HEB Chili. This Texas based store has its own named brand chili. It tasted great, lots of meat and it had a medium spice and heat to it, This style of chili did have beans in it which isn’t traditional Texas chili ,but it had a good amount of beans which tasted good. It had a nice thick sauce. This chili reminds me of what Wolf brand chili used to taste like before it was watered down and all the recipe changes. Rated 4.85 out of 5-D.

Atkinson’s candy company out of Lufkin Texas. They have been a family run company since 1932 and is known worldwide for their candies. The Crunchy Peanut Butter Bars are great tasting. Great peanut flavor. They slowly roast they’re own Texas Grade A Jumbo peanuts until they're a toasty golden brown, to get a deep peanut flavor. The candy was crunchy, but not too hard. The candy had a strong peanut flavor and a candied coating. Similar to their Chick-o-sticks candy only with a stronger peanut flavor. The candy coating kind of has a slight vanilla flavor. The cost is really inexpensive which is nice. Another great Texas candy. Rated 4.9 outta 5-D

Atkinson’s Crunchy Peanut Butter Bars. When we opened the bag containing these delicious little candies, it instantly had a strong peanut butter aroma. Smelled great! The taste was even better. Any peanut butter enthusiast will love this candy. It’s got a bit of flakiness to it, but not as much as Chic-o-stick. Creamy roasted peanut taste in the middle. Sugary sweet moderately hard coating All in all it’s a perfect little candy to satisfy any peanut butter craving, and it’s Texas made! Rated 4.8 outta 5 -A

Blue Bell ice cream out of Brenham, Texas. Happy Tracks flavor. This is another great ice cream. It is full of great tasting chocolate fudge and peanut butter cups. They make all their candies and cookies on site. The fudge was very good tasting in the vanilla ice cream. It had lots of great tasting peanut butter cups mixed in. The only fault I could find was the peanut butter cups were a little hard due to the cold ice cream. I like this one a lot. Rated 4.85 outta 5-D

Blue Bell Happy Tracks Ice Cream. Generous swirls of chocolate fudge in creamy vanilla ice cream with little chocolate covered peanut butter pieces. Delicious! Creamy and rich, and full of flavor. Each bite had a generous helping of fudge and peanut butter candy. My only complaint that the chocolate covered peanut butter candies can get pretty hard due to being frozen, but they melt in your mouth quite nicely. Give it a try, though I’m sure most of you already have ;) Rated 4.7 outta 5-A

Rudys bbq. Arlington Texas. Smoked turkey. I liked the smoked turkey a lot. It had a nice peppery spice to it and the smoke flavor was just right. The turkey meat was nice and moist. It wasn’t too salty and went well with rudys ”sause”. Rated 4.8 outta 5-D

Big Tex from Mission, Texas. The orange pineapple juice was good. While I usually only drink orange juice, I found this to be good tasting and refreshing. It had a nice taste of pineapple juice that didn’t over power the orange juice. I enjoyed this enough to buy another. Rated 4 out of 5.-D

Big Tex Orange Pineapple Juice. This juice is so tasty. It’s my new favorite. Each flavor is strongly pronounced and surprisingly do not overpower the other. Its 100% juice and 120% of your daily value of vitamin C! This has been the best tasting pineapple orange juice I have ever had!-5 outta 5-A

DL Jardines located in Buda Texas, The heart of Texas Hill Country. The Killer barbecue sauce was good. It had a good amount of heat to it but not too much to overpower. It has more peppers and spice than their other bbq sauces do. It had a nice hickory smoke flavor. This sauce is a medium thickness. DL Jardines Killer bbq sauce goes great with anything you want a little more Texas heat on. Another fine product by DL Jardines. Rated 4 out of 5-D

Blue Bell ice cream out of Brenam, Texas. Blue Bell Butter Crunch tasted amazing. The vanilla ice cream matched perfectly with the chocolate and peanut butter candy pieces mixed in, Imagine a chocolate covered chick-o- stick candy crushed in with vanilla ice cream. It was smooth and had a lots of pieces of chocolate and peanut butter candy. This rates as one of my favorites so far. Blue bell continues to be the best ice cream in Texas… Rated 4.95 out of 5,-D

Blue Bell Butter Crunch Ice Cream. I LOVE this flavor! My new favorite among Blue Bell (even though each new flavor ends up being my favorite!) at the moment, this one takes the cake! Chunky remnants of delicious chick o stick type candy with chocolate and an always creamy vanilla ice cream. It was really hard to put this one down folks, so good! As usual, Blue Bell never ceases to amaze me on how delicious they make their ice cream! If you have not tried this flavor, please give it a try and let us know what you think! Rate 5 outta 5 - A