trader joe's (nrr)
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i just went and bought my groceries at trader joes for the first time. they have a lot of shit there and it was kind of overwhelming. i was wondering if any real headz could tell me some dealz on what some of their fave things to buy there are. i am eating pita bread with salami inside dipped in hummus and it is good and cheap.
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When our Joes opened they had frozen wild Argentinian shrimp. Fabulous. We still eat the frozen farmed uncooked shrimp.
Joes is about snacks. Blister peanuts, pistachios, chips, chocolate covered blueberries, giant bars of of dark chocolate with almonds, guac with salsa on top.
We do most our non fresh groceries at TJs. Organic milk, yogurt, eggs, cheeses (like the fresh mozz). Pasta, jasmine or basmanti rice, tooth paste, frozen breaded fish, olive oil...
We drink smoothies every morning. Frozen mangos, and other frozen fruit or berries from TJs plus fresh bananas, yogurt and what ever fresh fruit or berries are lying around, plus a splash of juice.
Their tubs of dips are good, like humus, guac, salsa...
Farmer market season is about to start and that will be our main source of food when they get going.
Some things are overpriced...but most stuff there is
*whole grain pasta & brown rice...close to half the price of what you pay in most supermarkets for whole grains
*cheapest place to get a lot of kashi cereals
*excellent selection of organic/conventional dried fruit and nuts.
*all types of variety of peanut butters and other butters. one of my favorites is a reasonably priced cashew/macadamia butter
*extensive and quality frozn veegetables and stirfry blends
*i pick up salmon and tuna patties for my homie D128
*another friend swears by their frozen pizzas.cheap and pretty gourmet
*my parents love the pot stickers with shrimp
the canned beans are very cheap, even when they are organic
*pickles are $2 a jar and are done right
*some pleasant soaps priced real well..especially the teatree one and oatmeal one. weird but, i like.
*inexpensive frozen fruit...pineapples,strawberry's $1.69 lb., for example
*excellent selection of tortilla chips. they even have a salsa chip, hihgh in fiber that my highschool kids like a lot
*weird fruit leather flavors...they had pineapple,boysenberry and gooseberry recently
*"dubliner" irish cheddar cheese...a generous $5.49/lb. for a delicious fruity and slightly sharp cheddar
*carrot juice...they got quarts of it at a great price and the shit is slamming
*good price on decent olive oils
i could go on and on.
i dont buy produce there unless i have to. fresh, but not very cheap.
their guacamole is too salty for my tastes.
a shame philly tj's cant sell wine
downtown tj's locked up their dumpster...i had friends who were living off TJ's dumpstered goods.
great store.
my mom kills those big dark chocolate tablets
and my pop puts a hurtin on them blister peanuts.
...for real. no
man that is foul. TJs is great for their beer/wine specials. I cope whtever is cheap and that I haven't tried before.
shit's unconscionable. how do they justify locking up food that they've disowned while others are hungry?
-pizza dough (cheap and makes a nice pie)
-frozen french onion soup (goes right in the crock and right in the oven)
-frozen crab cakes
My lady loves the hummus quartet.
i fuckin love that place, although out here in philly you can't stock up on cheap beer and alcoohol.
things i get almost every time i go there:
frozen birds nests & tempura
pizza dough
orange, peach, mango juice
soy milk
teriyaki marinated tofu
caribbean popsicles
double rainbow mango and tangerine sorbet
couscous
vegetable potstickers
all of their pet products are on point, especially with all the recall shit. after that went down, they immediately pulled all of their product, even though they weren't at risk. good look.
fuck a supermarket.
When I lived in Santa Cruz we used to bike out at night to the Capitola Trader Joe's and load up on dumpstered goods. Most everything was still packaged so it wasn't gross in the slightest. They had their dumpsters under lock and key too. Lucky for us we had a copy of the key!
Where is this dude at/ what is he doing? I met him through a friend a couple years ago when I was living in Orlando. Sick with the live show.
he is currently shopping at trader joes on the regular
yeah,i was pretty impressed with what some people salvaged from there.
Volunteer coordinating, selling records, Night Owl Record Show October 6th come on out, wasting time on the internets, getting ready to start working on the house and yard.
Personally I wasn't as immersed in the dumpstering lifestyle as some of my friends but they had it down to a science. I would say they took it as seriously as some of us take looking for records. We actually had a master key that opened every dumpster in downtown Santa Cruz.
i saw people pull wrapped chocolate trade joe cakes!
TJ's is so good that, after 6 years of shopping there, I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop. On some "those ain't dehydrated bananas" shit.
Incidentally, there's a restaurant in the Habana Libre in Havana that was a Trader Vic's when the hotel was the Havana Hilton. The interior and the kitchens haven't changed since the revolution and it's like entering into a (threadbare) time machine. Unexpectedly, it's the only bar where I've ever had tiki style drinks that were actually good. Mai Tais, Missionary's Downfalls, and Zombies for days!
haha trader vics love that place. the OG is right here in the Bay I beleive.
Get yourself a pound and make the Velvet Chocolate Cake. You'll thank me.
bad news... theyre shutting the institution that is trader vic's in beverly hills down. but not for a while so enjoy it while its still around.
i got those thai chili and lime peanuts. i love eating thai food, but deez nutz weren't so tight. i'll still go back and eat at handfull of them, thinking it's gonna change, but it doesn't. still tasting gross. i hate wasting food though.