A day or two after I got back from my hiking adventure we stopped by Trader Joe’s and did a big stock up trip. Normally around this time of year I stock up on groceries because I can’t stand going into stores during the holidays.
The HH doesn’t seem to mind grocery shopping though so I didn’t get as much as I normally would, but still, I loaded up on a bunch of our favorites.
The HH, he is in LOVE with Trader Joe’s hatch chili mac and cheese. Has anyone tried the butternut risotto yet? Is it any good?
I love TJ’s tomato and roasted red pepper soup. Even without the chimchurri rice added to it.
The pappardelle pasta nests and the chicken meatballs were impulse items. 😉
I like the bagged produce items at Trader Joe’s. 2 pounds of pears {instead of 5 pounds at Costco}, just enough cauliflower for two people, 5-6 of the best small avocados on the planet earth rather than 5 jumbo {almost always tasteless} ones.
Trader Joe’s has THE BEST avocados!!! I hope they never change vendors.
Trader Joe’s $222.64
It was a good Trader Joe’s stock up trip in my book. Some easy premade dinners, fruits and vegetables, snacks, and plenty of things for pickety bits.
Local Farmstand $13.20
You can never have enough butternut squash in my book.
Market Basket $65.56 {no picture}
I set everything up on the table but apparently forgot to snap a photo of what we bought. Whoops.
I know there was ground beef, sausage and stuffing {for homemade meatloaf}, bananas, soft butter, almond milk, regular milk, canned tomatoes, cheese, tortilla chips and a rotisserie chicken.
Last week there were sheet pan party nachos.
And roasted vegetbales.
And of course big salads.
I do love a big salads.
Trader Joe’s teriyaki chicken dinner {$5.99} is cheaper than take out.
The HH made breakfast one morning.
And the rest of the days we had yogurt or oatmeal.
It was a good week in the grocery department. But most of all, the fridge is stocked and we’re ready for fall. Yee-Haw. Bring on the cold weather!!
Did you pick up anything exciting at the grocery store this past week? Curious minds want to know.
~Mavis
brianna says
I am not a fan of Trader Joe’s. Ours is always shoulder to shoulder shopping and makes me itching to get out, way too packed. I do like their shelf stable salsa. We are not fans of their frozen stuff or chips. This time of year, I like their iced pumpkin bars, but they are loaded with stuff not found in a kitchen and I can make them at home.
Tanya says
I live in the Florida Keys and only have Publix or one sad little Winn Dixie to shop for groceries at unless I go to the mainland. I did make the trek up to the mainland this past week to Aldi and loaded up on produce and meats. I price compare and it is 40% cheaper than the island grocery stores :0
Although, this week at Publix they have pints of raspberries for 99 cents each. I bought 20 and made 1 batch of raspberry jam and one batch of raspberry jelly (my mom likes jam and the husband likes jelly) It was such a good and rare deal that I went back and bought 8 more pints and made a second batch of jelly.
It is avocado season right now too. Down here so many people have avocado trees and share them all the time. A co-worker brought in a 5-gallon bucket to work so I now have avocados sitting everywhere on the counters at home waiting to ripen so I can make mashed avocado for toast, chunks for smoothies and guacamole and then freeze it for treats later.
Lana says
Ten pounds of butter for $2.20# and two turkey breasts for $.79 a pound were my stand outs.