Trader Joe's: A grocery store. A culture. A DESTINATION. I don't work for TJ's, I am simply a customer who loves the store, the products, & the experience.
This blog was a year-long project. In 2015 I reviewed 1 TJ's product EVERY SINGLE DAY. I visited lots of TJ's stores around the country, and when the year ended I couldn't stop. I still post often (though not daily) & I welcome your comments on the products & reviews.
Elbow macaroni is a shape of pasta we do not normally
buy. Let’s face it – elbow macaroni is a
younger peoples’ macaroni, no? Sure, it
is not DINOSAUR SHAPED macaroni or anything as kiddie as THAT, but it is also
not linguine or angel hair pasta.
It does not look like normal Trader Joe's packaging
Even so, we bought it the other night to give it a
whirl. After all, when you have a
project to write a new review every single day for a whole entire year, you are
bound to end up with stuff in your shopping cart that might not normally be
there.
This was a good choice.
It was a simple, honest, al dente macaroni. We served it with pesto (made from our garden
and frozen, not sure which year this one was from, but we will be making THIS
YEAR’S BATCH this weekend!).
Baronia Elbow Macaroni with homemade pesto (I snapped this pic before we added other ingredients that made it hard to see the pasta)
This would be a good pasta to use to make mac and cheese
(not that we ever make homemade mac and cheese, but now that I am thinking
about it I realize we need to try that).
You could also use it in a soup or stew.
And of course, if you have kids, I think this is a good kid pasta.
Overall a fine little elbow macaroni. It is a product of Italy and not in “normal”
Trader Joe’s packaging. But it is priced
right and tastes fine.
Have you ever ordered bacon at a café or diner and went, “What
the WHAT? How is this bacon so delicious??? What IS
IT about this bacon that makes it so amazing? And why does the bacon I buy in the grocery
store and cook at home never taste this good???”
We have. In fact,
we had two experiences recently where we thought just that. One was in Chicago and we sat outside at a
little restaurant and marveled over the amazing taste of the bacon (Chicago
2015 seems obsessed with MEAT, but that is neither here nor there for this
review). I also remember sitting in a
chi-chi restaurant once in New York City, the kind where the lights are so dim
that you cannot read the menu even though it is DAYTIME and you are there for
breakfast… You know those kinds of
places? We were there for brunch and we
had a side of bacon. I think we paid
like $20 for 3 strips of bacon. Ok, it was not THAT expensive, but you get
my drift. And. We.
Freakin’. Loved. That. Bacon.
*
David, afraid that this Trader Joe's purchased bacon would taste like every other grocery store purchased bacon in our checkered past...
So do you know what I mean about grocery store bacon never
tasting as amazing as that perfect café bacon?
Well fret no more.
WE FOUND THE ANSWER. It is totally THIS BACON. This is it!!!!! Do not waste money on Oscar Mayer bacon ever
again! BUY THIS STUFF.
Yes. Yes. And more YES.
Seriously! We had
it for breakfast yesterday (thanks for making a great breakfast, David!) and we
looked at one another in awe. I didn’t think
it was possible to have THIS GOOD OF BACON at home. I figured those cafes rubbed crack or some
other dangerous thing into theirs to get it to taste as good as it does.
But nope. We can
now replicate the awesomeness in our own kitchen.
Amazing breakfast made by David - Uncured Black Forest Bacon served with homemade fried potatoes (with onions and peppers!) and an egg. Lovely.
This will now be our go to bacon. In fact, even though we just ate it for
breakfast yesterday, today we are planning on having BLTs with it for
lunch! We may die of clogged arteries
now that we have discovered this bacon, but damn it, we will die happy.
Price – $5.39
Rating – 5
*I looked on TripAdvisor because I thought I had reviewed
that dark, snippy toned restaurant with the amazing bacon in NYC. I found it!
J It says we paid around $5 for 2 pieces of
bacon. So not as bad as I estimated in
the review above, but still, $2.50 for a piece of bacon is a bit of a rip off,
no? Buy the bacon reviewed above at
Trader Joe’s and have your own bacon heaven at home!
Blue Stilton is a lovely cheese. A strong cheese. Ok, it is a cheese most people would call a
STINKY or SMELLY cheese, but it is darn good!
