If youre someone who gets excited about maple, apple and pumpkin flavors this time of year, you need to do a victory lap through Trader Joes, scooping everything into your cart. Even the cadence of those two syllable words with the pop of the P in them is pleasant: maple, apple, pumpkin (and they form a great acronym of map which we can follow to deliciousness). Walt Whitman couldve written a grocery list poem and wed settle down each fall with a cup of coffee to reread it and devour our TJs stash. So heres what you need to know: there are seasonal favorites that return temporarily and you must grab them when you see them because they will not return until next fall, the store puts out a cute publication called the Fearless Flyer, available for free at the checkstands (or it may arrive unbidden at your home) to tell you of the new items rolling out this year, and finally: as shoppers love to share, there are some TJs foods which blow your mind and some which miss the mark. So here is our imho list of the best fall foods at Trader Joes this fall.

　　1. The apple cider donuts They may be a little more sugary than a traditional New England apple cider donut, but its okay; first thing in the morning these feel more authentically autumn than a glazed donut or a chocolate frosted. Wed love future incarnations to have more cider flavor, but we cant all be Cold Hollow Cider Mill.

　　2. The maple spiced nut mix Only here seasonally, this lightly sugared nut mix has almonds, pecans, pepitas and dried cranberries, covered in a buttery rosemary maple glaze. Herbaceous, nutty and sweet: best flavor combo out there. I missed these somehow on my latest trip to the store and need to go back for them.

　　3. Fall Leaf Tortilla Chips We look out for these multi-colored tortilla chips each year. Theyre cut into various leaf shapes (maple, oak, beech), so you can enjoy crunching into the leaves without needing to rake anything. This year, theyre displayed alongside a fall harvest salsa made with pumpkin, apples and butternut squash.

　　4. Pumpkin ravioli These gluten-free ravioli are thin pasta pillows filled with cheesy pumpkin filling. Boil water and throw together a salad: heres dinner!

　　5. Pumpkin biscotti Made with pumpkin pure and spices, this is a nice, not-too-sweet accompaniment to your morning coffee (or your seasonally available pumpkin spice rooibos herbal blend).

　　Photograph: Erika Mailman for Time Out 6. Pumpkin cheesecake In the freezer section (next to the butternut squash mac and cheese), youll find the pumpkin cheesecake in a deceptively simple brown and black box. This 30-ounce creamy dessert is made with cream cheese, lots of real pumpkin and those spice combinations we adore.

　　7. Pumpkin cheesecake croissants And if you want to further upscale the pumpkin cheesecake, these ready-to-bake croissants are a generously sized square with a circular dollop of cheesecake in the center. Set your alarm a half-hour early so you can get these into the oven for breakfast while your kitchen fills with that incredible aroma.

　　8. Pumpkin spice Snickerdoodle cookie mix I hadnt seen this before this year, and the Frequent Flyer confirms that this is a new product. Its a cookie mix that just requires you to add an egg, butter and milk and then roll the dough balls into the provided sugar and spice mix. As you expect from a Snickerdoodle, this will be crispy on the edges and chewy in the center. Making them may be a great after-school or after-work wind-down activity.

　　9. Pumpkin-flavored Joe-Joes Every season, theres a different kind of Joe-Joes available (basically a knock-off Oreo). This fall, its pumpkin-flavored sandwich crme cookies with other natural flavors. The two faces of the cookie are nicely decorated with scrollwork.

　　10. Pumpkin spiced Joe-Joes pumpkin sandwich cookies How are these different from the cookie above? Its the same cookie but dipped in a pumpkin-spiced yogurt-flavored coating with sea salt.

　　11. Apple shortbread cookie Made with all-butter (each cookie is a quarter butter, by weight!), dried apples and apple juice concentrate, these cookies come in small batches from a U.K. supplier. They look amazing plated, because each cookie has a tiny indented apple shape pressed into it.

　　Want to read last years picks? The only repeats are the apple cider donuts because were obsessed and the leaf-shaped tortilla chips because they are unbearably cute.

　　Photograph: Erika Mailman for Time Out