The Best $20 You Can Spend at Trader Joe’s This Spring

Don’t think of $20 as a tight budget for a Trader Joe’s spring shopping run. Instead, look at it as a chance to try new products while adding old favorites to your cart and saving some money.

There may be only six items mentioned below, but GOBankingRates was intentional in making sure they fit into a $20 spending limit (total: $18.74), with every item being a great value.

Check out some of the best buys you can make using $20 at Trader Joe’s this spring.

• Price: $3.99

Crowned the first place winner of Trader Joe’s 16th Annual Customer Choice Awards, there’s no end to all the ways you can put teeny tiny avocados to use this spring.

Each bag contains six avocados which will go quickly during breakfast, lunch and dinner. Try thinking outside the typical avocado toast and guacamole box, too. Avocado smoothie? Give it a whirl!

• Price: $3.49

In a bagel flavor rut? Shake it up and try the new cheesy bagels at Trader Joe’s.

Each package contains four bagels coated in Asiago cheese to toast and pair with your favorite cream cheese or eggs for a satisfying breakfast. They’re equally as versatile as a lunch option, too. If your sandwich bread doesn’t excite you, sub in the cheesy bagels instead for tuna, turkey, ham and all your other favorite lunchtime sandwiches.

• Price: $3.49

Like the cheesy bagels, there are so many ways you can use up a loaf of sliced seedy multigrain bread.

Each loaf is baked with seven seeds and grains including sunflower kernels, flax, sesame seeds, barley, rye and more. Enjoy toasted with butter and preserves, or put it toward making sandwiches for lunch or breakfast.

• Price: $1.79

Trader Joe’s prides itself on the value customers get when they shop the teeny tiny tomatoes. Available year-round for less than $2, there’s roughly two large handfuls of teeny tiny tomatoes inside every package. Add them to your favorite pasta, salads or top on toast.

• Price: $1.99

Have the cans of sparkling rosé tea been beckoning to you to make an impulse purchase? Give in.

At just under $2 per can, these non-alcoholic drinks won’t break the bank, and are more bang for the tea-drinking buck than you may realize. There’s a blend of four teas, including white, black, sencha and pu’erh in every sip, along with white grape juice to balance out the flavors.

• Price: $3.99

Celebrate the start of spring and the return of warm weather with a box of strawberry-flavored Hold the Cone! ice cream cones.

Inside every box you’ll find eight mini strawberry ice cream cones topped with chocolate coating as the ultimate sweet treat for everyone in your home. The cost per cone breaks down to 50 cents apiece — so much cheaper than what you’d find sold from an ice cream truck.

Editor’s note: Prices and availability are accurate as of March 12, 2025, and are subject to change.