Chocolate week; Day 1; Green & black's organic Dark chocolate 70% cocoabar REVIEW

So for a few weeks now i have been at the store with my mom shopping, and every time i went down the chocolate isle i have wanted this. But i never actually got it, until just the other day.

the package states "Made with fine Trinitario cacao beans for an intense taste" But honestly i really don't see the difference, whatever.

when i first opened the paper i noticed it was in a gold wrapping, interesting.

when i took a bite, it was strange. it tasted more sour and bitter with a hint of chocolate taste than an actual chocolate bar. Usually i eat a whole serving of anything before i review it, but this was honestly too gross to even eat more than 2 squares.

So my rating for Green & blacks 70% cocoa chocolate bar would be 3 stars. Because it tastes gross, but still has a hint of chocolate taste.



********************************RATING - 3 STARS********************************

All Vegan cereals list (well almost all.)

I was bored, so i decided to see what common cereals were vegan. I was surprised to see how many popular cereals were vegan, check it out!: (eh hem, please respect the fact that it took me 2 hours to gather all of this information and i had to go to each brands site and read the ingredients one by one, so please, cut me some slack if i missed a few, although i don't think i did.) I ONLY GATHERED CEREALS FROM THE BIGGEST CEREAL COMPANIES (general mills, kelloggs, quaker, and MOMs) I did not do the smaller/ organic ones because usually they are easy to figure out whether they are vegan or not, also there are just too many sites for a 13 year old to go to.

All bran Buds

All bran Complete Wheat flakes

All bran Original

Alpha Bits

Apple Jacks

Apple cinnamon cheerios

Apple cinnamon chex

Banana nut cheerios

Berry berry kix

Bran flakes

Cap’n Crunch

Cap’n Crunch Crunch berries

Cap’n Crunch Peanut butter Crunch

Cheerios

Chocolate chex

Chocolate toast crunch

Cinnabon Cereal

Cinnamon burst cheerios

Cinnamon chex

Cinnamon toast crunch

Cocoa krispies

Cocoa pebbles

Cocoa puffs

Cookie crisp

Corn chex

Cracklin Oat bran

Crispix

Dora the explorer stars

Dulce de leche cheerios

Fiber one original

Fiber one raisin bran clusters

Froot loops

Froot loops Bloopers

Frosted cheerios

Frosted krispies

Frosted toast crunch

Fruity cheerios

Fruity pebbles

Good Morenings Waffle crunch

Grape nuts

Ice cream pebbles

Jif Cereal

Jif PB&j Strawberry cereal

Kellogg’s Corn Pops

Kellogg’s Corn flakes

Kellogg’s Frosted flakes

Kellogg’s Frosted flakes ChocoZucaritas

Kellogg’s Mini wheats UNFROSTED

Kellogg’s Raisin bran

Kellogg’s Raisin bran Omega-3

Kellogg’s Raisin bran with Cranberries

King Vitaman

Kix

Life Cinnamon

Life Maple brown sugar

Life cereal Original

Malt-O meal Apple zings

Malt-O meal Berry Colossal crunch

Malt-O meal Cinnamon toasters

Malt-O meal Coco roos

Malt-O meal Cocoa Dyno-bites

Malt-O meal Colossal crunch

Malt-O meal Corn bursts

Malt-O meal Corn flakes

Malt-O meal Crispy rice

Malt-O meal Frosted flakes

Malt-O meal Fruity Dyno-bites

Malt-O meal Peanut butter Colossal crunch

Malt-O meal Peanut butter cups

Malt-O meal Raisin bran

Malt-O meal Raisin bran clusters

Malt-O meal Scooters

Mom brands Shrek Ogre O's
Mueslix

Multi grain cheerios

Multi grain cheerios peanut butter

Opp’s! All Berries!

