TRADER JOE'S NEW ITEM TASTE TEST REACTION
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- This week's taste test is one worth watching all the way through. Check out our thoughts on all the NEW items that came into Trader Joe's stores around the country this week.
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For the tomato and basil sauce, Add a pinch of sugar, 1/4-1/2 teaspoon depending on the amount of sauce you are making and to taste (16-24 ounce containers), to tone down the acidity and enhance the seasonings that you use.
A little bit of baking soda takes care of the acidity in sauce. I’m
Italian and that’s how all of my family members did it.
Thank you guys for your channel, we look forward to watching it weekly! Feels like we're reviewing stuff with family. All the best!
Tim coming in clutch with the Nickelodeon slime and the Ted Lasso references!
I am 72 & my lack of ambition is holding me back from decluttering my entire house. It's a must do & I need a kick start!
20 minute intervals.
50 thousand of them. 😄@@judybelight8041
I love helping ppl pair down! Wish I was there to help you! 🤗
I'm 64, empty nester( 9)(7 grandbabies) but have my 2 rescue 4 legged babies...and I too have to declutter, but my youngest wants everything from her childhood, and I feel like everything has a memory)😢😂
😮Katie, your reasons are so valid. You can tell you're good parents and pet parents too.
Being alone holds me back from experiencing new restaurants and travel too.
I'm retired and have become more reclusive since 2017.
Trader Joe's is my one big outing of the week!! I'm definitely wanting that wine!
Perhaps you’d enjoy a woman only, generally older small group travel trip. I love arts and crafts and food and other cultures and have traveled with watercolor and sketching, and yoga groups. Safe, loads of fun, wine, art, countryside etc.😊
Always look forward to the Trader Joe's videos!
Thanks guys! Love your honesty with Trader Joe’s! We live about 50 minutes from one and watching your videos helps me decide to take a trip there or not!
Marcellla Hazan's sauce recipe is great. One can if of tomatoes, 1/2 stick salted butter, salt and a whole peeled onion, cut in half..place all ingredients in a covered saucepan, simmer on low 30 minutes and discard the onion. Blend sauce with immersion blender or just mash tomatoes with a fork
Those sun-dried apricots seem like they'd be great in a dessert (ice cream or shredded up to be sprinkled on a cake) or in a salad or even as part of a more savory wrap (to replace something like cranberries). I'm intrigued!
Thanks again for your detailed reviews! You're always helping me with exploring a new object for fun or saving my money if it's not the best TJ's product. Your honesty is always appreciated.
Also, I love that you are wanting to teach your son a bunch of different cultures/lifestyles outside and inside the US. Very thoughtful. I've noticed, too, that you have been very thoughtful of different cultures and learning about them when you discuss a product (the foods from different countries and your positive call out to the Love and Pride wine last month)--which further enriches your reviews!
Looking forward for your next videos!
Also w goat cheese and a … chefs kiss!
Tim, don't worry, my husband hates Cardamom too, and he's from Morocco, where spices are King!!😂😂😂
I just tried the Black Cherry/Vanilla seltzer water.....mmmmm...very good...very refreshing!!
Hi, guys! You two are the coolest couple ever and I love watching your videos. Love seeing your fur babies in the background. Tim, I love your reaction to the apricot cardamom spread!
Katie is my go to. I will not watch any other Utube videos about Trader Joes!
Love watching you two! So much fun!
I agree with someone else who said that using a camera to watch your pets can add some level of comfort. I hope you can find someone you can trust with your fur babies because traveling to different parts of the U.S. is definitely a great goal!
Sprouts is a great place for grocery store sushi and it’s affordable too 😊 and they have great sandwiches 🥪
Tim needs a burger after this taste test lol!!!
Oakville is the subregion in Napa. ❤ your reviews!! They’re always helpful.
U2 are the cutest couple love Trader Joe’s good job🎉
I love trader joes i am glad i have one close by.
