Trader Joe's Recipes

I heard about this website from a friend, it is fantastic! There are recipes that just require buying a few TJ products and throwing them in a microwave, and then there are intricate gourmet recipes. Either way, TJ is an affordable place to buy good food.

Trader Joe's Recipes

How to shop effectively and cheaply:

---choose recipes first: it is smart to choose all the dinners you want to make for a week, but I usually choose for a couple of weeks (I don't cook every night, we eat leftovers often)

---write down all the ingredients you need from each recipe and buy them all (this is why it is useful using the trader joe's list of recipes, so you know you can 1-stop-shop for ingredients)

---- don't buy anything else for dinner, buy only breakfast and lunch items since your dinners are taken care of! Sometimes, however, I do buy a few items for quick dinners, just in case, like spaghetti and sauce.