Post Raisin bran

Post Shredded wheat Original big biscuit

Post Shredded wheat Original spoon size

Post Shredded wheat Spoon size Wheat'n bran

Product 19,Quaker Corn bran Crunch

Quaker Oatmeal squares Brown sugar

Quaker Oatmeal squares Cinnamon

Quaker Oatmeal squares Golden maple

Quaker Puffed Rice
Quaker Puffed Wheat

Quaker Toasted Oat bran

Quisp

Reese’s puffs

Rice chex

Rice krispies

Special K Chocolate almond

Special K Cinnamon pecan

Special K Protein

Special K Red berries

Special K Vanilla almond

Sponge bob square pants fruity splash

Sprinkles cookie crisp

Total

Total Raisin bran

Trix

Vanilla chex

Waffle crisp

Wheat chex

Wheaties

Apple jacks, Cap'n crunch, Cinnamon toast crunch, Trix... I've gotta start eating cereal for breakfast again. (what was i thinking when i stopped!)

NEXT WEEK IS CHOCOLATE WEEK

Every day for the whole week starting This Friday, i will be reviewing all different vegan chocolates every day for seven days. Why? because for some reason for the past week i have tried all these different vegan chocolates, and i thought "might as well review them all!" so that is why i have declared that next week will be chocolate week. (ah, if only every week could be chocolate week, lol)

so stay tuned!

Up-cycled rings made from soy milk corks (or any other kind of plantmilk product)

So i was sitting at the counter (well, standing) waiting for my earth balance vegan macaroni and cheese to finnish cooking. As i was STANDING there, i thought to might as well get the soy milk and margarine ready. Measured the margarine and opened the fresh carton of soy milk and measured that aswell. then i was bored again. so i start playing with the cork from the soy milk, then i got an idea....

Up-cycled  rings

            What you will need :
*  AT LEAST one soy milk cork (see picture below)
*  Scissors
*  A rubber glove
*  Paint, Puff paint, Glitter, etc (anythig to decorate it with) ** METALIC COLORS LOOK BEST**
*  A glass, plastic cup or plastic bottle.

 

first, blow up your rubber glove, this will be used almost like a manikin. 

Blow it up and tie it right above the thumb (check the image below to see how i did it)

The next step is optional, but it makes it much easier to paint the ring.

push all the air from the finger into the glove and twist the finger. Then tie the finger and cut it off . repeat this for all fingers EXCEPT the ring finger or middle finger.

Now that you've got your finger manikin, to keep upright, cut the top of the plastic bottle off and push the glove into the bottle like i did in the image below.

Now its time to start making the ring. Take the cork and cut the cap part off  (so that the only thing left is the ring-like hoop)

Now if your like me and your finger cant fit through the loop, make a slit in the ring like i did in the picture below:

Now its time to decorate! you can paint it, glitter it, design it with puff paint or glitter glue, be creative! Go crazy! 

Here are 2 that i made a few weeks ago :

And there you go! you've made a beautiful up-cycled ring! Now i know what you may be thinking, "thats not alot of plastic to waste. But like with anything recycled or up-cycled, it all adds up. imagine if everyone recycled or up-cycled every soy milk cork, imagine how much plastic we'd save from landfills?!

But all and all the most important steps of all are HAVE FUN, AND BE CREATIVE!

Sorry everyone! Life has been rocky lately

So i think you know that im a girl because the title of my blog (duh!). And as many know that girls have a... visitor? every month. And i got my visitor 2 days ago, my phones storage wont allow me to take pictures so i cannot take pictures to post on the blog. Also My grand father is in the hospital, dying of lung and heart problems(from smoking so much back in the old days) )-: people of the world, PLEASE dont smoke, it is already bad enough that it shortened my grandfathers life (he has been to the hospital 6 times in the past 5 years ad staying there 4 months or longer for the same problem)
So people, its already bad enough that it shortened my grandfathers life by 10 years and made him miserable for the last few years. But since this is a vegan blog, They also test cigarettes on dogs and cats (also on bunnies, guinea pigs, ferrets, etc!)

So please everyone, stop smoking.

Tip: Try an all natural cruelty free vegan anti anxiety suppliment, because i hear most people smoke when nervous.
OR try an all vegan anti smoking aid. i'l admit, i have never actually searched for that, but with all the vegan suppliments on this earth, there should be something for those who need it



But all in all. JUST DON'T SMOKE!  EVEN THOUGH IT MAY MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD ONE MINUTE< BUT THE NEXT MINUTE YOUR DYING IN PAIN IN THE HOSPITAL!


