Vegan Tuck Box July 2016 Review

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I don’t usually post food reviews on this blog, but veganism is a big part of my life, and I decided to spice it up a little bit. I have been vegan for 6 years, and vegetarian for 7. Now that I’ve eaten all the July snacks, I wanted to share what I liked and why unlike a few other snack companys, I keep my subscription. I do understand that there is no way to fully meet someone’s snacking needs, but Vegan Tuck Box does understand my high expectations.

Vegan Tuck Box July 2016 and how much I liked the snacks

Kent Crisps Seasalt & Biddenden Cider Vinegar

Regular chips that taste like Apple and Vinegar, not the best combination. It’s bitter, duh. It took me a few days to eat it, but I guess it’s good in a way, as I couldn’t binge on it. And maybe that’s the point.

My rate: 3/10

Kintaro Almond Nut Clusters

One of the best snacks (not just vegan) that I have tasted. The minute I ate this bag, I ordered a box of 7 rice and nut clusters from the Kintaro website. After trying all of them, I do believe this one is the best, almost equally amazing one is the Strawberry Rice one. There’s also a nut one, chocolate/banana one, green tea one and a spicy one. Almond and strawberry are definitely the ones I’ll keep reordering.

10/10

YumEarth Organics Anti-OxiFruits

Delicious, vegan, sweet and 200% of daily required Vitamin C in one. If you have sensitive teeth, don’t eat more than one. I know the struggle. I gave the sweets to my parents to try and they keep asking me for more! I ended up giving them the whole bag. I am considering repurchasing them, but there is so many of them in the bag, 30, maybe? Running out will not happen any time soon.

9/10

Go Max Go White Cleos

Peanut butter covered in white chocolate! I know! Two of the most delicious guilty pleasures in one! Salty and sweet in one deal. Even new vegans know how hard it is to come across a vegan milk chocolate, let alone a white one! I bet you’re getting sick of that dark one too. The snack was a little too sweet, so I suggest you don’t eat both cookies at once.

8/10

So Sweet Couture Chocolate

It’s a shame that vegan companies forget vegans drink the very appetizing soy milk. Without it, chocolate just doesn’t taste like right. If you like orange chocolate in general, you won’t mind the not so delectable snack.

1/10

Lenny & Larry Birthday Cookie

One big soft and spongy cookie. Too big to eat it in one sitting, unless you’re really hungry.

6/10

Hoots Cheese and Onion

Yummy and yes, the cheese is vegan! It’s baked too! If you have weak teeth, try to break it in half first. If you miss cheese crisps, or cheese in general, you must get them!

7/10

Shire Snax Peppermint Patty Bar

Tastes like a mint protein bar. If you’re into minty things, go get it. My rate has nothing to do with the taste or quality of this bar, it’s just that I don’t like minty bars.

4/10

Holy Lama Spice Drops

Unnecessary, but tasty. I will continue adding it to my cereal.

5/10

Wholebake Flapjack

Like a regular flapjack, just a little drier. And too big.

7/10

Inspiral Incan BBQ Kale Chips

I am very biased on this one, as I hate kale chips and kale in general, so I can’t say anything nice about this product. I know this will affect the average rate of this month’s box, but I need to stay true to myself.

0/10

Ten Acre Strawberry and Cream Popcorn

Woah, what a treat! Both mouth-watering and sweet! Second favourite this month and a must-have!

10/10

Verdict: Subscribe!

Castle 8.21. Bones 11.11. Bones 11.12. Bones 11.13. Scream 2.09. Scream 2.10. Grace and Frankie 2 (episodes 1-7)

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Castle 8.21

Yes, I still haven’t seen the series finale, and I don’t plan on seeing it anytime soon. It took me 2 years to watch Private Practice’s finale and I still haven’t watched Dexter’s finale.

Someone breaks into Castle’s office and Castle is sure he is marked for death. It’s one of the most hilarious episodes that will make me miss Castle dearly.

Hello, it’s the Omen!
I’m marked for death.
That same flash of light appeared in the crime scene photos.
If by people you mean Satan.
He’s dead, so unless you have an Ouiji board.
I am being targeted by evil forces.
I saw his eyes. It was the demon.
Your husband has been marked for death.

