ASDA: Christmas In Store Round-UP!

I was walking round ASDA today doing the usual weekly shop and spontaneously decided to do a bit of a 'round up' of the new Christmas products ASDA have already started displaying on it's shelves!

Festive Flying Saucers:

'Festive Flying Sauces £3'

Firstly, ASDA have introduced for this year these tubs of your typical pick 'n' mix sweets for the very affordable price of £3! I think these are a fantastic idea for Christmas, as many children (and adults!) have intolerances to chocolate......so these tubs serve as a fantastic alternative to the classic tubs of Celebrations or Heroes! There is a wide variety of choice with these tubs ranging from jelly sweets to marshmallows and these flying saucers!

Munchies Roll:

'Munchies £3'

Next on the list is this HUGE roll of Munchies! Now i'm a huge fan of Munchies so I can see this being added to the shopping trolley in the near future for Christmas! These rolls contain 3x100mg bags of munchies.....which is more than enough to satisfy any chocolate/caramel cravings you have this Christmas! Currently £3.

Quality Street Large Tin:

'Quality Street 1.28kg tin £8'

Next we have the 'large'(or should I say previously normal!) sized tins from Quality Street! These tins weigh in at a hefty 1.28 kg and cost £8, which is considerably different from the 'tubs' that ASDA are selling for £5 which weigh in at 780 kg. I personally have to say every year I get so disappointed at how much smaller, and smaller our tins are becoming! These tins do solve that problem, however be prepared to pay practically double the price for them!

Toblerone Triangle:

'Toblerone Triangle £2'

Toblerone have also revamped their style for Christmas with this fab looking stocking filler that anyone would be pleased to find on Christmas morning! Set in a triangle shape, with a little 'Merry Christmas' note on the packaging, I myself will be paying the very reasonable £2 price for a couple of these as little 'add on' presents for friends and family!

Quality Street Large Strawberry Delight:

Now this Christmas product is one of the ones that i'm most excited about! It's no secret that I love the 'creme' sweets from the Quality Street tins.....so when Quality Street brought out the large versions of 'The Purple One', Fudge and Toffee ones I was eagerly awaiting,with my fingers crossed, for the day that they finally brought out the Strawberry Dream ones. This is something that will definitely be making at least one appearance in my household this Christmas! Currently priced at £5.


Frozen Christmas Chocolates:

'Chocolate Snowies £1'

'Milk & White Chocolate Pieces £1'

I couldn't resist adding these to the list! These are completely adorable and would surely brighten up any little girls Christmas day if she's a Frozen fan! These two are just a small variety of the 'Frozen' chocolate options that ASDA have in for Christmas, but for the price of £1 you can't really go wrong!

Quality Street/Guylian/Heroes etc... Pouches:

For those that have no desire for the tub version of these chocolates or would just rather a smaller amount, then these pouches are ideal for you! These bags do contain around 200 kg less than the normal size tubs, but they are cheaper at £4!

Extra Special Father Christmas:

I couldn't resist adding this beauty to the round up either! Made from extra special Chocolate with a higher than average cocoa content this giant Father Christmas would be the creme de la creme of the Christmas table! Currently £15.

ASDA Christmas Baking:

I LOVE baking at Christmas time....so when I passed the baking aisle and saw that ASDA had a new 'Christmas' range of products, I had to restrain myself from doing a little jig in store!!
First up we have the 'Cake-Pop Kit'. Priced at £2....I've never made any Cake Pops before, so I may have to give these a try closer to Christmas! They look like a fun activity for the family to partake in at Christmas time!

'Cake Decorations £1-2'

ASDA have also introduced a wide range of new cake decoration products for Christmas! These are right up my street! I love baking during Christmas time....when it's freezing cold outside, but the house is filled with the warmth and the homely smell of baking! ....And what makes things even better is the exceptional price of these products! All coming in at under £3! There are a variety of products that would look and taste perfect atop a cake or a lovely yule log! These include Shimmer Snowballs (£1) Milk & White Chocolate decorations (£2), Sugar Sparkle Dust (£2) and many more!

......And it's only October! I'm pretty sure there will be another follow up post closer to Christmas with an even wider range of Christmas products! If you happen to spot anything new and exciting for Christmas then feel free to let me know!

xo

Haribo: The Smurfs

During my weekly shop today I came across this 'Smurf' version of Haribo in my local Co-Operative.....and for £1 you can't turn them down!

Typical of Haribo recently, these sweets aren't totally unhealthy for you or your children as they have no artificial colours and are just fruit flavoured gums! The bag is 220g, and every 100g consumed is equal to 343 calories........so not totally healthy either! 

In the bag, there are 3 different variations of smurf, a yellow, white and red headed smurf as shown above...they look pretty adorable and for once actually look like what Haribo are selling!

Now onto the taste, unfortunately no matter how 'cool' the idea of smurf Haribo's are, the taste totally lets them down. 

Before tasting each smurf, I assumed that the red headed smurf may taste of strawberry or raspberry, the yellow headed may taste of lemon and the white headed may taste of pineapple or some other fruity flavour. How wrong was I?

They taste of absolutely nothing. NOTHING! They are literally just a chewy jelly in your mouth shaped like smurfs....definite let down!

Overall, smurf shaped Haribo are an ingenious idea and children would love them...IF they added some flavouring in and we weren't just chewing flavourless jelly.

Would I buy these again? NO.

Maynards Sour Patch Kids

I thought I'd give these Maynard Sour Patch Kids a go today, as they're seems to be a huge hype surrounding them!
Sour Patch Kids originate from America and are a big hit over there, and it seems like Maynards have decided to capitalize on this craze and do their own take on these jelly sweets here in the UK.

 I decided to buy the smaller 45g bag of Sour Patch Kids from my local Co-Operative for 49p, instead of purchasing the larger 160g  bags for the introductory price of £1.50. Each small bag consumed contains 145 calories, whereas in the larger bags, 1/3 of each bag consumed contains 175 calories.

There are 5 different flavours of Sour Patch Kids, which are lemon, lime, orange, raspberry and blackcurrant. However, as shown above they are only 4 of the flavours. This is due to they're being NO blackcurrant flavoured jellies in my bag, which I was pretty miffed about as blackcurrant is my favourite flavour!

The slogan for these jellies is 'sour then sweet' and I can definitely agree with that as they started off slightly sour before fading into a sweet fruity after-taste. In my opinion I found the lemon flavour the most tantalizing with the other flavours leaving much to be desired, however the amount of sugar in the packet did put me off a bit.

Overall, these sweets didn't overwhelm or amaze me. I felt there was too much sugar in the bag and was greatly disappointed over the fact that there was no blackcurrant flavoured jellies in my packet.
However, they are nice sweets and are not as overly priced as they're american counterparts are on Amazon and other online selling sites....so I would definitely recommend them to people to try!

Maynards have now also brought out a 'soda popz' version of Sour Patch Kids. These jellies taste of different 'pop' flavours instead of the original 'fruity' flavours. Flavours include; Cherryade, Cola, Apple, Tropical and Orangeade. So maybe these will taste better than the original Sour Patch Kids? Or will they be worse?
What did you guys think of Maynards Sour Patch Kids?

Would I buy them again? YES....for the right price.