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- Hey, HealthNut's, welcome back to my channel.
My name's Nikole Goncalves and today I am doing
probably my biggest Trader Joe's fall haul yet.
I'm really excited because I got some cool things
I'm so excited to try.
I love going to Trader Joe's
even though we don't have them in Canada.
Anytime Matt and I are across the states
we will go to a Trader Joe's, or a TJ's,
as you Americans like to call it.
And they just have the coolest stuff,
it's always an adventure going into a TJ's
and I got some really cool things
I'm excited to share with you guys today.
And these are items that, I didn't wanna
just pick up novelty items.
Usually they have fun pumpkin spice products,
not all of them I would just eat in my regular life,
maybe there's too much sugar,
maybe it just sounds kinda weird,
but this time I really wanted to pick up things
that I hands down will be using in our meal prep,
in our everyday meals for our week, and weeks to come.
I got a lot of food, so, very excited.
By the way, if you guys are new to this channel
and you don't know about Trader Joe's,
I actually have a whole playlist
about all of my Trader Joe's videos, taste tests,
lots of stuff, so I will link that playlist down below,
and if you are new, be sure to subscribe.
I post videos every single week here.
Recipes, wellness and lifestyle videos,
and vlogs and sometimes hauls.
So, let's hop right in, I got a lot of stuff
and I can't wait to share it with you guys.
And also, I just wanna eat it, so, I can't hold off anymore.
I gotta eat it so we gotta film this.
Let's do it.
So I got my Trader Joe's brown paper bag here
and I'm gonna start with the freezer stuff
so that we can get it back into the freezer
and it doesn't melt.
Usually we don't pick up a lot of frozen stuff,
but since the weather's getting a little bit cooler,
I feel like it would last longer
in the car on the drive home.
Some stuff was a little soft when we got home,
not gonna lie, but it's fine.
It's gonna be delicious.
So we got this frozen cauliflower.
And I thought this was really cool
'cause you got the different colors, it's organic,
and I thought this would just look really pretty,
so I got that.
Just basic cauliflower, nothing too exciting,
but, I don't know.
Colors in food always make me really excited
to eat it so I'm excited.
That it's like naturally colored food.
So there's this huge craze right now
happening with the cauliflower gnocchi,
hopefully I'm saying that right.
I've asked you guys on Instagram before
and you said it was like, no key.
Like, no key, does that make sense?
Okay.
So I actually got four bags.
We just have two.
I got one for Kailey who is part of the HealthNut team.
Apparently it's really good.
I haven't tried it and I don't even know what's in it.
I'm guessing, oh wow, these ingredients are really good.
There's like five ingredients and they're using sea salt
not regular salt which, there's a big difference.
So, I'm really excited to give these a try
because of all the hype.
Let me know, have you guys tried these?
Leave me a comment down below.
I'll let you guys know what I think of them once I try them.
Next up I got this Harvest Spaghetti Squash Spirals.
I thought this looked really interesting,
I don't know, the packaging kind of won me over,
it looked very festive and fall.
And I like that it's already shredded spaghetti squash
and that they're already in spirals.
I don't know, I just thought that was really cute.
Okay, I actually didn't look at the ingredients.
I thought it was just spaghetti squash frozen into spirals.
It actually looks like there's the sauce
and everything in here.
Says there's heavy cream,
kinda wish I knew that before I got it.
I'll try it, but I don't do so good with cream,
it sometimes upsets my stomach,
but, I'm sure it's gonna be yummy.
You guys should try them out, let me know what you think.
Make sure you're following me on Instagram
because I will probably show you guys what I think
about a lot of these products.
Next up we have some Mushroom Risotto.
I've tried this stuff before, it's really tasty.
It's just one of those quick go-to dinner sides
to add to chicken or whatever your main is,
and yeah, it's just a tasty treat.
Oh, and then I picked up some Garlic Naan bread.
Is it Naan or Naan?
I don't know, let me know down below.
I recently, this was actually a couple months ago,
I made the best Indian feast, ever.
Oh my God, I'm gonna have to find
where I wrote my notes for it, but it was so tasty,
I did it for Matt and some friends of ours,
and I picked up some Naan bread just at Walmart,
it wasn't the best one, it had a bunch of weird ingredients.
But this one here seems pretty good
and this is a garlic one, so it's already seasoned
and I'm telling you, garlic Naan bread
warmed up with saucy curries and rice,
is the best thing ever, so I got that,
and I like that this one is frozen
because I can just take it out
and put it in the oven when I wanna use it.
