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

ya i mean it's fine for a "quick meal" or "pizza night with the kids" or whatever; it's not bad or gross but it's pretty bland and flavorless and if you are actively seeking out a yummy crust, this really isn't going to do it. I know I should start making my own but the mess and the cleanup and the time is such a pain in the ass.

garlic + herb one is p tasty though

peanut butter filled cupcakes oh hi hum

I'll second the roasted coconut chips mentioned upthread. And I'm not really ba coconut fan.

my cat loves coconut and will eat the coconut chips

Love the coconut chips, but the new coconut strips have a gross texture like a Christmas jelly candy. How could they do this to a coconut?

I have been buying their black bean & corn veggie enchilada things, which have this yummy Tex-mex sauce that tastes just like a Mormon mom made it. For some reason everyone at work is continually impressed with the appearance, smell, and caloric content of these microwave enchiladas. I feel like eating these enchiladas has garnered me more praise than any of my actual efforts at work. Well, I will take that praise.

A kid even picked the package up and joked he was going to steal it, until he saw it said "organic" and jokingly dropped it like it was a two-headed rat.

The tone was: joking

I bought the roasted seaweed sheets today on a whim.

Uh oh.

"...Tex-mex sauce that tastes just like a Mormon mom made it."

Damning with faint praise?

is that uh oh like "they are so good I can't stop eating them" or "put the sidewalls on the crapper" or what?

Oh, so good. So good at yet so much packaging for some tissue-thin sheets of pressed seaweed, also they practically dissolve in your mouth so you feel like they're nothing and could eat a whole box.

sometimes trader joe's sourcing of stuff makes it absurdly cheap against other stores but i bet the seaweed is maybe 1/2 to 1/4 the price at an asian market if you can get to one.

Frankly the packaging is just as bad there, it's little tiny sheets in plastic bubble-sealed packets, inside an outer wrapper. But yes, I can probably get to some somehow in New York City.

get the ones that are legal-sized sheets for maximum value/minimal packaging.

Also good if you're an undersea lawyer.

The seaweed sheets are very low calorie, iirc, like 100 for the whole package. If ya gotta eat a whole package of something, it should be that.

I tried those ones and there were one of the most vile things I've ever put in my mouth.

Dried kimchi snack. Interesting but not something I want to continually put into my mouth.

Really like the black and white rice rolls.

Jeez, this microwavable vegetable green curry bowl thing is stupid-bland and also is p much julienned carrots and some other julienned thing with maybe two pieces of v soggy cauliflower and nothing else. This is so awful!

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).

― carl agatha, Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:28 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ditto, more like FALSE Thai

Ha!

the veggie flax seed tortilla chips are p gross, I discovered. Not a fan of the Salsa Especial either.

Their salsa section is so intimidating but I've found that the best one is the double roasted; it is the only salsa I will buy from anywhere at this point (except maybe Green Mountain Gringo). It's so yum!

I'll have to try it out!

The tinned thai stuff is pretty tasteless, and are the taquitos.

I will eat all the medium salsa especial.

Jar salsa is always disappointing, TJ's or not.

you know what's awful is the frozen pad thai bowl, it's like 50% limp sprouts

every six months i forget that i hate it and i buy one to have for lunch and i'm disappointed every time

I haven't had a TJs bowl I didn't find disappointing. The frozen bowl concept has birthed so many horrors.

garlic fries would be SO GOOD if the sauce was tweaked a little bit (the fries themselves are v quality) but as they are now they're too bitter or salty or *something* I can't quite identify. I was stoked too bcz I have had some really, really great garlic fries in my time!

Almond butter == life worth living.

The Cookie Butter chocolate bars are really really good. Too bad about the brand name: SPECULOOS. Never have your brand name just letters away from the word "speculum"

OK, not a brand name. My bad. An actual name! How unfortunate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculoos

speculoos cookies are a childhood favorite. so great

First coffee success at TJ's: Colombian Peaberry. Legit good.

Their Columbian Supremo was not to my liking.

that one was the best of the bad imo, but I really didn't like it much. This one is much better -- tastes passably close to coffee from a nu-style west coast roaster

I might try it out!

ugh I hated the peaberry.

really the colombian peaberry though? I tried other peaberries and didn't like, but I really thought this one was good.

very impressed by the frozen vegetable pad thai

milk chocolate covered peanut butter pretzels, holy shit

RIP me

i will miss you all

rly?? they seemed not v flavorful when I had them *and* I was rly stoned and w/ munchies

like they're sweet and crunchy but they aren't v yummy imo

i am enjoying them right now and I am not hi

i ate a whole bag of those last weekend/this week :(