Ps if i can figure out my phones storage by tomorrow, i will be posting a craft project tomorrow

************************************UPDATE************************************
01/21/2016  2:16 AM
                                                             RIP my grandfather Billy

FOOD REVIEW : Neslte Aero 70% cocoa bar

A few times last year i had considered using $30 of my Christmas or birthday money to get a 12 pack of these things but i have always turned my head because i always thought "$30 or 12 candy bars? rip off". But then this past Christmas i just simply asked for them and i got them, And now i will start the review of this divine chocolate (well that actually doesn't say much because all (vegan) chocolate is divine lol. Well at least i think so.)

                         

when i saw the package, like all packages, they try to make the product look like its the best thing on earth. But really the main thing that attracted me to these was that i used to be addicted to Hershey air bars. But like you would expect, they have milk in them (like everything on the market these days, ugh!) I cant remember how i came upon aero bars. I think i came across them when i started getting interested the international food isle at the grocery store, i dont know, Anyways, im boring myself. lets get to the review.

BUT FIRST ....... Some may think that these are not vegan because they claim "May contain milk". Although every vegans opinion on that statement is different. My opinion is : its not like the company doesn't clean it, nor does it mean they purposefully milk cows and puts exactly 300 gallons of milk in the batter everyday. My point is, that if there was any trace of milk it would have been accidental/ wasn't supposed to happen. so they dont pour milk into the batter once and a while. omg i  made no sense. Ugh i will fix this later lol

Now without further ado...

                                 

               

I opened the wrapper, and it was actually cool how they made them separate "bubbles" instead of squares. I took a bite and my first thought was that it was bitter, but then it quickly started to melt and started to taste like milk chocolate (not totally, but it was closer than other dark chocolates!). Usually I actually hate dark chocolate but these weren't as bitter as other vegan dark chocolates i have tried in the past. Also if i remember correctly, the hershey air bar didnt have as many bubbles as the aero bar (i could be wrong, i haven't eaten one since about a little before i went vegan (3 years ago). lol) But all and all this was a great vegan chocolate bar.

Because it was bitter at first, and costs $30 for 12 bars, But it was delicious still, my rating for Nestle Aero 70% cocoa bar would have to be 8 ******** stars

*********************************RATING 8-STARS********************************

FOOD REVIEW : Daiya cheeze lovers pizza

For months i have walked down the freezer isle, wanting to try it, but not being sure since i hate tomato sauce on pizza (whenever i got pizza i always made sure it had no sauce, just cheese!) and since i went vegan (ps i hate making things home made) i have never had a simple, ooey gooey pizza without 10 jars of sauce spread on it.

But i finally went for it, i asked my mom, and of course she said yes, i got it, and now i am about to tell you my review of this AMAZING vegan pizza from Daiya 

                              

When i first took it out of the box the first thing that cheered me up was that i could hardly see any sauce since there was so much cheeze. Also i liked the fact that they used both cheddar and mozzarella. And at first it looked pretty small, but once you cook things, you realize how big it really is (if you know what i mean). But enough chit chat, lets get to the review!

                              

                                                       (Sorry that it came out sideways!!)

Of course like always when i try something new i hesitate for a few seconds, then i just dig in, and that is exactly what i did with this.

But right as i took my first bite, i couldn't even tell there was tomato sauce since it was so cheesy and the sauce was so mild!! YAHOO!  and once i got through the first three pieces i was stuffed, but since i tried this last night and it was only 10:00 pm when i finished my third slice, i slowly ate the rest between then and 1:00 AM. so i did manage to stuff it all in me. But if you want my star rating on this, it would be 8 stars, because of course it would be best if it had no sauce at all (although Daiya did a fabulous job making it taste like there was hardly any sauce on it, that is why i gave it 8.) Also i think they could have made it so there was enough crust so you could hold it without getting sauce all over your hands, but both are minor things so that is why i rate Daiya's cheeze lovers pizza 8 stars

Also due to this review i plan on trying some other varieties of Daiya's vegan pizzas

********************************RATING 8 STARS *********************************