Category: Food

Last december, KFC served us with dessert-flavored Christmas Krushers!  I loved them and I’m sure the next batch of KFC Krushers would be as good.

Summer is here!  You know what?KFC is innovating new KFC Krushers flavors again!  It’s really scorching hot with temperature of 35 degress celsius here in Manila.  When Filipinos crave for something cold during this heat season, two desserts come to mind — Halo Halo and Buko Pandan.  Guess what?  Those two are the summer flavors of KFC Krushers!  Isn’t that cool?

What I like about the new KFC Summer Krushers is that we don’t need to mix the ingredients.  We just put the straw on the cup and start sipping!  Of course, in true KFC Krushers style, there’s always real bits in the dessert drink.

Let’s get to know the two flavors:

Buko Pandan Krushers

Refreshing buko drink with bits of real macapuno and green nata.

Among the two flavours, I like the buko pandan better.  Even between the real buko pandan and halo halo desserts, it’s the same preference.  The KFC version is rich, like really rich!  If you want strong flavours of the buko pandan, then you will like Buko Pandan Krushers.  I feel it’s on the sweet side though.

Halo-Halo Krushers

Creamy ube drink with bits of real macapuno, sweet leche flan and nata.

Like I said earlier, I really like that I don’t need to exert effort in mixing the ingredients in the halo halo.  I can just dive right in and enjoy the dessert.  It’s also too sweet like buko pandan krushers but what the heck, everyone has a sweet tooth 🙂

Apart from the launch of the Summer Krushers, KFC came up with a promo wherein eight friends can spend two days and three nights on a private resort in Narra, Palawan.

It will be a fun adventure with friends.  To win, one must create a meme on the Krushers Island website and convince everyone just how awesome and cool he/she really is!  The most popular meme wins the Krushers Island contest!

Swimming, snorkeling, kayaking, playing with turtles and karaoke are some of the things the winners can experience in the paradise.  There are already a couple of people who joined Krushers Island but I believe it’s still early in the contest so try your luck!

Beat the heat with summer krushers and take your chances on the Krushers Island!  What a way to celebrate summer with KFC!

Today, KFC stores in the Philippines started selling the all-new KFC BBQ Shredder Sandwich!

You might have noticed the beautiful image of the newly-developed product in the stores.  The product photo was truly mouth-watering!  Getting myself to try the KFC BBQ Shredder Sandwich was a no-brainer thing to do.

KFC Philippines had this to say about their newest product:

The BBQ Shredder Sandwich is a fun and unusual take on the chicken sandwich.  With it, KFC hopes to inspire people to make changes in their daily lives – no matter how small.  It could be as easy as shredding your usual choice and trying out this new sandwich.

I guess KFC is trying to connect what we used to do every start of the year (making our New Year’s resolution) to its new product development.  For instance, we do the following activities when we create our goals for the year:

1. we reflect about what happened the past year
2. we decide on things we want to stop doing (bad habits, negative thoughts, etc)
3. we decide on things we want to start doing (new habits, learning a new sport, etc)
4. we decide on things we want to continue doing (things that worked, etc)
5. with all those steps above, we then organize our thoughts and start creating our goals for the year.

How do the activities above connect with KFC BBQ Shredder sandwich?  Well, the beginning of a new year is a perfect time to try out something NEW, continue successful (chicken!) items from before and shredding the usual items for a more exciting times ahead (more so good food!)

So there, a different sandwich experience for us KFC lovers.  This BBQ Shredder Sandwich is made of a unique mix of ingredients.  It has chicken shreds in smoky barbecue sauce, fresh lettuce and tortilla chips!  The chicken & BBQ sauce gave the sandwich flavor while the tortilla chips and lettuce gave the product some added crunch!  All those ingredients are served in a kaiser bun which is really soft and made the eating experience much easier & enjoyable!

The KFC BBQ Shredder Sandwich is KFC’s way of starting the new year right and we certainly welcome that.  It is available in all KFC stores nationwide for Php 55.00 and Php 85.00 as a meal combo with french fries & drink.

It’s only a few days until Christmas, aren’t you excited?  Well, KFC is!

KFC continued its tradition of offering limited-edition Christmas Krushers at all its stores.  Last year, they offered Winter Berry Krushers (blended blueberries & strawberries with yogurt & milkshake) and Dulce de Leche Krushers (frosty milkshake with caramel, leche flan and pastillas).

Well, dessert lovers will like this year’s version of KFC Christmas Krushers for sure!  KFC has patterned their Christmas Krushers with two of our favourite desserts:  Double Dutch Chocolate and Sans Rival.  I, myself, consider Sans Rival as one of my favourite desserts so this was a good welcome news for me!

Double Dutch Krushers

Do you love ordering double dutch chocolate cake?  Well, you can have a drink version of it with KFC’s Double Dutch Krushers!

It is a decadent choco-vanilla drink with chocolate and soft marshmallow bits.  The marshmallow bits was a definite nice touch!  However, you do know that I’m not fond of chocolates so this was just o-kay for me.

