Trader Joe's YEA/NAY/MEH, 2023 Edition

There’s no cheese.


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Oops, my mistake.

I decided to try this 4-pack, MEH, as Borat might say, it didn’t excite. One little pack is 40% of daily sodium.

I’ll give the rest to my neighbor, she takes anything I don’t want.

The sauce pack is lame but the noodles are good dressed with oyster sauce, chili oil, etc.

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I agree. The noodles themselves are good. I hated the sauce.

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Good to know not to waste the noodles on the included sauce, thanks. I bought a pack but still haven’t used it (ditto the “fresh” ones they had for a while).

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Big Yay for the seasonal key lime cookies they have now. Had some at my sister’s this weekend, and they are but size, nice crisp, and a surprisingly good key lime, sweet/tart flavor. I have to go pick some up later this week.

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Exactly. It’s not worth doctoring.

Yes! And thanks for pointing out that they are seasonal – I’ll have to get another box or two to stockpile.

Shoot. I was just there on Saturday but had a small, deliberate list of things I was getting, and I didn’t wander the store. These would have been a required purchase had I known about them.

Thinking about the falafel again. What about steaming them? I just recall having amazing falafel in Israel and they were pretty soft.

Deep frying might yield the best results?

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If you want something akin to what you had, gotta start with soaking the dried beans and a pile of fresh herbs. A boxed mix or frozen isn’t going to do it.

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Are the squiggly noodles available now where you are? I haven’t seen them locally since they first appeared and then vanished.

I bought some here in San Diego a few weeks ago.

Like others have said, the sauce isn’t that good on its own, but I’ve used it as a base for stirfry with this noodles.

Two salad dressing-related NAYS:

  1. Nay that the poppyseed dressing is already gone from the stores. I know it’s a “seasonal” product, but gee whiz that was a short season! Glad I bought 3 bottles the last time I saw it.
  2. NAY to Trader Joe’s for discontinuing my favorite balsamic fig dressing. I’m really going to miss it. Why do they have to discontinue everything I love?!
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I hope it gets back here. I prepared it ramen-style, in broth with veggies and proteins.

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How do you do that?
Always too many treats to explore and I get lost. :blush:

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LOL I often wander there as well, but I was concentrating on my bigger shop at Wegmans immediately following TJs (they’re just about a mile or so apart) so I was just going for the 5 things I needed.

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