Trader Joe's Speculoos Cookie Butter

Late 2013 or early 2014 when I finally laid my hands on this Trade Joe's Speculoos Cookie Butter. There's a seller in Dubai who sells it for only 45AED per bottle or 40AED if you will order 6 or more. IG sellers sell it for 55AED and I even found one who sells if for 75AED to 80AED ~ whoah! That's just too much. It's 2015 and in Manila you can buy this on almost all the major grocery stores. But in UAE market? Still unavailable. Stopped buying it anyway as I prefer the other brand called Lotus Biscoff.

The motto of this product is 'you have to taste it to understand' and yes they are right. This is really a heaven in a jar that you'll never know not unless you taste it! This is a butter made of Speculoos Cookies. Originated in Europe. If you are looking for an addictive snack to try then this is highly recommended by me! You can eat it alone or as a spread. Me? I love to use it as dip to fruits :)

Chips Ahoy Chewy, not available here!



CHIPS AHOY Chewy

Good morning to all! Another snack that I love that I can't find in groceries here in the UAE but it is availale in the Philippines. The only chips ahoy available here is the blue one which is dry compared to this flavor.

Yesterday I left a comment in one popular blog in Dubai asking the readers to tell me just in case they will see where can I buy those hard to find snacks like this one.

This weekend, I will go to some grocery stores in Ajman and suggest these snacks that I love and let's see if they will bring them over here and for sure I am not the only one who enjoys them.

Have a nice day!

Pik-Nik Cheddar Cheese



Photo from Google

Do you love Pik-Nik Cheddar Cheese as I do?
I have known Pik-Nik since I was a kid, but unfortunately this is one of the few things that are not available anywhere in the UAE. I aready searched all the grocery stores that do carry Filipino products. This is not a Filipino product by the way, it is from US but widely available in the Philippines.

It is so good which makes me wonder why those grocery stores doesn't bring this product over here? Here in Ajman, there are now 5 grocery stores that says they have a complete range of products straight from Manila but then why this is not even included? Every time that a colleague will go on vacation I always ask them to buy for me.

Anyways, I will try to request those grocery stores if they can bring this product over here and will update the result..

UPDATE:

Last Friday I went to West Zone grocery store in Sharjah at the back of Sahara Mall. I was surprised to see that almost all the flavors of PIK NIK are available! To think that I spent months looking for it in all the grocery stores [Carrefour, Giant, Geant, Choithram, Waitrose etc] and I will find it only in the West Zone! Ha! I purchased at least a dozen and will definitely go back there again to purchase but next time maybe I'll buy one box of it. I'm a happy girl now.

Chips Ahoy Gooey




CHIPS AHOY Gooey (PHOTO SOURCE:GOOGLE)

Another great snack that I cannot find anywhere here in the United Arab Emirates. Yes, CHIPS AHOY is available but only the BLUE one which is dry. I do not know why a lot of delicious snacks all over the world did not and cannot find their way to come over here. Just like my all time favorite PIK-NIK. Tsk. If I have a huge amount of money sitting in my bank account I'll do a business and I'll bring all those foods that other groceries are not offering. But anyway, back to this chips ahoy what makes it better than the good old originla flavor? The blue one that we have here, first of all it is not dry which is a big deal to me. It is chewy. The chocolate chips are quite big and lastly that chewy and gooey chocolate in the middle of the biscuit. There are many other choices in the shelves but then they are not up to par with this one. I'll just wait till I get home to be able to eat it again...