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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I finally decided to check it out and I've decided to make this one of my weekly/biweekly places for food shopping. 
I like the prepared salads, they're cheaper than other grocery stores and have a nice variety. [/quote]

I avoid Trader Joes as I try to eat healthy and avoid processed foods. It's a horrible store if you live a healthy lifestyle.[/quote]

Translation: "I avoid Trader Joes as I try to avoid food. It's a horrible store if you have an eating disorder."[/quote]

I don't think that's fair to PP.  TJ does have some healthy stuff, but offers a lot of impulse-stuff from the bakery and frozen food sections are not particularly healthy.  It's hard to avoid b/c they bunch stuff all together, evil marketing geniuses.  In Safeway or Giant you just avoid those aisles.[/quote]

Sure Trader Joe's has a variety, but if you walk into TJ's and just see junk, then you probably have a screwed up relationship with food to begin with. I try and eat healthy for most of my diet, but that doesn't mean I don't buy Peppermint Joejoes when they're in season (or other snacks at other times), or a little of this and that in moderation. "Clean eating" these days is basically an "appropriate" way of saying you have an eating disorder. The problem is, that those same people also use "clean eating" as a justification for their eating disorder - instead of seeking help or treatment. [/quote]

Interesting that you are able to diagnose an eating disorder by reading someone's anonymous post. Why are "TJ" customers so militant about defending this store from any criticism. It's just a goddamn grocery store.[/quote]

Hey there. In case you hadn't noticed, this thread is titled "What do you love at Trader Joe's?

I mean, if that's not obvious enough that you're entering a thread where people are going to defend the subject of the thread, then perhaps you best avoid it?

And yeah, if I were a betting woman, I'd bet that someone who walks into a thread proclaiming that they are into "clean eating" and therefore avoid TJs, likely has an eating disorder - (1) based on the fact that they only see TJ's as a place of stuff to avoid, and (2) that someone is so afraid of stuff they *think* they're supposed to avoid. And (3) seriously, what the hell is "clean eating" but code for disordered eating?

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