As you may have heard on our last podcast , the spreads shelf is one I commonly ignore at Trader Joe's. It's not out of any ill w...

So, true story. My name's Russ, short for Russell. Sandy's maiden name is Stover, which means, when we got hitched, if I were to t...

"Hrmm...what's that last word there? Squares? Alrighty, sounds perfect!" That must have been my thought when picking up a...

 If your household is anything like mine before Sandy and I have any coffee....Lord help you. Getting two kids out the door and me out to...

Here in Pittsburgh, we take Lenten Fridays seriously. How seriously? Just click here - fish fry season! Any Catholic church worth it'...

Sonia had purchased this product on one of her solo TJ's runs, so it was a surprise when I found it on the kitchen counter. "What...

We've never had a stellar  gingerbread product  from Trader Joe's, at least flavor-wise, but we've never had a terrible one ei...

*Sniff, sniff* Hrmm, what's that smell in the air? Let's see...very late summer, not quite the autumnal equinox, warm days but coo...

Every once in a while, someone makes the assertion that I am a talented writer. Even more every once in a while, that someone is not my mo...

I like to think I'm pretty good at guessing what's inside packages and wrapped gifts. Sort an annoying habit for all of those arou...

I would have taken a picture of this product out of the package for you guys, but if you want to know what it looks like, just head on...

Although she never expressed it quite the same way, I think my mother might have had  the same irrational fear as Russ . No, not the one a...

Precisely what we need once Easter has passed and all the candy that we haven't devoured or the bunny hasn't doled out is now on c...

Oh, there's those magical words again: "Thai" and "shrimp." What wonderful, wonderful words, especially when join...

Well, like Nathan said recently , it's Christmas time, so we best be gettin' on to to reviewing all sorts of holiday treats. To me...

This probably isn't a surprising revelation, given that this review is now our 575th in our semi-long, somewhat illustrious history, b...

It's a little less expensive than I thought to fly from Pittsburgh to Johannesburg, South Africa: starts around $1400, with a couple l...

I know, I know...I get it. There's a case to be made that I shouldn't review gluten-free products, seeing as that I have no gluten...

After all that cookie butter ice cream you've no doubt been cramming down since Nathan's last post, you surely think you oughtta g...

It's really hard to look at Trader Joe's Organic High Fiber O's and not remember that old Saturday Night Live commercial fo...