Kev's Snack Reviews

Recently, Home Bargains started selling these bags of Pringles Minis in Original and Sour Cream and Onion flavours. They’re only 39p a bag so I had to stock up on a few packs. A quick google reveals that these were launched into the Vending Machine trade earlier this year, but presumably the pandemic has put a halt on that. Unfortunately they were not as great as anticipated. They tasted somewhat stale and not as flavoursome as normal Pringles, and also felt less satisfying to eat. Overall these were a miss. Such a shame because they had potential! p

I do love it when a new Milka variety is brought to the UK, and luckily Home Bargains recently brought out a whole new range in their stores. It includes large "Mmax" bars with Hazelnuts, as well as the smaller Caramel, Noisette and White Chocolate bars (do check out my reviews of the latter two). Since I've never tried it before I had to give the Confetti variety a go - it's Milka chocolate with basically mini Smarties embedded in it - a simple, but often tasty combination. I have to say the bar certainly looks the part - with the cross sections showing the colourful candies embedded within. How does it taste though, is the most important question right? Well I don't know what went wrong with these bars but unfortunately this was pretty lacklustre. The milk chocolate tastes a little cheap and dare I say, waxy, with the mini Smarties candies adding virtually nothing to enhance the bar. They're mildly crunchy but not particularly so, and just seem ra...

A quick review today, since these Fox's Limited Edition Tropical Glaciers will soon be making way for the new Winter limited edition. These are currently available in various stores but I was kindly sent them by Home Bargains, where you can be guaranteed to find all the latest limited edition Fox's sweets, as well as many other cool products. These contain a tropical variety of Mango & Passionfruit, Pineapple and...Coconut! I was not expecting that one! Opening the wrappers, of course they smelled super tropical! The mango and passionfruit is the classic tropical flavour, very pleasant and tasty. Pineapple is another classic and one of my favourite sweet flavours - the ones in Starburst Tropical used to be absolute favourites. I really enjoyed this one! The coconut was interesting. You wouldn't quite expect this to work in sweet form but it's actually very pleasant. It's a sweet and subtle coconut flavour, but unmistakable. Is it artificial? Yeah of c...

A big thankyou to Home Bargains who recently sent me a box of various snacks that vare available from their stores. Amongst them, were these Bohme Chocolate bars. They're pretty cheap in store (19p or so) and are pretty tasty to boot! Bohme is a German company and the bars consist of dark chocolate and fondant creme fillings, in orange and lemon flavours. They're vegan and dairy free - always handy if you have allergies. The bars contain 5 generous chunks of dark chocolate, which is quite thick. The fondant creme filling is quite firm with nice sweet citrus aromas. They both taste pretty darn delicious. The chocolate is standard semisweet dark chocolate, nothing fancy, but the creme fillings are where all the action is. You need to have to have a sweet tooth and enjoy fondant chocolates to appreciate these - think the fruit cremes from Quality Street and Roses. The Lemon variety had the edge for me, but the Orange was a nice variation too and did remind me of the ora...

Since Donald Trump is making his controversial UK visit this week (and there will be the amazing Donald Trump Baby balloon, pictured above, flying over London to mark the occasion!) I thought I'd post something topical, not a review but a Spotted In Shops with these Donald Trump inspired novelties that can be found in Home Bargains stores. They're pretty genius items to poke fun at the man, and include... Build That Wall Chocolate Bar: This says it all really! Maybe Mr Trump would like a goody bag of British sweets with one of these in... Make America Save Again Money Box: In need of need a pot of dreams? Make America save again! Donald Trump Rubber Duck: Imagine having that thing in the bath with you...it's the stuff of nightmares! *shudder* There were a few other Trump-themed items in Home Bargains although I didn't get pictures of them all...if anyone spots them, let me know in the comments!