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My Trader Joe’s Essentials
Since the grand opening of Albany’s Trader Joe’s grocery store back in August, I’ve been a frequent shopper. I get all my weekly groceries there and there are a bunch of products I love! In case you’re new to Trader Joe’s and want some suggestions of what I love, here are some of my favorites. Essential Food Items The Granola. I really love the pumpkin spice granola. I also sometimes get the vanilla almond kind, both are great. Organic Blue Agave Sweetener. I got this recently to use in my tea at work, I loved it so I got one for home too. I noticed it tastes best with fruity…
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A Lazy Sunday
Actually, I most of my Sunday was lazy…minus my eight mile run! I woke up yesterday morning and had my Trader Joe’s goods on the brain. Especially the pumpkin butter. I had to have more TJ’s cinnamon raisin bread as well…so breakfast and pre-run fuel was cinnamon raisin toast, slathered with TJ’s almond butter and pumpkin butter, with a banana. I ended up taking the banana off, since for some reason the texture of a banana on toast has been bothering me. Weird? Yes. I can eat the banana alone just fine… After waiting a few hours for my meal to digest, I headed out for an eight mile run. It felt good to…
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Grocery Shopping with Bloggers
Today was awesome! The Blends (Blogger Friends) and I went on a day trip to Hadley, MA to visit their Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods for some grocery goodness! Katie, Courtney, Emily, the other Emily, Heather, Rebecca and I all piled into Cynthia’s super van. To Whole Foods we went! First stop: Whole Foods hot bar!!! I was starving by the time we got there and loaded up on good stuff. This just looks like a mixture of everything. In the mix: Fruit Salad (at the bottom) Roasted sweet potato (at the bottom) Noodles Falafel Pineapple quinoa salad Sesame Tofu (amazing) Vegan chicken salad (at the bottom, and completely amazing!)…
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Trader Joe’s in Pitt
Wednesday afternoon after lunch in Pittsburgh, Chris and I went to check out the local Trader Joe’s! We don’t have TJ’s in Albany 🙁 so a trip here was much needed! I wanted to get a couple of things that were non-perishable that I could bring back on the plane. I picked up… Organic Superfruit Spread Powerberries Apple Blueberry Dried Fruit Bar So far, my favorite item from TJ’s, Smashing S’mores. We heated them up in the microwave for about 5 seconds, and the marshmallow got all metly + delicious. Yum! And non-food related… The shaving cream works really well (and smells nice!) so I will probably be buying more…
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Summer in the City – Day 2: Kiss-In, Lush & Whole Foods Lunch
Missed Day One? Part 1 Summer in the City – Day 1: Pancakes, Wine & Cupcakes Part 2 Summer in the City – Day 1: Drinks at Macondo and the Spinto Band —– Onto Saturday morning in the city! The weather was gorgeous. I was so happy, because every time I’ve ever been to the city, it was either raining, or snowing, in the dead of winter. This was my first time visiting in the summer! 🙂 How perfect. Leaving times square, Chris & I noticed a commotion going on. It was the Times Square Kiss-In! There was a 26-foot statue replica of the famous photograph: (Source) It was so…
