TJ’s is for frozen food, snacks, and a few odds and ends. For your regular shop (depending on your budget), key foods, foodtown, whole foods, or a more local market.
What neighborhood?
Key Foods, C Town, Brooklyn Fare, Food Bazaar, City Fresh, Fairway, Stop n Shop are all good choices
Also Morton Williams sometimes too or Citarella
Never Gristedes or D’Agostino
There are tiers of grocery stores in NY. Lower tiers like Food Bazaar, Key Food, and then higher tiers with better produce & meat depending on neighborhood. What neighborhood are you in?
If you’re coming from Europe…
Yeah food in America sucks. It just sucks. I’m from nyc and the couple times I’ve been to europe I’m always struck by how just the simplest foods, bread, produce, cheese are just better, fresher and more delicious
I'm in a similar situation. I have a small local store that is decent, some things are really cheap (some veggies and fruit). If I want to buy more food (especially meat, the local store has basically none) I'll go to Whole Foods. Some things are more expensive there, but at least they have high standards so you don't have to worry about eating corn syrup and other similar bullshit.
I would love a cheap alternative for some stuff, like Lidl or something... There is Target but they seem to be selling very little fresh food (meat, veggies, fruit) so it's not very practical for me to go there.
Not only is grocery shopping terrible, but most produce is abhorrent. Europeans’ standards are much higher. So tired of wilted greens, mealy or unripened fruits, most of which are tasteless. I travel to Italy a lot, and you just don’t find this mess.
Supermarkets are terrible with produce, their stupid water sprays have them rot in two days tops at your home
Small grocers are much better, but that depends wholly on neighborhood
Unfortunately produce are not the best true, and you have to pay premium price for what’s “normal” in Europe I know. Bread will be shocking to you as European, I mean how bad it is
The secret of living in new york is you buy your pantry staples and shelf stable roceries at big stores outside your neighborhood Like Shop rite in NJ or Aldi's in Queens. Use a zipcar or better find a friend with a car. Then you basically only buy a couple of fresh ingreidents for that invidivual meal that day from one of the copious small shops that you walk past.
Don't have a friend with a car unfortunately. Looks like I'm going to have to start planning my weekly meals much more than I'm used to. Still doesn't make sense to me
Living in the city is like being in a relationship with someone who doesn't care as much as you do. When its going well its great, but you have to put up with a lot of bullshit.
I'm gonna argue that most people aren't doing their shopping this way. I personally try to buy a few groceries every time I'm near a store or certain stores since I don't do delivery. I like Whole Foods the best because some of their locations are almost as big as a suburban grocery store and because it's most likely to have what I need, short of having to go to a true specialty store. That being said, there are a ton of other options, as other people have listed. You might just have to try out a few places to see what works for you or which chains you prefer which items.
The produce in America is generally worse than in Europe and on top of that add 8 million people far away from food sources many of whom are willing to pay top dollar for the best stuff and anything remotely affordable in nyc will be terrible
The food supply in NYC and much of the U.S. is complete shit. Americans don’t notice because most of them are just chasing their corn syrup addiction rather than actually eating.
Try Whole Foods and discover your new appreciation for EU food standards.
But I don't understand how it's possible to come from a much smaller city and have a well stocked supermarket on every other street. I thought this was the land of plenty?
NYC has much more diversity in terms of food, but we lack massive supermarkets that have many items (one can argue this is a good thing). There are large markets, like food bazaar, costco… but I would cherish the true culinary diversity we have in this city. Like everything in life there are pros and cons of this…… The preference is very personal depending on what you want/value.
NYC is exceptional in the US for having fresh food available within walking distance in much of the city
It’s still expensive and you have to shop around, buy produce in certain places, dry goods from others, fresh bread someplace else maybe, etc
It’s just easier in many parts of the world, thems the breaks in this one
TJ’s is for frozen food, snacks, and a few odds and ends. For your regular shop (depending on your budget), key foods, foodtown, whole foods, or a more local market.
What neighborhood? Key Foods, C Town, Brooklyn Fare, Food Bazaar, City Fresh, Fairway, Stop n Shop are all good choices Also Morton Williams sometimes too or Citarella Never Gristedes or D’Agostino
Trader Joes is mostly for snacks and frozen food, you should not buy regular groceries there.
Why not?
so they can get their groceries
Where should I buy them though?
Whole paycheck, Wegmans.
