Food: Marks and Spencer Cappuccino Bar 34g

Food Rating: 10
Value for Money: 8
Overall: 9

Trust me, this tastes amazing!

In A Nutshell

OMG! After spending ten minutes looking around the sweet aisles of M&S, I decided to spend my cash on this little baby of a bar. I love my chocolate. I also love my coffee. On top of all that, I also love my coffee chocolates even more. If you also do, then this is about as good as it gets. It's soft, smooth, chocolatey, and has the added little sprinkles of coffee within and outside it, that are just like whacking that weight with the hammer and watching it spring up to the jackpot.

Technicalities wise, the label calls this a "white and dark chocolate bar with a coffee mousse centre (58%) decorated with milk chocolate (7%)" but that could be reduced to just one word, "delish".

What I liked

Everything! Milk Chocolate. The white chocolate. The mousse on the inside. The coffee taste. The way it feels so silky in the mouth and fluffy.

What I Didn't Like

Well, at near £2 for a bar no bigger than a Mars Bar, it's not cheap.

It's also not very big. I did nibble it to try to extend its longevity but lets face it, this should be gone in two chomps really.

Huh?

Heaven in my hand

How can something so small bring so much joy? Seems to be a recurring sentence in my life.

And Finally

It's not cheap, but for once it's a chocolate bar worth paying double the normal price for. It's lush, it's sophisticated and it's darn well tasty. If you like smooth chocolate and coffee, you should love this.

Food: Twix Mix (126g Share Pack)

Food Rating: 7
Value for Money: 7
Overall: 7

It's Twix, but not as you know it.

In A Nutshell

They've been around for several years it seems (since 2013), but this variation of the cult classic Twix has entirely passed me by it seems ... until now! I don't have a Twix very rarely, preferring simply to buy something that has as much chocolate content as possible and consuming it quicker than anyone's pet dog can down a hamburger. However, every so often, one likes to mix up their life a little. Be somewhat risky and dangerous perhaps, so a Twix therefore brings huge nostalgia sensations bursting through my veins when I get my hands on one. This time round though I turned down the classic two Twix bar of around 65p, for a share bag of Twix ... ... Mix. I see what they did there.

Normally when you get these bags of your favourite sweet bar, you find they've simply done the job of chopping up the bar for you into ridiculously small chunks and then have the nerve to charge you double the price. Well ... for a few chumps of this mix, that's what I was thinking myself. Naturally I skipped reading the side of the packet and just started eating. No one likes to waste time when it comes to sweets do they? However, after eating a handful of the little fellas, I then tasted something different. I indeed thought these were just miniature Twix bars that had been sapped by masses of energy and shrunk to 5% of their original size ... but no ... and yes. The clever people at Mars (the company, not the planet) have split the Twix Mix balls into two. Both are surrounded by a thin layer of chocolate but half of the balls are shortcake inners and the other half are that soft caramel you know and love.

So, you never get a full Twix ... well, unless you scoff a handful. I tried and it's almost like the real thing, but not. And, is it a fair 50/50 split between the caramel and shortcake balls in the bag? ... I don't know. I would have counted but I have to be truthful. I was very hungry when I sampled this bag and didn't do any count :(

Yes, they look a little like something else, but they do taste much better!

What I liked

It's twix, in a mix, so you can get your fix. Who doesn't like Twix? It's never anything amazing, but it's one of the few so-called chocolate bars with the least amount of chocolate but still on the same shelf as your Mars or Yorkie. In this case, being different to the majority, aides our Twix craving. Given their size, you can really shove a load in your mouth in one go. Sadly that'll mean you'll get through the pack in about 4 or 5 handfuls, but if you're going to go down fighting, this is the way to do it.

What I Didn't Like

These "share" 126g packs are rarely value for money unless you find an offer in the shop in question. Grab this for around about a £1 and it gets near what I'd say was decent value.

I'm also not sure this was a very even 50/50 split between the caramel and shortcake balls.

Huh?

A third of the packet is air. What's up with that?

And Finally

They claim each share pack holds 3 portions, which doesn't seem very fair does it? Someone is going to miss out 2 to 1, or 3 to 0 if I have my way. Who wants to share these balls when they're no bigger than a 5 pence piece?

Food: Sainsbury's Belgian Chocolate Egglets Stickpack

Food Rating: 9
Value for Money: 7
Overall: 8

In A Nutshell

In this rectangular shaped box, there are 6 egglets; half are white, half milk, but all Belgian chocolates with Almond and Hazelnut praline filling.

What I liked

To any chocoholic, just the smell and sight of chocolate is good enough to like a product, but we do have our standards. Thankfully, these sweets combine some lip-licking chocolate delights, with being both Belgian and having Praline in the middle. Oh ... sweet ... goodness combined! Truly these chocolates have that classic nutty taste but without any hint of little bits crunching in your mouth. The chocolate is smooth and silky, melting with delight in your mouth.

At around 60 calories per bite/egglet, that's enough to enjoy a few of these at one time and feel like you are eating something and not piling on calories/fat.

What I Didn't Like

Aside from a little misleading advertising (see below) there are only 6 of these in the packet with an unnecessary extra cardboard panel that pulls off the front adding to minor overpackaging. I don't think we needed that there to be able to see and read the back of the packet to find out what they were made out of.

Huh?

These are not little eggs, despite it being Easter when they are on sale. These are egglets. Thus you'll be very disappointed when you take them out of the packet and realise that these are all show, and literally with no spine or back to them. Only egg shaped on the front, with half the egg missing.

It's an Egglet, not an Egg!

And Finally

At £2.50 a pack, this is just about right in the modern world of value for money. Sure, a little cheaper would seem better but these are seen as luxury chocolates by Sainsburys and they sure do taste like them. 50p per egglet would be seen as within reason.