Best Items at Trader Joe's - Page 10

u in austin? i wish we had a central market here.

I've been buying the mango chile popsicles lately - pretty good.

Dallas. It's a pretty amazing store but I always have to go in for one specific thing and stick to it. You can spend 200 bucks there way too easily.

mirepoix.....incredibly handy when cooking ragu, etc. Never seen it anywhere else.

p&sses me off. good idea, bad execution. should be half onion, quarter carrot, quarter celery. THAT would be something.

Prepackaged mirepoix? Seriously? What's so difficult about chopping your own? Next, they will be predigesting your food for you.

i suppose you want to grow your own too. for something that's going to be a background flavor, i've got no pride about letting someone else save me 15minutes of chopping onions, carrots and celery. YMMV.

It's not about the flavor. It's just the whole idea of everything being made so convenient; I don't like it. I go to Whole Foods, and I see people shopping, buying mostly prepared foods and pre-packaged garbage, thinking they are eating healthy and being a conscious consumer just because of where they are shopping. I've also been told by a few managers that they have decreased their shelf stock to make more room for the prepared foods section. It just undermines the whole concept of what I think "Whole" Foods, and just food in general, should be about. Farmer's Markets around here, too. Half of the vendors are selling granola and "specialty" jellies and jams. People are missing the point.

we'll talk more after you've been cooking a little longer.

Join the dark side...

honestly, i'd never use them for a nice meal. but when i'm making soup for my wife and i? i will admit to having partaken. though i did chop an extra onion to get the ratio appropriate. and i couldn't tell that it harmed the dish at all.

i really like their butter chicken

Not that dark side. The mgm dark side. If I knew that existed, I'm sure I would have used it at some time or another.

Make celery soup.