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

And for Eastern European gyoza, the pierogies are very good if you make them per instructions - boil ~ 3 minutes to heat through then pan fry (in bacon grease for that extra touch). I like the potato and cheese ones better than the chicken.

I miss living near the big pan-Asian supermarket (Pacific Sun?). I would regularly stock up on Srirachia, gyoza sauce, sweet chili sauce, and 1/2 gallon jugs of soy sauce. And peeled garlic! I wish they sold gyoza sauce in enormous jugs. Those little bottles don't last long. Or I wish my homemade sauce tasted as good. It is super simple, but it is never quite right.

get bent otm - spend money on different varieties of soy sauce instead

Golden Pacific! I like Tai Nam these days though.

Last time I was there, I tried a new cheese. I don't know if they've always had it? Or not. But it was AWESOME and also like THREE DOLLARS for a wedge! It's called Toscano, I think?? Tastes like parmesan but less dried, but still having crunchy bits in it, and the rind is soaked in red wine.
WOULD EAT ALL OF.

In fact I did eat all of. Now I have to go back for more.

more stuff that I kinda knew was not going to be good but I am dumb:
the applegate turkey baloney.
just don't
why did i
i don't know

Actually, you know what? This will be a good experiment in Sandwich Theory. Is the turloney capable of redemption through advanced application of condiments, cheese, and bread?

I'd try frying, everything is better fried.

grilled/fried turloney w/cheddar/gruyere hybrid

Good:
Nantes carrots
lavender sachets
brussel sprouts (bagged; have seen but not tried stalk)
recycled toilet paper
rice cakes
bananas
bran flakes
canned tuna
peppermint soap
Dijon mustard

Bad:
fruit flies in the summer months

I like those lavender sachets, too.

WARNING THIS IS ABOUT TAMPONS
I have to say their organic cotton tampons are like 50% cheaper than everywhere else they're for sale, or even cheaper than that. And they have applicators unlike most of the organic cotton ones I was buying. I don't even know if the organic makes a difference but it's a product where it's easy to pretend. Plus I feel posh handing them out to other ladies.

I've never understood tampons w/out applicators.

You just stuff them up there with your finger. No biggie.

i have no desire to do that.

They don't actually GO very far. Applicators ime make it seem like a bigger distance than it is because they're much longer than they probably "need" to be.

I mean allowing for human variation, obv. I just think applicator-selling companies have maximized the "ew, gross" value and made them long enough that you barely even have to touch yourself.

SORRY, TRADER JOE'S THREAD.

What I don't know about the distance in a bajingo could fill a bajingo (which I assume provides a tremendous amount of volume).

In other news I remember their
quinoa due with vegetable melange
being quite enticing as an in-store sample, but at home it's just a pile of mushy blah.

Maybe it's only awesome in tablespoon-sized servings.

At the sample station at my local TJ the other day

http://i.imgur.com/wUkoy.jpg

You can't really make out the blue text, which reads "So watery...And with just a smack of ham!"

frozen eggplant curry was extremely disgusting

Hot Ham Water! <3<3<3

omg that's amazing!

I actually thought the tuna curry was kinda gross, but whatev.

― jaymc, Sunday, March 6, 2011 10:25 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Were you eating it cold right out of the pouch with your bare hands while sitting in a dark room alone and crying? Because you should really heat those tuna things up first.

― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Sunday, March 6, 2011 10:53 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No, but I think I was eating it as-is, with no accompaniment.

So! I am happy to report that I bought it again and prepared some couscous and sauteed some fucking mushrooms and broccoli, and I had a really easy and tasty meal of which I'm now eating the leftovers.

It's good on the lemon-pepper pappardelle pasta they sell. Or on rice, of course.

ooh i love that stuff but it's so much pricier than the other pastas i can't justify buying it.

Their frigging vanilla & cinnamon black tea is BACK. It has a confused lemur on it and it's my very favorite. I think drinking it all day was the only thing that got me through six weeks of training at a call center this time last year. Then I discovered it was seasonal and my job was once again a pit of despair. How long do you guys think tea stays good/drinkable if you don't open it because my Mormon food-hoarding instincts are at five alarms.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-12REecc_JJ0/TWBni5p-qbI/AAAAAAAAAOw/pc27YoGKjJA/s1600/Tea.jpg

the box also has a chameloeona

I mean a chameloen

you know what I mean

i obviously don't know how to store tea properly (lol american) because all the tea i've hoarded is now over-tannic and bitter.

Oh! I love that tea! It's delicious and every time i take the box out of the cupboard I'm like, "Heh. Lemur." I was just shopping at TJ's today and I didn't think to see whether it was back. That's okay because I forgot tofu and Brussels sprouts so now I have another reason to take a return trip tomorrow.

As I was buying both browning mix and pumpkin bread mix, the cashier clued me in to this recipe: http://www.traderjoes.com/recipes/recipe.asp?rid=91 (spoiler alert: you mix them together!!!)

abbbottt, oxidation is the enemy - vacuum seal! or use a straw and a ziplock bag. or freeze?

My freezer is full of yarn and green chile – two of my already favorite things – so adding a third favorite thing sounds AWESOme.

haha I have an image of you opening your freezer in a year to find a spicy sweater that you can dip into hot water to make tea with.

now i want a green chile sweater. :-(

not green, but:

http://foodnetworkhumor.com/img/sweater-2.jpg

Why is there yarn in your freezer, I need to know.

I'm bringing a lot of TJ's lunches to work now that I'm trying to save money. Best ones: Spinach Lasagna, Chicken Tikka Masala, Fajita Burrito

What does that little "g" logo on that tea box mean? The pareve hesher I get.

It means glutern-free iirc

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6217/6319422650_5d05abd7ca.jpg

freshly out of oven, waiting to cool: i took the tj's apple bread mix and added some cranberries.

tj's raised some of their booze prices lately : (

dark chocolate peanut butter cups are some kind of advanced new drug

bulleit bourbon still only $19.99!

man, i can't believe they have spirits at your TJs
if mine had bulleit i would never run out of bourbon