've found it in powder form!As the bottom says this is 66g of powder to make 1L of drink. This is annoying but logical.It does come with instructions but as they are pour

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I do love watching The Traitors. The plots, the twists and turns, the back stabbing. It’s just so much fun to watch how people find it so hard to read each other. I know I’d likely be rubbish at the game. I’m not a good liar, so if I was a Traitor I’d probably be like Richard E. Grant, and just blurt it out. I’m not good at reading people either. Nevertheless, having some sweet and sour chews to

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As we are in spooky month, I feel like I can properly start tucking into the Halloween goodies we have lined up to tell you about. First up is these Jaffaween Cake Bars Cherry. The spell check does not like the name, but I don’t mind it! Jaffaween Cake Bars are available in Orange, but I don’t think I’ve tried the Cherry ones before, so I went with those. Plus, red for Halloween seems a bit more

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 Way back we did a World Heist review - it was terrible - and now the economic instability caused by that promotion has directly led to World Heist Two!Ignore my colleague's sad Cheeseburger with no cheese - I can't remember why that exists.(ed - I asked - it's the cheapest way to get a double burger with no cheese)Annoyed by the lack of the German Rosti burger I decided to take a different

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If there’s one thing in life that I have discovered, it’s that I have a lot of favourite sandwiches. One of my favourites is the all time classic; ham and tomato sandwich. Add a bit of salad cream or mayonnaise, a lot of Colman’s English Mustard, and a little pepper and I am well away. Even if it always gets really messy. I generally have some sort of bacon flavoured crisps to accompany my ham

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I spotted these at the supermarket and thought they looked nice. There have been a few Baileys-flavoured products come out over the last year or so, but it is always nice to see a new one. Here we have three Baileys Chocolate Caramel Whirls, all individually wrapped and in a box, so they would be perfect as a stocking filler. Apologies for hinting at Christmas this early!The box is light, so I

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There has been an increase over the years in products that combine peanut butter and chocolate in the UK, and we’ve even had a mainstream Kit Kat in the flavour. I would say, though, that we haven’t really taken on PB&J over here (for those wondering, that’s peanut butter and jelly). Apparently, it is a popular sandwich filling across the pond. However, I found this Reese’s Strawberry PB&

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 We recently went to Denmark for the week - but surprisingly didn't pick up many branded snacks.  I gravitated towards the pastries and cafes - and it wasn't quite hot enough for the icecreams.I did spot these CrustiesLike a store-brand version of the Knopper this comes as a multi pack.Very affordable, not quite as creamy or rich as the originals, but still a nice snack.  Really

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I have a comic con on Saturday and Sunday to sell toys at. Whilst I like a beer with my dinner, I rarely feel like drinking on a ‘school night’, so to speak. A non-alcoholic drink is most welcome on those nights. I usually like the taste, and hopefully the flavour will go well with whatever sandwich I choose. This Peroni Nastro Azzuro Arancia Rossa is flavoured with blood orange. So, I may have a

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There is a lot of discussion about whether Jaffa Cakes are a cake or a biscuit, as they are found in the biscuit aisle but are technically cakes, apparently. Well, this Muller Corner Jaffa Cakes edition is definitely a yoghurt. I do like Jaffa Cakes, so I couldn’t resist trying these new yoghurts. On one side we have plain yoghurt with plenty of Jaffa sauce marbled through it, and on the other we

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