This post brought is to you by the Department of Keeping Things Simple.
Pour one part semi-chocolate chips and one part fresh blueberries into bowls or cute ramekins or pretty tea cups.
Serve with a spoon or chop sticks.
It’s summer! Save time, relax, and enjoy a great flavor combo for a snack or to end a meal.
Please share any quick tips for tasty, easy sweet treats in the comments!
Please don’t hate me. I’m either challenging your ferocious love of Thin Mint cookies or introducing you to one of the cutest, most addictive mint+chocolate treats ever. Or both.
Srsly. Try them – buy them or ask a Trader Joe’s staffer for a sample. Let us know what you think.
Disclaimer: We are not responsible for you eating a whole box at one sitting.
TJ’s Mint Coins offer wealth of chocolate joy
We all have rotten days. Yesterday was one of mine. Or at least, a day where things didn’t come together well, posed more problems than it solved, and just left me with a sad, crummy feeling.
And I needed to go to Trader Joe’s.
So, I tucked my feelings under my hat and went.
Walking around hunting and gathering for my dinner, I smiled at other shoppers and TJ’s staffers. I was OK. But as I walked to check out, I got sad again. Of course, that’s not too weird – feeling better walking around TJ’s, and getting sad as I’m leaving!
The checker Shaun greeted me with, “How ya doing?!” I said, sluggishly, “OK.” He said, “Just OK?” “Yeah,” I said. We continued chatting a bit. He loaded my bag and put it in the cart.
As we waited for my chipped card to finish processing, Shaun asked, “Do you like chocolate? Do you like dried fruit?” I said yes.
He walked to the product pylon by the check out lane, picked up a container of chocolate-covered dried fruit, put it on top of my bag and said, “I hope you have a good evening!”
I was blown away. And this isn’t the only time I’ve encountered amazingly kind behavior at Trader Joe’s. The store’s feel-good culture is an example for us all in how to care and treat each other. Just a little kindness goes such a long way. Thank you, Shaun! And thank you, Trader Joe’s.
This container holds a world of kindness
I don’t tell many people about this, but I have Almostitis.
Almostitis is the condition where you want one thing, but you buy something almost like it to save on money, calories and fat content.
Almostitis is not a matter of simply deciding to buy something you like that’s healthier than something else you like. It causes you to buy something you don’t like as much, when you have a craving for something else. Yet, in the moment of purchase, you delude yourself that “this” is going to be just as good, and maybe even better!
Then these cheaper, less-caloric and lower-fat selections sit in our cabinets, refrigerators and freezers until they evaporate or mold.
What does this have to do with surviving summer heat?
A big part of my Almostitis has been about not buying the ice cream I really want. There are pints of fruity sorbet frost-bitten in my freezer. Bars of ice milk cushioning my frozen dumplings.
These cold symptoms boiled to a head a few weeks ago when I wanted to make a root beer float. Instead of buying some vanilla ice cream, IÂ brought home a container of vanilla frozen yogurt. The most unsatisfying result of so-called good intentions, and the pinnacle of wrong.
The only cure for Almostitis to go to the root of your desire and buy the seminal item. Delicious, refreshing and satisfying.
So, this is one way I’m beating the heat this week:
Pint of summer survival
It’s been a long time since a pint of real, creamy ice cream was walked through my door.
Welcome home.
What’s your favorite TJ way to survive the summer heat?
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Last week the kitty roared.
On Feb. 6, Hasbro announced that it’s switched the Monopoly game’s iron token for a cat.
And now, walking through Trader Joe’s, I find not one, but three kitty cookie varietal options:
Chocolate cats
Ginger kitty
Low-fat cat
Coincidence?
Very clever, Trader Joe’s.
NOTE: No kitties were harmed in the making of these cookies (to my knowledge).
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