Jelly Belly Beans

Jelly beans are one of those sweets which I could never make my mind up about. Did I like them? I could never decide! But the day I tried my first Jelly-Belly Bean, the answer was clear...! -----THE BEGINNING----- Jelly Belly beans are an American sweet, dating all the way back to 1869. Jelly beans were popular sweets for a short while, until the chocolate craze in the early 1900s. But nevertheless, when chocolate became rare during the Second World War, everybody craved other sweets, including the jelly bean. In 1976, in Los Angeles, the Jelly Belly bean was created, in several new and exciting flavours, as we know them today! Now, Jelly ...  Read the complete review

You know what happened today? I've been craving sweets for a couple of days now but have refused to buy any because of my healthy eating regime and today I finally got round to sorting the kids rooms and what do I find? The biggest box of jelly beans I've ever seen. Not just any jelly beans either - Americas Favourite Jelly Bean... Jelly Belly. In all the mess this wondrous find got mixed up with the washing and forgotten about. But now I've found it. *chuckles manically* So what are Jelly Belly jelly beans and how do they differ to your bog standard jelly beans? The answer is they're just so different it's like comparing a Ferrero Rocher to a ...  Read the complete review

Jelly Belly is probably the best known jelly bean brand in the UK. Admittedly that's not saying a great deal - go on, I challenge you: write down ten jelly bean brands that come into your head. Okay, I'll stop there before this review starts looking like a particularly dull (and unfortunately very common) market research survey question, but you get the point. Jelly Belly don't really have a lot of competition in the name recognition stakes. Jelly Belly is, as you might expect, a US company, producing no less than 15,000 tonnes of "candy" (well, these people are American) every year. They're tremendously popular on the western side of the Atlantic, ...  Read the complete review

Cappuccino, caramel apple, peanut butter, pine colada and strawberry cheesecake. The flavours I can never get enough of. The problem is, when I'm walking around town and I feel a bit peckish, its not exactly normal to be carrying around a jar of peanut butter, a box of cheesecake and a pina colada. In fact, if I saw someone digging into this sort of picnic I'd probably think they were mad. A solution I hear you ask? Well, isn't it obvious? Turn them into beans! Jelly belly jelly beans have been around for years and are becoming increasingly more popular as more flavours are being introduced. The latest being chilli mango (which I'm not ashamed to ...  Read the complete review

I've just received a little sample bag of these through the post! No idea why they've sent them to me but i'm not complaining!! This little bag is 15g and contains around 10 jelly beans, all different flavours/colours, yey! I should be thinking about making my lunch at this time but I'd rather have my jelly beans. Jelly Belly -------------------- Jelly Belly make 'gourmet' jelly beans. They are softer than normal, cheaper jelly beans. Jelly Belly use natural ingredients to get the flavours accurate wherever possible. There are 4 calories per jally bean and no fat at all :) There are 50 'normal' flavours ...  Read the complete review