10/10

Bones 11.11

I like how late in the year Bones now is. I can watch everything I need to and leave Bones for late August for when I’m stressed about not having any other shows for another month. After the break, Hodgins is all cranky and can’t seem to get pass his accident. Who can blame him?

You are so much more than this job.
That’s right. Bill me.
You don’t adjust kids’ art.
A man who treats a woman like dirt is not a man at all.

6.5/10

Bones 11.12

A wonderful Hodgins centred episode. Bones punched a guy! Again! And it was the funniest thing in a long time.

I have plenty of feeling. Anger, rage.
Royal Diner is our spot, don’t change it because of me.
All bitches need to be muzzled.
Booth, stop, you could lose your job for striking a civilian. Where I could face disciplinary action at most.
The jaw is so swollen he couldn’t tell if he wanted to.
Now you’re looking at me like a piece of meat.
I would never look at you like that, I’m a vegetarian.

10/10

Bones 11.13

This episode is everything the next season of Bates Motel will be. And Bones just got a new villain.

There’s no evidence the killer did anything sexual with the diseased.
You mean like taxidermy?
He lived with the body for an extended period of time.
For at least 6 months.
He spoon fed them.
Ever think you’re a little cray-cray yourself?
It’s the perfect location for serial murder.
In a way he and I are very similar.
He was turning his victims into marionettes.
You were right mommy, there are no monsters.

10/10

Scream 2.09

Aside from me and your mother, who else has been in your room?
Oh yes please, keep playing dumb.
Why is that picture upside down.

8/10

Scream 2.10

What an incredible episode. Noah and Zoey were buried alive and one of them could not be saved.

Please come save me.
I’m not gonna give you that satisfaction.
Of course I do, because you’re just my head saying what I already know.
She’s still down there.

10/10

Grace and Frankie 2.01

I watched it in June and was too lazy to rewrite my notes. The first episode was probably the weakest, with everyone stressing about not telling Robert about Sol and Frankie.

Are you fucking kidding me?
I don’t care why you became a rabbi.
I have 40 years of anger built up.
Last year when I said…I didn’t mean it.
By the power invested in me by the world wide web.

3/10

Grace and Frankie 2.02

Hilarious. Vin Diesel fucked Frankie.

Sol fucked Frankie. Sent.
Some shit is going down.
Vin Diesel fucked Frankie.
I’m so happy it was Vin Diesel who slept with my mom.
Whatever Mary-Louise, why don’t you go work at McDonalds.
Who’s Vin Diesel?

7.5/10

Grace and Frankie 2.03

Not as good.

That’s where I doodle.
All of Downton Abbey.
Be the bossy hamster with a drinking problem. They’re the ones who inspire their grandchildren to become writers.
I am gayer than you.

3/10

Grace and Frankie 2.04

Awful.

Ditch the booze.

1.5/10

Grace and Frankie 2.05

Frankie takes the driving test and it’s fun. Also, Still Alice is mentioned.

I’m not like that one with that guy with that redhead.
You too Judas have sold me up the river.
Fuck your take a break.
You were high when you studied.
Will you spend the rest of your life being roommates with that hippy nutbag?
This year she’s also been there for me in a very real way.
When the DMV is more fun than brunch with old friends.
You wanna talk about it?
I love you for that question, but no, thanks for now.
Why does it have restricted written on it?
I passed my written test, but my eyes didn’t. So no nighttime driving.
Great, so you have half a licence and I have no friends.
Or I had more license than I had yesterday. And you may have a new best friend. Best friends!
Kill me now.
Give me the keys. It’s getting dark.

10/10

Grace and Frankie 2.06

Frankie throws a bon-voyage party for her friend and Grace is not happy with it.

I painted this with my vagina.
I hated every job I ever had.
I thought we fired him.

4/10

Grace and Frankie 2.07

Sadly I don’t remember this episode well enough, but I did give it a 10.

This is a Lifetime movie.
I’m a member of Peta.
Animals are getting smarter.

