Product review: Crispy dark chocolate with puffed rice

Time for a product review again =) I found this crispy dark chocolate with puffed rice from the brand Perle d'Or in Lidl in Belgium, and i've wanted to try it for a while. They also have with lighter chocolate, but that one isn't vegan, so dark chocolate it is =) It costed 1.49 € for 125 g in Lidl.

It kinda looks like chocolate pringles =p

The chocolate tastes quite dark, even though the darkness is only 57%. Also the puffed rice content is only 11%, and the puffed rice pieces are quite small. Personally i would prefer more puffed rice so the chocolate chips would taste milder, and also larger pieces of the puffed rice for more crispiness =) 

This chocolate is nice for an occasional snack, but personally i couldn't eat too many chips at the same time (which probably is a good thing, or i would eat the whole thing in 5 minutes  xD). 

I might buy it again in the future, but i'm not sure. There are other things that i like better. With my suggestions for how it would taste better i would probably buy it more often though. I'm glad i tried it out though =p

Jacques Chocolate with Banana Filling

Next up for my reviews is the Jacques chocolate with banana filling. These chocolates comes with different fillings, such as vanilla, banana, blueberry, pistache, almond, and cranberry-orange.

I bought mine in Colruyt. For 200 g it was 1.68 € for the banana filled chocolate. The prices varies from taste to taste, with the highest for about 2.14 € and the cheapest for about 1.38 €. They also have smaller sizes.

I kinda like these chocolates, but at the same time i feel that they have too much sugar. The main ingredient is sugar. The banana filled chocolate tastes like banana, but the taste is overpowered by the sugar, making it too sugary. It would have tasted much better if they filled it with more banana, and less sugar. The banana content is only 0.9 %, and should have been way higher! The dark chocolate covering tastes good and has minimum 53% cacao. The pairing of dark chocolate and filling is nice, with the downside of the overpowering sugariness.

Oops, i ate half already

Another thing i feel i feel could be improved is to divide the chocolate rows into smaller pieces, so it's easier to divide it and not eat so large pieces at a time. There is 6 rows in a 200 g chocolate, making each row about 33g each. If they would make for instance 4 pieces per row it would be better i think.

I think i have tasted all the different tastes, and i more or less like them all even if they are too sugary for my preferences, but i will probably buy random tastes every now and then whenever i feel like some filled chocolate. I think my favorite is the cranberry-orange taste.

I will give this chocolate 4-/6 cuz its a nice alternative for vegans who wants some filled chocolate, but has too much sugar taste, so it could definitely be better if they replaced some(much) of the sugar with more of the filling that's actually supposed to be in it.

Anyone has tasted these chocolates? Did you like them? =) Feel free to comment! =D

Alpro Soya Lime-Lemon Yoghurt

Here in Belgium/Antwerpen they got many vegan products that they don't have in Bergen/Norway, so it's fun trying out new stuff =D Figured i would tell a bit about what i think about some of the products =D

First up is the alpro soya lime-lemon yoghurt (Alpro soya Mild & Creamy Limoen-Citroen in dutch)

I bought this yoghurt in Colruyt for 2.68 € for 750 g.

 

This yoghurt was mild and creamy just like the title said, without any chuncks of fruit. It's a sweet yoghurt with a nice fresh taste of lemon and lime without it being overpowering or too sour.

Personally i like lemon/orange yoghurts very well because of their freshness, and this is no exception! I think it may be my new favorite yoghurt too =D I will definitely buy it again, along with some other yoghurts to test out =) I give it 6/6 for score =D

The only bad thing i can say about this yoghurt is that it was a bit hard to get the last spoons of yoghurt out of the packaging. I tried doing the carton upside down for a bit and that helped, but i was impatient, so a little yoghurt ended up in the sink instead of in my stomach when i cleaned out the carton with water. It may help waiting longer, or by opening the carton to get the last bit of yoghurt out =p I don't like draining yummy yoghurt down the sink, even if it's just a little bit xD

Anyone else has tasted this lime-lemon yoghurt? Did you like it? Whats your favorite yoghurt taste? =D Feel free to comment =D

An update from Belgium

Hi guys =p

This easter i went to Belgium to be with my bf who lives in Antwerpen =p I came here on sunday and will go back on tuesday together with my bf, so i'll be bit more than a week here =p

From the airport in Bergen

I travelled via Copenhagen, and my 2nd plane was 1.5 hours delayed (happens quite often i think that there are delays xD)
My luggage also got lost on the way, but luckily they found it next day and brought it to me =D As compensation for my lost luggage i got a kit with some toothbrush, toothpaste, deo, hairbrush etc to survive the night without my luggage so that was pretty nice =p

So far i havent done a lot, my bf has still school this week, so i've been following him there, and tried to do some schoolwork of my own too (still laying some behind :x), but i typically ended up on fb or so xD

The weather has been nice, but cold.

