Quick Meals In Minutes

Training Manual I wrote circa 2002 for the Philadelphia area stores where I helped to train the various Demo Teams.

The majority of these recipes were created when I was doing Demo work at Trader Joe’s with Ruth, Jessica, Elizabeth, and Jeff.
(I retired in 2018 after 17 years!)

The site actually started out as Trader Joe’s Recipes in 2002 – a place to share the recipes we were creating in the store.

Alas, about 2005, the corporate office found out about the site and they didn’t like the idea of one of their employees running a website with their name and logo on it. It was extremely popular with our customers, so TJ morphed into Totally Joyous. Same recipes without the TJ name or logo. It was then expanded into more recipes, cookbooks, and the actual food blog in 2005.

The rest, as they say, is history…

Products come and products go, so many of the recipes were done and then redone with various different ingredients.

Today, even more products have come and gone, but it doesn’t stop one from taking a recipe and reworking it with something new. Use your imagination and have fun with them.

That’s why we created them up in the first place!

And for a bit of historical fun…

2003 Demo Calendar
2004 Demo Calendar