Comments on: TJ’s meal + a weekend trip

By: kate

kate — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:59:47 +0000

Aileen: Aw! You know, you could probably do it it you spread it on a cookie sheet. But I’d return it, instead–TJ’s will take anything back, without a receipt.

By: aileen

aileen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:56:05 +0000

now i’m all sad.

i bought the harvest grains blend and had so been looking forward to using it. it’d be madness to try and pick out the garbanzo beans, right?

By: kate

kate — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:01:43 +0000

Rach, that makes me feel better. I was so sad! I did like the quinoa mixed in with the couscous, so maybe I’ll make my own mix, without dried beans. Maybe lentils, little ones, would cook fast enough?

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:03:46 +0000

I hated the Harvest Grains blend too, and I was so intrigued by the idea of baby garbanzo beans. When I saw that picture I thought “Egad, I wonder if she managed to make something decent out of that?” Sorry to see that your bag didn’t work out either. But as my dad always says about bad restaurants – “Well, now we don’t ever have to go THERE again!”

By: kate

kate — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:30:37 +0000

Hi Juree! How’d the trip go? What did you eat?

I have managed to avoid most of the frozen food at TJ’s–I have trouble getting over the high sodium; it skeeves me out for some reason. I am a sucker for the chicken gyoza though. Mmm, I need a new bag of those. I am encouraged by how easy the fish was to cook–next time I’ll buy plain fillets and marinate them myself, though the fish at Whole Foods is so much more expensive…

By: Juree

Juree — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:31:27 +0000

Hi Kate! Just got back from NYC– so much wonderful food!! I LOVE that you made a meal completely from TJs! I am trying to wean myself from some of their frozen meals lately, and I am sure that the CSA will help with that!