YEA to Almond Meal Muffins, new on the bakery shelf. These have walnuts, carrots, zucchini, craisins, oats, maple, agave, chia, butter, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg. They are moist and filling, but messy, like corn muffins. Do not attempt to consume while driving!
YEA! It’s Thomcord grape season again.
I bought, but haven’t opened, the new refrigerated condiment, Amba fermented mango sauce. Nor the Peruvian potato chips. Stay tuned.
A qualified YEA for Peruvian potato chips. They taste like regular kettle-cooked potato chips, but the higher price ($2.49 for 6 oz) would be worth it if you want to wow your cookout or picnic guests with a bowl of beautiful, colorful, marbleized chips that look like they were sliced from agates rather than spuds.
I’m pretty new here and I too have a love hate thing for TJ’s. I never buy produce there and I don’t buy meats there. As far as wondering why someone would buy bagged salad never goes through my mind that’s way too much to think about. She might be staying in a hotel room for a conference and and doesn’t want to eat at the crappy restaurant choices for all we know. As far as getting the same thing somewhere else for a better price I don’t know about that, sometimes quality beats cost remember you’re putting this stuff in your body. We have a FoodMaxx WinCo Safeway and Costco and they sure don’t have some of the things that TJ’s has that’s why I go there. On the other hand all of those other stores have things that TJ doesn’t have. I heard a good review for the seasoning everything but the bagel seasoning and I don’t get it it does nothing for me won’t buy it again but that’s me. I really enjoy reading the forums here at hungry onion much friendlier than the last food formsite I was following. You know those food forms with the snarky know-it-alls.
I just started posting here in January after reading this and another food forum for years. (Lurker)
The snark is the exact reason I choose to post here.
In general, the per piece pricing of produce is not economical. But I always give a look. Once I got a 6" diameter Vidalia for 79¢, and this week a pristine and gigantic eggplant for $1.79. Then there’s the pricey but worth it produce varieties that are only available for short seasons, and are rarely/never in other grocery stores. Ask to sample a Thomcord grape, $2.79/# seedless cross of Thompson and Concord. SO good! The Snapdragon apples, late fall, put Honeycrisps to shame, as Sky Valley Heirlooms do other navel oranges in late winter to early spring. I buy the rainbow carrots for a pretty side dish.
If your holiday table includes spiral cut ham, TJ’s has a lot less salt than most. Their natural turkeys aren’t heirloom, but the longer legs and wings, and narrower breasts, show that they are not tightly cooped up.
We live in the upper part of nor Cal and produce at this time is every where and we have a veg garden every year. When we have to much of something I stop by a local watering hole frequent by local ranchers and old timers where everyone has gotten in the habit of bringing in there extras from the garden or chicken eggs to trade. Believe it or not the best and biggest selection for produce is FoodMaxx. Heck you can even get termeric root there. Meats arelocally sourced here to, a lot of small cattle ranches around. When I can’t find what I want in the freezer I’ll stop by a little local country store and get a prather ranch steak or something like that grass-fed. So FoodMaxx for produce, WinCo for bulk , Costco for cheese and dog food and tp. And TJ’s for all those unique and specialty things we all love or not and talk about on this forum so much.
Tried the Calabrian Chile, not super spicy to my taste but good flavor so, yea.
Yeah, it’s not very spicy but interesting and flavorful. I’ve given away jars already - it’s turning into chilli crisp, which I had to have spare jars of to give away whenever I served it to guests 
two nays:
kumato brown tomatoes. bought these at the suggestion of a tj crew member, who assured me that they were as juicy and flavorful as tomatoes from the farmers market. sadly, this was not the case. they weren’t bad, but were no where close to the hype. and certainly not worth $3.79 a pound.
one of my favorite pizzas at piccos in boston’s south end is their alsace — bacon, creme fraiche, caramelized onions, and gruyere, so i was excited when i saw the frozen tarte d’alsace flatbread. i knew it wasn’t going to live up to picco’s, but even so, it was a real disappointment. the crust never got crisp, despite extra baking time. no bacon, and while there was a lot of ham instead, it didn’t have a lot of flavor. and neither did the other components: couldn’t identify the onions, creme fraiche, or gruyere.
I managed to snag three jars at the Burlington MA TJ’s the other day. There weren’t many left, and an employee told me that she was pretty sure it was a one-shot deal. If you like this you may want to stock up. The expiration date isn’t until 2022. $2.99 is a great price
I picked up a bottle of everything but the bagel seasoning and I don’t know if it’s just me or what but it doesn’t do anything for me. I make a lot of my own blends of spices from the bulk spice and seasoning section at WinCo most of the time. Does anybody uses this stuff and what are they putting it on?
I used it in and on top of onion dip - really jazzed it up. But that’s all I’ve done so far.
Toast with mashed Avocado, ground into chicken salad, toast with cream cheese
Not super creative but I put it on egg and cheese sandwiches. Or toast with a thin layer of cream cheese, chopped tomatoes and olives. (Obviously, I am a salt fiend!)
We use it on bagels and cream cheese with red onion and tomatoes. I have to say the sesame seeds in it do nothing for me but the rest is hood… and we add lemon pepper seasoning mix to it.
Yay! Winco!
Ingredients: sesame seeds, sea salt, dried minced garlic, dried onion, black sesame seeds, poppy seeds.
So what are we tasting here? For me salt, garlic and onion. Your eyes might taste the seeds I guess.
For me it’s a over priced gimick. For 2 bucks I can get a lot of salt, garlic and onion and some lemon pepper.
Do you like everything bagels in general?
I think TJ’s version is comparable to typical everything bagels, where onions and garlic dominate and the seeds provide more texture than flavor.
The even distribution of ingredients is what I like about TJ’s mix— when I make everything bagel spice mix from bulk ingredients, I usually wind up with some spices pooled at the bottom.
I know it was a typo but I love the whole idea of this product being hood.