Speaking of Indian dishes, this is Channa Masala,
hopefully I'm saying that right.
This looked really good, this is,
there's no cream in here which I like.
It's just, what do they have, the only dairy in here
is ghee which I love to use,
and it's just a vegetarian Indian dish.
I love this, I'll usually order this at a restaurant.
I haven't yet made it myself at home,
but it looks really good,
and I think it's gonna go good with that Naan bread.
Naan, Naan, I don't know if I'm sayin' it right.
English is hard.
Then, okay this I'm really excited about.
This is Vegan Jackfruit Cakes.
So, jackfruit, if you don't know, it's a fruit,
but if you eat it when it's under ripe,
like when it's younger, it doesn't have a,
it's not that sweet, so a lot of times
a lot of vegans of plant-based cooking
will have it in meat dishes.
So it kind of pulls apart like pulled pork,
so you can make pulled pork sliders,
you can make even fish is kind of flaky
so you can make crab cakes out of it,
so I'm really excited to try this.
I actually have jackfruit, can of jackfruit in the cupboard,
so I wanna start trying to use it in some dishes,
just for fun and you know, I like to swap things out.
So this looks really good.
I didn't actually look at what's in here.
Ingredients are really good, there's cornstarch,
which I prefer to use arrowroot powder,
but the ingredients are not bad at all, like pretty good.
And there's no added sugar.
Love that!
Okay, so I got that, and then this was just a fall treat,
I've been lovin' mac and cheese lately.
So this is Butternut Squash Mac & Cheese,
and it just looked so good.
And also I got sold by the very fall festive packaging,
the maple leafs and I just thought it was cute.
So, this has a blend of Gouda, cheddar and Parmesan cheese.
Yum.
All right, now we got some frigerator goods.
So, these next two items I was so, actually three,
I was very fascinated by.
These here, Baby Cauliflower.
Is this not the cutest thing you've ever seen?
I just think these look so cute,
I don't know what I'm gonna make with it yet,
maybe even a cauliflower soup, and then you could kinda just
roast some of the little ones and top it on top.
I don't know, it looks so cute, I was very drawn to this.
And then also, hey, who doesn't love miniature things?
Baby Zucchini, these are so cute!
I'm gonna probably add these to a stir fry.
I just think that there's something,
yeah so satisfying about mini things.
So, I'm all about that.
The next thing that I was very intrigued by
was Butternut Squash Zig-Zags.
This reminds me of those crinkly french fries
that you can get from McCain and stuff.
These looked so fun.
So I'm gonna bake these up like fries that are crinkle cut
and see what they taste like.
So it says it's good for soups, salads,
stir fry's, casseroles or even a pasta swap.
That's actually really smart, I like that.
I'm gonna make fries, though, with ketchup.
Organic ketchup.
That looked really good.
Okay, this next item is so good.
I haven't had it for a while,
I might have it for lunch today with Chloe,
who's behind the camera.
This is their Mexican Style Corn & Quinoa Salad
with Cotija, Cotija, Cotija cheese.
I always, guys there's words I can't say.
And roasted poblano cilantro dressing.
Cotija, I feel like you guys have told me
how to say that before.
It's a Mexican cheese, kinda like a feta
but more like mild tasting, anyways, this is so good.
I don't know, I think it's the cilantro dressing,
it's delicious, and I need to remake this,
it's really, really good.
Highly recommend trying that out.
Next item is this Roasted Cauliflower & Cheese Ravioli.
I thought this looked really delicious.
This with a nice marinara sauce
I think is gonna be really good.
Cashew's makin' a cameo, okay.
Next I have Baby Beets.
So these are just already steamed
and ready to eat hot or cold, I like these
'cause you don't have to deal with the peeling
and the roasting, and beets can sometimes be a pain to cook,
I'm not gonna lie.
So I get these a lot from Costco,
but I just saw them at Trader Joe's
and I thought I would try them out.
They're just a little bit smaller than Costco,
which is kind of easier to use.
Then I also picked up some already cooked lentils.
I thought this would be really good
just to add some extra protein and fiber to a salad.
I like things like this because if we're busy with work
in the day and I need to make a quick lunch,
I can just easily throw already precooked stuff
into a salad or a bowl or whatever it is
and get some protein without having
to cook up some chicken or shrimp or tofu.
I also find that lentils can be harder to find
already precooked, so I just grabbed a pack
and I just thought these would become really handy
for quick lunches, so I got it.