Sans Rival Krushers

The Sans Rival Krushers, on the other hand, is a winner for me!  I love KFC’s rich butter cream drink with crunchy meringue bits.  It stayed true to the sans rival taste and there were actually real sans rival bits in the drink!  Sans Rival lovers will surely enjoy this rich flavored drink!

KFC offers an option to have the krushers flavor topped with frothy whipped cream.  I would stay away from whipped cream because it’s added calories.  But of course, it’s up to you 😉

Specialty Drinks usually costs around Php 90-150.  Good thing, KFC is offering their limited-edition Christmas Krushers for only Php 75!  Isn’t that a good Christmas promo?  I do think so!

Advance Merry Christmas everyone and enjoy your KFC Krushers!

Back when I was in college, I ate a lot of peanuts whenever I need to study overnight for an exam.  That habit didn’t stop at all!  Now that I’m working, I eat snacks in order to get me through a difficult task or even just to relieve stress.

Franny gave me a can of Allies Dry Toasted Wonder Peanuts to try out during the looloo launch.  Apparently, she and her husband distributes the Pampanga-based product here in Metro Manila.

My first impression when I inspected the product was the name ‘Allies Wonder Peanuts’.  I was like why did they put ‘wonder‘ in the name of the product?  Is Allies Dry Toasted Wonder Peanuts that wonderful?  What sets it apart from the vast peanut brands in the market?

I got the answer as soon as I opened the can and had taken several pieces of the dry toasted peanuts.

It was the generous amount of garlic!!!!  In fact, the amount of peanuts and the garlic was almost the same.

Honestly, I can’t tell what good and bad peanuts are but if it has loads of garlic, it’s a definite winner in my eyes.  Another thing that I liked about Allied Wonder Peanuts is that it’s not greasy.  While I have my hand sanitizer ready, I didn’t need to smudge on the laptop keyboard.

A friend warned me not to eat too much as he noticed me eating non-stop, saying that too much of it will give me urinary tract infection.  I, however, thought of the health benefits of peanuts.  I remember distinctly that peanuts is a brain food wherein it can boosts memory power.  I do agree though that we have to eat any food in moderation 😛

I knew that the product tasted good because my colleagues were taking seconds and asking me where they can buy Allies Dry Toasted Wonder Peanuts.

Allies Dry Toasted Wonder Peanuts can be ordered by calling +639175388125.  It can also be purchased in Ha Yuan, The Cheese Steak Shop, Dragon Noodles and Little Store in San Juan.  The product has two sizes available: 450 grams for Php 170.00 and 800 grams for Php 270.00.

If you like dry toasted, crunchy, greaseless with loads of garlic peanuts, then go get some Allies Wonder Peanuts.  You’ll love it!

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Allies Dry Roasted Wonder Peanuts
450grams and 800grams available
Metro Manila Distributor – +639175388125
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Smart C+ is Oishi’s first venture in the ready-to-drink category.  Oishi is one of the known manufacturers of snacks in the Philippines.  Now, why did it pique my interest?  Well, this new juice drink is unique!

Imagine a ready-to-drink juice that has 500mg of Vitamins C inside of it!  Yes, Smart C+ is a juice and vitamin in one!!!  Isn’t that Smart??

I need to buy tons of vitamins for my daily intake: Vitamin C, Iron, Zinc, Vitamin A, Vitamin B6 and other supplements.  I also plan to prepare fresh fruit juices as I know drinking too much soft-drinks won’t do me any good.  However, there will come a time that I’ll be so busy that I wouldn’t be able to prepare.  Now, I have an alternative!  For those hectic days, I’ll just get myself some Smart C+ Juice Drinks and I’m good-to-go for the day.

I first heard of Smart C+ when I saw Slater Young’s TV commercial.

Slater Young was the Big winner of this year’s Pinoy Big Brother: Unlimited.  He is commonly known as the ‘Hotshot Engineer of Cebu’.  According to Oishi, they got Slater as a Smart C+ endorser because he has a ‘no stopping me’ character.  He grabs every opportunity that comes his way because he knows that he is always ready to take any role, off-cam and on-cam.

Oishi definitely made a good product with Smart C+ and it suits the name perfectly!  Besides having 500mg of Vitamin C in every bottle, Smart C+ contains no added preservatives, no artificial colouring & no artificial sweeteners!  All it has is natural fruit juice and vitamin C!

Vitamin C is well-known as an important component of your immune system; it’s also a component of collagen, which is needed for healthy connective tissue. It also helps your bones and teeth stay strong.

Vitamin C is an antioxidant that protects the cells in your body from freeradical damage.

Source: http://nutrition.about.com/od/nutrientglossary/g/Vitaminc.htm

There are 3 flavors available: Lemon Squeeze, Orange Crush and Pomelo Grapefruit.

I tried all three flavors, and Lemon Squeeze is my favorite among all of them.  It was an obvious choice as I like lemonade a lot 😛  After I drank Smart C+, I felt that I have taken a healthy product that would help me boost my immune system, thus helping me get through the day.

Smart C+ is now available in the market.  You can choose to get either the 350mL or 500mL.  1-Liter bottle will be available soon.