5 Trader Joe’s Finds To Look For This June

June is a delight. The sun is shining, the flowers have bloomed, and the air is rich with the sounds of children playing and birds chirping. Probably. We’re inside, with the windows closed and the air conditioning blasting, very possibly in the car on the way to Trader Joe’s. June really is great―not because of any of that fresh air nonsense, but because the month brings bright, refreshing seasonal items from Trader Joe’s! 

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This month, TJ’s celebrates summer flavors in the form of sharable treats, delicious dishes, and limited edition eats that’ll make any campfire extra cozy, complete any summer camp sack lunch, or inspire you to bring something other than watermelon slices to the cookout. 

Here are the 5 items we’re most excited about:

Sour Cherry Cotton Candy

Cotton candy isn’t cheap. Okay, cotton candy itself is, but you also have to account for buying a state fair ticket just to have an occasion to buy cotton candy. Now you’re out the ticket cost, have a couple blisters, and smell like a petting zoo―all for that billowing, impossibly light hit of sugar that’s somehow always worth it. Great news! Trader Joe’s has just gotten into the cotton candy game, with their inaugural flavor of sour cherry. The sweet and sour flavor combination is all the melt-in-your-mouth nostalgia of a carnival treat, with none of the fear of having to interact with a clown. 

Strawberry Corn Flake Cake, Muffin, And Loaf Mix

Few things are better than starting a beautiful summer day with a bowl of crunchy corn flakes, ice cold milk, and fresh strawberries. Now, Trader Joe’s has bottled that lightning and given us a way to enjoy that same winning combination of quintessentially summer strawberry and crispy cornflake without putting in much effort past dumping everything into a bowl. The premade mix only requires you to mix in three ingredients (eggs, milk, and oil), pour into the vessel of your choosing, bake, and enjoy. 

Two Potato Hash

You know those infuriating recipes where some perfectly manicured cook with an impossibly clean kitchen says “and it comes together in only 10 minutes,” but starts with fully finished mise en place? That could be you! That is, if you use this peeled, cut, and ready-to-cook mix of sweet potatoes, Yukon potatoes, bell peppers, and onions. It’s the shortcut to a great breakfast, which is a building block for a great day―which is a stepping stone to making $10 million dollars and having a perfect life that never sees any sadness. Sure, there are a lot of stones that need to be stepped on, but potatoes are involved in at least, like five of them. 

Key Lime Pie Inspired Grahams

Key lime pie’s sweet yet tangy flavor is a perfect complement to warm summer days. What’s not perfect for a warm summer day, however, is the filling containing highly perishable ingredients like dairy and egg yolks that, per USDA guidelines, “should not be left at room temperature for more than two hours.” Whose idea was that?! Certainly not Trader Joe’s, because they’ve proved they’re smarter than that by giving us a shelf stable twist on the summer favorite. Since the standard pie is key lime filling in a graham cracker crust, TJ’s just turned that winning combination inside out to give us a poppable, snackable, sharable treat in the form of key lime covered grahams. 

Lemon Flavored Tiramisu

We’ve all been there―it’s summer. You want dessert, but you don’t want to turn on the oven. You want something chilled, but you’re not really feeling ice cream. Tiramisu is delicious, but the flavors of coffee and cocoa are really more cozy fall than bright summer, right? What if we told you there’s a lemon version of tiramisu that would scratch your cold, refreshing, non-ice cream dessert itch? It can’t address your other itches, but it shouldn’t have to! It’s a dessert, for crying out loud! The summer take on tiramisu still starts with ladyfingers, but is soaked in a lemon syrup instead of coffee, and layered with lemon curd and lemon-infused mascarpone.