Hi y’all! I’ve had several requests to share our favorite items from Trader Joe’s, so here we go!
Trader Joe’s is our local grocery store (#blessed) I literally have not been to any other store since we’ve moved to Boston… needless to say, we have tried a lot of TJ’s items.
If you are looking for Trader Joe’s recipe inspiration, check out this post a made a while back!
Our Favorite Items:
1. Za’atar Salad Kit
Y’all have heard me rave about this one before but it is easily our #1 favorite item. I buy it every week, without fail, and we usually enjoy it with some ravioli for dinner!
2. Orange Chicken
The frozen orange chicken is easily everyone’s favorite– for a good reason! I always pick up one to have on hand and it’s always our “end of the week” meal. We usually eat it over basmati rice or with the frozen vegetable fried rice.
3. Cacio e Pepe
The frozen cacio e pepe is Grant’s favorite frozen pasta — I enjoy it too! However, my absolute favorite is…
4. Fiocchetti
The frozen fiocchetti tastes like absolute heaven! I have a recipe I make with it that is just chicken sausage & spinach mixed in and it is divine!
5. Chicken Tikka Marsala & Palak Paneer
I wasn’t expecting much when we tried this for the first time but it blew our socks off! I like to make both of these items together with some frozen garlic naan — a comfort meal for me tbh.
6. Lemon Rosemary Spatchcock chicken
Though this chicken takes and hour and 15 mins to cook — it is SO worth it. It makes the house smell so delicious and it’s perfectly moist, juicy, and has such amazing flavor!
7. Olive Tapenade
I recently started picking this item up & eating it as a snack with hummus and carrots. If you love olives as much as I do, you will be obsessed with this item
8. Chicken Sausage
We have tried almost all of the chicken sausage flavors and haven’t found one we don’t like! I love the sweet apple one for breakfast and the sun-dried tomato one to add to pasta for dinner!
9. Chicken Pesto Genovese
Amazing pre-marinated chicken I love to add to a salad or pasta dish.
10. Frozen Hash Brown Patties
These are seriously better than McDonald’s
11. Chili Lime Chicken Burgers
We like these for an easy, flavorful lunch! Amazing on a bun with cheese & TJ’s yogurt guacamole!
12. Elote Corn Chip Dippers
Addictive.
13. Coconut Almond Milk Creamer
I put this in my coffee every morning! I’m not dairy free, I just like the taste of it 🙂
14. Gyoza Dumplings
We have tried the chicken, pork, and shrimp frozen dumplings and they are all amazing! If I had to list them in order of my favorites it would be: shrimp, chicken, pork.
15. Vegetable Pad Thai
Love this for a quick and easy lunch or with dumplings for dinner!
16. Loaded Potatoes
These loaded potatoes are so yummy and full of flavor! We’ve had this for dinner with just a side salad and it was very filling.
Some items we’ve tried and don’t love:
1. Mexican Style Roasted Corn with Cojita Cheese
I picked up this item to spice up our taco night and it was severely underwhelming. It had absolutely no flavor and I won’t be purchasing it again.
2. Kung Pao Chicken
I gave this item a try one week instead of our usual orange chicken and it just didn’t do it for us.
3. Turkey Burgers
Grant and I generally really enjoy turkey so I gave these a shot and I can’t even think about these because it makes me gag… These were beyond terrible I had to throw them out.
4. Crispy Parmesan Brussel Sprouts
I couldn’t find a picture of this item so they might have already discontinued it! It was in the frozen section and it was not good.. just soggy and not much flavor!
Thanks for reading!
What are your favorite Trader Joe’s items?
