Healthiest stuff to get at trader joes?

[Anonymous]

TJd is great for basics. We stock up on frozen veggies & fruit (their frozen pineapple is in great, small, bite size pieces perfect for kid meals - way better than the big chunks of fruit for snacking.) Also like the boxes of frozen brown rice - so convenient to have brown rice on the table in 3 minutes. We also get lots of dairy products there, as well as dried fruits and nuts (I love raw almonds and TJs seems to have better prices there.) And they have an almond butt with flax seed oil that I find delicious. Fresh produce isn't normally great, but for a while it was the only place I could reliably find persian cucumbers.

And not sure it qualifies in the 'healthy' category, but have also found decent prices on beer and wine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check out the Fooducate app. You can scan a bar code and it gives you a quick profile of how bad a given food is for you -- great for processed foods like at TJs. I was pleasantly surprised their sweet potato fries got an "A-".

You may have heard this by now, maybe by actually reading this thread for example! But trader joes offers all kinds of unprocessed (salmon, pommegranates) or barely processed (nuts in a bag, quinoa in a bag, cheddar cheese) items.

Trader joes is no more process-y than wegmans, Harris teeter or even whole foods. All 3 sell apples and all 3 sell chocolate ring dings and cheese doodles.

I cannot do all my grocery shopping at TJs-not enough selection of whole foods. I too consider it a high end 7-11.

Things I buy here:

Nuts/Oats/Oils/Chocolate

I find their fresh "produce" lacking.

All in all, I have very little use for TJs since I cook mainly from scratch. I buy 90% of my groceries from Wegmans.

[Anonymous]

Kerrygold irish butter at a great price

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check out the Fooducate app. You can scan a bar code and it gives you a quick profile of how bad a given food is for you -- great for processed foods like at TJs. I was pleasantly surprised their sweet potato fries got an "A-".

You may have heard this by now, maybe by actually reading this thread for example! But trader joes offers all kinds of unprocessed (salmon, pommegranates) or barely processed (nuts in a bag, quinoa in a bag, cheddar cheese) items.

Trader joes is no more process-y than wegmans, Harris teeter or even whole foods. All 3 sell apples and all 3 sell chocolate ring dings and cheese doodles.

I cannot do all my grocery shopping at TJs-not enough selection of whole foods. I too consider it a high end 7-11.

Things I buy here:

Nuts/Oats/Oils/Chocolate

I find their fresh "produce" lacking.

All in all, I have very little use for TJs since I cook mainly from scratch. I buy 90% of my groceries from Wegmans.

You are just showing ignorance to suggest one could not cook from scratch by shopping mostly at trader joes. particularly if one eats vegetarian or just fish.

Here are some things to buy at tjoes, particularly for those of us who like to cook, and save on grocery bills, but don't live in the sticks near any wegmans:

Flour
Salt
Organic brown and cane sugar
Tahitian vanilla
Eggs
Plain unflavored yogurt
Salmon steaks
Tilapia
Organic butter
Rice milk
Edamame
Frozen organic strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries
Wild caught shrimp
Black beans
Pinto beans
Kidney beans
Organic chicken stock and veg stock
Organic kosher whole chickens
Honey
Pomegranates
Cheeses
Organic pasta
Whole grains/ cous cous
Tofu
Belgian chocolate chips
Celery
Onions
Shallots
Organic garlic heads
Saffron threads
New zealand rack of lamb
spices like paprika
Basmati rice
Jasmine rice
Brown rice
Aborro rice
Organic sour cream