And this Trader Joe’s version of Blue Stilton was
GOOD. So good, in fact, that after we
shared our first one with other artists at the Indy Fringe over wine and I had
to leave town for a couple of days, David went BACK to Trader Joe’s and stocked
up on ANOTHER one. Then, after we
finished that one and came back home to Virginia,
last night at Trader Joe’s he bought ANOTHER ONE. So that is 3 purchases of this lovely cheese
in just 2 short weeks. Ahhhh – stinky cheese
rules!
Trader Joe's Blue Stilton - a right good stinky cheese
This cheese is good to put on a cracker and eat while
sitting under the stars and sipping red wine.
It is also good to eat in a salad while sitting in front of
a television watching trash tv like “Naked and Afraid” and drinking San Pellegrino
(which got a great review on day 94 of this blog)
I imagine it would also work well crumbled up and spread
over a thin pasta. Or in an omelet. The sky is the limit. J
From England - like lots of other good things
As you can see from the signage in the Indianapolis
Trader Joe’s, this cheese is from England.
Lots of good things are from England!
Let’s think of a few: the
Beatles, Hobnob Digestive Biscuits, fish ‘n’ chips, my Aunt Shirley, and Amy
Winehouse. Now we can add this Blue
Stilton to the list.
Aunt Shirley!!! The best Aunt in England.
If you do not like smelly cheeses this is not the cheese
for you. But Greg, a hybrid musician
from Boston who was in Indy with us, is a foodie and DOES like smelly cheeses
and here is what he thought of this particular one when we shared it with him: “This Stilton was a fine version of the cheese. It is a little sharp and a little
pungent. It has a good flavor and balance
of salinity. It is a delightful snack at
the end of the day.”
It is not cheap, but it is much cheaper than airfare to England to pick up the cheese there.
David says: “This
cheese is DELIGHTFUL! It is flavorful
and pungent. It has some structure to
it, yet is nice and creamy as well.”
This project (reviewing one Trader Joe’s product per day
every single day of 2015) began (obviously) on January 1, 2015. Since that date, we have shopped in Trader
Joe’s stores in 10 states and one district – in a total of 16 cities. I have sent each and every one of the stores
(except Dublin, Ohio, I have not written them yet but I will soon!!) a letter
and a few of the business cards for this blog.
I also sent a letter to corporate.
Only the corporate office had written me back. Of course, I was thrilled about the letter
from corporate (I wrote about it and showed the letter on day 121).
Well guess what? Another
store wrote back! Our closest Trader Joe’s
is in Clarendon, VA and Rebekah from that store wrote me! Look, she loves the blog! J
WOW! The Clarendon, VA TJ's wrote me back!
She wrote on a Trader Joe’s greeting card – how appropriate
(reviewed on day 10 http://traderjoes365.blogspot.com/2015/01/day-10-greeting-cards.html ). She mentions that her
store has some beers not available at Bailey’s (which is our usual go-to store,
even though Clarendon is closer… We were
customers at Bailey’s before they built the Clarendon store, plus parking is
usually easier at Bailey’s. But we
really like the Clarendon store, too!)
We will go in and introduce ourselves and pick up some of the beer soon.
And guess what else?
REBEKAH INCLUDED A TJ’S GIFT CARD!
Wow! So cool. I am not sure how much it is worth because I have
not taken it into a store yet. But I shall.
So that was very exciting for me. The card came while I was out of town (at a
stressful event) and my partner David opened it for me and read it to me over the
phone. What a treat! Thanks Rebekah.
ALSO very exciting is this big news: we finally found GREAT OLIVES at Trader Joe’s! I was beginning to think it could not be
done. Oh but it can (and was) done. With much success!
New product - Marinated Olive Duo... Ahhh, music to my ears.
Here are the olives we tried from TJ’s before finding
these gems:
The only olives we tried before and were happy with (not
thrilled with, but happy enough) were the Jumbo Pitted Greek Kalamatas.
But THESE NEW OLIVES beat those hands down. These are on par with the olives we buy at
the “olive bar” at another store! These olives
are the bomb!!!
Having been bitten before, I was nervous to invest in
more Trader Joe’s olives. But the $1.79
we spent on these puppies was money WELL SPENT, trust me. Here is what we thought of them:
Marinated Olive Duo with Lemon and Herbs-
Kalamata and Chalkidika (we hadn’t heard of this one) Olives from Greece
Me: The packaging
is a fail for me. You have to cut open the
vacuum sealed plastic bag and have a Tupperware-like container ready to decant
the olives into. I wish they came in
some sort of re-sealable packaging. And the
current packaging is not even recyclable – boo.
