So I’m a huge truffle fan. And over the past few years there have been a bunch of really good product hitting shelves (albeit seasonally). I get a little excited about stuff like this. Truffle just isn’t too common place.
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Trader Joe's Condiments
Trader Joe's offers a wide variety of condiments from sweet to savory. But quality can vary, fortunately, that's why you have this site!
From the seasonal Sugar Plum Jam to the Chile Lime Seasoning to the popular Enchilada Sauce find dozens of reviews of Trader Joe's condiments and see which ones are worth your time and which ones you may want to consider leaving on the shelf!
Trader Joe’s Walnut Pesto
When I think of pesto, I tend to think green. But technically a pesto is really just a paste. Or at least a series of ingredients that has been broken down into a paste. So this container didn’t exactly jump out at me at first.
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Trader Joe’s Organic Watermelon Fruit Spread
Just a few weeks outside of summer time and some seasonal only items are hitting shelves. One flavor that makes a prominent appearance as we approach summertime is watermelon. We’ve seen the return of the Watermelon Cucumber Cooler, the Sparkling Watermelon juice, and I hope to see the return of the Watermelon Mint Tea tin.
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Trader Joe’s Limone Alfredo Sauce
So we go through a lot of pasta in my household. And my husband likes nothing more than a big bowl of creamy alfredo sauce. He’ll have it with gnocchi or pasta (but I haven’t been able to get him into the whole zoodle craze). But nonetheless, I started him off with the jarred variety. Then I started making homemade.
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Trader Joe’s Everything but the Elote Seasoning Blend
Since the release of Trader Joe’s Everything but the Bagel seasoning, there really isn’t much that I go through by the bottle regularly. Until now. While it was just recently released, this little jar packs a punch in the flavor department.
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Trader Joe’s Mediterranean Olive Oils
So if your Trader Joe’s is like my local store, then gift ideas are running out as the calendar heads toward the holidays. In fact, I can’t even find some gift sets that I’ve written about in the last two weeks.
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Trader Joe’s Italian Strawberries in Syrup
Back in the holiday season of 2017, Trader Joe’s hit us with a sleeper hit: Pitted Amarena Cherries. It didn’t make waves, but you can bet it made everything from Manhattans to ice cream sundaes better. Now Trader Joe’s as snuck another little treat on to shelves: Trader Joe’s Italian Strawberries in Syrup.
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Trader Joe’s Herbes de Provence Extra Virgin Olive Oil
So, when I picked up a bunch of seasonal offerings, Trader Joe’s Herbes de Provence Extra Virgin Olive Oil made its way into my basket. To be fair, Herbes de Provence is a regular seasonal offering. But for those of us who enjoy a flavored olive oil then this a nice option.
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Trader Joe’s Cinnamon Bun Spread
After Trader Joe’s released last year’s Carrot Cake Spread, I’m now truly concerned about the hype regarding anything in a little jar. Aside from pure disappointment if not outright disgust, I was hoping this jar would be something different.
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Trader Joe’s Italian Bomba Hot Pepper Sauce
Bomba Calabrese. That’s what this little jar of Trader Joe’s Italian Bomba Hot Pepper Sauce is. But you want to know something? This jar is hot. Like Harissa levels of hot.
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Trader Joe’s Strawberry Fruit Spread with Natural Rose Flavor
Have you ever picked up a product and totally misread the labeling? I did with Trader Joe’s Strawberry Fruit Spread with Natural Rose Flavor. You see, I originally read this product as Trader Joe’s Strawberry Fruit Spread with Natural Rosé Flavor instead of what it really says which is “rose” meaning the flower.
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Trader Joe’s Chili Onion Crunch
It’s been a while since Trader Joe’s has introduced a new condiment. The last creations Trader Joe’s introduced were the Umami Mushroom Seasoning and the Everything but the Bagel seasoning. One knocked it out of the park. The other is still sitting in my pantry cabinet. Now, we have a new seasoning that is oil based but seems like the partial contents of a spice cabinet have been emptied into it: Trader Joe’s Chili Onion Crunch.
