Throughout the past year, my roommates and I have took it upon ourselves to cook more. We are huge Trader Joe's fans and love everything on their shelves from their fresh produce to their frozen foods, to the prepackaged vegetable kits, and even their sweets. We genuinely enjoy going shopping there and get excited about finding new items to buy a new recipes to cook. My roommate Maddie is by far the best and most adventurous chef in the house. I'm gonna bring her in to talk about her favorite go to Trader Joe's foods and what she enjoys cooking them alongside with
usually I like to get the chocolate chip dunkers the the chocolate chip cookies from Trader Joe's and I also like the soy vanilla ice cream. I like the Trader Joe's broccoli and cauliflower. So I'll take it I like to do that with salmon and chicken. And I also like to get the stir fry kits and make that with soba noodles. I like the fried rice from Trader Joe's it allows for a lot of different meals and things. And I also really like the dumplings from there. The sourdough Trader Joe's is some of the best I've ever had. And I also really like their bagels and their like snack and chip options, especially the crackers, I think they've done a really good job. I mean, their store in general has always been very clean and they have the bell system that makes their store work super efficiently. So I think they've done a good job. The only downside is that the store is relatively small, and they can only have a certain amount of people within the store. So the lines to get in are usually pretty long. But that's you know, not a fault of their own. But I think overall they've been very efficient and clean when adapting to COVID. I like it because the just the store in general so clean the experience is nice everyone who works there's like MIT supposed to be nice to so it's it feels like almost like a little Co Op community center when you shop there in my opinion. Also I like the unique food items you can get and how fresh and good they are. And that was Maddie
talking about some of her all time favorites from Trader Joe's. And why she likes the store so much. She even spoke about how she feels that they're handling COVID-19 in the most positive and effective way possible. Every time Maddie does get those chocolate chip cookie dunkers we all eat them so quickly. Thank you Trader Joe's for getting me through COVID-19 in all this years craziness, I hope you found some great items and found some inspiration for some new foods and product that you've not had before and that you try them out.

Trader Joe's: An Interview with Maddy

Olivia Schargel