Mars Skittles

I do love these and outside of anything with chocolate in or on it these are my favourite things when I need a sugar rush. Skittles are made by Mars and are small pill size sweets and you get about twenty to thirty to a packet which costs about forty five pence in most retailers. They area fruit flavour sweet in a number of flavours and they have a hard shell on th outside and a chewy centre in the middle, they are quite chewy and can stick to your teeth but as they are so small if you do not chew them but just suck they soon go soft. These have a wonderful taste and they are like eating little bubbles of juice as just like Starburst ...

These are the best sweets in the whole world. Addictive, easy to get through a whole big packet in one afternoon at your desk. The best thing about skittles is that my gorgeous girlfriend Pam keeps supplying me with them, so I never have to wait long for my next fix! How lucky I am to have such a thoughtful girlfriend, of course I do my bit and buy her flowers and chocs in ...

The other day I made the mistake of going to the supermarket while hungry. As we all know this leads to buying things you wouldn't normally buy and my extra purchase was a big bag of Skittles. I must have been pretty hungry as I plumped for the 195g bag instead of a small one. I paid £1.30 for them in the Co-op and confess I am writing this with the empty wrapper beside me as I've scoffed all the sweets! The sweets themselves are about the size of a small pill but rounder and they come in lemon (yellow), lime (green), orange (orange), red (strawberry) and purple (blackcurrant). I have to admit my favourites are the orange, red and purple ones but my usual ...