Trader Joes Shopping

[Kimbber]

Tomorrow I am making my once a month drive to Trader Joe's to stock up on healthy food. We simple have no health type grocery stories in my area.

This will be the first trip there since I start watching my sugar.

Does anyone have any suggestion of good product I should look for?

Thanks
Kimberly

[jer.lawrence]

Just to add to your question (because we have a very new Trader Joe's right down the street from us, and I'm curious as well), do they have any type of lower carb pasta?

I've seen some of the whole wheat noodles, but they still all have something like 40-50g of carbs per serving -- way too much, IMHO. Is there anything less than that?

[Kimbber]

Just to add to your question (because we have a very new Trader Joe's right down the street from us, and I'm curious as well), do they have any type of lower carb pasta?

I've seen some of the whole wheat noodles, but they still all have something like 40-50g of carbs per serving -- way too much, IMHO. Is there anything less than that?

To put this politely as I can. Carbs or not, some of the wheat Trader Joe's pasta is great for making you good friends with the bathroom the next day. And it a heck of a lot better than taking another pill. :o

[notme]

Trader Joes is my favorite shopping place. I buy frozen salmon (prefer fresh), frozen veggies (they have whole and organic), fresh fruit and berries, cheese! They have a Canadian aged cheddar that is to die for! Lots of great pre-marinated frozen fish. I buy a lot. Dreamfield's Pasta which is low carb (I don't like it, so I don't buy it). Great organic milk products, cage free eggs. Good dark chocolate. Their spaghetti sauce is very good. I also like Trader Joes mustard.

Walk the aisles slowly and check out everything. Go to Trader Joes when you have time.

Also, check out their great teas and coffees.

[poodlebone]

I love Trader Joe's chicken sausages and they come in tons of flavors! I also buy many containers of their plain fat free Greek yogurt every time I go. I'd be careful buying too much fresh produce there as it tends to already be at the end of it's useful life by the time TJ's gets it (which is how they sell it cheaply). Also, their hummus always seems to have a shelf life of 2 days after I buy it. If you buy hummus, eat it quickly! My friend had texted me multiple pictures of TJ's hummus that she's bought and had in her fridge (unopened) for less than a week and the containers exploded! I've had many containers start to bulge with gases building up but caught them before they exploded. I no longer buy my hummus there.

I love their canned marinated bean salad (not exactly low carb, but high fiber and good protein) and their canned turkey chili. They have great prices on natural peanut butter and they also have some reduced sugar jam/preserves that are very good.

[diabetic_z]

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I've seen some of the whole wheat noodles, but they still all have something like 40-50g of carbs per serving -- way too much, IMHO. Is there anything less than that?

I asked my dietitian about low carb pasta a couple weeks ago and she suggested Dreamfields brand. It appears that it only has 5g of digestible fiber. If you google Dreamfields and go to their website, they have a printable $1 coupon. Not sure if the product is available at Trader Joes. (No Trader Joes in my area.)

[Kimbber]

Trader Joes is my favorite shopping place. I buy frozen salmon (prefer fresh), frozen veggies (they have whole and organic), fresh fruit and berries, cheese! They have a Canadian aged cheddar that is to die for! Lots of great pre-marinated frozen fish. I buy a lot. Dreamfield's Pasta which is low carb (I don't like it, so I don't buy it). Great organic milk products, cage free eggs. Good dark chocolate. Their spaghetti sauce is very good. I also like Trader Joes mustard.

Walk the aisles slowly and check out everything. Go to Trader Joes when you have time.

Also, check out their great teas and coffees.

We actually go there to buy soft dog treats for our oldest dog, it all she can eat as a treat these days and for the pasta and other odds and ends. We hope to find some good for my diet stuff now I watching sugar. The frozen stuff we don't get because of the drive home being slow long. Trader Joes happens to be on the way home from visiting a family member.

[Kimbber]

The canned turkey chili sounds good. It would be something I can make for myself for a quick lunch.

[Gordonm]

Trader Joes is the best. We have one about 5 minutes from us and go there quite often.

[foxl]

I am revisiting an old love ... I am sure they would have it ...

AGED GOUDA! It can be very expensive, so you might want to price it first, but oooooh, man is good!

