Milano cinnamon chocolate cookies

Yeahhhhhh, you should try these. Like, seriously. I mean, they're a standard Milano (which, despite the commercials, is just a mediocre cookie), but with cinnamon. It's not quite Mexican chocolate-esque, but it's getting there. Just a little warmth and spice to it. I mean, if someone lived in, say, Upper Michigan where it's winter almost all year long, one might want to have these on hand. Just sayin'.

Rao's arrabbiata

Once I discovered Marcella Hazan's simple tomato sauce recipe, I don't really buy pasta sauce anymore. Except this. Honestly, I think Rao's is the only jarred sauce worth buying, regardless. But this spicy sauce is my favorite on zoodles. I haaaaaate sweet spaghetti sauces, and this one is low on the sugar scale. It's got great heat, some tomato chunks but not too many, and I think the salt ratio is just right. We love it on zucchini noodles with a bit of fresh mozzarella.

Skittles Dips

One word: No.

These caught my eye in the Chicago airport. After a delightful chipotle chicken torta from Frontera (no black beans, please), I decided to grab a Coke from Hudson News. (In case you're wondering, Cherry Coke is as good as ever. Also, in case you were wondering, the Classic Lime Agua Fresca at Frontera is just Limeaid -- and it's perfection.) I'd never even heard of these, but new food products are my jam -- except jam, which I mostly don't love.

These. are. disgusting. I hadn't noticed at first that they're coated in "creamy [ewww] yogurt flavored coating." I don't know why I thought they were coated in yogurt, but the fact that it's yogurt flavoring is somehow worse. You can't really see the colors of each Skittle underneath the white coating, which means you can't avoid those grody orange ones. I thought maybe the orange ones might taste like Dreamsicles, though. They do not. These are SO chemical-tasting, and remind me a bit of circus peanuts . . . but worse somehow.

Reader, I threw them away. Me. I threw away candy that I paid for. I didn't even eat them on the plane. They're that bad. I'd MUCH rather eat yogurt covered craisins, although now I'm wondering if they're actually covered in anything that has any relation to actual yogurt .

In short, I do not recommend these. At all. Ever.