Rabbit Season! Duck Season! Girl Scout Season!

This year I don't have a friend or family member participating in Girl Scouts, which is how I would normally end up buying a box or two. (Gotta support your friends!) So I thought I was in the clear, after all I still have a ton of other food to review, but they still got me! 

Every Friday night, a troop camped out at the train station and I could only resist for so long. It was a long week, the kids are there at the table trying to sell cookies, and everyone else is walking on by ignoring them...and they got me. I picked up two boxes of flavors I haven't had before. 

Adventurefuls and Toast-Yay!

Sometimes you feel like a Nut - or Two?

Another seasonal de-stash. 

I grabbed these from Lidl thinking I could incorporate them into my baking, but my cookie boxes were crowded already, so they were relegated to snacking. 

Problem is, I rarely eat nuts. (That's what she said!) I'm not allergic, and I love nut-flavored things like, marzipan, Reese's cups, and pistachio ice cream, or even chopped peanuts scattered over a savory pad Thai. But snacking on a handful of plain almonds? Not going to happen. 

But, these are fairly healthy (especially when compared to all the Doritos currently on top of my fridge), so I took them into work so I could eat them as a desk-snack. Maybe they'll surprise me and I'll be converted...but I doubt it. 

Sometimes Foodie's Not-so-Secret Stash - Part 1

My food hoard is officially out of control. I have lots of expired food, and I hate myself for it. It's a waste of money, resources, and space...so, I'm finally going to do something about it. Tomorrow, after work, I am sitting down and filming myself trying as much of this junk as I can stand (anything that's still safe anyway) and getting rid of it, once and for all! 

That said, here are four items from my hoard pile that I already had photographed and just, never got around to posting. Consider this a literal taste of things to come...

Who Asked For These? - Snickers Creamy (3 Different Flavors)

Snickers Creamy Squares  - Walmart

More items from my unexpected, "I just want to Walmart for Command Hooks," junkfood haul!

It's been well documented on my blog, and our defunct podcast, Candyology 101, that I I'm a MilkyWay kind of girl, but now-a-days I live in a Snickers household. My fiance and his daughter both love Snickers bars, it's their go-to candy bar and the first one to disappear in our candy drawer. (Does every home have a candy drawer? Or is that just a me-thing?) So I grabbed these thinking that I may not be a fan, but my family could potentially love them. Oh, how wrong I was...

Pancakes: Breakfast Champions? Or Glorified Syrup Sponges?

Trader Joe's Pancake Bread  - Trader Joe's

I haven't bought anything from Trader Joe's since I moved into my house two years ago. It's too far of a drive, so I've been living vicariously through my friends over at What's Good at Trader Joe's.  There have been some murmurs of a Trader Joe's AND a Costco being built in my area in the near future, but I'll believe it when I see it. We've been burned by business promises before.

Anyway, while my boyfriend fiance (still not used to it!) was out, he happened to see a Trader Joe's and popped in to grab me a pancake-y present because, "It looks like something you'd review." And he's right!  

Today I'm going to skip packaging and get right into the review! (For the record, packaging is cute, but a little boring.) 

NEW Target Exclusive Maple Peeps!

Coming Sept. 4th to Target

I spotted these over on the official Peeps Facebook page last night. They're Target exclusive and will be available on September 4th. 

This flavor seems pleasant enough, but I'm surprised they didn't go with a pancake theme instead of straight-up Maple Brown Sugar. Also, can we just collectively write a letter demanding that Peeps ditch their gross "fudge" dipped bottom? I think these new flavors would be far better without it. Or am I the only one who hates these them? 

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Maple Bacon Chips from Aldi - YouTube Video Review

Sorry for the lack of written reviews. Even though I should be outside enjoying the sun...my immune system had other plans. I have the flu! Good times. Good times.

I'll write something up a little later, in the meantime here's another short video review!

Maple Bacon Pop-Tarts - Walmart

Maple Bacon Pop-Tarts - Walmart

There was once a time where we thought that adding bacon to something automatically made it better. Bacon cheeseburgers? Genius! Bacon pancakes? Brilliant! Bacon Pop-tarts? Okay, this one I'm a little on the fence about.

I love bacon, and it's one of the reasons why I haven't adopted my boyfriend's vegetarian diet even though my personal eating habits lean towards the veggie side. When my sister and I survive an usually hard work week I always buy and cook an ENTIRE PACKAGE of bacon on the weekend and we eat the entire thing. (Throughout the day, not all at once. We tried eating the entire thing as breakfast and it was too much bacon. Which was a thing I never thought I'd ever say in my life, but it's true.) We call this bacon-feast, "real people breakfast" and it's usually served with eggs, toast, and all that well-balanced-breakfast stuff you see on TV commercials and cereal boxes. Just with 400% more bacon. Okay, I think I've proven my bacon-loyalty, but with that being said...I don't know how bacon will translate into Pop-Tarts, but I'm ready to find out! (Although to be honest...I'm going into this with really low expectations.)

Episode 26: Honey & Maple (Let's get sticky!)

Are you ready to get sticky? (Because that's how you get ants.) 

Nothing is better on a cold, wet, miserable day then some soothing honey or maple flavored sweets. On today's episode of Candyology 101, Cybele and I discuss the official flavor trend of 2015, HONEY! The year is almost out, so Cybele and I are taking a look back and discussing some of the new honey products that have come our way, some of the old fashioned ones we grew up with, and we also tackle the idea of honey being a flavor we often relate to medicine, like throat drops.

Then, to finish things off, we talk about another sticky sweet syrup-y treat, maple candy! Maple is a flavor we often relate to fall weather, but it seems to fall (ha!) by the wayside due to the massive onslaught of Pumpkin Spiced goodies we've been getting each year. Grab some maple pancake flavored jelly beans and some honey caramels and tune in!

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Cybele from Candy Blog

Maria (Me) from Sometimes Foodie

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Maple Collon - H-Mart: Cherry Hill, NJ

Maple Collon - H-Mart: Cherry Hill, NJ

Remember when I reviewed D'asses? That box was right next to these on the shelf at H-Mart. Collon and D'asses? A match made in heaven! Being the totally mature adult I am, I took photos of the boxes together to send to all my friends and giggled like an idiot before tossing them both into my handcart. I'm nearly 30, and potty humor still makes me laugh. (Not sure if I should be ashamed or proud of that.) Come on, how could I not buy D'asses and Collon?