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

and chocolate raspberry sticks or chocolate covered peppermint jo-jo's

Coconut cream
Repackaged gardein fake chicken tenders
Canned beans
frozen mac n cheese

sesame honey almonds

Pita crackers
Boursin cheese for $3.75 per wheel
Edamame hummus

The almonds in a dusty cocoa shell with sea salt embedded in it

Lime & Chili cashews

ooh, I bet I would love the edamame hummus.

The almonds in a dusty cocoa shell with sea salt embedded in it

Is that the same thing as the almonds w dark choc, sea salt, and turbinado sugar? With the yellow label?

I got:
Lemur tea
Chicken verde burritos
Lemon pepper pappardelle
Cheddar gruyere melange (for mac)
some staple-y things.

I will report back.

Oh I also got the blueberry muesli and the maple pecan granola cereal and mixed them together

YEESSSSSSSSSS that is it.

those are so dangerous.

Omg they're the best and they're hardly sweet at all.

Blueberry muesli for sure. With yogurt and their dried raspberries which are super cheap for some reason. Not reinventing the wheel here, ppl.

their dried raspberries are cheap? how soon can I get myself to a TJ right now?

Cheap compared to WF at least, but maybe that's not saying much

Someone please suggest cookie recipes that I could throw dried raspberries in.

thinking about how much my life will change after tj's opens on friday (first one in this city, nay, even this state). i might go to the grand opening on friday night.

Someone please suggest cookie recipes that I could throw dried raspberries in.

― endless budgie (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, November 29, 2012 5:22 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Subbed for raisins in oatmeal cookies
Added to chocolate chip cookies with the chocolate chips
Some kind of white chocolate chip and raspberry cookie recipe

Cheddar gruyere melange (for mac)

this is the best trader joe's cheese product

Yo, chicken verde burrito was like "oh hey this is p tasty" and then I realized that it costs me, like, less than $2 and I was all "OH FUCK THIS IS BOMB AS HELL"

all the burritos look like diarrhea inside but taste kind of incredible

all frozen buritos everywhere look like diarrhea inside

Someone please suggest cookie recipes that I could throw dried raspberries in.

― endless budgie (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday

oatmeal seems a obvious answer (hint: a little wheat germ tossed into oatmeal cookie dough makes cookies that are even chewier).
if looking for specific recipes Alice Medrich is THE COOKIE GODDESS
http://www.evilchefmom.com/2011/01/chewy-oatmeal-cookies.html
i probably need this: http://www.amazon.com/Crispy-Crunchy-Your-Mouth-Cookies-Medrich/dp/1579653979?ie=UTF8&tag=thepsbak-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969

Oh shit SLC's getting a Trader Joe's? After years of me telling the tales they'll finally know they were not lies.

Lemon pepper pappardelle was pretty good
Pacific flounder w/ crab meat stuffing was WHOA awesome

Thanks for cookie tips guys! I think I'm going to do the oatmeal thing first. And then branch out in a program of endless experimentation. Once I remember to get the raspberries.

I had to throw out the rest of the lemur tea. For some reason, it wasn't the same this year, maybe because I have been drinking tea from Grace Tea, or maybe because the tea has changed. The first bag was really sweet and tasted strongly of cinnamon; the rest were stale and were not helped by milk. Apples are still an excellent value and fresh at the Trader Joe's in Irvine, CA. I forgot to check for Nantes carrots.

http://www.traderjoes.com/onthecounter/

Sweet potato gnocchi w/ butter and sage was terrible; I couldn't even finish it. So bland and so greasy!

TJ's has like 20 different kinds of cheddar cheese. Which is the sharpest? Which is your favorite?

I've been on a cold streak with TJ's and I'm buying less and less there. Costco is outdoing them on nearly everything. I still like the pound-plus chocolate bars and the little nut packages ("just a handful of" -- they even have one with chocolate now).

I got a tub of their Greens Powder to add to my smoothies. I'm not convinced of the usefulness of greens powder anyway and the TJ's version was ~1/4 the cost of anything at Whole Foods.

try the cheddar/gruyere "melange"

I have, it's good, but I just want a straight cheddar.

Anything that's been aged. The longer they've aged it, the sharper and more delicious it will be.

I like the Black Diamond white cheddar. It's one of the sliced ones.

http://www.pressherald.com/news/parking-jam-booted-cars-leaving-a-lot-to-be-desired_2013-01-16.html

the parking situation at the one I go to is ridiculous.

Is that the one Oakland on er some road that has "Lake" in it? It is the worst and caused me to do something of which I am quite ashamed: I was driving my brother's car, which has a handicapped sticker (he is paraplegic). He wasn't with me, but *I parked in a handicapped space* out of utter frustration with that parking lot. I confessed to my brother later and he's like yeah, you're an asshole for doing that even though it is the worst parking lot in the US of A.

Yes Quincie! That is the one!

the one in Sac on folsom blvd is the worst -- L shaped parking lot with only 1 entrance/exit, there's ALWAYS a line of 5 cars in the street waiting to go in. Go somewhere else! there's no parking for you there!

I only go to the one out by my office because it's in a huge mall with tons of parking for other surrounding shops. Possibly the only one of its kind. ie the Unicorn of Trader Joes

naw, the one in Emeryville is like that.

as is the one South of Market in SF - though it is a SF-filtered "huge mall"

the two in MD I go to have lots of parking

I just bike to mine so I have no idea what the car parking sitch is like but there are like four or five full-sized bike racks and there is always room to lock up.

Mandarin chicken was, I mean, pretty good enough except for that when you try to add veggies it totally fucks w/ the sauce proportions and everything's kinda dry/not saucy enough.

am down with their red tart cherry juice -- mr veg drinks it as a preventative gout remedy.
local co-op wants $9 for the exact same thing D: Thank you TJs

savory thin mini rice crackers multiseed with soy sauce:
heeeeelllllllllllp I need an intervention I'm going to eat this whole bag

what yall think about these in-shell almonds? they're cheaper than plain roasted almonds, but you're also paying for shells.

i looove those rice crackers
self-control is usually achieved by eating from little tiny bowls, but i usually go back for more at least once (usually just once.)

the ginger-lemon-echinacea juice is great in smoothies with blueberries, banana, spinach, kefir and way cheaper than the same juice sold by knutsberry farms or whatever it's called

the ginger-lemon-echinacea juice

my bf buys this on every trip to tj's. he calls it "demon brew."