Archive for the ‘Trader Joe’s’ Category
01/14/2015

1967
Toscana IGT
Grifone – 2010
Little did I know when I did the San Zenone Toscana Rosso wine review, that a week earlier I had picked up this IGT Toscana from Trader Joe’s. If I had remembered I would have done a side by side comparison. No one ever said wine improves the memory. Did they? I can’t remember.
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01/02/2015

Trader Joe
Beef Pho Soup
Front
There’s a great smell coming from the microwave. The cause is Trader Joe’s Beef Pho Soup.
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Tags:calories, frozen, lunch, pho soup, price, review, soup, tj, trader joe's
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12/07/2014

Grifone Chianti Riserva 2010
For $1.50 more and a couple of years more aging I was expecting great things from this wine in comparison to its IGT little brother recently tasted (Grifone Sangiovese IGT 2013). What I got was at least $1.50 better wine. But that’s not a bad thing, and just points out how good little brother is.
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12/06/2014

Grifone Sangiovese 2013
Pretty darn good for $4.49 at Trader Joe’s. This is an IGT classified wine, which just represents that the wine/grapes come from the specified region of Italy (Puglia in this case) and meet the other IGT specifications. It’s a lesser designation than a DOC designation. Well, it may not be up to the DOC requirements, but it’s still a pretty good wine and certainly worth the $4.49 price.
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08/29/2014
Coffee is the new wine. Actually it’s been that way for some time now. Where there used to be several national brands and a few regional brands which all delivered a pretty satisfactory cup of Joe in the morning to get the day going, there is now a bewildering array of “specialty” brands, blends and bedlam. To complement this there is also a bewildering lexicon of creative befuddlement which ultimately takes your mind off the fact that you may actually be drinking a fairly bad cup of coffee.
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Tags:aldi, coffee, food, price, review, starbucks, target, trader joe's
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07/04/2012
I never intended to review this, but here it is.
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Tags:calories, food, organic, price, review, reviews, tj, tj's, trader joe's, yogurt
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06/25/2012
This was my freezer so long, I hope it’s still carried by TJ.
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Tags:calories, eggplant, eggplant parmigiana, food, price, review, reviews, tj, tj's, trader joe's
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05/23/2012
Must. A word signifying a degree of compulsion. But would you be compelled to eat something called must?
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Tags:balsamic vinegar, calories, cooking, food, italian, olive oil, price, review, reviews, tj, tj's, trader joe's, vinegar
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05/19/2012
These are no joke.
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Tags:apple bar, apple pie, calories, cereal bar, food, price, review, reviews, snack, tj, tj's, trader joe's
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