David decanting from the odd packing into fake Tupperware
But the taste of the olives is a-frickin’-mazing. The green ones are for sure the best ones I have
ever had from Trader Joe’s. The
purple/black ones are also very, very good.
They have a lemony and herb flavor.
Delicious! They have pits, so be
careful of your teeth when you bite into them, but I personally prefer olives
with pits.
David tries out a green one
The price, $1.79, is also super reasonable. These olives are a WIN! I just wish the packaging was better. If it was, they would get a perfect 5 star
rating from me.
David: the green
olives are meaty and delightful. The black ones are soft but flavorful. In both cases they are so tasty that you want
to keep sucking on the pit (Susan adds – that’s what she said…).
This is the package you are looking for - go get some!
I would not ding them for the packaging as it is perhaps
energy efficient and good for mother earth.
Perhaps the point is that you need to not put these in a Tupperware container, but instead put them in a
BOWL and eat them all that night with some wine. (Susan adds here – that would be like the
time David ate a whole bag of Cheetos and vomited… I think eating the whole package of these
olives would be tooooo much in one night.)
David counters that he meant having FRIENDS over to share the olives and
wine. These are the perfect olives to
set out in a bowl and eat before dinner while sipping wine.
I cooked these in the oven as the package suggested. It took 5 – 6 minutes longer than the package
suggested. They were MUSHY and somehow they
tasted FISHY to me. Not “fishy” like “something
is strange here, this is FISHY…” but “fishy” like “do these have a slight hint
of COD???”. And fishy in this instance
is not a plus.
Deceptive packaging - the ones we had did not seem to have this much breading on them.
Also, there is not enough breading to go around. Overall these zucchini fries are quite
disappointing.
Here are ours - I wish the photo could capture the mush factor
David thought they tasted “very zucchini-y”. He felt the breading was the appropriate
amount and slightly crunchy. He thought
the only disappointing part was that they were rather mushy. He says he would rather fry his own zucchini,
but if you are in a hurry and want to eat some mushy zucchini, you could try
these (note – he didn’t know it had taken over 30 minutes to cook these, I wouldn’t
call that “in a hurry”).
Ahhhh - I am re-reading the caption on the price tag and it says "lightly battered"... Yes, that is the case. Too lightly for me. If you are gonna eat a FRY, let's make it a FRY. :)
I recommend buying and cooking FRESH zucchini instead of
these. It will taste lots better.
In the end, I must say, these Zucchini Fries are rather
poopy.
I am guessing this was the first time in Indy Fringe
history that MUSSELS were served at the BEER TENT…
We had picked up a box of mussels at the Indy Trader Joe’s
on the advice of a really cool employee.
When he heard about the blog he wanted to make sure we got some new
products to try, so he steered us to these brand new, reasonably priced
MUSSELS. We bought a box. Then proceeded to forget we had them in the freezer
of the apartment we were staying in for our time in Indy. Oops! But
the final night of the festival I remembered, so OUT THEY CAME!
Here is the box - find it in the frozen food section
The box explains that you can leave them in the bag and cook
them in the microwave or in hot water. Since
we were trying to get them to the party before everyone left (we didn’t think
of them until around 11:00 PM) we chose the faster microwave method. Lucky for us our apartment was only a couple
of blocks from the beer tent, so we poured the mussels and sauce into a bowl,
covered THAT bowl with another bowl, and rushed to share them with friends.
We are not huge mussels eaters. The only time I can remember having them is
in Paris, and we have never made them at home, only ordered them while out to
eat. So I was a bit nervous but excited
to try them.
Something about MUSSELS made me want to make a FISH FACE
They were pretty good!
They were super easy to cook. The
sauce was good, I really wished we had a baguette to soak it up and eat
it. The garlic was nice. The mussels themselves were a bit
chewy but not too bad.
Laura, the mother of a performer who had come to town to
see her son’s shows, tried the mussels. She
said they were very flavorful, in fact, delightful!
Laura likes mussels!
Taylor, a magician, liked the mussels. As a magician, she made several disappear
(into her belly!). She said the mussels
were “not bad”. She is from the Northeast
and claims these were “just a little chewy, but some people like them that way”.