Today we went on a trip where my bf showed me where he used to live (was pretty close to where he lives now). Was really nice to see =D

Me and some statue

My bf with the same statue

My bfs old home (jk ofc xd)

Fancy house, ofc need posing pic xd

Me posing too =p

We also went into a shop where i found vegan candy! =D So tested out two of them, the chocobanana and the fruit jelly things (made with agar-agar and not gelatine, and no carmine or milk in it either ;p)

Looked tempting to enter xd

Middle row is vegan =D (ignore top row and lowest row xd)
Btw check ingredients first to be sure, i didnt check everything

Candy we bought =p I ate half already @_@

I was hoping the bananas would be skum bananas like i used to eat before, but they were jelly bananas (it actually says on too :>) but they were still good ofc =p Fruit jellies were kinda sugary and not so chewy as some jelly might be, but they were good too =p Now i got sugar shock @_@

Hope rest of the vacation will be nice too =D

Mothersday + trip + fastelavn + sausage testing

Today it's both mothersday and fastelavn (better if they do it on 2 seperate days i think xD), so me and my sis decided to give a family trip as mothersday present, and i also made cookies for the occasion and i also wanted to make a cake, but would kinda be too much with the fastelavn boller too @_@

Sadly i didnt take pic of the cookies but they were yummy =p With carrots, hazelnuts, chocolate and raisins =D If i make them again i'll try to take pic and post recipe xD

So ye, whole family went on a hiking trip to a small mountain nearby called Storrinden. From there we can see the airport, so it's pretty cool =p It was nice sunny weather, but ground was frozen snow on it, so was kinda slippery some places, but luckily no one fell even if it was pretty close sometimes xD (a different story on saturday when i went to work and i fell 2 times in a row >.>) We ate the cookies when we reached the top =p

Here are some pictures from the trip (all pictures are taken by my sister):

When we got home after a bit, fastelavn boller was ready =D It's normal bolle with jam and cream in it and powdered sugar on top. Recipe on boller you can find here. We also had hot chocolate with it =p

Later in the evening i shared some Wheaty ToRo sausages i had bought on veganlife with my bf =p They were really good =D He said the taste was really the same as with meat sausages, but the texture was bit harder and drier, but they were still awesome! We ate the whole package in short time, so time to buy more now xD Hopefully they will arrive before he has to leave again =(

We also ate some Spacebar Chorizo and vegan white chocolate that were also very yummy! The white chocolate is more or less just as i remember it, but it melted bit quicker in my mouth i think, and i missed some crunch in it (probably cuz the other white chocolate i ate in my non-vegan days was toblerone xD). The spacebar chorizo was really yummy too and sausagy =D

So i think everyone should test out those things if you like it =D It's really nice that you can get everything vegan version so theres no need for the more cruel animal based products =D

Green chips (wasabi)

Bought some of the wasabi chips they had in promotion on Lidl (belgium). They are sooooo cool!! =p Green and spicy like hell! Once i ate too much, it felt like it would come flames out of my nose xD So if you don't like spicy stuff, this aint something for you =p

Foodtest: Spelt apricot strudel

Today i was shopping at my local health store kinsarvik. I found some out of date food for half price that i bought (i like buying it cheap even if its out of date xD), and i've been inspired by VeganVoff's blog to write reviews of new food i test out =p

So here's a review about some spelt apricot strudels i bought =p

 

 

 The strudels are organic, made of spelt, no added sugar, dairy free, egg free, yeast free.

 Ingredients: *peach apricot spread 35% (corn syrup, peach 15%, apricot 8%, pectin, corn starch, citric acid, vanilla nat. flavour), *spelt flour 34%, *non hydrog. veg. margarine, *rice malt, salt.

* from organic farming.

Nutritional analysis per 100g: Energy 400 kcal/1678 kJ, Protein 4.2g, Carbohydrate 56.4g (total sugar 24.5g), Fat 17.5g (saturated fatty acids 8.1g), Fiber 2.5g, Sodium 0.42g.

They costed 25 kr for me since they were out of date (around 50 kr normal price). 1 euro =  about 8 kr.

Personally i think the apricot spread was yummy and tasted like apricot jam or so, but the coating i wasn't too much fan of xD it didn't taste much and it was crumbly and dry, maybe because of the out of date, i'm not sure xD I think something i make myself would taste better, atleast the coating xD It wasnt tasting bad though, just not something super-yummy either xD It's not something i would spend my money on again i think (specially not 50 kr xD), but if i got it for free i would take it =p