![]() Lots of yummy veggies and hearty grains to fill you up when you’re short on prepped food! Sooo, clearly this is my secret-freezer-meal-stash section because this is yet ANOTHER freezer go-to. ![]() Grant and I both love these! They’re another great freezer staple, and they’re even Whole30 compliant! They only take a few minutes to cook, and go great in a lettuce wrap or on a bun. These are a great quick appetizer – heat them up in a crock pot with your favorite sauce! This saved my butt in college so many times when I had no food prepped! Just throw it – frozen – in a skillet, heat it up, add some eggs, and you’ve got a big potato + veggie scramble! Throw in some bacon or sausage, too.īecause every party needs mini meatballs, obviously. ![]() Pair with their jasmine rice or one of the fried rice options above for an easy meal! Mandarin Orange ChickenĪnother great freezer staple! BBQ Chicken Teriyaki is my favorite, and Grant’s fave is the Mandarin Orange Chicken. Perfect for those nights when there’s no food in the fridge! Grant is obsessed with these.ġ0. Needless to say, it soon found its way into our cart.Ĭhicken and veggie fried rice are freezer staples for us! I normally don’t buy a lot of pre-made/freezer meal type things but Trader Joe’s consistently has clean ingredients in all their products so I don’t feel bad about buying these AT ALL. Grant LOVES this sauce! TJ’s was sampling a pasta dish one day when we were grocery shopping and they used this sauce. Great for snacking! I like to have a square of dark chocolate after dinner most nights and this fits the bill perfectly. The dark chocolate is dark enough without being totally bitter. Dark Chocolate Bar w/ Caramel + Black Sea Salt These are another cookie that I was introduced to by that wonderful professor! So good, not overly lemony, and so small that you can hardly feel bad about having 5…or 10!ħ. Use it in this recipe: Take cookie and place in mouth. I think they sell them year-round now, too, not just in the fall! She brought these one day – I was instantly obsessed. (And she was amazing for her abilities as a professor – not just for her ability to provide the BEST snacks!). In college, I had an amazing professor who brought us snacks from Trader Joe’s to class – literally every. Use it in this recipe: Giant Chocolate Chip and Peanut Butter Cup Cookie 9 times out of 10 they end up in our cart at checkout. They conveniently sell mini bags of these by the checkout for 99 cents. Perfect for baking or for just plain ‘ol snacking. These are the BEST PB cups I’ve ever had. Use it in this recipe: Skillet Caramel Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookie Dip your opal apples in it, bake with it, pour it over ice cream! You can’t go wrong. Ok, do I even need an explanation for this one? Caramel is life! For those times when you don’t feel like making homemade caramel sauce. Use it in this recipe: Healthy Chicken Wild Rice Casserole But when I’m crunched for time – this is a winner! But, maybe this merits another try? I mean, we DO have a good set of knives now. I remember struggling SO HARD to cut a dang butternut squash in college – all my roommates + I had at our house was a semi-dull knife set. Use it in this recipe: Gluten Free Apple Crispīecause cutting and peeling butternut squash is the WORST. So, here are our (my + Grant’s) top 21 picks from Trader Joe’s!īy far my favorite variety of apple! They’re sweet, crisp, and juicy. Plus, their prices are pretty reasonable (they’re owned by the same company as Aldi), they’ve got lots of freh produce, organic options, and the friendliest employees ever! You can take any item in the store (except raw meat/alcohol) up to an employee and they’ll bust it open so you can try some! Amazing. There’s always something fun/different/new to try – and they have SAMPLES. Like, I could wander the aisles there for days. If you’ve been following my blog for any amount of time, you probably know by now that I lovvveee Trader Joe’s.
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