Taylor did some magic on the mussels
David also ate some and he started a discussion at the
table of what the HERB was in the sauce…
Tarragon? Something else? In the end we learned it was THYME.
Eating mussels and drinking beer at the end of a long festival - life is good
They are really pretty cheap, considering how much you would pay for this many mussels in a restaurant.
So, we visited ANOTHER TRADER JOE’S in yet another state! This time we were on a road trip – driving
from Indianapolis back home to Arlington, VA.
I took a nap while David drove and when I woke up I said, “Wait, are we
near a Trader Joe’s???”. Lucky for me we
were!
Tada! The 16th Trader Joe's int he 10th state we have visited since January 1, 2015 - DUBLIN, Ohio!
Dublin, Ohio has a very nice TJ’s. We talked to a super sweet and cool employee
(whose name I have forgotten…) and he told us there are only 5 or 6 Trader
Joe’s locations in all of Ohio. And
guess what? There is no special OHIO
REUSABLE SHOPPING BAG! Trader Joe’s
corporate, are you reading this? We need
an Ohio bag, stat! You could put the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on it! Or heck,
you could put Cornhenge on it, which we stopped at right before shopping at
TJ’s! There are loads of Ohio things you
could choose, just pick one and make a bag for those poor people. I feel sorry that they do not have one.
The miracle of CORNHENGE, very near the Dublin, OH Trader Joe's!
Anyway, I picked up a Cold Pressed Watermelon Juice. You must understand, the concept of this
product sounds gross to me… I have seen
it in stores before and skipped it because I wasn’t sure I could give it a fair
review. To me, DRINKING watermelon
sounds yucky. But for some reason, on
this sunny Ohio day I decided to give it a shot.
Isn't it a pretty color??
I am glad I tried it.
Granted, it doesn’t go into my “favorite juice” category, but it was not
nearrrrrly as horrible as I had feared.
In fact, it was not HORRIBLE at all.
Here is what David and I thought of it:
David – It is good.
It’s light, refreshing. It needs
to be drunk cold but the little bit of lime juice is a good balancer. (Editor’s note – it tasted like lime to David
but is actually lemon juice.) I guess I would
give it a 4.
As you can see from this photo, David didn't expect to like it either...
Susan – I expected to hate it. Even when I opened the bottle and smelled it,
it smelled disgusting… To me, watermelon
is something to be eaten, not DRANK. The
first drink was surprisingly refreshing!
We drank it right after leaving the store – it was very cold. It’s light, not at all thick, gloppy or
chunky (which is what I feared). It is a
very pretty color, but it looks gross on the shelf because all of the watermelon pink part separates and goes
to the bottom of the bottle. That is very visually off-putting to me. You need to shake it really good before drinking. I would give it a 3.5. It is everything it is advertised to be –
cold pressed watermelon juice. It is
just not the best taste for a juice for ME it is not disgusting like I feared
it would be.
A little taste of summer in the Ohio sunshine
It is cool – the side of the bottle explains exactly what
is in it. That one little 15.2 oz bottle
contained 2 lbs of watermelon and ¼ lemon.
I think that explains why the cold pressed drinks at TJ’s are so
expensive! 2 lbs of watermelon squished
into one bottle! Yowsa!!
See how it looks BEFORE YOU SHAKE IT? Bleck - the watery part on top doesn't look great
This is a pretty good cider. We got it at the Indianapolis Trader Joe’s,
where the employees are kind and friendly.
We wanted some local products so this one jumped out at us. (Of course
it did not literally jump out… When I say
“jumped out” I mean I NOTICED it as being made in Indianapolis…)
See - the sign says FROM INDIANAPOLIS, IN - so it is LOCAL!
We drank this cider served very cold in a glass (not from
the bottle). Perhaps we were trying to
be fancy, I do not know. J
It is dry (ish) and has an apple-y flavor, but not as
apple-y as some other ciders, which in my opinion is a good thing.
Sorry, this photo is a bit blurry. And it was taken BEFORE I had anything to drink!
This cider would be a good drink for an evening where you
want something refreshing to drink but are not quite in the mood for beer. It comes in a good sized bottle- 16.9 ozs (we
shared one). It would be nice served
with a sharp cheddar on a fresh baguette.
Me pretending to chug a cider while still in the store. Note the cap is still on...
If you are in an area where they sell this (I am guessing
only Indiana), it is worth a try.
