Treats from Spain

This month's Universal Yums included treats from Spain.

Barbacoa snack mix, BBQ potato snack, Ham flavored potato chips,
Caramel white chocolate candies, olive oil cookies, lemon cookie,
chocolate-covered oranges, pistachio toffee, and chocolate with pine nuts.

Everyone's favorite was the barbacoa snack mix!
Made Doug nostalgic for his childhood, and
he rushed to the store to buy corn nuts.

Jonas was not a fan of the chocolate-covered oranges.
Spain does not do a good chocolate orange. This was no Terry's!

Thumbs up to pistachio toffee!

Cool wrapper, but yucky cookie.

Another favorite of the kids! Think caramel
white chocolate M&Ms.

Olive oil cookie sounded weird. Tasted weird.

Ham-flavored potato chips. Mmm. Can't go wrong with ham.

That's a wrap on Spain!

Snacks from Poland!

When I got home from work today, there were 3 wild children anxiously waiting on me. A new Universal Yums box arrived and they could hardly wait to tear into it. I couldn't bare to make them wait until after dinner, so we promptly opened the box and dug in!

This month's treats were from beautiful POLAND.

Jules checking out some Poland trivia. Did you know that
 in Poland they put ketchup on their pizza?

Poland's treats: Tapsy cheese and onion chips (the kids' favorite; Jonas and Kate got into a fist fight over them), Walwel Milkizz, Krowki milky cream fudge (almost made Jonas barf), Soleo caramel pretzels, Dobosz chocolate plum (naaasty), Aksam peanuts with paprika (my favorite), and Raczki lobster tails (almost made me barf).

Those paprika peanuts were delicious, man.

Seriously, though. Wonder if I can order them from amazon...

Kate giving a thumbs up to those cheese and onion
chips. Pictured right before she punched Jonas for trying to eat one.

Cute little Jonas showing off the fancy wrapping for
the chocolate-covered plum. No offense, Poland, but this gal
is sticking with chocolate-covered cherries.

Treats from Japan

On Saturday, Rebecca surprised the boys with a box of treats from Japan!

This picture was taken after some snacks were consumed.
Rebecca totally spoiled them!

 Here they are sampling some strawberry Koala's March (aka Koala yummies). Verdict: delicious!

We tried the chocolate ones today and those were, per Julian, "2 thumbs way, way up!"

After the Koala yummies, they found the strawberry hi-chews, and
proceeded to dominate the entire package. 

And the most prized goody was this awesome police car filled with cups of fruit jelly! These little cups of magic were the best!

They replaced the jellies with hot wheels, so that now
they have a giant car full of little cars.

How lucky we are to have such amazing friends!

Snacks from Greece

To say the boys are obsessed with geography is an understatement. Their recitation of countries and states and capitals of countries and states gives me severe flashbacks of Mr. McGuire's AP History Class.

At any rate, their love for the world inspired me to sign them up for Universal Yums. A little package will arrive once a month with trivia and snacks from around the world.

Tonight, they received their first box. Snacks from Greece.

The boys tried every single snack from the box (maybe if I told them their dinner was from another country, they'd try everything on their plates). After the first taste of something "yucky," Kate bailed. She no longer trusted the snack box and stuck to drinking her "milky milk." The biggest hit was Oregano Pijarn chips. They killed the bag! Runner-up was apple-lime gummies!

They also got to read about hobgoblins. However, when asked who they'd rather have around at Christmas, they all still prefer Santa.