Wow my santa sent me a huge box all the way from Portland on the West Coast of the US to Toronto, Canada! The box looked like it went through a bit of a rough time during its trip but thankfully everything arrive intact. Since I obsessively track my packages, I saw that it had attempted to be delivered while I was at work, so I went to pick it up later that night from the post office!

I opened up the box and found a box filled to the brim with a ton of different snacks! My santa tailored the selections perfectly to the things I said I love (e.g. spicy, chips, black liquorice, coffee), and also managed to send me things that I've never tried before (I mentioned that I'd love to try anything that is unique/local to my santa)!

I was thinking that I would try everything first before writing the gallery post but then I realized that I would have to consume a lot of snacks to do that in a timely manner. So while I’ve dug in to a few things, there’s still lots more I have left to try!

My santa also sent me a nice written note with details about all of the snacks! Here’s a summary of everything I got!

CHIPS

My santa sent me 6 big bags of chips! Half of them were from the Cheetos family. There’s Cheetos Flamin’ Hot + Doritos Dinamita (Cheetos mixed with rolled Doritos), Cheetos XXtra Flamin’ Hot (can’t get these in Canada, they have quite a good kick and also turn your fingers red), and Cheetos Sweetos Cinnamon Sugar Puffs (I love cinnamon and sugar, and these are delicious!).

They also sent me their favourite chips, Hawaiian Kettle-style Luau BBQ Chips. I haven’t tried these yet but am very excited to try them! I love BBQ and also love kettle chips so I’m sure I’ll love them too.

There’s also a bag of “Cihicharritos” con chile, which I’m not 100% sure what it is but it seems to be a Mexican snack, and probably has some spice to it.

And finally rounding out the chips is an interesting flavour of Lays: Beer ’n Brats Flavored Chips. My santa hasn’t tried them before but thought they would be an interesting addition (as we don’t get that flavour in Canada)! I’ll have to report back with a verdict once I try them.

COOKIES

I got 3 different kinds of Girl Scouts cookies: Tagalongs, Thin Mints, and Samoas. I’ve actually never had these before as in Canada we have Girl Guide cookies. They’re sold in a similar way to raise money, but different kinds of cookies. My santa’s fave is the Tagalongs, which are peanut butter cookies. I liked them too (I love peanut butter)!

CANDY

There was a nice selection of candy, mainly Mexican and Asian themed! I love the candy from Mexico as it reminds me of my trip there many years ago! First of all there was Chile Mango Gummy Lollipops, which were very delicious and spicy! Next up is some Tamarind-flavoured candy: Pulparindo & Pelon. I haven’t tried these yet! And then rounding out the Mexican selection was some Japanese-Mexican peanuts, which I also haven’t tried yet.

My santa also included a popular Chinese snack and childhood favourite: Matcha Flavoured White Rabbit Candy. I opened one of these and there was a paper wrapping the candy that kinda crumbled away and I couldn’t get it off—then I read the note again and realized that they wrote that it was a rice paper covering the candy and totally edible! These were delicious! I love matcha and these candies have a great matcha flavour and are also very creamy!

LOCAL GOODIES

The last section is all the local goodies my santa sent. I always love to try local products as that is part of the fun of doing exchanges!

There’s some South American Coffee Beans from Hood River Coffee Roasters, as my santa noticed that I love coffee so included this with the snacks! I'll be grinding these up soon.

There is also a jar of Marionberry Jam. This is apparently a berry that is well known and loved in Oregon. I haven’t heard of it before so I’m excited to try this.

And my santa figured out that I am a black liquorice fan and included some salt water taffy style Salty Black Liquorice from a local company, Jacobsen Salt Co. These are delicious!

And finally there were 2 chocolate bars from “Moonstruck”: Dark Chocolate Espresso Bean & Milk Chocolate Sea-Salt Toffee. I love both of these flavours! I am a huge coffee fan and I also love toffee!

Thank you so much to my santa for the wonderful gifts! There was such an amazing and generous selection of snacks, tailored to my tastes but at the same time all new things! I look forward to trying everything and I’m sure these snacks will last me for a long time!