Oh boy, this is a fun review!!! This is the first review that comes with a
VIDEO and an original SONG about the product (ok, it is about one ingredient in
the product, but it is an awesome song!)!
Let me back up.
We saw this Uncured Bacon Ganache Bar at our local Trader
Joe’s (Clarendon, VA). It sounded
good. A TJ’s employee told us it was
good. And as we were deciding if we
should invest in it or not, another person grabbed one. So all signs seemed to be pointing to GET
IT! So we did.
They had a display of these up by the check out line. Can you say, "Impulse purchase??" anyone?
But we did not eat it right away. We had lots of other chocolate stuff to eat,
it was a big bar, and I think deep down we wondered if it might taste yucky…
So I brought it to Indy with us! I had to be oh so careful with it while
traveling – you don’t want something as fancy as this bar to melt so it had to have
special treatment!
Ganache. Bacon. What could go wrong?
But the bar traveled just fine and last night after midnight,
near the end of a 2 week long theatre festival, I pulled that sucker out at the
beer tent. I offered it to several
performers and one awesome photographer and asked them to help me review
it. Here is what happened:
Jeff the Clown: The texture and the after taste are the best
parts… Overall, this is a NOVELTY
chocolate bar.
Jeff, at the beer tent, looking a bit blurry.
Les the Solo Storyteller,
also a vegetarian who I did not think would try this product because, well,
BACON: Woah! You can TASTE the bacon. There were BURSTS of bacon. This was not
worth giving up my vegetarianism. I am
gonna go RIGHT BACK to being a vegetarian now.
(I offered him another square of the chocolate). Well sure, I will have another square. THEN
I will go right back to being a vegetarian.
This is a NOVELTY chocolate bar.
Les gave up his vegetarian ways for a short time to help test this chocolate bar - what a trooper.
Daniel the Photographer
– There is a DISAPPOINTING lack of bacon in this chocolate bar. This NEEDS MORE bacon. And what the *&$% is “ganache”?? Is it “panache” with a “g”?? It is “panache” gone bad?? The dark chocolate itself is a quality
chocolate.
I ran into Daniel today (after he tested this chocolate bar last night) and he is STILL bitter about the lack of bacon.
David, my partner
and a Solo Performer – WOAH, that is TERRIBLE. I mean, the chocolate is great. The ganoche is lovely. But what the hellll is going on with the
BACON?? The actual chocolate part is
very good though.
It sounded so good when we were at Trader Joe's...
Let’s take a quick break from
REVIEWS here to listen to an original song performed by Jeff the Clown and his
co-conspirator Anna, also a clown.
Sadly, Anna could not taste the chocolate bar because she cannot eat
dairy. L But she still agreed to sing this awesome
song for us. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFxGs22NZlU
Neil, a Hybrid Musician and Actor – Ummm…. Huh… There
was a good bit of bacon at first, but now I am not so sure… It could use MORE bacon. Little bacon depth charges (this insightful line
was applauded by many at the table). There
is not enough BACON and this sort of thing really needs to be a BACON
EXPERIENCE.
Neil seriously considering the taste of this product...
Laura, a Clown
– I would say that the caramel doesn’t know whether or not it is meant to be
SALTY. I don’t think they conched the chocolate
right… (Again, applause from the fellow
performers for her fancy foodie words.) The
texture is a little brittle. But I love
chocolate. I didn’t like the COLOR of
the inside. (Editor’s note – it was very
dark outside, I am not sure anyone could accurately see the color of the inside
J ). This is a sad excuse for chocolate covered
bacon.
Greg, a Hybrid Musician
– I was AWARE of the bacon. There was a
brief moment of smokiness but it didn’t go anywhere. It is kind of like “meh” dark chocolate. I mean, it is fine, but it doesn’t GO
anywhere… Overall it is not there. It’s not REPULSIVE. I mean, it’s a fine thing to eat. But…
Greg and Laura use foodie terms to describe their experience with this chocolate bar
And finally me,
the director of a show, a sign language interpreter and the writer behind this
blog – NOT ENOUGH BACON. The chocolate
is too brittle. It is very messy to
break into pieces to share and eat. It’s
all a bit bitter, too. If the label says
BACON, I want me some BACON. This chocolate
bar is just a tease. It goes in the same category as the Fireworks Chocolate Bar
I reviewed on day 210 of this blog – fun for a novelty or to give people a tiny
chunk, but not a bar I would ever want to just sit down and eat.
