Longhorned wrote:What's good these days? What are you buying?
What am I NOT buying!
Love that place. Here is my usual, basic shopping list - I add and subtract things here and there, but I always have a list when I go there, otherwise I'll buy half the store ...
Ground Turkey
Vanilla Almond Beverage (1/2 Gal)
Chocolate Almond Milk (Qt box)
Soy Creamer (or as I like to call it, "I Am Creamer")
Dark Chocolate Coconut Water
Greek Yogurt (not Yoghurt)
Pretzel Stick
Ak Mak Crackers
Zucchini Bread
Bulgar
Quinoa
Reduced Guilt Chunky Guac
Hummus - never the same thing twice
Cheese - something fun, never the same thing twice
Fake Egg ("Best of the Egg" or whatever they call it)
Chicken or Vegetable Broth
TJ's Mineral Water
Dolmas (Canned actually, quite good)
Black Beans
Smoked Trout (can)
Chocolate Almond Granola
Frozen Haricot Verts (long skinny green beans)
Sweet Onions and Red Onions
Kale
Organic Pink Lady, Fuji or Gala Apples
Small Butter Lettuce head (if in stock)
Dark Chocolate Almond Toffee balls
New Mexico PiƱon Coffee
Reduced Guilt Potato Chips
Panilonco Carmenere (Chilean red wine - $4 gonga)
Looking at this list, I realize I am keeping the almond industry afloat by myself. I also regularly (but not every trip) get pure aloe vera juice, local fresh eggs, and TJ-branded things like Apple Cider vinegar, Coconut Oil, Coconut oil cooking spray, Grapeseed oil (my "canola" or "vegetable" oil), Smoked Paprika, Himalayan Pink Salt, English Cucumbers, Celery Hearts, Romaine Hearts, Baby Crimini Mushrooms, Salsa Verde, Rosemary Marcona Almonds, Fig Butter, Pumpkin Butter, Rolled Oats, Wild Rice, Jumbo Hot Dogs, Multigrain Sandwich Bread, Unsweetened Cherry Juice, various crackers, lunch meats, and Stevia Drops. I could go on ... I haven't even mentioned things like frozen veg, ice creams, cookies, beers, other wines ...
Only things I haven't liked from there were the Speculoos "butter" (weird) and their fake Nutella (rather splurge on the real thing).
I'd say I do 60-70% of my food shopping there, then fill in with Target, Safeway, Costco, Dickman's and a few other specialty shops.
Merkin wrote:Note that Two Buck Chuck went from $1.99 to $2.49 in the last year so be prepared for some sticker shock.
It's been "Three Buck Chuck" here in AZ since the 1990s ...
CalStateTempe wrote:The only grudge I have against TJ's is that they didn't hire me my senior year in college, when I needed some extra cash. Apparently I wasn't "edgy" enough.
Should have grown some facial art and dyed a streak of hair white ...
Spaceman Spiff wrote:This isn't really 100% on topic, but both my wife and I believe the Trader Joe's at Campbell and Limber lost has Tucson's highest concentration of D-Bag drivers. I almost get hit by people blowing stop signs out of there on a regular basis.
That's the one I usually go to, and it is the biggest clusterfuck of an intersection, both turning in from Campbell and once you get in the parking lot. I usually come in from Limberlost and snake through the parking lot, going across to the river side then coming back in instead of trying to go in front of the store.
Alieberman wrote:scumdevils86 wrote:I live like a mile from there and you're absolutely right. I don't go there very often because I can get cheaper and decent produce at sprouts
Yeah, there's a few things we get at TJ's, but the produce and fresh meats are much better at Sprouts.
I've been boycotting Sprouts ever since they bought out Sunflower, because I liked Sunflower a whole lot better than Sprouts. F Sprouts. F Dinos for that matter ...
scumdevils86 wrote: all things considered I can't complain. between the tj's, aj's, sprouts, safeway, albertson's etc that I mentioned I also have access to a decent butcher in Dickman's and also Rincon Market and Whole Foods. All within 3-4 miles of me. Almost anything I need at a reasonable price.
Sausage Shop Meat Market on Prince 1 blk west of Fairview - best homemade sausages and cured meats in Tucson, thank me later ...
gumby wrote:Regular purchases:
White Cheddar Mac and Cheese
Frozen string beans
Frozen broccoli
Hummus salad dressing
Orange chicken
Sweet and sour chicken
Three-minute brown rice and basmati rice
Steelcut oatmeal
Red and yellow curry sauces
Tomato basil pasta sauce
Lotta frozen, so that might not work for a four-hour drive.
Sometimes get the pot pies. Friggin love those, but I'm trying to slim down.
Like the Mac & Cheese (like Stoeffer's better though), like the Orange chicken but rarely buy it, buy their curry sauces from time to time, and their 3-minute (as well as their 20 minute) brown rice. Like their tomato basil pasta sauce as a very basic red sauce, but I rarely eat pasta anymore. Curious about the hummus salad dressing.
scumdevils86 wrote:Random things I like from there...
Frozen falafel
Frozen gyoza
Jalapeno dill tartar sauce
Frozen mahi mahi patties
Cuban wrap
Horseradish cheddar potato chips
Chickpea salad
Dig their gyoza every once in a while, and think the horseradish cheddar chips are weird - bought them 3 times thinking I "Should" like them, that I want to like them, but I really don't.
Alieberman wrote:A note of caution -
The tub of tiny chocolate chip cookies... avoid at all costs.
They are good and tiny, so you constantly say to yourself "I can totally have a couple more of these, they are so small"
24 hours later the tub is empty.
*raises hand* Guilty. Also goes for their various animal-cracker stye "cats" as well as the dark chocolate pistachio toffee and coconut bon-bons.