Hey friends a lot of you guys have requested that I do another haul video
and I haven't done one in a while so I thought today I would do one on my
Trader Joe's haul because you guys comment all the time and ask do I go to
Trader Joe's. Now I gotta be honest with you I was not a huge Trader Joe's fan to
start with and this video is not sponsored. It took some getting used to
for me with Trader Joe's. But now that I've warmed up to it I have found some
specific items that I really love getting there either because of price or
because they just haven't seen them anywhere else. So let's get to the haul.
So the first thing that I fell in love with at Trader Joe's was these baby
potatoes. They are called teeny tiny potatoes and they are just that. They're
so cute they're perfect for roasting and I have seen them at some other stores
but not frequently and whenever I go to Trader Joe's they're there and I just love
them. I love adding them to my roasted casseroles and weeknight meals. The next
thing is riced cauliflower. Cauliflower pizza crust say what?! This cauliflower is literally nothing but cauliflower.
It is just a cauliflower head that has been riced. Now some of you may say "That's
silly to pay for" but frankly this was as cheap or cheaper than some cauliflower
heads depending on where you get it. So it makes my life easier and I also use I
don't actually make cauliflower pizza crust everyday but I will use this as a rice substitute.
Sometimes I'll make like a dinner bowl and I'll use half rice half cauliflower
or whatever. You can add it to anything. But this riced cauliflower is raw and it is a
lifesaver when it comes to getting veggies in. The third thing is actually
the same thing but it's frozen. So first before I saw the raw uh
riced cauliflower I saw frozen riced cauliflower. So I buy both and just kinda use
both. Ok so one of my all-time favorite things at Trader Joe's is their
shelled edamame. So this is literally just edamame that's been shelled and I
have very rarely seen it shelled. I've gotten it frozen before from other
stores but never just shelled and it tastes so much more delicious. Edamame if
you don't know it's pretty much shelled soy beans and they are really high in
protein. So 9 grams of protein in a serving here and it's great for salads
for eggs for wraps whatever and it tastes really good.
Next up, baby zucchini. So fun fact: zucchini and summer squash are more flavorful the smaller
they are and let's be real everything is more adorable when it's small.
Next up, is this cold pressed watermelon juice. I'm not usually a juicy person I
just prefer to drink water. I struggle to get my liquid in as it is but this juice
is so good and the only ingredients are watermelon juice and lemon juice and
it even specifies that the watermelon juice is from the fruit and the white rind and did
you know most of the nutrients of watermelon are in the white rind. Sucks cuz
that's the gross part but you'll never know when you drink this juice and I
guess I should show you the juice is separated and if you shake it
ahhhh magic. Next up, freeze-dried fruit. So I've seen freeze-dried strawberries at other
stores but rarely blueberries or mango and freeze-dried fruit is really great
because unlike regular dried fruit there's no added sugar. So it is very
hard to find regular dried fruit that doesn't have added sugar to it.
You can find it usually in like the bulk bins of your health food store but even
then if you read the ingredient sugar is one of them. So these babies are just
freeze dried blueberries and freeze dried mango and that's it. Good healthy
snack. Vegan cream cheese. So I am not Vegan but I have been trying to cut down
on my dairy intake. This cream cheese is crazy cool because unlike other vegan
cream cheeses this is not soy based. There are no partially hydrogenated oils.
This cream cheese is actually coconut oil based which is pretty sweet. Now that
being said there are still nine grams of fat in a serving so it's not any lower
fat or calories than regular cream cheese but it is much cleaner, it is
dairy free, and there are no partially hydrogenated oils. Next up, these turkey breast
cutlets. Now we don't cook a ton, a ton of meat here these days but these are really
great for when we do. They're portion out to 3 ounce serving sizes and each serving
size is only 80 calories, 0 grams of fat, and 18 grams of protein. So good bang
for your macro buck.
Next up, black bean pasta. Now
funny story about black bean pasta. Well first of all if you've watched my any
of my what I even days I've shared it a few times. I love black bean pasta because
I love pasta but the only ingredient in
this is black beans or here it's organic
black bean flour and the really cool thing about black bean pasta is there is a lot of
protein per serving for only one ingredient. It's really cool. But when I've
shared it in those videos you guys have commented and been like "oh but it's so expensive" and I'm like
I know it is expensive. But they now have it at Trader Joe's. So the first time I went to Trader Joe's
and I like had kind of my 'meh' experience this is one of things I look for. I was like "oh
Trader Joe's they probably have that" and I like walked around and looked at all the pastas
and asked the guys I was like "Do you guys have a bean pasta, a red lentil pasta, black?" and they were like
"No we don't have that" and then like a
few weeks later I went and now they have it and I haven't actually tried it yet. I just bought it.
But I saw it, thought it was there, and I had to buy it to show you guys. Next up coconut oil cooking spray
I am obsessed with this stuff. So it is literally like you know olive oil
cooking spray for you know when you're baking or cooking or whatever but its
coconut oil so you know no calories because if you're supposed to just use a
small spray but usually when you buy coconut oil spray at the regular store it's
like $5 or $6 it's ridiculous and this one is $2.99 which is much more
affordable than even some of the olive oil cooking sprays so I usually stock up
on this at Trader Joe's. Next up staying in the coconut oil category we have actual
coconut oil. So there's nothing special about this coconut oil it is organic virgin
coconut oil is great but usually coconut oil is so so expensive and this is
actually a pretty fair price for coconut oil. So I prefer to buy it there then
somewhere else cuz it's cheaper. Also staying in the oil category we have a sesame oil
toasted sesame oil. So I love sesame oil and add so much flavor and a little goes
a long way. I've used it in some episode can remember which one right now I will
link it but it lasts forever and it's usually more expensive but this one is
pretty affordable so why not buy our sesame oil at Trader Joe's.
You don't have to but you can. Next up pasta sauce. So this is organic tomato basil marinara and um I, I do love
making my own pasta sauce and making it in bulk and freezing it but you know what I'm
gonna be real with you, I don't do that all the time. I use store bought pasta sauce too. The problem
with most store bought pasta sauces as we've talked about in homemade pizza rolls and
I took you to Target and we looked at all the pasta sauces they all have added
sugar. Well this one from Trader Joe's has no added sugar. There's of course a little bit
of natural sugar from the tomatoes but you know it's pretty cool to actually find one with no added
sugar. Then this one I also like, spaghetti sauce with mushrooms, this one
does have a little bit of added sugar but there's no fat in this one so this
one you have a little bit of fat probably from some oil. This one you
have no fat but you have a little bit of sugar. You win some you lose some but both taste really good.
So my last item that I have today is coconut cream. This stuff is amazing and
I of course discovered it after I made my coconut whipped cream and coconut ice
cream videos. But if you're gonna make those recipes use coconut cream. It works
way better, you don't have to separate the liquid from the fat, and this is so
affordable. Usually coconut cream is like really, really expensive and at Trader
Joe's it's really affordable. How do they do it? And a sixteenth item that I don't
have here because I want to buy and they didn't have it
blueberries. I don't know why but at Trader Joe's blueberries are always more
affordable. You can get like a huge pack of them for like $5 instead of you
know like a little dinky I don't know what the sizes are but. So that's it for
this haul video. Don't forget to give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and you
want more and if you have any really cool Trader Joe's items that you love to
get please leave them in the comments below.
I swear I find something new every time I go and I would love to know what
your favorite things are. That's it for today I will see you next week and
remember it's all a matter of Mind Over Munch.