Do You Know That Flavored Volvic Has Lots of Sugar?

I know there’s hidden sugars in most foods, drinks, and snacks we eat these days; even in salty unsweet stuff. I’ve even written about it before [here], but I was still shocked to know that there’s as much as 16 cubes of sugar in Volvic’s Lemon & Lime water! That’s a lot of sugar for a bottle of flavored WATER.

Even fresh fruit, like Apples and Bananas, have 3 and 4 sugar cubes each, but that’s the safe good natural kind of sugar. On the other hand the sugar added to Volvic, hot chocolate, and chocolate, Pringles, and other foods and drinks are the bad processed kind.

Read the rest of the article [here] to get more facts and numbers on the food and drinks mentioned in this picture. Also, keep an eye on what you eat and drink, so you don’t get shocked like I did.

Burger King’s New Commercials

 

Burger King has a couple of new TV commercials for its new Healthier Choices campaign. One of them features Mary J. Blige, singing praise over BK’s new healthy chicken wraps, while the other has David Beckham advertising the new fresh fruit smoothie.

 

Racial controversy surrounded Mary J. Blige’s commercial, and it had to be pulled off the air almost immediately. I watched the commercial, and couldn’t find anything racial or controversial about it.

New Cheeseburger Pizza from Pizza Hut

If you’re a fan of fast food like cheeseburgers and chicken fillets sandwiches, then you’ll love Pizza Hut’s new Crown Crust pizzas. They new pizzas are coming out tomorrow, with two brand new flavors: Cheeseburger & Chicken Fillet.

  • Cheese Burger: Juicy burgers in the crust covered with melted cheese, topped with ground beef, tomato slices, lettuce, and onions.
  • Chicken Fillet: Golden chicken fillets in the crust, topped with breaded chicken, grilled chicken strips, green peppers, onions, and a barbecue sauce drizzle.

The new pizzas sound delicious, and I probably will try them out, because they do sound different.

Make sure to like Pizza Hut Kuwait’s Facebook page to get all the latest news and updates.

Napket’s Burger Revolution

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Napket has just opened a new branch in Al-Babtain Tower in Kuwait city, which provides order deliveries within the city.

Help Needed with Food Survey

Someone needs help with their survey of the food industry in Kuwait. It’s a short and fun survey, it’s just 7 multi-choice questions, wouldn’t take much time to finish.

Click [here] for the link.

A Falafel Problem

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Review of Burger King’s “Box It Your Way” Box

   

I posted yesterday about Burger King’s latest promotion: Box It Your way. We got a chance to review the promotion, as BK sent us a few boxes for lunch.

  

So here you go, this is how the Box It Your Way box really looks like. The box comes with your choice of sandwich, side, salad, fries, and drink. It looks nice, and reminded me a lot of KFC’s boxes back when we were kids.

I think the promotion is fairly prices at KD 1.950, because usually a meal without salad or side is at least KD1.500-1.750.

New From Burger King: Box It Your Way

Burger King’s new Box It is a great promotion. The box has your choice of sandwich+side+salad+fries+drink. All for just KD 1.950.

My Experience with Chef Boutique

  

Today, me and Basma from 13cups went to Chef Boutique to take their Chinese Cooking class.

Chef Boutique offers different gourmet cooking classes; they’ve got Thai, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Sushi, Pasty, Spanish, and many more. Check this [link] for their March schedule. Prices range from KD 21-29 a course. You get to eat the dishes you make, so I think their prices are reasonable if you factor that in.

  

  

They provide you with individual prep tables for each participant, plus individual stoves and ovens too. All the food, ingredients, sauces, cutting boards, and cooking ware are pre-organized in advance for you.

  

  

The chef starts by showing you the preparation and cooking steps himself. At the end of each dish, you get to taste his dish for yourself.

  

  

  

After that, you go to your prep station, and start making your own dish. Our first dish was: Seafood Wontons with Capsicum Dressing. The bowl here has the finished Wonton filling, and the Wonton plates shown here belong to me and Basma. And I admit, hers look a lot better than mine :)

  

  

I only took a few pictures of our 3-course 3-hour session, mostly of the first dish we made, the Wontons. That’s because we got really busy preparing and cooking, and our hands were messy with food and oils. But I managed to snap one single shot of our main dish: Steamed Scallion Ginger Hamour Fillets.

I must say the dishes we made all looked attractive, tasted great, and were easy to prepare and make. If you had shown me the pictures and told me that they were very easy to make, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. But they really were easy, and needed very little time and effort in preparation and in cooking.

I had so much fun tonight, and I’m glad that Basma suggested we take this class. What we did tonight was a fresh change from our normal boring shopping mall\restaurant routine we usually do in Kuwait. This is something different, and its also lots of fun.

Chef Boutique is run my Mrs. Olga and her husband Mr. Victor, and is located in a big villa in Hitteen Area, South Surra, on the main road opposite Al-Salam. Here’s the [link] to their site, Twitter [link], and Facebook [link]. You can also reach them on Tel.9907 8437(English) 9098 9856(Arabic).

Purple Wonder: The Purple colored Strawberries

“Purple Wonder is sweet and aromatic, with outstanding strawberry flavor,” … “But the color is something you won’t be able to find in any grocery store.”

The medium-sized berries reward patience in picking: Berries turn from creamy white to red before ripening into an intense burgundy.

“The color develops all the way through the fruit, which might surprise consumers accustomed to supermarket fruit with color mostly on the surface,” said Weber. “And letting the fruit ripen on the plant just makes the berries sweeter.”

The berries and their purple juice can also be used to produce deep colored preserves and strawberry wine, and Purple Wonder’s high antioxidant content gives them a healthy boost [source].