10/10

 

Dead of Summer so far (episodes 1-6)

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The show only had 3 good episodes so far (out of 6) and honestly, I’m only watching it for Elizabeth Mitchell. The way her character dresses and wears her hair is exactly same as her Lost character. I am always playing the ‘spot Lost references game’ while watching this show and they mentioned ‘Dharma’ a lot. Dead of Summer is a show from Lost producers, but the audience mainly consists of teenagers and Juliet Burke fans. I still can’t believe it’s been 6 years since Lost ended. How beautiful is this poster though? Scroll down to see 3 more.

Dead of Summer 1.01

One of the weakest pilots out there, at least someone fell off the roof.

3/10

Dead of Summer 1.02

Yikes, awful!

0.5/10

Dead of Summer 1.03

The third episode, best so far focuses around an overweight girl who loses her virginity to an asshole from school, who laughs at her in front of his friends, the morning after. Her father sleeps with younger women, and her mother knows and agrees to it, as she believes that’s all she deserves.

Don’t tell your mother, she’d die.
Mom, you deserve better.
Women like us sometimes have to settle. – A wonderful and depressing sentence.
My life took a wrong turn. I didn’t become the person I wanted to be.

5/10

Dead of Summer 1.04

A wonderful episode, focusing around the transgender character. It beautifully showed how the boy’s mother couldn’t accept his gender, even though he’s been telling his mom he feels like a boy since he was a little kid. There’s an inspiring moment when the mother finally understands that Drew is a boy, yet it’s too much for her and she moves out and leaves the teenager alone in an empty apartment with a note saying she can’t live with the fact that her daughter is no longer there. Bonus, look out for Lost references.

Life is a series of moments that don’t happen to you. Moments, that if you’re brave enough, you can help create.
I saw you Drew.
What did you call me?
Your name, it’s Drew. You’re a boy. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.
Seeing you is a reminder of what I lost.
This tape that you gave me, I gave you 6 years ago.
I’m sorry. Are you crazy!?
There was never an Andrea.

10/10

Dead of Summer 1.05

One of the main characters were killed off.

0.5/10

Dead of Summer 1.06

Finally the Elizabeth Mitchell centric episode. What’s with the kids desperately wanting to play with an ouji board.

Camp’s been closed for years.
What happened to us. We were gonna save the world!
I guess the world changed.
I can’t lose you. Not again.
Maybe you didn’t save the world, but might just be able to save these kids.
It wasn’t supposed to be like that. You were supposed to be here too. We were supposed to be here together.

8.5/10

Paper Moon. Little Darlings. An American Crime. My Geisha. Where Love Has Gone. Harlow. Where the Wild Things Are. Vertical Limit. The Motel Life. Wuthering Heights.

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Paper Moon

A masterpiece, the only flaw is that color film was introduced years before Paper Moon was filmed, yet the picture is black and white.

9/10

Little Darlings

The 80s and teen films. Little Darlings is fantastic, go watch it.

7/10

An American Crime

Not detailed enough, but nonetheless, a great portrayal of this tragic story.

7/10

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My Geisha

The characterisation sure seemed a little too easy, as Shirley really did look like a Geisha. The storyline though, very sixties. I won’t see it again.

5/10

Where Love Has Gone

Expected so much more.

3/10

Harlow

The 60s biopic is not entirely accurate, especially the sickness and death part. Tedious too.

2/10

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Where the Wild Things Are

If you’re over 10, you won’t find it interesting. Adorable and inspiring at times.

4/10

Vertical Limit

A disaster film not so disastrous, yet not worth remembering or even watching.

3/10

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The Motel Life

Good at parts, terrible at others. Definitely not a film I’ll ever see again.

5/10

Wuthering Heights

The MTV version staring Erika Christensen and Katherine Heigl is boring, over-dramatic and yet kind of satisfying.

3.5/10

List of all the shows I watch

I posted the previous list in March 2016, and when I tried to edit it, I realized it’s all different. These are all the shows I post about in order of how much I care about the characters.

