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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Organic Tomato & Roasted Red Pepper Soup
Trader Joe’s Organic Tomato & Roasted Red Pepper Soup Tastes Like: Spaghetti-O’s without the noodles. Boom. Light and sweet, tangy tomatoey flavor. Great With: Rice cakes on the side, or dipped in. Small broccoli florets tossed on top. And maybe just the TINIEST garnish of cheese. Perfect For: Quick and filling (yes!) snack on a…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Dilettante Fruit Medley
Dilettante Fruit Medley Tastes Like: Moist fruit chunks ensconced in a thick layer of chocolate with a sweet layer of white chocolate on the outside. Dense and chewy and lush and tangy. Great With: Coffee in the morning, tea at night, more and more of these. Chocolate addicts, pay heed! Trail mix lovers, delight! These…
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Trader Joe's Tuesday: Nonfat Greek Yogurt
Trader Joe’s Nonfat Greek Yogurt Tastes Like: Fage – tastes just like Fage but at a fraction of the price. Thick, rich, ever-so-slightly bitter in that perfect Greek yogurt way. Great With: A dash of raisins stirred in. Or some wacky flavoured jam! Or scooped out like dip for navel orange wedges or Granny Smith…
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Trader Joe's Tuesday: Eggplant Garlic Spread
Trader Joe’s Eggplant Garlic Spread Tastes Like: Kind of like moist, savory baba ganoush… Great With: Spread, as they suggest, on rice crackers or corn cakes. A dip for carrots (my favourite)! Perfect For: This would be a great spread for sandwiches. I used it in a pasta dish with spiralized zucchini and heirloom tomatoes…
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Trader Joe's Tuesday: French Vanilla Coffee
Trader Joe’s French Vanilla Ground Coffee Tastes Like: Nutty, bitter, and dark…just how I like my men. Great With: something sweet at breakfast-time. Wonderful for machines, but perhaps a little too rough-ground for pour-over method. Perfect For: MORNINGS. Must Know: labelled Kosher on the package! Costs: $6.99 – pretty competitive for ground coffee!
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Trader Joe's Tuesday: Coconut Body Butter
Trader Joe’s Coconut Body Butter Tastes Like: DO NOT EAT THIS PRODUCT! Dab a little of the rich, thick-churned creaminess onto your skin and rub it in and you’ll feel good enough to eat. And you’ll smell like a pina colada. Great With: Itchy, dry, or cracked skin. Perfect For: Overshare? My psoriasis breakouts. Dry,…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Green Bean Snack
Trader Joe-san’s Green Beans Tastes Like: Nothing else you’ve ever had. Closest thing I can figure is either veggie straws, or non-cheesy Cheetos Crunchy. Hard and salty outer shell, light and crispy airy insides. Great With: A side for a sandwich, maybe some of the smaller pieces would be nice to adorn a salad or…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Yogurt-Covered Raisins
Trader Joe’s Yogurt-Covered Raisins Tastes Like: Soft, supple, yeilding. Sweet and creamy and a little tart. Plump, juicy raisins lushly coated in a thick layer of creamy yogurt. Snackity, snackity heaven. Great With: Dark Chocolate Edamame and almonds as a trail mix, or just by themselves with a cup of tea. Perfect For: Munching in…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Reduced Guilt Chunky Guacamole
Trader Joe’s Reduced – Guilt Chunky Guacamole Tastes Like: Sour cream and guacamole blended together with strong overtones of red onion. If you blended a perfectly piquant guacamole with a summer cloud, it would be this. Tangy but light and refreshing. Great With: Carrot sticks, probably chips also. I can’t seem to make it last…
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Currently…in June 2014
FEELING: What a change from last month! Suddenly I feel inspired and accomplished. My plan to do a ton of little creative projects has meant I’m now having more and better ideas. I feel like I’m back to my creative self. WATCHING: Now that I’ve finished Attack on Titan, I’m loving Sailor Moon on Hulu!…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Dark Chocolate Edamame
Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Edamame Tastes Like: flaky, savory crunch with a hint of bitter dark chocolate. it almost reminds me of “crunchy” or pretzel M&Ms, but salty and sophisticated. Great With: Trader Joe’s Yogurt-Covered Raisins and salted almonds. The soft sweetness of the raisins is the perfect foil – plus it looks chic in…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Garlic Chipotle Salsa
Trader Joe’s Garlic Chipotle Salsa Tastes Like: tangy, peppery, garlicky salsa; thin with small chunks (perfect for scooping!). Great With: the usual suspects: chips, carrots, mushrooms. But you’d never guess – it’s amazing for dipping with raw broccoli! The broccoli “hair” catches all the spicy juice and the seasonings offset each other amazingly well! Perfect…
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According to Instagram…
The sweet-and-beautiful-online-and-in-real-life Eeka at Live.Love.Random recently did a post called “According to Instagram” about the telling nature of her Instagram feed. And I vowed to steal that idea. Fair warning, I left a comment! And it turns out, my Instagram feed pretty much paints an accurate picture of who I am: ACCORDING TO INSTAGRAM: …
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Last Word
I saw a post like this on Sometimes Sweet and thought it would be a nice way to get back into the swing of blogging by way of TALKING ABOUT ME. Yeah, I’ve been busy. I have other friends. So what? Here ya go. Last thing you cooked: I don’t know if it counts as…
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Almond Joy
So I’m on a total almond kick lately, apparently. Remember this trail mix? Well, I have to say, Salted Roasted Almonds from Trader Joe’s are THA BOMB. I can’t stop eating these suckers! They will be the death of me. Well, it would surprise nobody to learn that I’m not having a great time lately. …
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PSL = Pumpkin Spice LIFE
Fall is my favourite season, and Pumpkin is the reason for the season. I can’t stress enough how much I love pumpkin everything! But here, I’ll try: Mellowcreme Pumpkins: Are the cutest and most perfect Halloween treat! Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks: Celebrating ten years of making New Yorkers absolutely bonkers. I posited the question…
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Licorice Lover
At last week’s session, I joked with my therapist that if I traveled back in time one year to give my former self a badly-needed hug, I wouldn’t recognize me. I dress and act like a totally different person and oh yeah, I eat licorice now. Not just the lame, cheater, strawberry licorice. The good…
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The Walking Dead Google Reader
I’m the latest princess to the party, but I just started watching The Walking Dead and I’m afraid it may replace sleep. Who needs sleep? ZOMBIES! And also, who can sleep? ZOMBIES! Speaking of things that are dead-but-not-entirely-dead, Google Reader! I’m also the last person to mourn that Google Reader is gone. And at first…
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Always Bring Your Own Bags to Trader Joe’s
Trader Joe’s has the greatest stuff. Succulent baked tofu. Delectable peanut butter salted caramel truffles. And adorable hipster cashiers. I stopped in there last week for some groceries and that’s it, I swear. The cashier-director directed me towards a tall, lithe, curly-moppped cashier with glasses. Swoon. I placed my groceries on the register and pulled…
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I Love You, Trader Joe
Once a month, we go grocery shopping. And like everything we do, we do it COMPLETELY. Over the top. And because I am a terrible cook: Here is why I love Trader Joe!: 1. It’s SO CHEAP! A month’s worth of groceries here costs what a week’s worth of groceries cost at all the other…