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In the last few months, Trader Joe’s has had to pull a lot of products from its shelves due to food safety concerns. Chicken salad, quinoa salad, mango (as part of a much larger-scale mango recall), and bagged salad have all been flagged as potentially unsafe. And, over the weekend, the beloved provider of inexpensive wine added one more to the list: Peanut butter. Here’s what you need to know. More
Something is up with Trader Joe’s this summer. The speciality grocery store beloved by legions of yuppies and hipsters alike has issued no fewer than five recalls of products, just in the last few days. They’ve recalled chicken salad, quinoa salad, salsa, balela (a type of Middle Eastern salad) and cantaloupe. What gives, guys? More
Made of crushed biscuits and oil (no almonds, unlike the homemade version that Fitnessista made), and the jar suggests eating on bread or pancakes. As other testers in the office put it, it tastes like eating a gingerbread house: delicious. And, if you want to know: It’s unhealthy, just like you’d expect. More
My college roommate made sandwiches out of Duncan Hines chocolate frosting and bread. The only snack that’s come remotely close to grossing me out as much is Trader Joe’s new “Cookie Butter,” which is essentially a jar of almond butter mixed with Dutch Speculoos cookies. But to some—like Fitnessista, who blogged about how to make a homemade version recently—this could be considered a healthy treat. More
I’ve always been dubious of Trader Joe’s: There’s way too much packaging for anybody’s good, and while I know I should probably just take my bargains and run, there’s just something about ultra-cheap produce that makes me suspicious. While, for the most part, their (bagged) kale and (shrink-wrapped) tomatoes are probably as nutritious as the stuff down the street, it turns out that this bargain does come with a caveat: It turns out Trader Joe is treating his farmers about as well as the environment. Like several other grocery chains, Trader Joe’s recently refused to sign a Fair Food agreement with a Florida farm worker coalition that would increase the cost of tomatoes by one cent per pound, and raise workers’ wages by nearly 150%. More
Trader Joe’s sparks controversy with most grocery store shoppers, but a new report from Sustainable Industries indicates that their organic products may not be quite up to standard. The problem is that they don’t disclose the sources of their organic … More
