Trader Joe's List: November 2012

Trader Joe's Peppermint Hot Chocolate

Trader Joe's definitely does the Holidays right by filling ~~their~~ our isles full of Holiday favorites! Fortunately, it's that time of year again when Trader Joe's provides your mug of steamed milk with bittersweet chocolate shavings dusted with hints of natural peppermint.

Also known to many as Trader Joe's Peppermint Hot Chocolate, this seasonal favorite doesn't lie when it says it has real shavings of bittersweet chocolate which provide a tasty burst of chocolate to each and every sip. The hints of peppermint are not overwhelming, but present enough to relax your mind while you cuddle up and slowly seep into this delicious treat.

If you are a chocolate lover, have a few sweet teeth or just enjoy a relaxing cup of hot cocoa , this will definitely make for a yummy treat this winter. Definitely add this to your Trader Joe's List.

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Trader Joe's Fat Free Cottage Cheese

Photo from Trader Joe's website.

Trader Joe's Fat-Free Cottage Cheese may not be a new item or even one that rings true to your ears like Cookie Butter but, nonetheless, it is still a yummy, extremely versatile item. Sometimes we get so caught up in the new that we forget the staple products that have always been there for us season after season.

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Trader Joe's Super Spinach Salad

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Trader Joe's Egg White Salad

Call me "traditional", but I am still a fork-in-tub cottage cheese type of gal. I prefer to eat this protein packed snack by the tub, so of course I limit myself to only purchasing the ~~small~~ medium tub. Recently, I have been reading recipes ranging from muffins to pancakes to cookies and so on which use cottage cheese (all of which sound amazing btw- seriously, Google cottage cheese recipes) and despite my preferences to "fork it", I have been eyeing this recipe by The Lean Green Bean as a new venture outside of my fork.

Cranberry Sweet Potato Cottage Cheese Muffins

by Lindsay L

Prep Time: 10 min

Cook Time: 30 min

Ingredients (8-10 muffins)

2 Tbsp vegetable oil
2 Tbsp applesauce
1/4 c brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 c skim milk
1/2 c low-fat small curd cottage cheese
1/2 c cooked sweet potato, mashed
1 c white whole wheat flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 c fresh cranberries (or frozen)

Instructions

1. Combine first 8 ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
2. Add flour and baking powder and stir until just combined.
3. Stir in the cranberries.
4. Scoop into greased muffin tins and bake at 350 degrees for 30 min. Makes 8-10 medium muffins.

Let us know your thoughts and a big thank you to Lindsay from The Lean Green Bean for posting this tasty recipe.

Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Salted Caramel Truffels

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A mouthful to say, but oh what a mouthful to taste! Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Salted Caramel Truffels are the love truffel-children of Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups and Dark Chocolate Salted Caramels. (I'm starting to think more items at Trader Joe's should have love children?!)

The rich dark chocolate wraps its velvety texture around a thick blanket of peanut butter that hugs tightly to salty, buttery caramel. Now that's something to put in your mouth! We believe we can guarantee your mouth will smile as your tastebuds applaud with gratitude and anxiously await the next truffel. For $3.99 you can welcome about 15 truffels into your mouth; one at a time please.

Obviously, these are a guilty pleasure, so no need to read the nutrition facts of Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Salted Caramel Truffels.

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Turkey-less Stuffed Roast with Gravy

From Trader Joe's website

It's that time of the year when family gets together and more times than not, a turkey is slowly cooking in the oven. This is great, but for many vegetarians, the Holidays can be a bit of a headache as finding tasty alternatives to traditional favorites can be challenging both in taste and availability. Once again, Trader Joe's has made the turkey tradition for vegetarians much easier with their Turkey-less Stuffed Roast with Gravy. Not only does it look delicious, it is 100% vegan made with a blend of ancient grains, soy, wheat, and peas.

Trader Joe's pride's itself in this roast, bringing it back year after year. For $9.99 you can get 2.5 pounds of Turkey-less Stuffed Roast with Gravy. Even if you are not a vegetarian, we think you might be highly surprised with its delicious taste Trader Joe's swears by.

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Trader Joe's Gluten Free 3 Cheese Pizza

Trader Joe's Gluten Free 3 Cheese Pizza is absolutely to-die-for-lishious. The crust is thin and seasoned so it cooks up nice and crispy. The three cheeses (provolone, mozzarella, and manchego), roma tomatoes, and basil blend well together providing a ton of flavor stacked on top of the perfect amount of tomato sauce. We definitely recommend this to everyone even if you don't have a gluten allergy. Eat it as it comes or get creative and add mushrooms, sausage and jalapenos (that's what we like). Since the price is only $4.99 there is no reason to not try this favorite today.

"Pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening, pizza at supper time, when gluten-free pizza's at Trader Joe's you can have pizza anytime. "

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"No Gluten Ingredients List"

At Trader Joe's they care about food allergies and since gluten is one of the most common food allergies, Trader Joe's has created a list including all their gluten free items. Check it out below or you can visit their website.

Here are a few of our favorite gluten free items: