Hello again! I have kept a saved instagram story highlight of my favorite Trader Joe’s items but similar to Costco, I figured it would be easier to keep this on the blog for your reference. 

I used to shop almost exclusively at TJ’s, around 95-98% of my groceries were from there, because they have a great price point and awesome products. When we lived in NC it was super close to me, but now it’s harder for me to get to at a time where it isn’t swamped with people.

Here are my tried and true Trader Joe’s favorites:

Fridge

• Perfect Bars
• Shaved brussel sprouts
• Persian mini cucumbers for the daily green along with organic celery hearts, cilantro, parsley
• Organic Free Range Chicken Breast Tenders
• Healthy 9 chopped veggie mix in the prepared items section
• Cruciferous Crunch salad mix – kale, brussels, broccoli, cabbage 
• Cheese slices sliced sharp cheddar
• Whipped cream cheese
• String cheese
• Unexpected cheddar, Brie, herbed goat cheese, goat cheese with honey (really any fancy cheese)
• Shaved parmesan and reggiano in a container

Frozen

• Sublime ice cream sandwiches
• French green beans 
• Organic chopped spinach
• Vegetable fried rice for the days I hate cooking
• Dorot crushed garlic/basil/ginger cubes
• Mango chunks for the daily green
• Roasted corn
• Mexican street corn for enchiladas 
• Tandoori naan (garlic and plain)
• Frozen pizza, this varies but i like the arugula pizza
• Organic riced cauliflower for smoothies
• Wild Blueberries

Pantry

• Corn and chili tomatoless salsa for bbq quinoa casserole
• Salsa Verde for salsa verde chicken, no chop chili, and black bean soup
• Wheat Pretzel Sticks for Johnny
• Crunchy salted peanut butter – we go through one a week
• Organic popcorn with EVOO
• California estate extra virgin olive oil
• Organic stone ground blue corn tortilla chips
• Soyaki sauce for mango soyaki chicken in the crockpot or for glazing salmon
• Dark chocolate honey mints- 3 ingredients, honey, chocolate liquor, oil of peppermint, I store mine in the freezer and they taste so amazing
• Organic Turkish dried figs, they taste like a fig newton
• Organic virgin coconut oil packet, perfect for traveling
• Mini gingerbread men cookies
• Pound plus chocolate bar for peanut butter swirly cups
• Fire roasted red peppers for red pepper pasta
• Pure bourbon vanilla extract
• Tomato and Roasted Red Pepper soup
• Harvest grain blend for NTK edition harvest grain blend 
• 19 Crimes Cabernet
• Boxed mac and cheese
• Israeli couscous
• Avocado oil
• Handmade whole wheat flour tortillas
• Raw sliced almonds for salads
• Decaf Irish breakfast tea – what I drink most every afternoon with honey
• Quinoa
• Bamba peanut snacks
• Lots of pasta 
• Asian salad mix
• Peanuts
• Multigrain crackers, pita bite crackers, lots of bars, dried cranberries