This past Sunday, Mike and I made the northward trek to Gainesville...we were going to check out Trader Joe's. We stopped in one in Chicago last year when visiting the kids, but since we had such a long drive home, we didn't get anything. Gainesville is only a bit over an hour away and ice chests and cold packs would allow frozen and cold items to make it to our fridge/freezer safely.
Apparently lots of people wanted to be at Trader Joe's this day so our shopping adventure made Publix in January look uncrowded...
Getting the lay of the land wasn't easy, so many wanted to stop, look, ponder, ask questions of their shopping partner and little ones absolutely DID NOT want to be there! So it was look as we could, grab what we could and get the heck back on the road to home.
Once home we saw we had picked a few item that might determine if another trip would be worth the drive back some time. Well, after ingesting some of the items we purchased, I think we'll make another trip, but it will not be on a Sunday at lunchtime! We bought pulled pork in smoky BBQ sauce.....very good with a bit of heat and not excessive sauce, plenty of pork. Tonight we enjoyed frozen sliced garlic potatoes in Parmesan sauce....delicious. For desert I had one of their frozen creme brûlées....4 small ones per container. Mike had a chocolate chip lava cookie. The creme brûlées was delicious. Mike said the cookie was good, not outstanding, but good.
We have prepared rack of lamb and chicken parm yet to try, but if they are as good as what we've enjoyed so far, YUM!!!
And, the cost for all these goodies was very reasonable....I was surprised when the checker tallied up the cost of our purchases.
Next trip, we'll arrive much earlier, it will be a weekday and I'll bring every cooler I own....