Coca Cola Peach...

Not sure if you can see in the bottom right corner but these brand new Peach Cokes were just released January 22nd for us in Japan!!! I went and did my weekly grocery shopping in the city of Inzai like I do every week and I saw these little beauties January 24th!!! I live way out in in a tiny town with a little under 5000 people and so these have not hit my town yet and many things often do not hit my town at all. However, I am in Inzai city once a week and that's where I always see the new and cool things being sold. I bought 4 of these, 1 for each of my family members, so we could all try and see if we liked it. Yes we did!!! 

Noboru was with me this day, we had a lunch date at the Ohsho after we finished our shopping. And my sweetie pie kindly held this for me, because I Line messaged my high schooler to ask him if he wanted to try this? He messaged me back and said...yes please!!! They get 10 minute breaks between classes and can check their phones then... and it was just perfect timing that he replied. He showed this pic to his classmates none of them had seen it yet... when he showed them the pic I sent, but they have since found it and so many have tried it and they like it too. It's good.

This says..."First in the world!!!!" or "World's First!!!" Peach flavored Coke! How cool and amazing! With a sign like that...of course I wanted my family to try one!!! : ) 

Like I said I bought one for each of us to have our own. They were only 78 or 87 yen at Besia. I also want to say that I love the design and colors of this Coca Cola Peach bottle. It's so cute!!! 

Yep, 4 empty ones. What did we think? All 4 of us liked them!!! Would I buy another one? Would I repurchase it? Yes I would, not every day or anything of course... but sure as a once in a while treat...sure. And ya'll know me...if I don't like it. I certainly will let you know. But this...this was pretty good. So perhaps if you're in Japan and you don't mind having a soda every now and then. You might like to give this one a try. : )

Anyway it's Saturday here in Japan. And I made homemade from scratch pizza dough this morning. We're having homemade pizza for dinner tonight. There is still snow all around the ground and fields in my town. And there is still icy patches on some of the roads. @_@  We're just having a nice relaxing Saturday. Have a nice weekend everyone! : )

Country Ma'am Choco Mint Cookies...

Every week when I do my great big weekly grocery shopping haul. Besides buying regular food, you know...stuff like beef, chicken, shrimp, pork, lunch meat, cheese, pasta, bread, tons of fresh veggies from the farmer's market. Sauces, flour, milk, yogurt. Etc to infinity... you know what I mean, regular food. I also buy snack stuff too, because we're not living lives... of torture here and as long as you keep things in balance, so what...it's okay. So keeping snacks in the house is essential for our family. I usually keep salty snacks on hand (like chips, nuts or pretzels, popcorn, ykwim) and also something sweet too. We have been enjoying these onion jalapeno Pringles. What do they taste like?...I'd say...they taste exactly like sour cream and onion chips plus jalapeno flavor too. You definitely taste the jalapeno flavor. And I was worried the chili flavor wouldn't be so strong... because this is Japan afterall. But the flavor is totally super good, you definitely can taste the jalapeno flavor. These are so good and again just a less strong flavor of sour cream and onion Pringles with a good flavor of jalapeno too. Also...these are not so hot that you couldn't eat them or enjoy them. But definitely delicious and flavorful and can definitely taste the jalapeno flavor, yum. Also as soon as these Choco Mint Country Ma'am came out this season, I was all over these! And have been buying these for the kids since they first came out! And then the Choco Chip regular cookies are just 78 yen a box. And the Country Ma'am Choco Mint cookies are just 120 yen and the Pringles are 120 yen or 130 yen for the pack. I buy these at the cheap snack and drink store in the smallest city nearest my town. Country Ma'am are also selling 2 more new flavor cookies too. One is cheesecake and the other is caramel something or other. I'll take pics of them next week, when I go back to restock our choco mint cookies. And the Country Ma'am cookies are so nice and soft. Because the choco mint ones are a special flavor they come in a pack of 10, where as the regular pack contains 12? Something like that... but these choco mint ones are less cookies than the regular pack though, just something to keep in mind. : ) 

These are really good chips. This week, I bought a pack for Bran, Noah and Noboru and myself. I bought the kids a pack each the week beforehand. And Noboru and I each tried a chip of theirs and these were truly stellar! So good. That this week, even Noboru requested...when I asked him...what sort of snacks do you want me to pick up for you? He said...The jalapeno Pringles. Hahaha. I said I want that too. : ) 

 There is also a choco mint frappe being sold at Family Mart. My one friend straight up *loves* these!!! I haven't tried the choco mint frap yet. Also, I have seen the choco mint Kit Kats being sold again this year too. So anyways...if you are in Japan...and you love choco mint, just be on the look out. So many delicious things available for us, choco mint lovers in Japan right now! : )

Cool Japan! Clear tea, have you seen it yet? Suntory Premium Morning Tea...

