Trader Joe’s Product Reviews – YEA/NAY/MEH – 2025 Edition

Agree on the “not very sweet” for the ones I bought last weekend. And while mine didn’t taste moldy, several of them did start to grow mold before I could get to them and had to be tossed.

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Didn’t care for that popcorn either, and I like smoky. It seemed all over the place, though, and not in a pleasant way.

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A HUGE NAY for the 2% “Greek” yogurt. We bought it yesterday in a pinch for our potluck today since we were already in the store. I usually buy Fage 2% exclusively, but the Giant nearby was out. Big mistake. It looks just dandy in the container, but put it in a bowl and mix it with anything it turns into a saucy mess. Ugh. Wish I’d known that before I used it for tzatziki :roll_eyes:

Lesson learned.

Enough people liked that popcorn for them to bring it back, I guess

It was a Nay for me last year when it first showed up

I heard that TJs has a new policy of restocking as things run out during the day because it gives customers a greater chance of interacting with the crew. So in our TJs they are always restocking throughout the day, and you can always ask and ask when the next shipment of something is coming in.

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New to me at the Peabody (Danvers?) MA store.


Nice chocolate, good balance of sea salt and crunchy things. One is plenty, only a dozen in the bag.
If I hid them from the fam, they would last a month.

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They really have a knack for coming up with irresistible goodies.

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They definitely do! Still waiting to find those French chocolate wafer cookies again.

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These are on the new items shelf in my local stores.

At ours you can go to the customer service desk and sometimes they are able to look it up and tell you when they expect it again, sometimes even day of the week or what time of day. But not always!

Yea for the house brand wheat thins crackers.

Yea for the La Colombe pumpkin iced latte (if a little sweet).

Nay nay nay for the vegan, gf frozen japchae. No soy or sesame flavor to speak of, just the dominating flavor of steamed cooked yellow onion. :nauseated_face:

Yea for the chocolate cheesecake bites, mint chip ice cream, and mango-vanilla ice cream bars. Also yea for the tri color paletas, which aren’t marketed as such.

Meh for the ube and horchata ice creams. The latter is more like a cinnamon sugar cookie ice cream.

Yea for the new dilly salad.

Nay for the carbonated matcha. DH said it was weird.

Meh to Yea for the Orange espresso tonic. I liked it but my husband did not.

Meh for the sweet and spicy buffalo jerky. Too sweet. They used to have other flavors, and then buffalo jerky was totally unavailable for years.

Yea for the burrata, small-lot whole bean coffees, chili lime taquitos, and the silken tofu.

Meh for the guava paloma agua de kefir. I liked it at first, my kid hated it, and I haven’t finished the bottle.

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Yea for the creamy whipped ranch cottage cheese dip. Really good and low cal.

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Nay to the frozen 3 cheese pasta with eggplant. I love pasta alla norma but that wasn’t it.

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Anyone tried the calamari-in-olive oil tins? (like sardines are often packaged)

My daughter gifted me with one, and I’m kind of wondering what to do with it.

Salad, ceviche, make linguine with white sauce like I would clam linguine?

My reaction to the calamari was meh to maybe. I think the problem was that I expected more flavor. I had them straight out of the can but, if I were to try them again, would probably put them in a salad or mix in with some kind of poke or ceviche.

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I thought it was all right; not rubbery, as I’d feared, but certainly not as tender as if I’d cooked it myself. I wouldn’t add it to a cooked dish, personally, but it works added to a salad or dressed as antipasto.

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I thought to toss it with pasta, like scampi.

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If you have Spanish epsinaler sauce, any conservas and tinned fish/seafood tastes great. :laughing:

Example below, but I’ve seen this sauce sold at other vendors too.

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We know and love this Catalan salsa!

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Not yet mentioned in the thread, I think, is a product they added over the summer: Creamy Dreamy Hummus. Huge YEA on this end. Usually not a huge fan of the TJ’s hummus products but they nailed this one. It is in fact creamy (for storebought), not necessarily all that dreamy (it’s hummus). Not at all gluey/clumpy, which is how I feel about the nearest runner-up TJ’s hummus, the Organic Hummus.

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