What do you buy @ Trader Joe's?
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Anonymous
| Their Spinach Pie is delicious. They also sell cheap mahi mahi bits which are quick to cook up, toss with some of their pre made guac, and its fish tacos in 5 mins. I'm also a fan of the jarred simmer sauces - just toss in whatever. |
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Anonymous
I agree! The handmade tortillas are the best. |
Anonymous
Not sure if any of this is on the healthy end of the spectrum, but I love their greek frozen pizzas, frozen butternut squash risotto, and some of their frozen veggies. The asian foods are pretty good too. I had to admit I always end up getting the non-healthy stuff like tempura, chocolate covered anything, and cookies -- TJ's has the best stuff like that! I also love their drinks like lemonade and juices - they seem more interesting than the normal grocery store. Good thing TJs is a bit out of the way or I would go more often 
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Anonymous
Heh, maybe. They're always unnaturally chipper, so perhaps anti-TJ's fanatic snapped. |
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They have these meals with a couple of chicken breasts cooked in sauce...chicken gorgonzola, chicken serenada. I always keep one in my freezer. That, salad (or steamed veggies) and some bread is a great dinner. I also like that they have a lot of prepped produce, like bagged kale...I eat a ton of that stuff. One of my favorites - Cook a little garlic in olive oil. Add some hot peppers, a splash of balsamic vinegar. Saute kale in that for a minute or two, cover and steamed for 7-8 minutes. Add a can of diced tomatoes, bring to a boil. Toss with pasta or gnocchi and parmesan cheese. Seriously delicious; the kale/tomato sauce comes together in the time it takes to bring the pasta water to a boil!
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Things I buy at TJ's:
squeeze pouches of applesauce organic milk organic string cheese frozen brown rice frozen French toast turkey meatballs Butternut Squash Risotto Vegetable Fried Rice Chimichurri Rice (totally delicious!) Polenta with Spinach Asparagus Risotto When I was breastfeeding, I also bought their oatmeal raisin cookies. They were amazing! Things I never buy at TJ's: Bread (always stale) Produce (always poor quality) Refrigerated prepared salads (always yucky) |
Anonymous
I have noticed that some stores have bad produce, and the other ones are consistently pretty good! |
Anonymous
| Great prices on cheese! Wine is good. We do our weekly shopping at tjs- although ours does not sell grassfed beef yet which i'd like. Great breads for basic sandwiches, low carb whole wheat wraps/fajitas, all our veg and fruits. Olive oil, enchillada sauce, spices, organic pb, low sugar jelly, organic beans they say are in bpa free cans, they have a variety of cookies/sweets that are good when you need them, frozen section is great- frozen organic wild blueberries, organic strawberries, org rasberries, org peas, org corn, org green beans, chopped spinich we put in tons of food, frozen pizzas or the ham/cheese tarts. organic, plain yogurt, we get all our groceries there - love it! |
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I really like their laundry detergent. It's very inexpensive and the lavender scent is very subtle. It comparable to ECOS.
They have nice soaps as well. I buy all our soap there. |
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frozen turkey meatballs. my 16-month-old loves them. they are probably his favorite food. i feel badly giving them as often as i do, but sue me. i tried to make them myself and they turned out disgusting.
organic string cheese, applesauce/carrot-sauce pouches for my diaper bag, organic blueberries, heirloom tomatoes, butternut squash risotto, kimchi rice, frozen grilled chicken strips (some of these things are for my husband and me, not our kid), hummus, all kinds of organic beans, those microwave thai things to keep in my desk at work for when i'm too busy to get lunch... their organic pasta is better than their regular pasta and less than pasta at safeway, their arrabiata sauce is great and cheap. sometimes they have organic full-fat yogurt cups, (kid) and low-fat yogurt/greek yogurt for me and husband. i don't buy their organic milk unless i don't have time to make another stop, because i hate the spout. i prefer to get organic valley milk because of the screw top. we do most of our shopping there. (obviously). |
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hummus
pouch applesauce roasted red peppers white cheddar corn puffs cheese wine vegetable burritos (frozen) chicken eggrolls (frozen) vegetable fried rice (frozen) pasta (different noodle shapes that my kids like) pasta sauce (three cheese pomodoro) frozen vegetables black beans ginger snaps 100 calorie belgium chocolate bars |
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Yellow curry simmer sauce (add chicken, potatoes, and pineapple- simmer in a crockpot- delicious!)
shredded pepper-jack cheese double roasted pepper salsa "reduced guilt" frozen mac and cheese entrees (DS loves) frozen french toast frozen veggies like green peas, green beans, fire roasted corn Large dark chocolate bars (like 1 lb. each), for baking Dry pastas (lemon pepper pappadelle is really good) Usually throw in some kind of fun treat- they have really fun ice cream treats and cookies |
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PP- one last thing I forgot that we always get-
"Fiberful" fruit leather bars |
Anonymous
| OP here. Thanks to all who chimed in with great ideas - so helpful. And My office is a few blocks from TJs, hence the specific mention. I know it's not a health-food store. But damn it has some yummy stuff! Keep the recommendations coming. |