[GretchO]

they also have some good and low-carb prepared food in the frozen section - chicken skewers (chipotle flavored, mmmm), etc. just look through everything. they have lots of nuts and nut butters. and "2 buck Chuck" (it's actually closer to $3 these days) if you like to have a glass of red before bed time.

[Granny Shanny]

I think TJ's needs to take about three of their St. Louis outlets & string them along I-44 to Joplin! lol!

No wait . . . drop one in KC for foxl! :D :D :D

[Joeprep4820]

Personally I prefer Whole Foods Market over Trader Joe's. Not to say Trader Joe's is not a great shop, but Whole Food's offers so much more at much better prices. Much better selection of fresh meats (I prefer fresh, and if I don't use it all, I freeze it myself) and produce. They also have a decent array of diet sodas that I would never have heard of had it not been for Whole Foods. I don't drink it often, but it is nice to try something new on occasion.

[foxl]

I think TJ's needs to take about three of their St. Louis outlets & string them along I-44 to Joplin! lol!

No wait . . . drop one in KC for foxl! :D :D :D

We have few health food stroes north of the river -- closest Whole Paycheck is down in JoCo! So yeah, we could use one!

[ShottleBop]

Frozen buffalo burgers. Frozen tuna shakes. Canned sardines. Single-serving-packed almonds (dry roasted or raw). Single-serving-packed walnuts (out of them at ours, just now, but the bulk bags are resealable). Dry roasted macadamias. Vitamin D3 (great price). Designer Whey. Unsweetened vanilla almond milk (1.99 here, instead of the $2.99 they charge at Ralphs for the same thing). Chicken sausages with basil pesto. Any of their other chicken or turkey sausages.

[mzteacher]

they have great prices on almond meal....which is great to use in place of flour in some recipes...love trader joe's
susan

[ShottleBop]

And ground flaxseed!

[notme]

The bad thing about Trader Joes????? They get a really great food and then discontinue it! Roiboos tea ring a bell, Jan?

[fenagle]

I love the whole paycheck reference. I thought we were the only ones that felt that way.

When it comes to pasta, I only eat the fresh kind. It is not wheat. I have found my BG is OK after this pasta and better than after even a salad. I know I am just strange.

Trader Joe's is over an hour away so when we go we really stock up.

[GretchO]

I think TJ's needs to take about three of their St. Louis outlets & string them along I-44 to Joplin! lol!

No wait . . . drop one in KC for foxl! :D :D :D

When we lived in Columbia, MO we petitioned TJs to build a store there...got a big smack down. They said their prices would suffer to ship food past St. Louis. So, whenever we went to the St. Louis airport, the zoo, or the City Museum we'd stock up. Now we're about 5 blocks from one...and i still have to resist the urge to buy 10 boxes of something so i don't run out til the next time i go.

[lark 27]

Perhaps too high carb for some, but I get their boxed black bean soup and carrot ginger soup. It's nice and easy to keep a box at work and have a cup a day along with a salad. 15 g carbs roughly for the soup so it still fits in my moderate diet, if I keep it to a cup or 1.5 cups.

I actually think TJs is cheaper than whole foods in contrast with another post, but prefer whole foods as far as overall selection and especially organic selection.

We also get the laundry soap and dishwasher soap from TJs because it's relatively inexpensive for phosphate free (more environmentally friendly).

Organic peanut buter.

Chicken sausages-I second that. Great selection.

Frozen eggplant parmesan. (Again probably too high carb for some).

Also, every trip (we don't go that often since it's 45 minutes to the nearest and we only go if we're headed to that area for some reason) we always find something unique and different to try.

[princesslinda]

We don't have any stores near us, the closest is in Nashville, about 3 hrs away.:( Sounds like a place we'd enjoy shopping.

We do have the Sam's Wholesale Club, but that requires a paid annual membership.

[genie86333]

I know there's a Trader Joe's just a couple blocks out of the way to my favorite grocery store (Winco...huge selection of bulk sugar-free candy & flax seed, protein powder, etc & good prices throughout the store...& I've found everything I need there except almond flour & cream.) where I take my monthly grocery trips. I'll have to grab the almond flour (and maybe the cream too) from TJ's next time I head down there.

[freebie]

I have both Trader Joe's and Whole Foods near me both are good but I go to Trader Joe's because it's cheaper. Safeway does have a few things as well.:)