You guys took both of my things that I would like to do but haven't been able to. I really want to travel. I especially want to go back to Italy and to visit my host family in England. Being on disability, money is a huge issue, as are caring for my mother who has dementia, trying to fit it in between chemo treatments (when I'm on chemo), and being the go-to person who watches everyone's kids and animals when they're gone, which often conflicts with when I end up having availability. I also want to learn more Spanish and Italian. I know some of each, but my chemo brain has forgotten a lot. My niece and I made a pact that I will start studying while she works on learning Vietnamese, and she has agreed to quiz me on my Spanish.
I'm actually really glad you guys didn't try the jicama salad! I said to myself "Please don't try that!"
My goal is for my hisbamd and I to retire and lice near our oldest son and daughter-in-law. The thong that's holding me back is that my son is trying to move back to the east coast, but that requires him getting a job transfer first. Hopefully that will happen soon!
The question was a good one! My animals are holding me back too. We've had fur babies for over 20 years. Currently down to one dog, one bunny and 5 chickens. Just lost our senior cat last month & I'm still heartbroken. And our senior dog is not well either. My issue is two-fold. I have trust issues too about who watches my babies. But I'm also terrified that something would happen while we were gone and I'd never forgive myself for not being with them. We're retired so I'm home with them all the time, which I love so much. We've never been huge travelers, but do enjoy getting away from time to time. We've committed to do some air travel between when they are gone & us rescuing another dog. I know that when we're not traveling, I'd be incredibly depressed and lonely when we're home without any animals, so we'll at least have a dog. But, we plan to vehicle train so they can go on road trips with us. That's the best of both worlds in my book. And I've written a book in response so I'll stop now. 😂
I feel you, after all our kids, grandkids live out of state...my 2 severely abused rescue dogs are my life, but they're both 10 and 11yrs old, they sob when I even run to the store( hubby says😅)my whole life has been traveling( military my whole life, and me USAF at 17 to Alaska) so I'm OK with being with my babies until they pass, I too would be heartbroken if something happened while I was away)❤
I'm with Tim in thinking the wine and cookies were the two top items, and I hope to get both. Great paired with each other as well. I always love your taste tests!
I am not a cardamom fan Tim, so I think I would have reacted the same way 😂
Oakville is a town in Napa Valley
That is a deep question. Thanks for making me really think about it! Just what I needed today!
Those stir fry veggies are so good! I've been buying them over and over again, the texture and flavor are so good!
What's holding me back is my own anxiety. I've been lamenting recently that I don't have many "in real life" friends to hang out with since most have moved away but I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts (and I watch a ton of Lifetime movies where the person you least suspect is the one causing all the problems) so I have a really hard time trusting/believing anyone. I just always am looking for the catch or that they have some underhanded reason why they're even talking to me.
A little bit of baking soda takes care of the acidity in sauce. I’m
Italian and that’s how all of my family members did it. I would never leave my pets. The only time I did was once for four days when my dad was dying, but my husband stayed with them. But I would never go on vacation and leave my cats so my husband did he go on vacation and I stayed home with the cats. I trust nobody with them. Now my babies are in heaven, but I could never leave them with anybody. And they were very attached to me too. I now pet sit for my neighbor next-door in my apartment where I’m living they go away a lot and I watch their 14-year-old cat. And I love it and they know I’m a crazy cat mom. I mean I’m over there brushing her cleaning or washing her dishes. I am obsessive my vet used to say he wished all pet moms were like me.
I agree my sister in law took her golden retriever to be boarded and they weren’t watching him he ran out the door and got hit by a car and died. They were in Hawaii. She cried the whole way home.
@@katemiller7874 that is horrible. I remember as a child my parents boarded our dog for family vacation and when we came back, he was so sick and it was just horrible. My mom said never again and she never did it again and I was never going to board my cats that was never gonna happen.
I love this! Glad to see I'm not the only one. I won't leave mine either.
@@retiredrabbit5230 i’ve had people tell me that I’m nuts, but I couldn’t leave them. I would never leave them home alone as people said oh cats can be alone. No, I would never board them and there was nobody. I trusted to take care of them. And they were very attached to me so if I left them, I know they would be heartbroken and sad. I just couldn’t do it. I’m glad you don’t either.
Thanks. I was really interested in hearing your review on the stir fry, so glad it was a hit.
