With a reduced set of categories in this year's awards, Trader Joe's unveiled winners of its 12th Annual Customer Choice Awards. Old favorites and Trader Joe's classics dominated this year's winners, with perennial favorites Mandarin Orange Chicken and Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter cups taking top honors. But there are a few surprises, too.
In the…
We have reached that point in the year where it's literally impossible to keep up with all the holiday goodies hitting shelves at Trader Joe's. That's in a non-COVID year. I'm shopping once a week, so it's sort of luck of the draw on what's in, and I'm mostly focusing on what's new this…
Trader Joe's has another winner on their hands in the canned sparkling juice department. If you've been a regular TJ's shopper this year, you might have picked up watermelon, strawberry, or black tea with peach juice. And now, Trader Joe's Sparkling Honeycrisp Apple Juice joins the lineup.
I don't know about you, but Honeycrisps…
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Thanksgiving and Christmas Holiday items are starting to hit Trader Joe's stores this week. Old favorites are back including almond nog, egg nog, Amarena cherries, and Cocoa Peppermint Almond Creamer. Even advent calendars (dog, cat and human!) are already on shelves. Along with them, we've got…
Trader Joe's first talked about their reverse engineered instant cold brew as targeted for the summer, which would have made more sense in any normal year. I was intrigued by the idea of cold brew that was freeze dried into crystals designed to be rehydrated. But I gotta tell ya, I'm not super impressed with…
If you're a fan of Peach Tea Snapple, you're gonna wanna pick up Trader Joe's Sparkling Black Tea with Peach Juice. It joins TJ's already delicious lineup of sparkling juices and sodas -- Watermelon, Strawberry, Coconut Water with Yuzu. They've just gotten better and better over time. (I wasn't into the Hibiscus Lemongrass Sparkling Beverage).…
Over the last couple of weeks I've been taste testing canned rosé, but if you don't or can't drink alcohol, Trader Joe's has a lovely new sparkler to fill your glass with this summer: Trader Joe's Sparkling Watermelon Juice ($3.99 for a 4-pack). Made with 100% juice, each 8.45 oz. can has 60 calories and…

It only takes a few lost Sundays to put you off one drink or another. There's a reason people snicker knowingly at, "One margarita, two margarita, three margarita, floor." In college, one too many cheap, bowl-sized glasses of sangria put it on my list of top hangover-inducing beverages, right behind bottom-shelf margaritas and Long Island Iced Teas. It'd been a long time since I'd had sangria, and even longer since I’d had good sangria. Until La Condesa.
Drinks named after celebrities seem to belong to a bygone era. One of the thrills of going out to dinner with my parents when I was little was ordering a Shirley Temple. With its delicate pink hue and a maraschino cherry floating on top, a Shirley Temple made you feel like one of the grownups. I think I even ordered one at dinner before junior prom. Today, if I ordered a Roy Rogers or an Arnold Palmer, I expect most people would know what I was after without explanation. But some where along the line, drinks named after celebrities fell out of favor. Can you imagine ordering a George Clooney, a Justin Bieber, or a Tiger Woods?
The idea for this raspberry spritzer started as a spin on a Shirley Temple, which I’ve always thought of as 7-up and grenadine, but Wikipedia claims the soda is actually ginger ale. Made with a fresh raspberry syrup brightened by lemon, this spritzer is sweet but not cloying. And yes, it takes 3 half-pints of berries, but it’ll put any Italian soda made with bottled syrup to shame.
