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The pros: Trader Joe’s Thai Red Curry Sauce makes for a quick dinner. It has good flavor for a jarred sauce.
The cons: This still won’t measure up to going to your favorite Thai restaurant and if you are a spice junkie, then you’ll want to keep the hot sauce close.
The verdict: …
This post is brought to you by Karen’s Spice Kitchen who provided me with the Chicken Tikka Masala spice packet. All opinions are my own.
I grew up in an Irish-American household. Every holiday my parents would put out the salt and pepper shakers. They were more ceremonial than functional. Those salt and pepper shakers were my grandparents. It might have even been their grandparents too. I’ve never actually seen anyone use them or refill them. Salt and pepper seemed to be exotic spices growing up. Other spices were just alien items growing up….
The pros: Trader Joe’s Matar Paneer star ingredients were the peas and paneer were the stars here. The curry sauce was just ok.
The cons: Not the best of the Indian selections, but hey what do you expect in a can? Not pretty when you open and dump out the can.
The verdict: …
The pros: Quinoa and chocolate work in Trader Joe’s Golden Spiced Milk Chocolate Bar to make a crisp texture and in fact I wish and would be willing to buy many bars containing this combination. It’s a healthy improvement to a familiar flavor & texture combination.
The cons: Eating this whole bar is 70% of your saturated fat for the day. Spice combination that might not be for everyone.
The verdict: …
So you’ve made a New Years Resolution. Perhaps you realize summer will be here eventually. Perhaps for health or personal reasons you realize that it’s time to drop a few pounds. There are plenty of diet programs out there. One I’m most critical of is Jenny Craig. Not that it’s a bad program, but it’s expensive. It also goes against the philosophy of “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime.” You are never really taught how to cook. Plus their food is quite expensive and some can even be confused with pet food visually. Since adding time to a set 24 hour day isn’t going to happen, you may need to rely on certain things being already made for you. Maybe it will give you time back in your day or give you just a few more minutes at the gym. So I’ve pulled together of (most) of my reviews and complied a calorie count for each item if you plan on Dieting at Trader Joe’s….
The pros: Super tasty, unexpected flavor in both the rice and the curry. Trader Joe’s Vegetable Panang Curry is a really well done vegan Thai dish.
The cons: Almost 600 calories for a vegetable dish. Yikes. Quite a bit of saturated fat in a veggie dish.
The verdict: …
The pros: Trader Joe’s Chicken Breast Medallions with Coconut Red Curry Sauce has a tasty curry sauce, tender chicken, ready in under 4 minutes.
The cons: You’ll need a side dish of some sort. It’s just chicken and curry.
The verdict: …
This is one frozen entree that is frequently unavailable is Trader Joe’s Palak Paneer. I wasn’t sure what to think of it just looking at the package. I’ve enjoyed their other Indian dishes such as the Trader Joe’s Vegan Tikka Masala, Trader Joe’s Lamb Vindaloo, Trader Joe’s Butter Chicken, Trader Joe’s Chicken Tikka Masala and my personal favorite the Trader Joe’s Paneer Tikka Masala Review. What I enjoyed most about the Paneer Masala was the Spinach flavored rice and the Paneer itself. This one is called Palak Paneer because Palak means Spinach. Can this dish be supplemented, yes, the back of the box give you recommendations to serve this with rice. Being that this is my lunch I’m having it without, but I’d highly recommend this with rice….
I’m not always the best about packing my lunch. It’s good to have certain meals available in the freezer at work. This is another selection from the Indian food in the Trader Joe’s Lamb Vindaloo. My full thoughts follow the pictures below….
So another box from the Trader Joe’s frozen Indian cuisine. I can honestly say I’ve never had Butter Chicken out. It also goes by another name murgh makhani, but that is no where on the package. What does Trader Joe’s Butter Chicken consist of? Plain Basmati rice and a spicy chicken curry. How spicy is this batch? As spicy as mild chicken wings in a bar, where there is heat but there is no pain….