My health is holding me back but I’m doing what I can to get out and have fun
I struggle so much with Trader Joe's fresh produce and fresher prepared food / vegetables. By the time I bring it home I have maybe a day before things get slimy and bad 😭😭 I'm always surprised you're able to get your fruit and produce there!
Same with the produce. I rarely buy it
I was very excited for the Mango Sticky Rice Crisps because mango sticky rice is my favorite dessert. I was however disappointed because of the texture of the mango. The pieces in my were quite hard which I did not enjoy. I did love the coconuttiness of crispy rice.
Oh as for the stir fry veggies I love them stir-fried with chunks of marinated tofu. I use some of the marinade as my stir-fry sauce.
Set up cameras in your house and find a trusted friend to watch them. I feel you tho. They are my babies too
The sauce you made would be great on a neapolatin style pizza. Pizza sauce is usually more acidic to me personally vs. pasta sauce. Thanks for another great haul!
The tomatoes are to be used as a foundation to start a sauce like for lasagna, chili and yes spaghetti sauce which all require additional ingredients. I don’t think it was intended to be used as a pasta sauce.
Isn’t spaghetti and pasta sauce the same thing? I added a lot of seasoning to it and made it into marinara…I guess I’m not understanding your conclusion of it not being made into a sauce, but also saying it can be made into a sauce??
@@KatieHespe I am sorry for the confusion. What I meant is that the tomato with Basil sauce should be treated like a can of tomato sauce and definitely intended to be added with lots of seasoning and ingredients to make a flavorful sauce for what ever pasta you choose. It is not intended be used alone. So it is good that you added lots of seasoning and other ingredients. I hope this makes sense. Thoroughly enjoyed your video !! Thanks !! 😊
Agreed
Oakville is a town in the heart of Napa… akin to Rutherford. Both have plenty of vineyards. OG vineyards.
I also feel the same about my animals. I’ve had family and friends watch our dogs and I’ve had many bad, bad experiences! It definitely is hard to travel when you have pets. When we adopt our dogs we feel it is a pledge to give them the very best life and take the very best care of them.❤
Yes exactly! I couldn’t agree more. Pets are a responsibility that I take very seriously, glad to hear you’re the same way.
If you cook white or sweet onion in the tomato sauce it’ll make it taste sweeter and less acidic. Fresh garlic a must and add a bay leaf too. Sugar or sugar substitute assists in reducing acidity, but it’s not always needed
Thank you for the reviews! At first I was bummed that I couldn’t find the California roll, but even if my store gets it, I’ll save my money for something else.
My jicama slaw also got slimmy the next day, even though the date was July 30, so I’m going to return mine too.
Nice pour on the wine! 🍷 yummy
I live about an hour from a Trader Joe’s (oh how I wish I had one closer…lol) I watched your video prior to this taste test, and made some notes cause I was LUCKY enough to get to Trader Joe’s today!!! I bought several things you had purchased in your last haul! Thanks for all the recommendations!! And, for the record maybe its good I don’t live super close to one 😉
A tab of butter might help with the acidity ❣️
I’d also add a little bit of Parmesan cheese, which is what I do every time I make my homemade sauce
Hi Tim and Katie! I would like to do some more local day trips, but I can't drive now due to health issues. Transportation is really an issue for me. I am always working on finding different solutions, and in the meantime, I try to be as creative as I can about it.
I did house- and pet-sitting for over thirty years. One suggestion I can make is to talk with friends you know, or ask in groups where you have good friends and contacts like church, the PTA, or even your vet's office. They will probably have reliable, trustworthy people to suggest. When you get a referral you'd like to try, invite them to your home first to meet your pets before you leave on a tripn. You'll get a sense of how your animals react to that person, and if they are a good fit for you and your pet-care needs. If it seems like a good choice, maybe go somewhere overnight, or for a weekend, to see how it works out. Over time, as you get comfortable with each other, you will hopefully be able to take some longer trips. This is how it worked with many of the people I helped in the past. I was linked to all of my petsitting clients through church and word-of-mouth, as they knew I did a good job. Best wishes, and thanks for the video!
Excellent advice. Thank you.
