V8 V-Fusion Sparkling Black Cherry and Pomegranate

V8 vegetable juices have been around for as long as I could remember Surprise, surprise, it is owned by the Campbell Soup Company. As a kid they were always one of those things that you see in the store and you never buy. I remember looking at the original V8 juice and wondering how people could drink tomato juice. Now I like tomatoes, but I still don't like the idea of having them in a juice.

Well anyways, I found these Sparkling V8s on sale for 25 cents a can so I decided to give it a try.

The cans look like a small Starbucks Refreshers can; thin and tall. The flavor I got says: A sparkling black cherry and pomegranate flavored blend of 5 fruits and vegetable juices from concentrate with other natural flavors. Each can is 8.4 oz, 60 calories, 14 grams of sugar. I would think that V8 would have some sort of vitamin health benefit, but the can only contains 20% of your daily vitamin C needs. Which is nothing cause you can get over 100% of your vitamin C needs if you just had a tiny orange every day. Not to mention, juice from concentrate is not as awesome as real juice. All in all, this is an unhealthy snack.

So now for the taste, my mother thinks it tastes like medicine. I personally think it tastes just weird. I don't like it, I don't hate it. It's whatever. It reminds me of black cherry soda, and you do kinda get a hint of some pomegranate flavor. But somewhere in there is this funny vegetable flavor. It is bubbly, but not as bubbly as regular soda. It's truly "sparkling". On the bright side, it is much more flavorful than regular soda, and it leaves an aftertastes that is not entirely pleasant, but sweet nonetheless.

Personally, I don't like vegetable juices in general. Vegetables are sort of a salad, and food thing for me - not smoothies and juices. I do want a Jack Lalanne juicer one day though.

I give this a 3/10

Sambazon Protein: Chocolate

So I was at Whole Foods when I saw that they had  a sale on Sambazon drinks. I've never got into the acai hype that occurred two years ago because the products were so expensive. But since it was on sale, I was interested in splurging and trying something new. Plus, I'm in a position where I do not have a blender and thick drinks are something I crave at times. 

This particular shake is in their protein line, but you should not be expecting too much protein out of it. The bottle only contains roughly 10 grams of protein, which you can get for cheaper out of a glass of milk. But then again it is enough protein for this drink to be a little snack, along with almost 7 grams of fiber in this drink. The protein in there is hemp protein. 

It is made with over 100 acai berries which are blended in there. I don't know how big acai berries are but it can be hard to believe that there are 100 of them in there, but a company would not lie right? =/

Okay so texture wise, it is super thick, and slightly gritty. But the grit clearly comes from the berries and not the protein. It tastes chocolaty, but not too heavy in chocolate. It's dairy free so they use soy milk and chocolate powder to get that flavoring. You honestly do taste that soy milk in there, but it is super thick. I personally do not like soy milk that much, I've tried it many times but I can only down so much of it before I start getting sick of it. It's too think for me, but mixed with all this berries and whatever else is in there, it tastes delicious.

There is a slight berry - ish flavor associated with the chocolate. Not too heavy at all though, but you can recognize it in the background. 

It is pretty filling I guess. It will hold you out for another hour or two. I would consider it a good snack, not as a meal replacement. Each bottle has 250 calories. 

It's all natural, organic, vegan, and pretty good. I give the product a nice 7/10. I would give it an 8, but it is on the pricey side whether you buy it on sale or not. Let's just say you don't get in on sale, it would be $2.99 regular price. 

Grandma's Double Fudge Chip Cookies

We're all familiar with those Grandma's cookies by Frito-lay. Many of us find them on the little shelves in single serve packages while we wait in line at the store.

These cookies come in a box with 6 individual wrapped foil packs each containing 6 cookies, or two servings of three cookies. This is a popular thing with Grandma's cookies in that there are always two servings in each pack. Usually this is annoying when it comes to their homestyle cookies because I end up eating the whole pack for 400 calories when I could have just had one cookie for 200. But in this case I can have the pack of all size cookies for 300 calories - not too bad.

Since these cookies are foil wrapped you are surprised to find out what they look like when you open them. They look just like they look on the package, or like any traditional double chocolate cookies. They are crunchy, not chewy, which is a disappointment for me because I always prefer chewy cookies.

That was until I took a bite of these. I expected them to have that light cocoa flavor like many double chocolate chip cookies do; but these cookies are as chocolaty as brownies. The texture is almost flaky. Unlike the usual crunchy cookies, these don't crumble in your mouth like chips. Another amazing thing about them is that they don't taste artificial. They actually taste like they were baked by your grandmother.

They pair perfectly with coffee or milk. The best way to eat them is let them melt in your mouth and get chewy.

Lean Cuisine Roasted Vegetable Deep-Dish Pizza

My life is all about trying new things. Something I have never tried before is frozen pizza. What better place to start than the ever so famous Lean Cuisine deep dish pizza? I don't know about you, but I prefer deep dish pizza to the thin crust crap that people like to order. Honestly guys, the bread part is one of the best parts of the whole damn pizza; why would you take it away? Thin crust equals crunch crust which is the same thing as chips. I like my pizza with that moist, chewy, thick, bready crust.




So I chose the roasted vegetable kind because it was the only one to choose from. If it were up to me, I would choose the cheesiest variety out there, which I believe is the Three Cheese Pizza.

So those pictures up there are from the website. But it does not really look like that when you take it out.

The pizza was much bigger than I thought it would be. You get to eat the whole thing for 320 calories. The fact that it was so big for such a small amount of calories forced me to predict that this frozen pizza was not going to taste that great.

Well I took it out of its plastic wrap and placed it on the weird silver thing that you're supposed to place it on which comes inside the box and cooked it in the microwave.

The cheese at the edge was slightly overcooked and the cheese in the middle was not as cooked...if you get my drift.

Well I took a bite. Saltless is all I can say. But once I threw some more sodium chloride on there it brought out all the missing flavors and actually tasted good. I didn't taste the roasted part of the vegetables; and there was hardly as many vegetables or cheese as there is on the package on the actual pizza.

The bread was kinda dry too. It was sort of tough and not chewy like I hoped it would be. The bread also had not flavor.

Good thing I've never eaten this stuff before because it's a waste of time and money. It does not taste the price is all I can say. It's not even that filling.