The Absolute Best New Trader Joe's Foods You Need This Month

A subtle kick of ginger takes standard caramel popcorn up a notch, and Trader Joe's Caramel Ginger Popcorn is a dangerously addictive snack. Sweet and salty, each piece of popcorn is coated in enough of a ginger flavor that your taste buds notice, but it's not overpowering whatsoever.

If drinking plain water doesn't excite you, pick up Trader Joe's Organic Herbal Flavored Waters, which come in flavors Lemon Ginger and Lemongrass Spearmint. With no artificial ingredients or colors, these all-natural waters contain only water and organic extract. The Lemongrass Spearmint is cool and refreshing, while the Lemon Ginger has an earthy kick.

Trader Joe's new Onion Salt is the new secret ingredient you'll want to have stocked in your spice cabinet. It's a supersavory blend of granulated onion, granulated garlic, minced onion, kosher salt, green onion, and dried chives, and the flavor profile is dynamite. Sprinkle it on pizza, season chicken with it, or toss it on roasted vegetables.

Hitting shelves in time for grilling season, Trader Joe's Mango Chipotle BBQ Sauce With a Hint of Salted Bourbon will add a sweet-savory kick to any dish. Made with mango puree, apple cider vinegar, tomato paste, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, ginger, chipotle peppers, and, yes, bourbon, this pourable sauce delivers on flavor and isn't sickeningly sweet like other BBQ sauces. Slather this on ribs, simmer it with pork shoulder, or simply use it as a dip or topping for any of your favorite grilled meats.

If there's one new thing you try from Trader Joe's this month, make it the Brownie Crisp Coffee Ice Cream Sandwiches. The square-shaped ice cream sandwiches have coffee ice cream flecked with finely ground espresso beans sandwiched between two thin brownie crisps that are studded with chocolate chips and chocolate chunks. Just bitter enough from the espresso flavor and plenty sweet enough from the brownie and chocolate, each sandwich satisfies all your cravings for something cool and creamy (and it just might give you a caffeine boost, too).

This snack might not be as healthy as homemade roasted chickpeas (ahem, the chickpeas are fried in canola oil and coated in ranch seasoning), but is it delicious? Absolutely. Crunchy enough but not greasy whatsoever, these little garbanzo beans satisfy salty-snack cravings with one handful.

Spoiler alert: Trader Joe's has a lot of new Nothing But Fruit & Nuts snacks this month, and they're all really good. The name "Fruit & Nuts" says it all — that's really all that's in these small, individually wrapped discs that consist only of dried fruit and nuts. The apricot almond flavor is tart and naturally sweet, and it's an awesome on-the-go or post-workout snack.

Granola bars tend to be hit or miss, and Trader Joe's new Sweet & Salty Granola Bars are some of the best we've had in a while. The saltiness of the nutty granola bars complements the slight sweetness of the Greek yogurt coating, and there's creamy almond butter to tie it all together.

Next up on the list of fruit-and-nut discs from Trader Joe's this month is the date, hazelnut, and cacao flavor. And OMG, if this isn't the closest thing we'll get to healthy Nutella, we don't know what is. The chewy snack has nothing more than date paste, hazelnuts, and cacao, and it's rich, chocolaty, and satisfying. Pick this up if you need a sugar fix without any artificial ingredients.

OK, so Trader Joe's Key Lime Tea Cookies aren't exactly new: they were released in August 2015. But the cookies have a whole new look with updated packaging, and if you never picked up these cookies in the past, you're going to want to as soon as possible. The buttery shortbread cookies are just limey enough, and each is coated in the perfect amount of powdered sugar. We'd recommend grabbing these for a Trader Joe's picnic this Summer.

The third Nothing but Fruit & Nuts snack you'll want to try — we weren't kidding when we said there's a lot — is the fig walnut flavor. Fig paste and walnuts are smashed together to create a sweet, nutty paste that tastes wonderful on its own, and we know it would be the perfect addition to a cheese plate.

Trader Joe's new Avocado Citrus Greek Whole Milk Yogurt sounded so promising! But the citrus flavor, which comes from blood orange concentrate, just doesn't work well with the fatty, creamy yogurt. Unfortunately, the scent is weirdly reminiscent of Play-Doh, which leaves an unpleasant aroma.