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Trader Joe’s Ghost Chile BBQ Sauce
Trader Joe’s products sometimes like to play with fire. And when I speak about fire, I am referring to ghost peppers. This is by no means a humble jalapeno; this is many stages past it on the Scoville scale. For perspectives sake, a jalapeno is usually rated somewhere in 2,500-8,000 Scoville Heat Unit Scale. The assertive Ghost Pepper runs somewhere close to one million on the same scale. So, I cleared my calendar to try Trader Joe’s Ghost Chile BBQ Sauce.
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Trader Joe’s Honey Pale Ale Mustard
One of my most frequent snack purchases at Trader Joe’s has been their frozen Big Soft pretzels. When that first came out, it was difficult to keep them in the house. My husband and I were eating them like they were going out of style. With a tub of pub cheese no less. Now, I have something new to dip them in: Trader Joe’s Honey Pale Ale Mustard.
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Trader Joe’s Creamy Pink Primavera Sauce
In school, we learned about the color wheel and how to mix colors. We also learned about shades and tones of various colors. So when it comes to cooking certain rules of color just don’t apply. For example, in Italian cooking a Penne Vodka sauce starts off as red. When you add white cream to the sauce, it breaks all rules and turns a color than can only be described as being orange. Except some people also refer to that as being a pink sauce. However, there is a new pink sauce that is actually pink: Trader Joe’s Creamy Pink Primavera Sauce.
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Trader Joe’s 5 Layer Dip
It’s been a while since Trader Joe’s added anything to the dips and hummus options. They’ve taken away items, but not too much has been added back. Well, consider this a vegetarian (at least based on the ingredients) spin on the familiar 7 layer dip. Trader Joe’s 5 Layer Dip is new, delicious, and just needs something to dip it in or scoop it on.
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Trader Joe’s Jalapeno Sauce
Trader Joe’s Green Sauce 2.0. However, this green sauce is different from the current green dragon hot sauce available on shelves. Trader Joe’s Jalapeño Sauce is overall pretty good and a completely different beast from the other green sauce, it’s a solid Jalapeño Pepper Hot Sauce.
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Trader Joe’s Dukkah
It’s back! On a recent trip to Trader Joe’s I noticed this little jar has made its annual return to store shelves. It’s packaged the exact same way as it has been for years which means the product is basically unchanged. For those who think it’s new, here are my thoughts on this from 2018.
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Trader Joe’s Amba Mango Sauce
So, here is a product that looks like mango, but tastes pretty much nothing like mango. Think about how different sauerkraut tastes from cabbage. Or perhaps how different Kim Chi tastes from cabbage as well. They taste pretty darn different. All thanks to a process called fermentation.
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Trader Joe’s Organic Rose Vinaigrette
It’s not often that I don’t like something here. I’m not trying to be overly kind. I try to be objective on things. However, there are some items that hit my pantry and I need to call them what they are: basic. And Trader Joe’s Organic Rose Vinaigrette is just that.
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Trader Joe’s Organic Creamy Cashew Fiesta Dip
Does anyone else celebrate Taco Tuesday? I think we celebrate it on a lot of days during the week. I have a soft spot for nachos in particular. Who doesn’t love cheesy chips? I adore them. Just not Trader Joe’s Queso Dip. One of the cardinal rules of a dip is that it should never be watery or thin. This vegan dip does a better job of being cheesy than queso.
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Trader Joe’s Multipurpose Umami Seasoning Blend
Trader Joe’s sells Umami take two. Yes, this isn’t Trader Joe’s first dive into selling us something that is simply just umami. A couple years ago they sold Umami paste. That paste was all sorts of umami from tomatoes, to mushrooms, parmesan cheese, olives, balsamic and other forms of umami. This product is clearly different.
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Trader Joe’s Spirited Fruit Spreads
Let’s be honest for a second, whenever you get a “gift set” it would seem that there is at minimum at least one item you don’t truly care for. This might be true for anything sold as a set. Usually you get one item you really, really like and then you muddle through the other items. But here is a rare case where that did not ring true.
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Trader Joe’s Black Truffle Alfredo Pasta Sauce
Behold, a two for one review. While most of this will center around the new and seasonal Black Truffle, I made it with the new seasonal pasta, Garganelli. Which by the way, looks a lot like a candy cane color. But for right now, truffle seems to be the flavor of the winter time. And there is no shortage of it.
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