Valerie Bertinelli Shares the Trader Joe’s Snack She’s ‘Addicted’ to

Valerie Bertinelli is making a confession about a certain chewy candy.

“I haven’t been to a Trader Joe’s in weeks, months possibly, because I am addicted to these,” she admitted in a video taken in her car that was posted to her Instagram Stories on Wednesday, June 4.

The celebrity chef, 65, then held up a package of the grocery chain’s Trio of Soft Licorice Twists.

“But what am I supposed to do?” Bertinelli asked. “I’m driving home from an appointment. I’m stopped at a stoplight. And I go, ‘Well, look at that right around the corner, there’s a Trader Joe’s.’ I’ve never been to that particular Trader Joe’s because I don’t often drive down this particular street. But I might as well turn left and go into the very crowded parking lot and wait for a parking space.”

Explaining that it was raining and she didn’t have an umbrella, the Food Network alum went on to share her next course of action.

“Why don’t I just walk into the store and get rained on so I can look for these particular things that I’m addicted to?” she continued. “And I don’t know the layout of this particular store, because every Trader Joe’s is laid out differently. But did I walk around the store three times to see if I could find these, because they’re not in the place they usually are, at the Trader Joe’s I usually go to?”

“Okay, so what?” she asked viewers. “And I ain’t telling you how many bags I bought.”

A description of the product on the Trader Joe’s website calls the twists “superbly soft and pleasantly chewy.” They come in three flavors: ripe raspberry, tropical mango and tart green apple.

Bertinelli shared another playful anecdote on her Instagram Stories this week.

In a video posted Tuesday, June 3, the One Day at a Time star said she was mistaken for a Valerie Bertinelli lookalike while running a recent errand.

“People are adorable,” she began the funny story.

Bertinelli said when she visited a government office earlier that day for some paperwork, she was approached by a stranger while walking out.

“This guy stops me, holds up his phone and says, ‘Hey ma’am, anybody ever tell you you look like her?’” she recalled. “And it’s me. And I said, ‘Yeah, all the time.’”

“Everybody waiting in line all started laughing,” she added. “I don’t know if they knew it was me, or they really thought it wasn’t and that I looked really a lot like Valerie Bertinelli. … We had a good laugh. And I love people.”