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Jan 4, 2015

Review: Skippy - Creamy Natural Peanut Butter Spread with Dark Chocolate

Skippy's Creamy Natural Peanut Butter Spread with Dark Chocolate is basically creamy peanut butter mixed with dark chocolate and cocoa.

It was $3 on sale for a 15-oz jar.

The Coffee Bean's New Mexican Chocolate Drinks Are Only $2 on 1/13/15

The Coffee Bean offers a trio of new Mexican Chocolate drinks and will be discounting them to $2 on January 13th.

The new drinks include a Mexican Chocolate Latte, Mexican Chocolate Ice Blended, and Mexican Hot Chocolate. They each feature the flavor of chocolate with notes of cinnamon with a slight graininess that's common to Mexican hot chocolate.

Carvel Brings Back Oreo Mint Ice Cream

Oreo Mint is once again being featured at Carvel for a limited time as they kick off the New Year. In addition to hand-scooped and soft-serve ice cream, they've also added the new Oreo Mint Deluxe 8" Cake and Oreo Hidden Treasure Cone.

The new cake features layers of fresh-made chocolate and mint ice cream separated by Oreo cookie pieces and topped with fudge and Oreo cookies. It's available for $19.99.

Jan 3, 2015

Review: Pieology - Cheese Pizza

Pieology is a chain of custom, fast-fired, artisan-style pizza joints that have been all the rage lately (at least here in L.A.). I tried their Classic Cheese Pie, which comes simply topped with olive oil, red sauce, and mozzarella.

It was $6.45 for the roughly 11.5-inch pizza.

Baskin-Robbins' January 2015 Flavor of the Month

Baskin-Robbins kicks off 2015 by celebrating their 70th birthday with Icing on the Cake ice cream, January's flavor of the month.

Mint Chocolate Swirl Shake Back at Arby's

The Andes Mint Chocolate Swirl Shake is back at Arby's for a limited time at select locations.

The shake features mint chocolate syrup mixed with Arby's vanilla shake base, decorated with a chocolate swirl, whipped cream, and broken pieces of Andes Mints.

Jan 2, 2015

Frozen Friday: Marie Callender's - Meat Loaf & Gravy

Marie Callender's Meat Loaf & Gravy frozen meal features two slices of meatloaf in a "home-style" gravy with sour cream & chives mashed potatoes and corn.

It cost me $2 on sale for a 14-oz box.

Dairy Queen's 2015 January Blizzard of the Month

Dairy Queen combines Oreos with their Confetti Cake Blizzard for the new Birthday Cake Oreo Blizzard in celebration of Dairy Queen's 75th anniversary.

This month's Blizzard of the Month features Oreo cookie pieces and confetti frosting mixed into Dairy Queen's signature vanilla soft serve. In case you're feeling extraordinarily festive, you can also get the flavor as part of a Blizzard Cake.

New Veggie Sliders at White Castle

White Castle's famed Sliders go vegetarian with new Veggie Sliders. The new item features a mini Dr. Praeger's veggie burger with a choice of either Honey Mustard, Ranch, or Sweet Thai sauce, on a slider bun.

Jan 1, 2015

Review: Popeyes - Blackened Tenders

Popeyes' Blackened Tenders are a non-battered, non-breaded version of their chicken tenders covered in blackened seasoning. They used to call them "Naked Tenders."

I got an order of three tenders for $3.99 (but they actually gave me four and threw in a biscuit as well. Bonus!)

Subway 2015 January Specials

Those of you hoping for the return of the $5 Footlong in 2015 are going to be disappointed this month. Instead, Subway has introduced a new and (supposedly) improved version of their grilled chicken strips.

Papa John's Offers "Buy Any Large Pizza, Get a Free Large 1-Topping Pizza" Deal

Coinciding with the NFL playoffs, Papa John's is offering a deal where you can get a free large, 1-topping pizza, when you buy any large pizza at regular price.