News: Krispy Kreme - Halloween Donuts are Back

Krispy Kreme returns their spate of Halloween Donuts this month. The Krispy Skremes donut line up includes Pumpkin, Spider Web, and Halloween Sprinkle.

The Pumpkin donut is a jack-o-lantern-shaped donut with a face of black icing atop orange icing.

The Spider Web donut features a chocolate-iced donut with Kreme filling decorated with a web of white icing.

Review: Subway - Tuscan Chicken Melt

Subway's new, limited-time Tuscan Chicken Melt is a "$6 Footlong Special" they're offering this month in addition to their Featured $5 Footlong. It features strips of chicken breast tossed in a zesty herb seasoning, served with your choice of melted cheese, veggies, and bread and finished with a balsamic vinaigrette.

I went with pepper jack cheese, lettuce, spinach, onions, tomatoes, and the Italian herbs & cheese bread. It cost me $6 for a footlong.

Around the World: Domino's Australia Offers Pancakes

Domino's Australia now offers new Mini Dutch Pancakes for a limited time on their menu.

Specifically, they're offering poffertjes, which are small, fluffy and puffy pancakes (they look like fat, little flying saucers). Poffertjes are typically made in a specialized pan and served with butter and powdered sugar.

News: Pei Wei - New Sriracha Chicken and BOGO Offer

Pei Wei Asian Diner incorporates the fiery-red Thai chili sauce, Sriracha, into their latest limited-time dish, Sriracha Chicken.

The ingredient was selected by fan voting and features the spicy kick of Sriracha joined with "cooling ingredients" such as tomatoes, long beans, and  pineapple.

Review: Panera Bread - Pumpkin Spice Latte

Like Starbucks, Panera Bread also offers a Pumpkin Spice Latte around this time of year. Panera's version consists of espresso, steamed milk, and pumpkin spice syrup topped with whipped cream and a drizzle of caramel sauce.

The nutritional information online lists the drink at 11-ounces, but the one I bought looked to be about 16-ounce and there weren't any other sizes offered. The price was $4.29.

Around the World: Kit Kat Variations

Here in the U.S., we pretty much only get the plain regular Kit Kat bar with some very slight variations (dark chocolate, white chocolate), but the world is vast, so I thought it'd be interesting to look at what Nestle has done with Kit Kats worldwide (in the U.S., Hershey's produces Kit Kats, but for the rest of the world, it's made by Nestle, which might explain our lack of variety here).

In several countries, there's Kit Kat Ice Cream with bite-sized balls of Kit Kat embedded in it, but that's not all...

News: Pillsbury - New Funfetti Brownie Pops Kit

Good news Halloween baker types! The Pillsbury doughboy introduces a new Halloween-themed Funfetti Brownies Pops Kit this month. Just in case you are tired of cake pops, now you can make brownie pops...

Each kit carries a suggested retail price of $3.49 and includes brownie mix, cocoa confectionary wafers, candy bits, and pop sticks. Each box contains enough to make 12 pops.

Review: Keebler - Cinnamon Roll Cookies

Keebler's new Cinnamon Roll Cookies are soft-baked with Cinnabon cinnamon and drizzled with cream cheese flavor icing. They're basically supposed to give you the flavor of a cinnamon roll in cookie form.

They retail for $4.29 for a 10-ounce package at my local supermarket.

News: Healthy Choice - New Baked Entrees

Healthy Choice unleashes a new line of Baked Entrees to the frozen food aisle this month. The line is meant to offer classic comfort foods without sacrificing taste or nutrition.

Pasta, sauces, and cheese blends figure heavily into the new entrees with six new dishes on offer: Four Cheese Ziti Marinara, Roasted Chicken and Potatoes, Fettuccini Alfredo Bake, Italian Sausage Pasta Bake, Lasagna with Meat Sauce, and Chicken and Rice Cheddar Bake.

News: Yoplait - New Frozen Yogurt

It seems like the frozen yogurt section of the freezer aisle is getting more and more crowded. Yoplait throws their collective hat into the ring this month with new Yoplait Original and Yoplait Greek Frozen Yogurt in pints and frozen bars.

The new frozen yogurt feature live and active cultures, fruit, and natural flavors. Like most yogurt, they are low fat and provide a good amount of calcium. As with most Greek yogurt, the Greek Frozen Yogurt supplies twice as much protein as regular frozen yogurt.

Around the World: Wendy's Philippines Offers More Homestyle Meals

Wendy's is offering new, more localized, home-style food in the Philippines with their latest offering, Real Meal Deals.

Available for 49 pesos each (~$1.18 U.S.) and purporting to offer "real food at everyday prices," the new meals offered include:

News: Clif Bar - Seasonal Flavors Return

Clif Bar returns their seasonal holiday flavors this year with Iced Gingerbread, Peppermint Stick and Spiced Pumpkin Pie (they'll make pumpkin-anything won't they?).

The seasonal energy bars are made with 70 percent organic ingredients and carry a suggested retail of $1.39.