  1. Private Practice
  2. Greys
  3. SVU
  4. Judging Amy
  5. Bones
  6. Gilmore Girls
  7. Dexter
  8. The Big C
  9. Friends
  10. Desperate Housewives
  11. Parenthood
  12. Brothers and Sisters
  13. Cougar Town
  14. Castle
  15. Shameless
  16. Full House
  17. The Middle
  18. Revenge
  19. Bates Motel
  20. Orange is the New Black
  21. Lost
  22. AHS – (only first 4 seasons)
  23. Fuller House
  24. Downton Abbey
  25. The Killing
  26. Chase
  27. Sex and the city
  28. The Good Wife
  29. Six Feet Under
  30. Switched at Birth
  31. My So Called Life
  32. Nashville
  33. Suburgatory
  34. Surviving Jack
  35. Scandal
  36. Camp
  37. The Carrie Diaries
  38. The Goldbergs
  39. How To Get Away With Murder
  40. Scream
  41. Everybody Loves Raymond
  42. Married With Children
  43. Younger
  44. Grace and Frankie
  45. Freaks and Geeks
  46. When Calls the Heart
  47. Arrested Development
  48. Pretty Little Liars
  49. Past Life
  50. The Simpsons
  51. Bunheads
  52. Puberty Blues
  53. No Ordinary Family
  54. Weeds
  55. Bad Judge
  56. Awkward
  57. Go On
  58. 30 Rock
  59. Dirt
  60. Close to Home
  61. Thirteen Reasons Why
  62. This is Us
  63. Modern Family
  64. Top of the lake
  65. The Leftovers
  66. Sugar Rush
  67. V
  68. Grandfathered
  69. Faking It
  70. Secrets and lies (only season 1)
  71. Eye Candy
  72. The Whispers
  73. The Slap (AU)
  74. Off the Map
  75. Scream Queens
  76. Friday Night Lights
  77. Thirteen
  78. The Family
  79. F is for Family
  80. Starved
  81. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
  82. Fargo (only season 1)
  83. 90210
  84. Riverdale
  85. Dead of Summer
  86. Amber
  87. Degrassi Next Clas
  88. American Crime Story
  89. 23.11.63
  90. Divorce
  91. American Crime
  92. Ravenswood
  93. Save Me
  94. Wet Hot American Summer

May 2016 – The Goldbergs join at place 38
May 2016 – Everybody Loves Raymond joins at 41
May 2015 – American Crime Story joins at 82
May 2015 – 23.11.63 joins at 83
May 2016 – Awkward joins at place 54
June 2016 – Weeds joins the list at 51
July 2016 – Degrassi Next Class joins at 80
July 2016 – American Crime joins at 84 – only season 2
July 2016 – Freaks and Geeks joins at 43
July 2016 – Amber joins at 75
August 2016 – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt joins at 75
August 2016 – Transparent at 76
August- Dead of Summer joins at 77
August 2016 – 30 Rock joins at 37
August 2016 – Jane The Virgin (haven’t finished only at season 1 – no place yet)
September 2016 – Friday Night Lights joins at 72
October 2017 – This is Us joins
October 2016 – Divorce joins at 86
November 2016 – Married With Children joins at 42
January 2017 – Riverdale joins at 76
February 2017 – Modern Family joins (no place yet currently at season 2)
March 2017 – Thirteen Reasons Why joins

Vegan Tuck Box July 2016

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I don’t usually post food reviews on this blog, but veganism is a big part of my life, and I decided to spice it up a little bit. I have been vegan for 6 years, and vegetarian for 7. Now that I’ve eaten all the July snacks, I wanted to share what I liked and why unlike a few other snack company’s, I keep my subscription. I do understand that there is no way to fully meet someone’s snacking needs, but Vegan Tuck Box is to the most part meeting my high expectations.

Vegan Tuck Box July 2016 and how much I liked the snacks

Kent Crisps Seasalt & Biddenden Cider Vinegar

Regular chips that taste like Apple and Vinegar, not the best combination. It’s bitter, duh. It took me a few days to eat it, but I guess it’s good in a way, as I couldn’t binge on it. And maybe that’s the point.