@@katemiller7874 You're welcome! Best wishes to you!
I think Oakville is a location, not necessarily a particular winery, but a winery in Oakville. The mango rice snacks were just ok for me but that might be because mango sticky rice is one of my fav desserts
I want to adopt a kitten but like you, traveling is holding me back. Our son lives in Wisconsin and we live in South Florida so a pet would definitely prevent us from traveling whenever we want.
I love Trader Joe’s, that being said, I think their frozen sweet cherries are flavorless and the coconut shrimp is overly breaded for the tiny shrimp that is used. The coconut is sparse so there is no coconut flavor either. If our TJ has the Diamond Reserve I’ll definitely give it a try. Our dog was holding us back. Even having family stay at the house while we traveled was too traumatic for her. RIP Lucy.😥
yes, my dog had super attachment issues and it made the thought of traveling impossible for us. he passed a couple months ago and while we are devastated by the loss, we look forward to be able to travel more.
Love this 😍
Glad you didn’t eat that! Food poisoning is no joke. My anxiety is holding me back. After Covid lock down, I find it harder to leave the house. I’m by nature a home body, but need to push myself to get out and experience things. I’m lucky because my husband likes to travel and since our children are adults, w e have the time to do that during the summer.
Use a piece of carrot in the sauce (be sure to remove it and not eat it after finish cooking the sauce bec it’ll be super sour) to reduce acidity.
Imitation crab really doesn’t have a flavor and is just really bland especially since it’s mostly other ingredients and bit of fish so that’s probably why Tim didn’t get any taste of “crab”. And it was brown sugar cardamom morning bun I think
Never heard of this but such an awesome tip! Thank you!
Thanks for the carrot tip!
I was going to suggest the same thing. My Italian grandfather never added sugar to his sauce, and neither do I. Carrot works great.
@@KatieHespe Yes, I was going to add the same suggestion! Using a carrot in the sauce adds a natural, gentle sweetness without adding sugar. It might help!
You can also try adding some butter
I’m exactly the same with not traveling as much as I want because of my pets!! The bummer is I always plan to have at least one. 🤷🏻♀️
Tim....all I can say when you tried the apricot/cardamom spread...."And the Oscar goes to..." Lol...just a wee bit dramatic...lol
Katie, where did you get your tee-shirt? I love it!
Thank you, I got it recently from Marshall’s!
BTW Tim is the cutest human on RUclips ever 😁
I am with you on the animals. So many times I wanna just jump in the car and go but I can’t because I have two dogs and I am particular about who takes care of them as well
Those soft dried apricots would be good dipped in chocolate.
I would love to learn another language. We were in Italy when we went in a leather shop on a back street in Florence. We kept trying to tell her we wanted a smaller men’s wallet but everything was not working. Then all of a sudden I remembered picadillo meant smaller from a travel book and said it. Her head snapped over, looked at me, repeated it with a smile and brought three out. I wait on the public and this past year we get a lot of non English speaking people so I try to use very short questions, show them and write down the amount too. It works pretty well.
I had a feeling the jicama slaw was going to be that way bc of how much was in the package, it had already shrunk down to slime and water 🤢 Jicama gets slimy fast!
Thanks for NOT eating the slaw ... I had gotten a slimey jicama product from TJ's a couple of years ago, and I have been very cautious about buying anything jicama ever since. Yech. 😬
Also, let Tim know that the "sweetness" he detected in the CA rolls is the imitation crab. "Krab" always tastes sweeter than real crab, but I actually don't mind it. 🤷
Things that hold me back- big ones. Anxiety and money.
Like jicama but lost it with the slime. Glad the stir fry was good. It’s going in my cart. I never buy milk there no matter what the date is- it spoils in 2 days. Waiting for the next video.
Currently my local friends and I are hesitant to do things because of safety issues. Even "nice" areas like where we live have had a lot of robberies, etc. in parking lots, stores, etc. Red wine and dark chocolate are a great combination!
The dried apricots are delicious in the frozen chimichurri rice!
Why it’s worth watching, I was definitely considering getting the jicama slaw
Thank you for not trying the jicama slaw!
