Matcha (pronounced ma-cha)  is a fine, powdered green tea used in Japanese tea ceremonies, and to dye and/or flavor foods (mochi, soba noodles, ice cream).
While I prefer a less hearty green tea (one that I can see through), I do like a cold, creamy Peet’s Matcha Green Tea Freddo in the summertime. Peet’s makes theirs with the highest quality [...]

Not a day goes by that I don’t have something from Trader Joe’s. (It’s a sickness, I know.)
So when I found Trader Joe’s 100 Calorie 70% Dark Chocolate Bars, made with super smooth Belgian chocolate, I was thrilled. There are five .63oz individually wrapped bars per box, and each bar (18g) has 8 grams of [...]

 
For over two decades, I’ve been perfecting the art of grocery shopping to make it as quick and painless as possible.
This inclination probably stems from my youth, when my Dad would spend the majority of every Wednesday (the day the food ads came out in the local paper) driving all over town to “get the best [...]

If it’s true that you are what you eat, then I am oatmeal.
Until recently, I was making it the old-fashioned way. You know, cooking it, on the stove.
But then one day a friend told me about Trader Joe’s Steelcut Oatmeal, and since then I have been in oatmeal heaven.
 
It’s frozen in discs about the size [...]

I was chubby in my youth, got really thin in high school and college, and weighed my lowest when I got married. I now weigh a more normal amount. More than I’d like, of course, but after all I’ve been through , I cut myself some slack.
(One of my biggest food struggles after cancer was that I [...]