<p>Their Ultimate Chocolate ice cream is very good. I am addicted. I also got a new one which tastes just like Baskin Robins Gold Medal Ribbon. Also I get these mini cinnamon rolls in the freezer section that are very good. They are light almost like a croissant texture. They are best if you let them sit out an hour before baking. ANd be sure to put them on a pan because they drip a lot of grease .</p>
<p>How about their Triple Nut Cereal -2 grams of sugar/ And what about those lightly Breaded Chicken Breasts (frozen) Fabulous greeting cards only 99 cents ?</p>
<p>I love Gold Medal Ribbon ice cream. Good thing I didn’t read this before I went to Trader Joes this afternoon. I am trying to eat right.
I picked up non-alcoholic beverages for my book group tonight. I was hungry and also picked up some dark chocolate covered almonds. Had 3 in the car on the way home. Put the rest away out of sight.</p>
<p>Greeting cards?</p>
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<li>the BEST applesauce, though it’s called something like apple chunk, in a glass jar with blue label.</li>
<li>Just INCREDIBLE peanut butter cookies. 2 kinds: the first is in a flat box and has a chocolate outside and loose , creamy peanut butter oozing from the inside. The second is located near the bread section and in a brown paper bag. Words can’t express.
3.Every frozen dessert-the opera cake,bon bons, fruit tarts with a custard base (not plain fruit), the ice cream checkerboard cake.
4.Big beautiful bars of smell- good soap
5.The raisins seem plumper</li>
<li>The bag of walnuts, trail mix, etc.
7.THE COFFEE IS THE BEST AND CHEAPEST. Better than Fairway, Wild by Nature in NY. Lots of varieties-we like French Roast
8.Peanut butter protein bars that i cut in half and freeze
9.Frozen edamame-already shelled.
10.Thin crust red pepper pizza</li>
<li>jar of american caviar sold around Christmas time</li>
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<p>I HATE:
- their smoked salmon. just awful. and i love costco’s
2 all their frozen fish. if you live near a body of water, any fish monger has better fish than TJ</p>
<p>Also love that they will take anything back in returns, half eaten.</p>
<p>Post #565 makes me want to take a trip to TJ’s today!</p>
<p>And yes, greeting cards! My kids always make a stop at the small rack - unique looking cards - we have bought a few.</p>
<p>Seems many youngsters don’t know what a greeting card is any more .</p>
<p>I’ve never noticed cards at my TJ’s. Where is the rack located in yours?</p>
<p>Greeting cards at ours are next to the flowers. By the way I really like the flowers but I think my son might be allergic to them. Also we get the sparkling water (used to be Crystal Geysor, but now is TJs, we buy it by the case). And I just started buying the mini jelly beans at the register. They taste a lot like jelly bellies but it says they are made in Ireland.</p>
<p>The greeting cards are adorable. : -)</p>
<p>I just recently discovered the greeting cards…they are cute and really cheap…can’t remember the last time I spent 99 cents on a card!</p>
<p>I went to a wine dinner last night, and the sommelier did a blind taste test with us using two merlots - the Charles Shaw won out over the merlot that was in the Wine Spectator top 100, go figure! I said I’d pick some up on the next trip to Cleveland…</p>
<p>THEN she knocked me off my chair by announcing that Trader Joe’s is coming to Rochester! YES! No more traveling hundreds of miles with a cooler in the backseat to get all my favorites…</p>
<p>And a block away from the flagship Wegmans yet - wonder how they pulled THAT off?</p>
<p>A few people mentioned “simmer sauces”…is this what they’re called? What are they located near in the store? I’ve got to check those out. </p>
<p>Haven’t read the whole thread yet but the flash frozen fish is great, as is the frozen French Onion soup, tzatziki, brushetta (fridge section), sliced turkey (same brand as Costco but we could never make it through the huge Costco quantity), brie and carmelized onion tarts (frozen), pesto pizza, juice squeeze grapefruit (my family’s favorite flavor and the only place I know where you can buy grapefruit without other flavors), edemane–frozen (much better than Costcos), Island Terikyaki are the ones that come to mind at the moment.</p>
<p>I like the taste of “two buck Chuck” (Charles Shaw) but it gives me a headache. I have found I have to pay at least $4 or $5 a bottle to avoid the headache.</p>
<p>I went to a party the other night and my friend had brought a great twist on guacamole. Everyone was raving about the flavors. She admitted it was just fresh mashed avocados with the corn salsa from Trader Joe’s. Granted her avocados were from her tree and not those flavorless avocados they are selling in the market these days.</p>
<p>Beef Bulgolgi - Very tasty and easy/quick to make. Have it with frozen green beans (has a spicy sauce to mix in) and julienne frozen carrots (in a butter/ginger sauce). Yum. All from TJ’s. Also like their refrigerated pizza dough for homemade calzones, etc.</p>
<p>Almost forgot the best thing! Mozzarella Balls in seasoned oil. Great on salads and spoon some of the seasoned oil on for salad dressing with a splash of balsamic vinegar. Excellent.</p>
<p>Irises. 3.99 for ten. Mixed with a bunch of sunflowers also at 3.99. Each iris was tightly closed when I came home. Cut the bottom and by the next evening they all are opening up. Nice bit of color. Also made pizza with the refirgerated dough. The pizza dough is a staple in our house in the summer. Pizza’s on sunday night after a day at the beach.</p>
<p>I am so bummed. Just came back from TJ’s and they didn’t have the frozen, sliced leeks or this very yummy Japanese rice snack mix, both of which I bought just a month ago. Well, they had the latter, but changed the mix and made it more bland and a smaller package. I really, really hate how they discontinue new products so quickly. It doesn’t make sense to buy multiple packs of something you don’t even know you will like and frustrating to find something you like only to not be able to get it again!</p>
<p>i feel your pain, kathiep. i was all set to use this new product (sliced frozen leeks) in a trader joe’s cooking class*, only to find that they were already out of stock! checked with the manager, and apparently it’s temporary. he wasn’t clear whether it was a supplier problem, or weather-related, but says they will return in a couple weeks. </p>
<p>*we did a potato-leek-fennel soup with the terrific shredded smoked cheese blend. yummmmm.</p>
<p>I recently made chicken that was stuffed with smoked cheese and spinach…yummm! I’ll bet that the potato soup with smoked cheese was very good! I had never tried smoked cheese before, and it is just a great way of adding so much flavor to a dish.</p>