I also grabbed some of their Organic Tuscan Kale.
I like grabbing this there 'cause I find it's hard
to find black or Tuscan kale, organic,
already chopped up, so.
Actually this is great 'cause I'm actually making
my smoky white bean kale soup
from "The HealthNut Cookbook,"
so I'm gonna probably use this one
to make it that much easier.
All right, a few other things on the floor here
before I get into the next bag, I got this.
This is something I saw kind of
on my way to the cash register,
this is Unsweetened Almond Cashew & Macadamia Nut Milk.
Nut milk.
This looks so good!
Ugh, Chloe, you know what we should make?
Steam this up, make some lattes.
Herbal coffee lattes, Chloe can make a matcha one.
This looked really, really good,
so I was excited to try that.
I also, I mean not gonna lie,
I almost finished the pack last night.
These are just like my guilty pleasure right now,
and I blame my cousin Caitlin from Caitlin's Corner
because she, a while ago, Instagrammed
eating little peanut butter sandwich crackers,
and I remembered how much I loved them,
and now I've been obsessed ever since.
Just re-addicted, thanks Caitlin.
Thank you.
So these are just organic mini peanut butter crackers,
I don't recommend getting them
'cause you'll just eat them all and crave them all the time,
so, don't get them.
They're awful.
So I got these fall, what are these?
Fall Leaf Corn Tortilla Chips.
So cute, I was being very careful,
awe, some of 'em are already crushed up.
They're very delicate, a lot of the bags were broken,
so I'm gonna have to just be very careful with these.
I'm trying to save these to use for our Thanksgiving dinner.
We're doing family Thanksgiving at our place this year
for the first time, which I'm so excited about.
A little bit nervous 'cause I've never done that before,
luckily my stepdad's doing the turkey,
'cause that's a mission and a half.
But, yeah, I just thought these would be really cute
for the party, if they last.
Matt is a chip monster.
Chip monster, like he can not be trusted,
so I may need to hide those if I need them to last.
I also picked up some Italian Tomato Paste.
This is great for around the holidays
because it's in a tube so you can easily
just use what you need, put it in the fridge,
and you don't have to worry about opening a small can
and then not needing it all and then the rest goes to waste,
'cause that happens to me all the time.
Okay, so if you've been following me for a while,
you know I love Delicata Squash,
and this is like the time of year that they come out.
It's like now until the winter time.
It is the best squash ever.
It's so good, you can eat the skin,
the skin gets really crispy, it's so, so good,
and they were 99 cents, so I got three.
Yeah, I'm really excited about the squash, it's so good.
It looks decorative but it's,
no you gotta eat it, it's good.
So I got some staples.
If you guys didn't know, I did a whole
Trader Joe's staples video, things that I always get
all the time, and this was in it.
I love this, this is the Brown Rice & Quinoa Fusilli Pasta.
It's really good, this is a really good gluten-free pasta,
and I'm not gluten-free entirely,
but I really love brown rice pasta,
but this one holds up really well, I like it.
And you can't even tell it's gluten-free,
it's really good, I promise.
Another staple, good old Nutritional Yeast.
This is so, so good.
I just think that I could put Nutritional Yeast
on everything and it tastes good.
Especially roasted or steamed vegetables
like cauliflower and broccoli.
Sprinkle a little bit of this on top
and it just makes everything better, I love it.
This I thought was really cute for the holidays.
This is a Organic Tricolor Quinoa blend,
so we got the white, the black, and the red all together,
and I like red quinoa because it has
a little bit more of a crunch than white,
so I think the mix is nice 'cause you get a nice mixture.
And this would be good to add into soups, into salads,
things that you want your quinoa
to hold up a little bit better.
Oh, I just got some pink salt,
super basic, nothin' else to say about that.
I also picked up their Everything but the Bagel Seasoning.
This isn't even for me, we already have two
in our back stock, but every time I go
I feel like somebody is like, "Can you go pick me up
"the Everything but the Bagel seasoning," so, I'm like,
"It'll cost ya, double."
No, I got some of that 'cause I gotta share the love
for that seasoning, it's so good.
I also got some little potatoes.
I like these 'cause there is different colors.
I don't know, I like, there's a theme.
I like miniature things, mini potatoes,
and things that have a variety of colors.
I love these little purple potatoes, they're purple inside,
so they look really cute when you roast them up,
and I just love potatoes, I love carbs.
They're the best.