3/10

Kintaro Almond Nut Clusters

One of the best snacks (not just vegan) that I have tasted. The minute I ate this bag, I ordered a box of 7 rice and nut clusters from the kintaro website. After trying all of them, I do believe this one is the best, almost equally amazing one is the Strawberry Rice one. There’s also a nut one, chocolate/banana one, green tea one and a spicy one. Almond and strawberry are definitely the ones I’ll keep reordering.

10/10

YumEarth Organics Anti-OxiFruits

Delicious, vegan sweets, 200 percent of dayily recommended intake of Vitamin C in one. If you have sensitive teeth, don’t eat more than one. I know the struggle. I gave them to my parents to try and they keep asking me for more! I ended up giving them the whole bag. I am considering repurchasing them, but there is so many of them in the bag, 30 maybe? We won’t run out any time soon.

9/10

Go Max Go White Cleos

Peaunut butter covered in white chocolate! I know! Two of the most delicious guilty pleasures in one! Salty and sweet in one deal. Even new vegans know how hard it is to come across a vegan milk chocolate, let alone a white one! I bet you’re getting sick of that dark one too. The snack was a little too sweet, so I suggest you don’t eat both cookies at once.

8/10

So Sweet Couture Chocolate

Remember those tasteless chocolate bunnies from childhood? I remember one or two occassions when my mom accidentally bought a chocolate-like instead of a chocolate one and was so upset. Don’t worry it’s not what vegan chocolate tastes like. It’s a shame that vegan companies forget vegans drink the very appetizing soy milk. If you like orange chocolate in general, you won’t mind the not so delectable chocolate.

1/10

Lenny & Larry Birthday Cookie

One big soft and spongy cookie. Too big to eat it in one sitting, unless you’re really hungry.

6/10

Hoots Cheese and Onion

Very palatable and yes, the cheese is vegan! It’s baked too! If you have weak teeth, try to break it in half first. If you miss cheese crisps, or cheese in general, you must get them!

7/10

Shire Snax Peppermint Patty Bar

Tastes like a mint protein bar. If you’re into minty things, go get it. My rate has nothing to do with the taste or quality of this bar, it’s just that I don’t like minty bars.

4/10

Holy Lama Spice Drops

Unnecessary, but tasty. I will continue adding it to my cereal.

5/10

Wholebake Flapjack

Like a regular flapjack, just a little drier. And too big.

7/10

Inspiral Incan BBQ Kale Chips

I am very biased on this one, as I hate kale chips and kale in general, so I can’t say anything nice about this product.

0/10

Ten Acre Strawberry and Cream Popcorn

Woah, what a treat! Both mouth-watering and sweet! Second favourite this month and a must-have!

10/10

I loved most of these! I do love my Vegan Tuck Box and cannot wait to discover new snacks they send me next month!

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. The Final Cut. The Conjuring 2. Murder By Numbers. Frality. Joe. Arthur Newman. Racing Stripes

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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Mad is definitely the right word to describe this film, and hilarious too. The film also has some of the best posters I’ve seen. Lovely caricatures of all those insane characters. Bit too long, but it had to be to fit in all those stunts. If you have time and are well rested, watch it. I still can’t believe they listened to the cop and decided to turn themselves in. The Simpsons had an episode a couple years back based on this insane film. I suggest you watch it when you finish this.

7/10

The Final Cut

What an outstanding idea. Robin Williams portrays a person responsible for cutting out the happiest memories of a person’s life and making a montage for that said person’s funeral. I have never heard of anything like this and this is the kind of sci-fi I want to see more of. It was innovative and kept me interested till the very end.

7/10

The Conjuring 2

The Conjuring series is a gift. Vera is the sensitive actress a good horror series needs, but always fails to hire. The sequel focused on Lorraine and Ed’s relationship and it was breathtaking. It was the best romance story I’ve seen in ages. Best romantic comedy and horror in one. I rewatched the first Conjuring a day after and I realized the second one is much better. Even though it may not be as true, if I remember correctly, the Warrens ruled this case as inconclusive. I don’t see why the Amityville ghost would travel to a random family in the UK. It’s not like it followed Lorraine. That, didn’t make sense, everything else was just excellent. I am desperately waiting for it to come out on DVD, so I can watch it and watch it once more. I pray they make a third one.

