The Trader Joe's Product Discussion Thread (S/D)

Lime ones were too intense for me. Chili mango is still my fav, followed by carribian then coconut.

LL - Cooking for me is dependent on convenience. If I am making muffins from a box mix and I have to go to the store across the street to buy milk for them, I'm going to just buy a muffin at the store.

I looked for chili mango the other night but they didn't have them :( they were sampling triple ginger lemon ice cream and it is amaazzzzing but the sample bite is about all the ice cream I can handle so I will never buy it.

As of yesterday, our TJ's was out of all the "fruit floes" except for coconut.

Tropical Carrot Juice Blend is wonderful.

Floe emergency.

Big fan of the portabella mushroom and the spinach and cheese and artichoke and cheese ravioli.

I used to be you until I tried the arugula and parmesan ravioli and now I will buy no other variety

the butternut squash triangoli are just too damn sweet though

otm and otm, except I still do buy other varieties

Butternut squash risotto is way too sweet, too. Somebody in the TJ's test kitchen needs to rethink butternut squash.

Add salt

As of yesterday, our TJ's was out of all the "fruit floes" except for coconut.

Because of this thread I went to TJs yesterday specifically on the lookout for the chile mango floes but they did not have them. :( I came home with the Lime ones though and they were amazing.

i think the chile mangos are discontinued (hence the crazy eddie's rock bottom pricing)
also discontinued: "perk you up?" nut mix with espresso beans. unhappy face emoticon.

We buy so many Popsicles. All the floes augmented with raspberry cream and mango cream bars. And peach pops. This floe shortage concerns me greatly. They are a major part of my diet.

oh no!

I want to go back and get more now. iirc they had Tropical and Coconut which both sound like flavors I'd enjoy.

Yeah the coconut ones looked good. I didn't buy them, but no dairy, which would be nice to have around for a dairy-intolerant friend, unlike the coconut paletas I always have on hand. Are they good?

ROSEMARY. PECANS. AND. CRANBERRIES.

that is all

Veggie Pakoras are real good.

I love the coconut popsicles. My only (very minor) quibble would be that they are maybe a little too sweet.

Somehow the True Thai Vegetable Panang Curry in the microwavable cup manages to provide more than half of your daily recommended sodium intake while still tasting like it needs salt (and aside from raw radishes and cucumbers, I don't put salt on things).

The Belgian Chocolate pudding is problematically good.

the TJ almonds are kind of sad.

having a "tropical" fruit floe right now. yum!

forgot to peep those the other day when I ran in for turkey meatballs and triple berry o's :(

loving the monkey business trek mix. wish i had a "trek" to eat it on!

the bistro salad with kale, edamame, etc. is fantastic.

lime floe is good but caribbean floe is best

love sweet potatoes, love gnocchi, the sweet potato gnocchi was pretty nasty

Ditto, ditto, and ditto. I warned against it upthread.

the "hummus salad dressing" is really just tahini sauce and/but is v. good. i bought it as a dip for their falafel, which are otherwise a little dry.

how are their tortilla chips?

Not a TJ's branded product, but deal alert -- they're selling variety packs of Butternuts Beers (Porkslap Pale Ale etc.) for like $15 a 12-pack. Surprisingly good in spite of corny packaging and names.

btw I assume that's just NY area TJ's, since they're a local brewer.

Fuck PA and NJ liquor laws so fucking hard tbh

yeah they have so stupid ass laws on the books in that regard

The tortilla chips are good! They have salted and unsalted, so look sharp.

CARRIBEAN FLOES OMG!!!! It is going to take every oz of strenth not to finish the rest of the box before sundown

They softened up on my ride home and it was like strawberry-mango sorbet on a stick I can't even

And the coconut!! Some floes are fresh but these floes the freshest!

I probably eat 5 to 8 floes a week.

And damn I miss the chili mango floes.

Why did they go away?

I guess a lot of their stuff comes and goes seasonally. Maybe it will return.

I loved the coconut floes until about a week ago when they were suddenly way too sweet for me. I wish I had come to that realization at the end of a box instead of at the beginning of one.

TRIPLE GINGER SNAP LEMON ICE CREAM

cannot stop eating the fake twizzlers.

Oh yeah those are weirdly addictive. I love real Twizzlers so maybe I'm just predisposed to enjoy chewy plasticy strawberry candy.

I had a severe problem w that licorice (the black kind not the red kind) and it was hard to give up!! I ate like a lb a week!!

fucking obsessed with the everything bagel chips

also been fucking heavy with the frozen burritos & the kung pao chicken is pretty good in a jiff