Episode 92: Trader Joe's 2025 Store Recipe Contest Winner

Inside Trader Joe's

Trader Joe's

Arts, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Food

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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It’s a known known that people across the land love a good contest. It’s also a known known that Trader Joe’s Crew Members across the country know the very best ways to use Trader Joe’s products. The known unknown in the 2025 Store Recipe Contest scenario… which store would come up with the very best recipe, crafted using a mere five Trader Joe’s products? That, dear podcast listeners, is revealed in this episode of Inside Trader Joe’s. We’ll go inside the winning store, talk to the creative Crew behind the winning entry, and find out how the judges came to their decision. You’ll find the winning recipe at traderjoes.com, and all the ingredients you need to recreate it at your neighborhood Trader Joe’s.

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0:00.0	Okay, you know, I've actually been working on some ideas for Trader Joe's store recipe contest.
0:05.8	Matt, you're a little late.
0:07.0	The judging's over.
0:08.4	We're going to talk about the winning store and their recipe on this episode.
0:12.4	All right, I'll save them for next year, but just don't tell anybody about them.
0:15.9	Your secrets are always safe here on the podcast.
0:18.9	I mean, I've been working on things like mandarin orange chicken,
0:21.5	macaron,
0:22.6	everything but the bagel, sublime ice cream sandwiches,
0:25.8	smoke, trout, ambrosia, hot honey,
0:28.7	Caccio, Ipe overnight oats.
0:30.5	I mean, these are great.
0:31.6	Most of those recipe ideas sound absolutely horrendous.
0:34.9	With the possible exception of the Everything But the Bagel
0:37.4	Sublime Ice Cream
0:38.1	Sandwiches, I might actually try those. Yeah, we should probably talk to the tasting panel
0:42.4	folks about that. Fortunately, the crew members at Trader Joe's stores across the country
0:47.5	came up with some much better ideas. And we're sharing the winner on Trader Joe's Instagram
0:52.9	at Traderjo's.com. And we're about to announce the winner right here on the podcast.
0:58.8	Let's go inside Trader Joe's.
1:08.7	I'm Tara Miller, director of words and phrases and clauses.
1:12.6	And I'm Matt Sloan, the culture and innovation guy at Trader Joe's.
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