Everyone thought this bar deserved around a 3
rating. Well, Greg thought perhaps a
2.75, and I was tempted to go that low, too.
But I think the general consensus was 3, so that is what I will give
it.
This cheese is DECADENT!
It is the sort of cheese you
would expect to find in a little case in some super fancy schmancy wine shop –
only it is AT TRADER JOE’S! And instead
of being a bazillion dollars, it is $9.99 a pound. That means our chunk which was plenty big
(almost half a pound) came in for under $5.
$9.99 per pound
Brie with MUSHROOMS? I'm in.
Remember how I recently explained that we are in the
middle of the Indianapolis Fringe Festival, and that traditionally Fringe
artists eat crap the entire time of the Fringe?
Well we are mixing that up a bit this Fringe, and so we showed up at the
beer tent with this cheese, a Stilton (to be reviewed soon), some crackers
(also deserving of a review forthcoming), and a bottle of wine. Trust me, this cheese was a change of pace
from your “normal Fringe Festival food”.
We shared with a few artists and later asked them to tell
us what they thought of it. Two performers
from the Fourth Wall, a hybrid music group, replied. Hilary said, “I’m terrible at describing food! Greg will be better”. Gee, thanks Hilary!
Greg is playing accordian. Oh - and that is Hilary playing upside-down flute... You can learn more about their group at
But she was right, Greg was good. Here is a foodie and here is what he had to
say about this cheese, “The mushroom Brie had a nice mushroom flavor. Good earthiness without being over powering
like some truffle cheeses (see – I told you he was a foodie! He has other truffle cheese in his head to compare this to!). The cheese itself was somewhat lacking in
character, but its’ luxurious creaminess was an excellent backdrop for the
savory mushrooms.”
Damn. Drop the
mic. He needs to be a food critic, no?
This is a damn fine cheese
I would disagree with him slightly in that I do not think
the cheese lacked in character, but hey, everyone has their own opinion.
I left this out on the counter for the evening to warm
up. It was lovely and spreadable. It would be ah-frickin’-mazing on a fresh
baguette. The mushrooms are sooooo good
in this!
I am glad we discovered this one at the Trader Joe’s in
Indianapolis. We will certainly get it
again – both for us to chow down on and to serve to guests.
I am an ACTIVE person. Not,
like, WORK OUT, active, cuz I don’t ever work out. But active in a DO STUFF sort of way. I like
to be UP, moving around, active! Why,
just the other day I went to see the World’s Largest Ball of Paint in
Alexandria, Indiana! See – THAT is
active, isn’t??
Seriously - it is in the Guiness Book of World Records! The WORLD'S LARGEST BALL OF PAINT!
Here we are adding layer number 24,648 to the ball (you can learn more about it here:
So I have never understood the concept of “lie on the sofa and eat
bonbons all day”. The only time I would
ever lie on a sofa all day is if I was SICK, and if I am sick I sure as heck
don’t want to be eating BONBONS…
But if there were EVER a bonbon that might persuade me to lie on
a sofa all day – this Trader Joe’s Moist Chewy Coconut BonBon is IT! Oh man, these suckers are amazing! They are sort of like Mounds candy bars
(which I hesitate to say because I do not even like Mounds…) but they are 100
gazillion times better! They are
rich. They are very, very moist. The chocolate, oh man, the chocolate is
amazing!!! And they have a perfect
chocolate to coconut ratio.
GET. THESE. COCONUT. BONBONS
I asked David what he thought of these bonbons and he was just as
enamored as me. He said, “They are fabulous. Actually, luscious is a better word. They have enough chocolate to cushion the
sweetness of the coconut. The size is
perfect to eat in a few bits (editor’s note – I think most normal people (i.e.
people other than David) would pop the whole bonbon in their mouths). These are a lovely late night treat,
particularly if you had them with coffee or tea.”
David eating a bonbon - see, boys like them, too!
So yes, we loved these. They
deserve more fan fare on the shelf at Trader Joe’s. I bet if they ever cut these up and sample
them they sell out for the day. Seriously,
if you like chocolate and coconut, this is a home run.
$3.99 - worth every penny
Bonbons on a plate
Note – if you ever consider getting the super poopy Chocolate
Coconut Macaroons at Trader Joe’s, don’t.
Read my review on day 97 of this blog before spending your money. Then use that money to buy these bon bons
instead!