9/11 holds me back! I am so afraid to fly now and I have a sister, niece and brother living in Florida and I have never visited them! I live in New Jersey, not far from NYC! I will never forget that horrible day 😢
Maybe use the apricots in a Moroccan Dish. Yum 😋
The apricot spread might be good in a thumbprint cookie. I dont care for whole snow peas, but julienned are good.
I actually suggest a little glug of balsamic vinegar to the sauce and let it simmer for at least 30 minutes itll reduce the acidity and bring out the sweetness :)
I’d add some red wine to the sauce and cook it out the alcohol.
Have you ever cooked your pasta in wine? I put a whole bottle of wine in the pasta and cook it instead of water.
Interesting. Would have to be a good wine. Right?
@@Tasteofdc1 in theory you should always cook with the wine you’d drink with the meal.
My depression from my divorce and moving to a new state is crippling me right now because everything is finally catching up with my mentally. My health, my house is suffering. I haven't been able to get to my safe place and thats the ocean. I literally live 25 min away and in Sept ill have moved a year ago. I have so much to explore and im trapped by my own brain. Therapy is helping but its still really difficult 😢😢😢
Take it one day at a time. If you like reading try that or coloring is very therapeutic. Take the book to the water and spend the day there. 🤗
@@Tasteofdc1 thank you so much I really do love to read. I think I finished 8 books in 2 weeks 🤣
@@jenniferwillis2611 wow !! 8 books in 2 weeks. Impressive ! When I grow up I want to be just like you !! 🤗
Oakville is a town in the Napa Valley and it's also an AVA (Amerian Viticultural Area). It's known for cabs. You guys need to go wine tasting up there--both Napa and/or Sonoma--so you'll see the "source" of some of these TJ's and Costco wines. It's not that far--have one of the parents take care of Benson and the pets for a few days.
We are visiting our son and daughter in law here in Napa. Also were here in January. Love it here. Wineries are great!
I agree. I am up here on vacation in Sonoma County (also nice), and had a "Napa day". We ate at Morimoto and did some wine tasting 🍷. So many choices!
Maybe add a tiny bit of sugar to the tomatoes to balance the acidity?
I’ll try that!
Yes, I have found a little sugar added to the sauce helps offset the acidity, also.
I came to say the same. That’s probably why it’s so acidic.
I was going to suggest the same. You just need a little.
I make a cookie called Hamantaschen that can be filled with apricot filling - those soft dried apricots would be perfect. Thanks for what you said about travel - I have been wanted a dog, but I think I will wait for a couple of years until I'm done traveling. I think my relationship is holding me back a bit. I've been dating (not married) to the same guy for 12 years - if not for him, I would probably spend a year in Europe or move to a different city, but I love him, so it is okay.
12 years. Wow. No way would I let him hold me back. Go dear go
Add a little baking soda to reduce the acidity.
I was going to say the same thing!
Often the Trader Joe's wines will say "Napa" but only because the wine was produced in the area. Usually the actual grapes are grown elsewhere. They do this to draw people in. Not a lie per se, but not fully true either. Not to say Trader Joe's or any other inexpensive wines aren't good, they certainly can be, but a lot of corners are cut to get the price point.
You two have such different taste buds!:
Oakville is a community outside of Napa.
I would have to say that fear is holding me back to enjoying my life to the fullest. I have issues with my knees and arthritis. I'm afraid to have to undergo major surgery and physical therapy afterward. I don't want to deal with the pain, but then again, I'm experiencing pain right now! I'm at the age where I should be enjoying life and traveling but I have to think about how I can get around. I have a trip of a lifetime planned right now for next year, with some family members. My daughter says I should take care of whatever I need to do to be mobile again to ensure that I have a good quality of life. She said that I used to outwalk her! and she had a hard time keeping up with me. I need to get some medical attention done this year so I can be recuperated and go on to enjoy my vacation. I used to also have issues with leaving my fur babies but I have another daughter who is always happy to watch them for me. She takes good care of them as if they were hers.
Keep up the taste tests and videos. I really look forward to seeing them and your hauls every week!
