Chocolate. Peanut butter. I'm firmly convinced that there's nothing that this combo can't do. Every year, right around Easter ti...

Lentil and potato snacks? Sounds like hippie food to me. Luckily, I'm pretty well in touch with my inner-hippie. No, I'm not really ...

Oh SNAP! These ginger cookies are gluten free! Once again we have a Trader Joe's victory in gluten free-flavor, and uh...a Trader Joe...

Are they wafers? Or are they cookies? Come on, Trader Joe, make up your mind. I think you could have just dropped the "cookies" fr...

There were a few semi-related thoughts going through my head as I made a solo trek to the local Trader Joe's on Sunday afternoon. First,...

Well, I'll start off by telling you that these ice cream sandwiches are barely a mouthful. I expected them to be just slightly smaller t...

It's hard to really, truly, live up to the hype sometimes. Take, for instance, the new Hunger Games movie. Pretty much everyone I know h...

My friend Trader Joe is the corn dog king. He did Veggie Corn Dogs right. He even did some kick-butt Shrimp Corn Dogs . And slightly less w...

Sometimes, I'll admit, I get a little tired of some of Trader Joe's offerings. Take, for example, these pretzels . I definitely thin...

Sandy and I gave up sweets for Lent this year, and let me tell you: it sucks. It's way more difficult than I imagined it'd be. A cou...

If you've read this blog for any amount of time, you know how I feel about lunch, particularly at work: a necessary evil. I'm just n...

Peanut butter pretzels. It'd be pretty hard to screw these up. Pretzels = good. Peanut butter = good. Peanut butter pretzels = good x 2....

Ah, junk food. You and I, we go back a long ways. You know how it is. You're easy, cheap, convenient, and although really not all that s...

Sonia loved these. I wasn't as thrilled. I love almonds. I love honey. And I feel fairly positive about sesame seeds. They work great o...

Want to know the best thing about having a pregnancy in the household, besides the obvious impending joy of welcoming a child into the world...

TJ's track record with sweet potato products is pretty stellar. Probably because it's pretty hard to screw up the sweet potato. Fry ...

I like how certain types of food can remind one of particular times or places, Whether it's a slice of good pizza that makes you think o...

For a couple alleged grown-ups, my sister and I have a little too much of a weird things going with tyrannosaurus rex*. Every time we see ea...

You know, I was planning to start this off by going off on some tangent about Greek food festivals here in and around the 'burgh (there...