Discover the joys of living alone in the Bay Area with a Trader Joe’s haul and a delicious gluten-free shrimp tacos recipe.
Exploring Solo Life and Delicious Gluten-Free Recipes in California
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Solo Adventures in the Bay: Culinary Discoveries and Shrimp Taco Delights from Trader Joe’s!
Heat. Heat. Hi, if you’re new here, my name is Karen and I live alone in a little studio small apartment in the Bay Area. I also work two jobs every day, no days off. And I like to make videos showing my life, what’s it like living in California, struggling to make ends.
Meet. I’m also a foodie and I love to go out to eat and I like to show you um recipes I make. I’m actually a pretty good cook and I actually love cooking a lot and I think it’s really fun. Love to try new recipes. Right, it is Saturday. I just finished eating breakfast. Now I want to get ready to go to Kohl’s. Find some.
Spring shirts. A lot of my shirts that I have, they’re shrinking. I think I’m because I’m washing my clothes in hot water. Maybe I should do it in cold and warm water. Um, all my flannels, they have holes in the elbow section. And I’m going to see what they have. Just some new clothes. All.
right, guys. I went to Kohl’s. I didn’t really get much, but didn’t really have a lot of shirts. I wanted to get this other shirt, but was like 60 bucks. Like, no thank you. Although, I got 20% off, though. This is 20, but 20% off of that. And it’s a kind of a nice cool tie-dye shirt. Tie dye. I just really.
Like the color. Feels really comfortable. I didn’t get much, but um yeah, I didn’t get much. I was hoping to get more spring clothes since it’s spring, but I didn’t really see a lot of spring clothes, but they are doing a lot of clearance items from the winter, so maybe in a few weeks or a month there’ll be more. But I got a new shirt today.
I am so craving Sardone Company sandwich. Like a sandwich. I’m craving a sandwich, but I’ve been craving Sardone Company for so long. I might do that before work. There’s also this bakery near Kohl’s that I wanted. It’s like a new bakery. I might want to try that and maybe later have it with some coffee. Yeah. I hope my dad doesn’t.
Brown butter pecan. All right, guys. I went to try a cookie bakery place. I got a cookie. It’s called the TK cookie. Um I asked this my first time here. This is one of the things they they recommend. They have a lot of they have a lot of different flavors.
Um yeah, this this kind of reminds me of crumble cookie a little bit cuz they have like seasonal flavors or monthly seasonal flavors. Um so they have one in Panol, Fairfield, Emerville, and Pleasant Hill. It’s called Butter Peon in case you’re.
Interested in trying. I haven’t I’ll probably review this for you later, but right now I’m craving a sandwich. I don’t know where I’m going to go, but I’ll see you guys later. Guys, I All right. I was craving sourdough and company. So, I got a turkey and it’s called a dry salami sandwich. Has mayonnaise, mustard. I.
Think has thousand dressing, Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato, and I will be doing a video as well. All right, guys. That sandwich was so good. I only had half of it. I’m going to save the other half for dinner tonight at Walmart. But now I want to try this cookie I got earlier. Got it’s called a tea cake. And I asked her, she.
Says it’s pretty popular. I asked her the flavor. She says it’s lemon. I do like lemon flavors. So yeah, I thought we could just try it and see how it tastes. I want to smell it. So as I’m smelling this, it smells really good and fresh. I’m going to give it a try. Maybe I’ll turn off the air.
Conditioning. Try. That’s good. Lemon flavor. Very fresh. Like they made it today. Wow. That is good. It’s like really moist inside. M really good. M and outside part is kind of crispy and.
Crunchy. That was good. So I think this is only in the Bay Area. It says best cookies on the bay. It’s called butter peon and some cookies were out. The butter peon was out. So I’m thinking that was a popular one, but if you guys have it, it’s called butter.
Peon and panel Fairfield Emerville Pleasant Hill. But that was a very good I think crema cookies is over the top. It’s just way too much going on. I just want something simple and that was very simple. I really believe they made that cookie today and it was just very fresh. All right, guys. It’s Monday. Um, my.
Nephew’s coming over. I’m going to make him some gluten-free tacos. A recipe I found on Tik Tok. So, Trader Joe’s. I got some other items as well. So, I got some chips. So, the recipe calls for almond flour tortillas, gluten-free. There’s only six in here.
I’ve heard amazing things about this. I’m so excited. Got some kebabs. Beef kebabs. They’re really great with eggs if you want to touch it with bacon or sausage. Um, also just good aside for salad. And they’re just easy to make. Put them in the microwave. It’s really easy. So, I got some coleslaw. This is the organic.
Shredded green and red cabbage with orange carrots. So everything that this recipe from Tik Tok um is exactly the is exactly what I wanted to get. So this is what she used. This is what I’m using. I do like their bean and black bean and bean cheese burritos. Got that. So we have the raw.
Arganian red shrimp. These were like 12 bucks. A little pricey but maybe they’re really good. So this is what she used. Like I said, whatever she uses, I’m gonna use. Um, I got one salad, Mexican salad for work. Got a dose d leche ice cream. Really, really good. Got a chicken sausage breakfast burrito. This is just.
Really good um on my lunch when I’m not super hungry or want breakfast. Yeah, I love their mac and cheese. Really good. And lastly, this is organic chunky homestyle guacamole. I hope it’s not too spicy because my nephew doesn’t really like spicy food. But this is what she used in her Tik Tok.
Video. And I thought, honestly, I think all this all this costs a lot of money. It’s not like a re it’s not like a reasonable priced meal or dinner. It’s not super affordable because the shrimp was just 12 bucks just for the shrimp. Every Yeah. Everything’s And I got like she also used in the recipe um like it’s taco.
Seasoning. Um but the their brand the Trader Joe’s and I heard it’s very spicy and my nephew doesn’t like spicy. I’m going to sprinkle this on. This isn’t very spicy. I know it’s a mild. I think it’s mild. And um yeah, so I’m inviting my nephew over for dinner and he’s gluten-free. And I when I saw this gluten-free taco, shrimp pot, like a.
Shrimp, shrimp like um tacos, I thought it’d be perfect for him. We both like shrimp. And yeah, that’s what I’m doing tonight, guys. Thought I would just try this with some chips just to see how spicy it actually is. Hopefully it’s not spicy. So that I bought some chips, which I’ll try out. That’s pretty.
Good. Not a lot of spice. I think my nephew can eat this. A little spicy, but very little spice. Honestly, I never expected you to All right, guys. Tacos look really good. Took a while to make, but I hope they’ll be good.
The fried drink is your drink. That’s your drink. Okay. So, you excited for shrimp tacos, Raymond? Oh, yeah. Look good, huh? Hope they’re good. It’s a new recipe. Yeah. Cool. Taco. So, I hope it’s good. How is it?.
These are These are almond. This is good. almond fried tortillas. The shrimp’s not bad. It was kind of pricey. 12 bucks. 12 13 bucks for the shrimp. And I use a whole bag. But well, shrimp is generally pricey. Yeah, they sell a bag of shrimp at well, it’s small at Walmart for like five or.
Six bucks. But this trip usually has some has some really good shrimp. I mean, this hope it’s not too spicy. Oh, this is perfect. Guacamole that they um from Terrell’s is a little spicy, but probably with everything else, not too spicy. Mhm. Good.
