taste testing
the kids and i went grocery shopping today and found a few things to try out. the first things we picked out where those fuze drinks. i’ve never had them before and since they were a dollar, i thought we’d give them a try. the boy has had them before so he picked out the strawberry kiwi one that he likes. the girl loves coconut flavored stuff so she picked the banana coconut one and i decided to try the fruit punch one. they have things on them like slenderize, and low carb and that sort of think, but these are not diet get you thin drinks. the kids liked theirs. the fruit punch one had a bit of an aftertaste to it, but that could be because it wasn’t totally cold yet. i still have half the bottle to finish later. they only have 5 calories, so they are better than drinking soda. but they aren’t going to be an everyday drink.
then we found milkshake shakers in the freezer section. it’s a plastic shaker cup with beads of icecream in them. think dip n dots in a cup. you add milk to it and shake the bejeezbus out of it. what you end up with is a single serve milk shake. we tried the chocolate one. it tasted pretty good. i think it was 1.50, maybe a little less than that. i wouldn’t use them to make milkshakes for a crowd, but it was good and i’ll buy some again for a treat for the kids. one made enough for each of us to get a good size sample. the containers would be good to reuse as packaging for hot cocoa mix and the like for christmas.
then the girl and i went to fresh market to get produce and meat, and while we were there, we got a vanilla cupcake with chocolate icing, and one of the key lime tarts. the cake part of my cupcake is pretty much just there as an excuse to have a big heap of icing. it had the taste and texture of a box cake. nothing against box mixes as i use them myself sometimes, but i expect more from a bakery cake. the icing was thick and heavy. the cupcake really couldn’t stand up to the heavy icing and toppled over when i cut it in half. half for me and half for the boy. the icing tasted like it came out of a can of dunkin hines icing instead of bakery icing. again nothing against canned icing, i just expect more from bakery items. and it’s better to find out on a 99 cent cupcake, than to order several dozen of them. they do have a yummy dessert tray that we got to sample a few weeks ago. when the daughter of the lady i do girl scouts with graduated fro high school, she ordered a dessert try from fresh market. the lemon bars and the brownies that i tried were very good. they just seem to have missed the mark with the cupcakes.
we also bought starbucks frappichinos since i had a coupon for them but they are in the fridge getting cold. we’ll try them later today or tomorrow.