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

is chocolate a carb? the chocolate-covered almonds with turbine? salt seem to be cheaper than even plain roasted almonds (but it could be they put it in a subtly smaller carton).

chocolate usually has tons of sugar and almonds have some carbs of their own, but i'll check the label

Real mozzarella sticks

buffalo jerky

I find the breaded eggplant cutlets to also be oily :(

rip dayo. he found things to be oily.

just bought valencia peanut butter w/ roasted flaxseeds -- what to eat with it? unfortunately all i have is an orange.

― Philip Nunez, Friday, April 27, 2012 1:39 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is the fucking best.

Um, get some bread?

couldn't find any bread -- ended up dipping a nature valley granola bar in it. it had more of a jam consistency than i expected but it was still delicious. i wonder if i can freeze the peanut butter by itself and make a peanut butter bar...

Their fig butter is awesome!

OK, I will be in TJs in an hour or so, I am low-carbing as mentioned on another thread, and I need a good snack.

Frozen palak paneer if you want something hot. Cheese and various salumi for something cold. The super high % dark chocolate bars aren't too bad w/r/t carbs if you can limit yourself to eating 2 or 3 sections. Avocados.

The frozen paneer is great too. Certainly the best prepackaged version I've had.

meant to say "*is* great."

not low-carb, but: the raisin-rosemary crisps are amazing. i wish i was having a party soon so i could pass these around.

Wasabi seaweed snax!

I am a big fan of the frozen palak paneer

most of these suggestions came too late, will try next time, esp wasabi seaweed snax which sounds amazing. In fact I didn't really get much snack except artichoke-parmesan dip, but I did get a tri-tip roast and a tub of hollandaise sauce and I gotta say this made a fine family meal with very little expenditure of effort on my part.

just bought valencia peanut butter w/ roasted flaxseeds -- what to eat with it? unfortunately all i have is an orange.

I like to put this on these bagel-based "power bar" things they sell in my supermarket's bakery - they've got dried fruit and seeds in them, it works really well.

Alternately just spread it on some saltines but keep a bucket of water handy cause you'll be thirsty.

not a fan of trader joe's to begin with but man these jelly beans i got in this gift basket are ATROCIOUS

fact that liquorice seems to outnumber everything else in this box isn't helping

Speculoos Cookie Butter

Pretty sure I could eat a whole jar in one sitting.

Prove it.

pics or it didn't happen

Could, not would. Unless there was some sort of monetary reward.

Yeah I ended up getting rid of my jar of it because it was too dangerous; clear I would OD.

So weird: Put together ingredients and bake cookies that are then disintegrated to make them an ingredient in another thing - will the speculoos chain grow? The obvious use for a sweet paste is in cookies --- cookies within cookies!

They have a candy bar filled with it, which is awesome. Now they just have to make a cookie with chunks of the candy bar baked into it.

Finished products used as ingredients have always seemed weird to me. Even stuffing/dressing is odd.

OTOH, I'm kind of a master of combining independently complete foods, so it shouldn't seem that strange to me.

They have a candy bar filled with it, which is awesome. Now they just have to make a cookie with chunks of the candy bar baked into it.

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Wednesday, May 9, 2012 1:39 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm having an existential crisis.

Let me just say that the frozen turkey meatballs are the best I've had outside of my Abruzzo-born great grandmother's kitchen. Like, for any meatball period, not just turkey.

I had those tonight based on all the recommendations in thuds thread. Yum! A little salty, as tj products tend to be.

Thuds thread? And yeah I can kinda see them being a tad on the salty side, but not overwhelmingly so.

Lol autotext... This thread!

sea salt brownies are VERY SALTY

like, too much salt -- i mean, i'm eating them. but damn.

trader joes MYSTERIES: the sesame bagels are 20 cents cheaper than the plain bagels

maybe the plain bagels are sesame bagels that have been de-seeded by migrant farmers.

too much salt is just enough salt

Yeh, I agree with Jordan (and Jeff, I'm sure). The meatballs are not salty in my opinion.

I thought I was weird for loving those meatballs! I'm glad to get confirmation that they actually are very good.

love those meatballs as well. u r not alone

I think basically anything I don't make from scratch seems too salty to me.

"Southwest Style Salad"

^ this is good

choc covered PB-filled pretzels are simply not that good :(

i was disappointed in those chocolate salt & sugar almonds :/

If they were the same salted almonds Donna Rouge had in his pantry this one time (I think they had a yellow label?) then you are sooooorely mistaken.

ROSEMARY PECANS AND MOTHERFUCKING CRANBERRIES

THAT IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY

LEMON TART
LEMON TART
LEMON TART

ROSEMARY PECANS AND MOTHERFUCKING CRANBERRIES

would eat.

tried the chicken mole (from the freezer section). it was good, but a little goes a long way. the sauce is very thick and complex.

I'll chime in again for the Chicken Gorgonzola (frozen section). Large enough for three servings.