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

Yum!

Haha. Agreed to both Hurting and Jeff.

It is delicious, but it makes me feel awful.

Yeh for someone who is starting to have trouble with hypertension, It would be nice if they let you salt the shit out of the food yourself.

you could just cook the food yourself.

Adding water to a package and applying heat IS "cooking food myself" for the most part. If I don't get take-out, I have succeeded.

I actually really like cooking, but only with others. Cooking for just myself is just a chore, and I usually just bake a potato or sautee some vegetables. I would literally prefer doing laundry or doing maintenance on my files.

Dark chocolate mint UFOs. Frozen mac & cheese. Another vote for tamales, yogurt, and paneer tikka masala (until I get tired of it).

It is almost candy cane joe-joes time.

Oh hell yes. I devour a box of those every year, then buy another box and eat four of them and forget about it. BUT MAN THAT FIRST BOX.

Chocolate covered raspberry sticks
Peanut butter pretzels

Cannot fuck with TJs on either front

Paneer tikka masala cosign

I would literally prefer . . . doing maintenance on my files.

Is that a euphemism?

I'm currently enjoying a bagel topped with cream cheese and TJ's pumpkin butter, which is very good. I also like the pumpkin muffin mix, which is even better if you cream half a block of cream cheese, 1/2 cup of sugar, and an egg yolk together and plop a teaspoon of that in the middle of each muffin before you bake them.

I wanted to buy pumpkin butter but the girl vetoed it cause we didn't have anything to put it on. I will pretty much buy pumpkin anything, tho.

Me, too! Now you know that it is good on bagels, so you can get some bagels and some pumpkin butter.

Oh did I not mention the flax-seed peanut butter? So good.

Dark chocolate sea salt caramels (holiday seasonal item): I LOVE YOU
these shits are so good

chocolate - high quality
caramel - buttery and smooth
salt - salty and from the DEAD SEA (purportedly)

anyway, these candies are divine and i'm tempted to buy a bunch just to keep for later when they become unseasonal again

Just had the pesto pizza. It was delicious! They can do no wrong with their personal-bake pizzas, IMO, but the pesto just became my new favorite.

pesto pizza is of our lazy backup dinners

I have had a lot of pesto pizzas...

Anyone know about the brandy beans? Will they get you drunk? They look really good.

"is one of our"

i buy the raw pizza dough (in the refrigerator section) fairly often. i like to bake it up with a bit of olive oil brushed on for extra crispness.

cranberry spiced cider!

splashed in glass of seltzer is awesome.
also nice hot.

mango chicken sausage

When the hell will the TJ down the street ever open?? I never see workers there anymore when I walk to or from the bus. I see some signs of activity, at least - ducts and pipes get moved around - so at least I know they haven't given up. I keep delaying certain purchases until it opens.

Rumors on Yelp said they would open in January, which is clearly not possible.

cilantro/jalapeno hummus

YES! The cilantro jalapeño hummus is amazing.

That sounds great but I don't know what I would use it for. My appetite feels like it just got off the bus in Times Square in 1976.

i have a few different tj's frozen dinners i can choose from tonight:

-mac & cheese
-paneer tikka masala
-pesto tortellini
-sweet potato gnocchi
-polenta provencale

i am spoiled and i don't know what to choose!

Pander tikka masala ftw

Ohhh but Mac n cheese

Yep, you're screwed

mac n cheese is the BEST

you know what i am really loving from tj's is the lavender dishwashing detergent

polenta provencale is my favorite!

isn't it good?

saw a cauliflower & romanesco frozen veggie thing in a butter sauce that looked tempting but i just had the most amazing romanesco courtesy of my local farmers market the other day so why bother

Have decided to drastically reduce my consumption of TJ's prepared foods. They're great but they make me feel bad and get fat.

prepared meaning frozen/boxed

so sad I didn't buy more holiday vintage ale though

i like their frozen (and unadulterated) flat beans (green and yellow). they're great caramelized with some onions and fennel and topped with your seafood of choice.

saw a cauliflower & romanesco frozen veggie thing in a butter sauce that looked tempting

i've had this. def good for a weeknight side dish.

(btw i went with the sweet potato gnocchi tonight.)

Romanesco look both delicious and loathesome in a trypohpia-inducing way.

trypophobia, that is

anyone buy lactaid milk at trader joe's? they used to stock the hormone free kind, I'm positive, but now I can't seem to find any.

never mind I'm retarded, it's right there on the side.

right now my neighborhood trader joe's is selling off all their christmas cookies for like, 99 cents.

(it is kind of disgusting there are cookies from two months ago around, but you know, when you want cookies...)

Tj's is great for losing weight because everything is prepackage with nutritional information.

The one in Brooklyn has these "Taster's Packs" of Unibroue beers for $8 right now -- it's 4 different strong ales in the 8-9% alcohol range. Drinking a Don De Dieu right now, a belgian-style golden ale. Quite good.

As beers go, I don't recommend the Vienna style lager. The knockoff Corona however is almost as good as the real thing.

The Trader Jose's thing? That shit is tasty!