9/10

Murder By Numbers

I thought it was quite awful, sure the Pitt/Gosling twisted bond was intriguing, but the rest of it was a mess. And why on earth would a monkey out of all animals jump Sandra Bullock? I think the hype connected with this film comes only from girls fangirling over Gosling.

4/10

Frailty

I adored the father’s understanding of human sacrifice. The film was intriguing when he was killing, also the final reveal may come as a shock to you.

6.5/10

Arthur Newman

Interesting with dropping identities, abandoning son, etc, but a little too sex crazed, and he fell in love with her really fast. For some reason I couldn’t stand Colin and Emily’s relationship in this film. Or maybe I’m just a prude. Honestly, without all the sex it would be an 7. Over the years, I’ve seen around 30 films with Colin Firth, and I may never buy this one on DVD, but I may watch it again in 20 years.

6/10

Joe

It was very good at times, and bad at others. Some scenes were unnecessarily heartbreaking, and my emotions were all over the place with the kid’s father being an abusive lazy drunk.

5/10

Racing Stripes

I remember seeing Ice Princess with young Hayden, and I also remember postponing watching this. Clearly with good reason. I recently watched Moondance Alexander with Kay Panabaker and Lori Loughlin and I thought It was disappointing, week later I watched Stripes and it was very similar, but even weaker. Still, it’s a kids film, so I’m rating it accordingly.

5/10

 

Free Ride. Buried. Hush. Allegiant. Earth To Echo. Boo.

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I am so happy Mel Gibson is back. Go see the trailer for Blood Father. William H. Macy is in it too! While growing up all my dad talked about were Tom Hanks and Mel Gibson, it’s good to see Mel again, I only watched The Beaver since his 2004 films, and he hasn’t been in much since then.

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Free Ride

More or less by accident I have seen all films starring a rising young actress Liana Liberato. I loved her performance in Trust, a very important film about sexual predators online, directed by David Schwimmer, yes that’s Ross from Friends. It’s one of my 100 favorite films and I rewatch it on DVD every couple of months. I have been following Liana’s career since 2010, so when I saw Free Ride expiring on Netflix, naturally I had to see it. Free Ride is a true story of the film’s director and screenwriter’s mother, who was a drug dealer. Yes, when you think about it, it is real time Weeds. Free Ride lightly covers sad life of a drug dealer and their loved ones. Anna Paquin’s friend was annoying as hell, why does half of the films feature an annoying best friend. The film wasn’t groundbreaking at any point, but it’s always fun to watch a film actually based on true events.

7/10

Buried

I don’t get the puff is about, I have been meaning to watch it for ages, and I was extremely disappointed. Buried was boring, and definitely not thrilling. Go watch Brake with Stephen Dorff and Chyler Leigh it’s very similar, but much more suspenseful that this.

3/10

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Hush

It wasn’t that good, why is everyone so excited about it. The neighbor’s boyfriend was so dumb he believed the killer was a policeman and gave his phone to him. They cast a hearing person for a deaf part, when there are so many unemployed deaf actors. I am not happy with this. This wasn’t some big production to show off a famous actor’s abilities. The one thing I liked about this was that the writer wrote down her last words to her parents the very last minute, I thought that was nice. There are tons of good horror films out there and this is not one of them. A special point for Derek’s killer finally getting what she deserved.

3.5/10

Allegiant

Oh boy, this series again. I started watching it for Naomi Watts, and I did like the first one. It gets worse and worse with each installment. Not true though, the second one was much worse than this one. I wish they could do 7 Hunger Games and just one of Divergent. I do remember there was a fun song in end credits.

4/10

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Earth to Echo

I think I mistook it for some other sci-fi kids film, and it wasn’t Super 8. I remember seeing Super 8 at the movies. I think it was called Wall-e something like that. I chose to watch this because I thought oh yeah It was Oscar nominated so why not. Earth to Echo will only make any impression on you if you’re a primary school kid. It tried to be Goonies at parts, it tried to be E.T. and it failed. The ending was a bit moving, but that’s all because of music. I think if you have kids you should show it to them, if you don’t, don’t watch it.

4/10

Boo

Apparently it was so bad, I can’t recall what it was about.

1/10