Butter Chicken
Trader Joe’s
Don’t let the name lead you in the wrong direction. This is anything but sweet and buttery. This is the Indian version of buttery. It’s one frozen entrée where the whole is more than the sum of its parts.
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Trader Joe’s – Butter Chicken w/ Basmati Rice – Food Review
04/13/2016Trader Joe’s – Ridge Cut Sweet Potato Chips – Food Review
03/26/2016
TJ Sweet
Potato Chips
March 26, 2016
They’re actually sweet. Well they’re just a little sweet. They have a really funny mouth feel. They’re not at all like regular potato chips. While the first crunch is similar, the subsequent bites have a smoothness to them. It’s strange. The other thing that separates these from normal potato chips is the absence of a salty taste in the mouth. The label bears this out listing only 50mg of sodium per one ounce serving.
TJ Sweet Potato Chips – nutrition
The really bad thing about these chips is, I like them. I could eat the whole 7 ounce bag now. The problem with that is, at 160 calories per ounce and 7 ounces in the bag, that’s 1120 calories per bag or around 140 minutes (2 hours and 20 minutes) of hard peddling on my exercise bike. Can anyone recommend a good 2 hour and 20 minute movie on Netflix?
Price $1.99 (7 ounce bag)
Calories 160 per ounce (28g)
Daniele Salame Veneto – Food Review
03/18/2016
Daniele Veneto Salame
March 18, 2016
Walmart of all places, that’s where I found this pretty good salami.
The texture is sort of chewy/rubbery and a little softer than one might expect from a salami like this. The taste has a fair amount of garlic flavor (a good thing in my book) and is otherwise generally good. There’s a little bit of another flavor in there which adds almost a little sweetness (probably the dextrose listed on the label). There is no skin/casing on the salami once freed from its heavy plastic wrapping.
Overall this is a pretty good Italian salami that will satisfy a sudden urge for this type of salami, but not as good as the Volpi salami found at Trader Joe’s and other outlets.
Calories 90/oz (28g), Price $3.98 – 7 oz (198g)
Daniele Veneto Salame – back label
Trader Joe’s – California Estate Extra Virgin Olive Oil – Food Review
03/12/2016
Trader Joe’s
California Estate
EVOO
Trader Joe’s
California Estate
EVOO
back label
March 12, 2016
This is a good olive oil. However the recently reviewed ALDI Carlini Extra Virgin Olive Oil is just as good or better for less money.
Trader Joe’s California Estate Extra Virgin Olive Oil is not as buttery as either the Carlini Extra Virgin Olive Oil from ALDI or my favorite olive oil, Trader Joe’s Spanish Extra Virgin (also less pricey per ml). There’s not much of an olive taste to this oil as compared with the other two oils. The color and viscosity are about the same as the TJ Spanish oil.
The thing that distinguishes this oil from the other two is some bitterness on the tongue after a few seconds. Neither of the other two oils has that characteristic.
Price $5.99 (500 ml) Calories 120 per Tbsp (15 ml)
Trader Joe’s – Vegetable Panang Curry – Food Review
02/18/2016
Vegetable Panang Curry
Trader Joe’s
A gob of sticky rice, a mess, a few green things and a tasty sauce describes this microwave boxed meal. Trader Joe needs to go back to the drawing board on this one.
Trader Joe’s – Dark Chocolate Chunk and Almond Cookies – Food Review
02/11/2016
Dark Chocolate Chunk
and Almond Cookies
Trader Joe’s
If you don’t like sweets, you may like these. Or, if you want to curtail your intake of sweets for whatever reason, these may be a blessing. That’s not to say these are so bad you wouldn’t eat them. They’re actually good in their own way.
Belmont New York Style Cheesecake – ALDI – Food Review
01/28/2016
ALDI – Belmont
New York Style
Cheesecake
Is it? Not really. But it’s pretty darn close, and about as good as you’re going to find in a supermarket freezer.
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Trader Joe’s Aloo Chaat – Kati Pouches – Food Review
01/26/2016
Aloo Chaat
Trader Joe’s
Think of these as hot, hot pockets – but with a twist. The first hot meaning spicy. The second hot meaning, well, hot – as in more than warm.
Clancy’s Microwave Butter Popcorn – Food Review – ALDI
01/06/2016
Clancy’s Microwave
Butter Popcorn
ALDI
Popcorn is the reason we go to the movies. And we go to the movies almost every weekend. That addiction extends to the home.
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