Are you a busy professional looking to expand your repertoire of quick, easy and affordable weekday meals? If so, join my four day live challenge where I’ll be sharing my favorite Trader Joe’s products, meal prepping tips & tricks and my go to 15 minute or less breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes. Challenge Details:When: Friday, […]
Author: megan.wormser
The Little Beet’s Chef’s Soup Bowl + My Adaptation
I’m a big fan of butternut squash soup and recently tried The Little Beet chef’s soup bowl, which is butternut squash soup, roasted chicken, basmati rice, sautéed greens, super seeds and chimichurri sauce. It was such a hearty and filling soup and the flavor combination of the chicken, chimichurri sauce and butternut squash worked so well together that I decided to recreate using Trader Joe’s Butternut Squash Soup as the base and I added cooked chicken, spicy jollof rice and chimichurri, which resulted in an amazing easy weekday lunch/dinner side dish.
Ramen, 5 Ways
One of my favorite easy & affordable weeknight meals is upgraded stovetop/instant ramen and today i’m sharing five ramen adaptations, which includes: red curry ramen, peanut satay ramen, ramen & wanton soup, general tso’s chicken katsu ramen & ramen and shrimp with a hard boiled egg.
Cadbury Mini Egg Dessert Board
I’m kicking off Easter weekend with a festive Cadbury mini egg dessert board, which features: Trader Joe’s Blood Orange Cake Mix with Icing, Cadbury yogurt dip and slice and bake cookies!
Trader Joe’s Cheese & Corn Arepas, 3 Ways
During my latest Trader Joe’s run one of the products I was most looking forward to trying out was the cheese & corn arepas. I knew it would be the perfect side dish for chili and mexican style grain bowls and I had a lot of fun creating different arepa filling mixtures so today I’m sharing three of my favorite arepa variations.
Marinara Pizza M.V.P Slice + My Adaptation
I recently saw a picture of Marinara Pizza’s M.V.P pizza and knew I had to try ASAP! I throughly enjoyed the combination of the sauces and decided to replicate using Trader Joe’s naan as the base and then topping with Marinara sauce, Vodka sauce & Pesto. Marinara, Vodka & Pesto – Serving Size: 1 Personal […]
TJ’s Lemony Arugula Salad Kit, 3 Ways
I’m a big fan of Trader Joe’s salad kits and one of my favorites is the Lemony Arugula Basil Salad Kit. I decided to experiment with some different recipes using the salad kit as the base and wanted share some of my quick and easy meal ideas, which includes: breaded chicken with lemony arugula & […]
Trader Joe’s Blood Orange Cake Mix, 3 Ways
Blood orange cake mix is one of Trader Joe’s seasonal products that I missed out on last year so when I saw it in stores on my last Trader Joe’s run I picked it up immediately! I’ve been having a lot of fun experimenting with different blood orange cake recipes and today i’m sharing three variations, which includes: waffles, mini muffins and mini donuts.
Manhattan West Foodie Adventure
I love a good food hall so when I heard about all the amazing vendors in the Citizens New York food hall I was eager to check it out for myself. I went at lunch time so I decided to get a spicy tuna sushi roll from krispy rice, which was good, but next time […]
Introducing the 5 Day Trader Joe’s Meal Plan!
If you’ve been following this blog for awhile you know I love my quick and easy Trader Joe’s recipes and i’m so excited to share you my five day Trader Joe’s menu plan, which has my favorite easy weekday breakfast, lunch and diner recipes nd a grocery list with ingredients that can all be purchased at your nearest Trader Joe’s location! All the recipes featured in the meal plan can be made by anyone regardless of their cooking skills in 20 minutes or less!