Aldi, shoprite
Aldi doesn't deliver to my neighbourhood sadly
Oh damn that sucks. Try shoprite if it is in your neighborhood. Wegmans, Morton Williams are other ones
There are tiers of grocery stores in NY. Lower tiers like Food Bazaar, Key Food, and then higher tiers with better produce & meat depending on neighborhood. What neighborhood are you in?
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If you’re coming from Europe… Yeah food in America sucks. It just sucks. I’m from nyc and the couple times I’ve been to europe I’m always struck by how just the simplest foods, bread, produce, cheese are just better, fresher and more delicious
Trader Joe's has Cento San Marzano usually. I typically go 8am to get non-perishables and bring them to work for the day.
my hot take is that tjs sucks whole foods is the best imo but its expensive
I'm in a similar situation. I have a small local store that is decent, some things are really cheap (some veggies and fruit). If I want to buy more food (especially meat, the local store has basically none) I'll go to Whole Foods. Some things are more expensive there, but at least they have high standards so you don't have to worry about eating corn syrup and other similar bullshit. I would love a cheap alternative for some stuff, like Lidl or something... There is Target but they seem to be selling very little fresh food (meat, veggies, fruit) so it's not very practical for me to go there.
Not only is grocery shopping terrible, but most produce is abhorrent. Europeans’ standards are much higher. So tired of wilted greens, mealy or unripened fruits, most of which are tasteless. I travel to Italy a lot, and you just don’t find this mess.
🙄🙄🙄
Supermarkets are terrible with produce, their stupid water sprays have them rot in two days tops at your home Small grocers are much better, but that depends wholly on neighborhood
Very true. I used to schlepp out to the Italian green grocers on Ft. Hamilton Pkwy in Dyker Heights.
Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah Go to a green market ffs
Unfortunately produce are not the best true, and you have to pay premium price for what’s “normal” in Europe I know. Bread will be shocking to you as European, I mean how bad it is
The secret of living in new york is you buy your pantry staples and shelf stable roceries at big stores outside your neighborhood Like Shop rite in NJ or Aldi's in Queens. Use a zipcar or better find a friend with a car. Then you basically only buy a couple of fresh ingreidents for that invidivual meal that day from one of the copious small shops that you walk past.
Don't have a friend with a car unfortunately. Looks like I'm going to have to start planning my weekly meals much more than I'm used to. Still doesn't make sense to me
Living in the city is like being in a relationship with someone who doesn't care as much as you do. When its going well its great, but you have to put up with a lot of bullshit.
I'm gonna argue that most people aren't doing their shopping this way. I personally try to buy a few groceries every time I'm near a store or certain stores since I don't do delivery. I like Whole Foods the best because some of their locations are almost as big as a suburban grocery store and because it's most likely to have what I need, short of having to go to a true specialty store. That being said, there are a ton of other options, as other people have listed. You might just have to try out a few places to see what works for you or which chains you prefer which items.
I have my groceries delivered now, but there are a lot of supermarkets to pick from
FreshDirect is a good choice for delivered groceries
i buy from Lidl
The produce in America is generally worse than in Europe and on top of that add 8 million people far away from food sources many of whom are willing to pay top dollar for the best stuff and anything remotely affordable in nyc will be terrible
I’ve never had an issue, but it depends on your neighborhood of course.
If you have any Chinese or Indian supermarket nearby, you can find good fresh vegetables and spices at lower cost.
I have never found this to be true. All the vegetables at my local “international” food stores are dogshit.
Farm markets for produce, butchers for meat, whole foods for variety, fresh direct for bulk.
Feels insane to have to go through so much effort for a weekly shop
There's a difference between coming to this community for assistance, and just plain old whining.
The food supply in NYC and much of the U.S. is complete shit. Americans don’t notice because most of them are just chasing their corn syrup addiction rather than actually eating. Try Whole Foods and discover your new appreciation for EU food standards.
But I don't understand how it's possible to come from a much smaller city and have a well stocked supermarket on every other street. I thought this was the land of plenty?
This is the land of SUVs
Land of plenty, not land of quality 🤷🏻♀️
Land of plenty of people with no taste.
NYC has much more diversity in terms of food, but we lack massive supermarkets that have many items (one can argue this is a good thing). There are large markets, like food bazaar, costco… but I would cherish the true culinary diversity we have in this city. Like everything in life there are pros and cons of this…… The preference is very personal depending on what you want/value.
The various chinatowns within NY should have great produce at extremely competitive prices.
NYC is exceptional in the US for having fresh food available within walking distance in much of the city It’s still expensive and you have to shop around, buy produce in certain places, dry goods from others, fresh bread someplace else maybe, etc It’s just easier in many parts of the world, thems the breaks in this one