Anonymous wrote:My toddler loves the fish sticks. TJ's fish sticks have A LOT less oil than other brands and comparatively little breading, so we choose those. Yes, we also cook her fresh salmon and give her things like tuna, but she likes fish sticks.

She also likes the applesauce, the "European style plain yogurt," and the packaged black lentils (the Indian ones in the purple box). And the mini cucumbers. Oh, and the frozen organic raspberries, she just eats those, frozen, by the spoonful.

Hate on, haters.

Anonymous wrote:Half of these things mentioned in this post can be found at a grocery store for, I'm sure, cheaper, right? - cereal bars, applessuce, pouches, mini cucumbers, dried fruit, frozen processed food like quiches and fish stix....hec, the Super target and super walmart have these items.

Anonymous wrote:I am a closet TJ hater. I do shop there because it's literally next door to our apartment, but I have some issues with it. Yes, they try hard to sell junk food that is of better quality than the junk food one could purchase from Giant or Safeway, but...it's still junk food! Frozen meals, cookies, candy, dried fruit with lots of sugar, etc. If their branding were less about how "healthy" it all is, I would mind less, but because of the way they market themselves it seems really hypocritical. And yes, my 7 year olds have had junk food, but I don't feed it to them. They get more than enough on playdates, at school at sports practices at birthday parties, etc. so at home we stick to the healthy stuff, not the "healthy" stuff.

Anonymous wrote:Half of these things mentioned in this post can be found at a grocery store for, I'm sure, cheaper, right? - cereal bars, applessuce, pouches, mini cucumbers, dried fruit, frozen processed food like quiches and fish stix....hec, the Super target and super walmart have these items.

Anonymous wrote:Half of these things mentioned in this post can be found at a grocery store for, I'm sure, cheaper, right? - cereal bars, applessuce, pouches, mini cucumbers, dried fruit, frozen processed food like quiches and fish stix....hec, the Super target and super walmart have these items.

Anonymous wrote:The Traders Joes's haters are annoying. But even more annoying are the Trader Joe's cult followers who are obsessed with the place and feel the need to "defend" its greatness. It is just a grocery store. They sell some interesting things, a lot of frozen foods and snacks. The produce is not great, the bread is not great. The prices are generally good. I really cannot see what the fuss is about.

Anonymous wrote:Well, our kids are 4.5 so preschoolers instead of toddlers. But we buy all of our fresh nuts there. My wife is allergic to peanuts. We need to have tree nuts that were not processed in a facility that processes nuts. In the supermarket, it's hit or miss and some of the products don't have allergy warnings and there's no one to ask. I went into TJ's once and asked. The guy could not find the info, but took my contact info. He contacted the main office and ultimately called the processing plant and found out that the tree nut processing plant is peanut free. So we just play it safe and get our tree nuts, dried fruit and trail mixes there for us and the kids.

Our kids attend a nut-free (tree nut and peanut) school, so we get sunbutter for the occasional sandwich (also an occasional treat for my wife).

The fish sticks are a nice "treat" for the kids once or twice a month (and for the militant anti-processed food person, yes, we have normal fish for meals routinely).