{"id":5815,"date":"2026-04-06T21:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=5815"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:30:58","slug":"trader-joes-chicken-adobo-is-really-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2026\/04\/trader-joes-chicken-adobo-is-really-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Trader Joe&#8217;s Chicken Adobo is Really Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trader Joe&#8217;s frozen entrees vary in quality, but I don&#8217;t think any are as bad as its <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traderjoes.com\/home\/products\/pdp\/chicken-adobo-081056\">Chicken Adobo<\/a><\/strong> ($4.30).  I&#8217;ve rarely had such a bad frozen meal.<br><br>It&#8217;s hard to know what to say about it beyond the fact that it doesn&#8217;t taste at all like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2008\/12\/chicken-adobo\/\">chicken adobo<\/a>.  The chicken itself had no flavor, and I think it was probably cooked without seasonings by itself.  The sauce was watery, and just not pleasant.  The portion looked small, but it was so bad I couldn&#8217;t even finish it.  In all, just a bad dish. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trader Joe&#8217;s frozen entrees vary in quality, but I don&#8217;t think any are as bad as its Chicken Adobo ($4.30). I&#8217;ve rarely had such a bad frozen meal. It&#8217;s hard to know what to say about it beyond the fact that it doesn&#8217;t taste at all like chicken adobo. The chicken itself had no flavor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[220,122,28,259],"class_list":["post-5815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-items","tag-filipino","tag-frozen-food","tag-reviews","tag-trader-joes","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}