In our household, Entenmann's products are a big treat.  Once a box is opened, it's emptied pretty quickly.  Entenmann's also brings back fond memories of my grandmother, so when I eat their products, I get a nice memory of my grandmother as well as a delicious baked good. So I was excited to try out the new Pancake Pockets.  These are exactly like what they sound like - very similar to pita bread, but made out of pancakes instead.  These pockets come with strawberry, chocolate or maple filling.  I  chose to buy the Pancake Pockets with strawberry filling because chocolate sounded gross and maple was not available (but if they had had maple, I would have been so on that!). It's really easy to "make" these - just pop them (in the plastic wrapper) in the microwave for 10 seconds and that's plenty of time to make filling nice and gooey but not too hot.  These would not work well in the toaster because the filling would ooze out and that would just be bad.  I'm sure you could … [Read more...]

I'm always looking for  the next great product, mostly food-related.  I love when these products are low-calorie and better for me and when they are delicious.  Well, I think I'm on to something here with Ayala's Herbal Water.  Get this - Ayala's Herbal Water has zero calories, zero artificial sweeteners, flavors and colors and zero chemical preservatives.  Okay, now that I've got your attention about what this product doesn't have, let me tell you what it does have - pure water that is infused with the finest natural herbs from around the world. My tasting sample kit came with a suggested order of how to taste the 6 flavors of Ayala's Herbal Water.  I wanted to get the best experience, so I tasted them in this order.  I will give my thoughts on each flavor: Ginger Lemon Peel: Definitely more lemon than ginger, I love that the lemon is not artificial.  This is real lemon that doesn't leave that bitter taste in your mouth like artificial lemon.  This is perfect to settle my … [Read more...]