Okay, we also got 3 Seed Sweet Potato Crackers.
Ingredients are super clean, I just realized
that there's, okay that's where
the 3 Seed name comes into play.
There's flaxseed, black sesame seeds, chia seeds.
I love that, and there's sea salt.
So, I haven't tried these yet.
They looked really good.
These would also be good
if we saved them for our Thanksgiving.
We may just have to do a trip again
right before our Thanksgiving dinner,
'cause definitely these are not gonna last.
I wanna eat them today with some hummus.
Oh, another pasta I got that I thought
was very festive that I want to try,
is this Yellow Lentil & Brown Rice Pasta Spaghetti.
So I like the color, it's orange,
very Halloween-ey and fall inspired.
Then I got this Traditional Marinara Sauce
and this stuff is so good.
It's like one of their cheapest sauces
and it's the best and every time I buy this
I think about the girl I saw at Trader Joe's
in Buffalo, New York and I ran into her,
she was part of the HealthNut fam and she's like,
took this out of her cart, was like, "You need to try this."
And I had to try it.
I loved it and I've been buying it every time I go there.
It's so good, definitely need to try it.
Trader Joe's is the best to get Organic Pumpkin Puree.
This is the stuff you need
to make my pumpkin pie squares and my pumpkin pie,
it's so good, I'll have those linked down below.
I'm stocked up for the season, I'll definitely need more,
but I got a good start.
Another staple I get every time I go
is the Unexpected Cheddar Cheese.
It says it tastes like an old, an aged premium cheddar
with hints of Parmesan, and that's exactly it.
This is the best cheese ever, it's one of my favorites,
and we actually got two of them,
ones in the fridge right now.
Another cheesy item I got is this
Organic Creamy Cashew Fiesta Dip.
I don't think I've purchased this before.
I was looking at it and it looked familiar,
but I think I've seen it
on people's YouTube hauls or whatever.
I don't think I've seen it on my own or I've picked it up.
Looks really good, it's very orange,
kinda looks like a queso dip,
and the ingredients seemed pretty good,
a lot of, yeah it's all organic,
super clean and first two ingredients
is just water and organic cashews.
Oh, there's potatoes in here, too.
Ooh, and carrots.
This could be really good even warmed up.
I'm excited to try that,
so, that's all the food we got for humans.
I got a couple things for Cashew because let me tell you,
she's like obsessed with this
to the point where she'll whine for seconds.
We got four packs but one of them's already open.
Okay, these, what are they?
Grain Free Dog Treats With Peanut Butter & Banana.
She's obsessed, guys.
She'll do anything for these,
it's like her, like the ingredients are clean
but there is a little bit of sugar from the cane molasses,
which usually her dog treats don't have added sugar,
so I think that's why she likes them to be honest,
but I treat these more like a healthy cookie
and not something that's a nutritious,
everyday treat, you know.
Although she does eat them quite often.
But the first ingredient's chickpeas, peanut butter,
and there's coconut flour and stuff, and banana in here,
so they're pretty clean, I just, like I said,
they're definitely more of a healthy cookie
if you're gonna compare it to people food.
But we stocked up because she's so obsessed
and she's a good puppy and I just wanna give her
yummy treats to thank her for being a good doggy.
And being quiet while we film this.
Not really, she was makin' noise the whole time.
But you know.
Okay guys, that is everything I got today,
or the other day, at Trader Joe's.
Let me know what is your favorite thing
to pick up at Trader Joe's during this time of year,
if there is like a novelty item
that they have every single fall,
leave me a comment down below.
If you are Canadian or you don't live in the state's
and you wish there was a Trader Joe's, I'm sorry,
I know I'm teasing you guys all the time.
But you know you can make the trip out there
if you live close enough to the border.
Matt and I are not that close.
It's like a good two hour drive,
so we just make a day out of it.
Or if you are just visiting the states,
stop at a Trader Joe's, it's really fun.
Maybe if we give it enough attention they'll come to Canada.
I don't know, but it's fun,
and either way I just like sharing with you guys
grocery hauls and what I pick up.
But I will definitely be doing some other ones,
like a Costco one, and just let me know
what grocery store you wanna see next,
I'll have a poll in the top right hand corner,
and like I said, I have a whole Trader Joe's playlist
if you wanna see more, they'll be linked down below.
So, thank you so much.
I hoped you guys enjoyed this huge Trader Joe's fall haul
and I will see you guys in my next video.
Bye guys!
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