As you have the opportunity to have your issues fixed, please, please, please take it as soon as possible. Yes, there’ll be pain but that’s short term, and then you’ll have your freedom to live as you want to again. I have an incurable progressive disability, so my ability to walk is steadily worsening, and other parts of my body are weakening too. If I had the possibility to be healed by surgery, I’d be first in line for it. Grab your chance to get your life back to normal ASAP!
Sending you all the love! Sounds like you have really hit a rough patch but you are making efforts to get out of that. Keep moving forward and one day you’ll look back to this and it will be a distant memory. Thank you for sharing ❤️❤️❤️
I wouldn't bother trying that salad next time if you have low expectations. I wonder if the best buy was a typo and was the 19th. How can fresh salads last 10 days at the store?
Ya I’m not sure. I only bought it Wednesday and we were going to eat it Friday. So it should have still been good within 2 days.
They would be more flavorful defrosted
I was so incredibly disappointed in those peaches. I am a peach fanatic so have bought that bag 3-4 times, hoping I’d get lucky with one of them, but mine were exactly like yours: extremely extremely sour and worse, not much flavor to speak of. And it wasn’t the frozen aspect; I let mine fully thaw. Such a bummer
Can you share the sourdough bread you mentioned from Smart and Final please 😊
It’s just the first street brand sourdough. They also sell the same one in rosemary and garlic.
@@KatieHespethanks 😊
I agree with Tim,I don't like cardamom at all.
The $$$ to travel!
What’s holding me back geez I would say my career in the medical field I despise it so I recently quit and started a work from home. John pays nothing but I keep going back to them because of the pay it’s emotionally draining.
I’m happy they didn’t have the jicama slaw, that sounded so gross. No doubt it was a fluke, but just the thought,ick. You can’t be too careful when it comes to someone watching your children or other babies. That’s a tough question. My answer is probably foolish compared to everyone else’s. Mine is my brown thumb, I’ve always wanted to have a luscious garden with fruits and vegetables flourishing. Between the weather, soil and my lack of skills, it will never happen, darn it. Have a wonderful weekend and stay cool.
Well… I’ll be 70 next month. I want to purge most of my treasures /collections since I will have to eventually need a smaller abode. Collections, STUFF!… need to find a service to do the work since I don’t want to spend precious time left on it. I’m worried I will have regrets. My plan is to take photos for the memory book. Family members are not MATERIALISTIC & not interested in heirlooms.😢
Im with Tim on Cardamom, not a fan at all. Also a texture person, it's so crazy how textures creep us out! Mine is cottage cheese, love the flavor but has to be blended up in any recipe.Great video!
Indecision is holding me back. I want to finish my education. I'm a senior in college, minor in psychology, not sure what I want my major to be. Holding me back is not knowing what to do with an almost finished major in English Literature, which is not my cup of tea. I wish I could start all over again, and focus on what I really want to do, which is early childhood education. (Btw, when my counselor at Seattle University told me I already had a minor in psychology, it blew me away cuz I just took psych classes cuz I loved them so much😳 Anyway, sorry to ramble. I just wish I had followed my interests and not what was expected of me. Does this make sense🤦🤷🏻
Lol my plate would look more like Tim's. ❤
Or yours and Tim's put together 😅
So glad you didn’t eat the jicama salad. I think jicama has a very short shelf life, and it’s what I thought when TJ’s first rolled it out. That it better move fast, or it will turn to slime.
I can’t believe how they are marking the best by dates! Completely insane to think that had another 10 days left.
Frozen peaches, no matter where you get them, don't have much flavor. I've even put them in a smoothie. Not much flavor at all.
They have to defrost
First & last time I tried Mochi, I bit into it.....was like a slimy raw pizza dough. I literally was so grossed out & had to spit it out. Is it just me??
Same here.
Money is holding me back
There are 50 wineries in Oakville😁 🍷 cheers!
Sushi, the nori gets funky if it’s not freshly made and ruins the flavor of the roll.
Nothing wrong with having trusted people to watch your son and animal babies. Not a trust issue. Too much bad in the world. Protect your fam 🙏
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Add a little bit of sugar to your tomato pasta sauce. It will definitely cut the acidity.