Sugar Savvy

I will admit that when it comes to gum, I’m fickle. It doesn’t take much to turn my head. I buy every new pack that catches my eye in the checkout lane, sometimes even against my better judgment. As was recently the case with Orbit’s new Fabulous Fruitini, one of the latest in a recent flurry of additions to Orbit’s stick-gum lineup. […]

Let me state right from the beginning that I am a big fan of ice-cream cake. To me, the only drawback to the typical ice-cream cake is that it is simply too big and too expensive to buy for an “anytime” dessert, and my birthday comes but once a year.
This being the case, when I heard that […]

In line at the checkout at Target this weekend, my eye fell upon the latest offering from Orbit, which seems to churn out new flavors every other day. And that’s fine with me, since it keeps the time I spend in the checkout lane — a inordinately large chunk of my life it would seem – interesting […]

Not too long ago I was standing in the danger zone — read: checkout lane — with my family, trying to figure out the best way to arrange my groceries on the conveyor so that the checkout lad could pack them in such a way that we’d get 12 out of 12 eggs intact at home […]

Honestly, before I put one of these little candies in my mouth, I’d forgotten how much I liked Tootsie Pops. There is something about a Tootsie Pop that makes it different from any other lollipop, and these wonderful little candy drops let you enjoy that special quality without the awkward stick and the painfully distended cheek.
Packaged […]

 
Whoppers have always been one of those candies that I could take or leave. I’ve never been one to buy candy at the movies (I’m more of a popcorn girl), and they’re just not quite chocolaty enough to satisfy a craving for cocoa. Plus, there’s the malt thing. When I was in grade school, malt was just […]