Has anyone seen this yet? Or tasted it? I took this picture about a month ago, it's in my April 2017 file. Let me go and check for the exact date brb. I snapped this pic April 26th, so a few days shy of a full month ago. I also must point out, that I do a once a week big grocery shopping in Inzai City weekly. I hit at least 3 shops on that day. Costco, Besia and Joyful Honda. Sometimes others. So, I do get to see what's new. What just came in to the stores or shops for us in Japan. I also go to a handful of stores in the small city nearest me on a different day but once a week too and I do go to the 1 store in town too. So, I do go to many different grocery stores and get to see all sorts of new products. Remember when I snapped that Calpis Water? Yeah now it's everywhere and doesn't raise an eyebrow, but I remember when it first came out and I shared it here. Anyways back in April, I spotted this right away at the Besia grocery store in Inzai and I bought 2. One for Branden to take to high school the next day. Kids drink their own drinks or can buy them at the school. And I bought one for Noah too. Noah had it that very day, as soon as he got out of school. This sort of reminded me of Crystal Pepsi. Does that make sense? Because when most people think of a cola, they think a brown or caramel colored soda. That's the color I think of when I think of Coke or Pepsi. And so when Crystal Pepsi first came out, I thought...clear Pepsi? 7-Up, Sprite are clear, but a clear Pepsi was a tad mind blowing at the time. I do think the world did get over it. But yeah it was a bit surprising at first. And now...when I think of an iced tea in summer time with a twist of lemon in it. I think a nice light brown tea colored drink. So yeah as I was cruising with my cart at Besia and I saw this @_@ I stopped for a second and thought to myself...Crytsal or clear tea? What the....???@_@ So, like I said, I bought 2 for the kids. 

Branden said when he took it out at lunch back in April, the whole class was like..."what's that?!!!" He said, "tea I think...but I don't know either, my mom just bought it at the store the day before." : )Bran said he likes the taste of this too. Noah likes the taste too. And this is now everywhere in Japan and even at conbini's/convenience stores near Bran's school so even though I buy him/make sure he packs 1 drink from home daily... he also buys one at school or along the way to school too. And he often buys this. That's how much he likes this. : ) Anyway...would you believe I have not tasted this one yet? Maybe I'll give it a try this coming week. : )

Anything new to add? We went to the Outback Steakhouse last night for our anniversary dinner. It was awesome. Today, tomorrow and Wednesday Bran has major tests. However in high school you only take 2 tests a day and get to come home early. For example, Branden got out of school at 11am today. He will get out that time tomorrow and Wednesday too. His tests today were just math and science. High schools here don't want to stress kids out. And that's probably why Branden has zero stress at all. In JHS though, at least for ours...they tested you all in 1 darn day, all 5 subjects, so it was like 1 day of hell. And kids were stressed to the max. High school is *so* much nicer than JHS. I will be picking up Bran from the train station soon. What's for supper tonight? A nice tender big ol' pot of beef stew. Tomorrow night it's going to be American style fried chicken tenders and mashed potatoes and gravy and veggies. But tonight just a nice simple pot of beef stew and a side of rice. Anyway, I better hop in my car and get myself to the train station to go pick up Bran. Noah gets out at normal time 3:45pm, but we'll both be there to pick up Noah as soon as school lets out. : )

Ginger Coca Cola...

Has anyone seen or tried these new Cokes with ginger extract yet? 

They're pretty good! I saw them last week and I bought one for everyone in the house to try! I like trying new things! 

Anyway...it's Friday here in Japan already. Have a good weekend everyone! I made homemade pizza dough from scratch this morning. Pizza for supper tonight. The dough is resting in the kitchen in a bowl covered in a kitchen towel. I will roll out the pizza as soon as Noah gets home. Pizza with side salads for balance. And we'll be having that as our TGIF dinner tonight.  : ) We're watching the movie Arrival tonight. And tomorrow night at home we're going to watch "A Monster Calls." Branden got out of school today at 12 noon because there are 9th graders testing for schools still. Some had to turn some form in. Meanwhile for us...you know Bran is out of it. Since he applied and was accepted already. But still...half day for *all* 9th graders today...whether you are still testing and applying or whether you already got in. So that's nice. He's chillin' on the couch right now. And Noah meanwhile doesn't get out of school until 3:45pm. But...Bran and I will swing and pick up Noah together around 3:20pm. Noboru is at work until...10-ish tonight. And that's it really. OMG...it has been so windy here in my town. For like the past 3 days. And a frigid chilly wind. Nothing of ours has blown around yet (knock on wood). But our neighbors stuff was blown all over the street yesterday. @_@  Luckily she managed to get everything. A couple of us helped too. Oh, I have taken down my front door wreath though.. since it has been so crazy windy and I will put it back up once the high winds stop. I would just be very sad if it broke and fell so violently because of the winds and cracked or something, ykwim. So better to be safe than sorry. It will go back up after the winds calm down a bit. Anyway TGIF everyone. : )