Congratulations: you've survived, are reading this blog, and may even have made it to tonight's meeting.
Everyone at the food blogs seems to be hunkering down and waiting for the New Year. If you've still got – or are expecting – a houseful of guests, Chow.com does have a reasonably easy “make-ahead breakfast casserole” that will serve a substantial number of hungry, or hungover, people, as well as a pile of recipes for dealing with that enormous slab of leftover roast beast from Christmas, some New Year's Eve appetizers described as “elegant” (honest – teeny little grilled-ham-and-cheese sandwiches topped with fried quail eggs), and Sazerac jello-shots.
Yoni Freedhoff, at his “Eat&Run” column, suggests a good resolution to make about New Year's resolutions. Pizza Hut Singapore presents the unspeakable horror that is the “Double Sensation”, a concentric double-pizza arrangement in which the outer ring of pizza has a cheese-stuffed crust topped with turkey ham, bell peppers, mushrooms, and salsa, while the inner circle has a chicken-sausage-and-cheese stuffing to the crust, topped with smoked chicken, zucchini, and Alfredo sauce.
And – I do not lie – a cherry on top.
Recipes as always: Sprouted Kitchen has a chopped-greens salad with quinoa, sweet potatoes and apples; Simply Recipes follows in the same mode with a kale salad involving balsamic vinegar, parmesan, and piñones; and Snack Girl has pomegranates. Anybody wants a pomegranate, let me know in the comments and I'll bring one to next week's meeting. Not as pretty as the ones from the supermarket but we grow organic.
We've still New Year's to get through, which means quantities of drink and loads of party trays; but the regular holiday promotions – Huge Slabs Of Meat and Huge Slabs Of Chocolate – are already being displaced by the January marketing theme, which is overwhelmingly Huge Slabs Of Healthy.
Today has been National Candy Cane Day; tomorrow will be National Fruit Cake Day. The 31st is, entirely appropriately, National Champagne Day; but the 30th rather anticipates necessity by being National Bicarbonate of Soda Day. The first of January is appropriately National Bloody Mary Day and in the UK is actually called National Hangover Day! (See breakfast casserole above.)
December 26th: National Candy Cane Day, National Coffee Percolator Day
December 27th: National Fruit Cake Day
December 28th: National Chocolate Candy Day (not to be confused with National Chocolate Day which is October 28th, National Milk Chocolate Day which is July 28th, or National Chocolate Covered Anything Day which is December 16th), Eat Vegetarian Day
December 29th: Pepper Pot Day
December 30th: National Bicarbonate of Soda Day
December 31st: National Champagne Day
January 1st: National Oatmeal Day, National Bloody Mary Day, Apple Gifting Day; in the UK, National Hangover Day
January 2nd: National Buffet Day, National Cream Puff Day
Joyous Kwanzaa to all who celebrate it, as today begins that festive season. Happy New Year as well, and I'll see you all in 2013!
Albertson's
Beef ribeye/t-bone/top sirloin steaks, boneless or bone-in, 50% off
Petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef crossrib OR bottom round roasts, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
85/15 ground beef, $2.49/lb (3 lbs or more)
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork loin back ribs, $7.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Pork shoulder country style ribs, bone in, $1.99/lb
Hormel Cure 81 spiral sliced hams, bone in, $1.77/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Essential Everyday cream cheese, 8 oz block, 10/$10
Yoplait yogurts, 20/$10 (50¢ ea)
Albertson's sour cream, 16 oz tubs, 99¢
Deli: Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” OR “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
USA Gold honey or baked ham, $5.99/lb
Charlie's Pride corned beef/Italian roast beef/beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Provolone/Muenster cheeses, $5.99/lb
Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, 99¢
Essential Everyday pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 99¢
Essential Everyday tomatoes or beans, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Essential Everyday fruit, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Albertson's veggies, 2 lb frozen bags, $1.99
Healthy Choice frozen meals or “Steaming” entrees, 2/$5
Fuji or Braeburn apples, $1/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
“Cuties” clementines, 3 lb bag, $3.99
Cut up pineapple, 20 oz thing, $3.99
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Broccoli crowns, 39¢/lb
Greens (collard/kale/mustard/turnip), 88¢/bunch
Red/yellow/orange bell peppers, $1 ea
Fresh Express “Iceberg Garden” bag salad, 12 oz, 2/$3
Earthbound Farms organic box salads, 1 lb, $4.99
Bashas':
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $3.99/lb (regular pack, $1/lb higher)
Beef crossrib roast, $4.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, $3.49/lb
Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.88/lb, cut & wrapped free
Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, buy 1 get 1 free
True cod (wild caught) or steelhead (farm raised) fillets, $6.99/lb
Sargento cheeses, 6-8 oz shreds or shingle, 2/$5
Daisy sour cream, 16 oz tub, 2/$3
Nabisco snack crackers, 5-16 oz boxes, $1.99
Chicken of the Sea solid white tuna, 4/$5
Nature Valley granola bars, 6-9 oz boxes, 2/$5
Bush's beans, 15-16 oz cans, 99¢
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$10
Cuties clementines, 3 lb bag, $2.49
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, $1.99
Roma OR slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Whole pineapples, $1.99
Fry's:
Beef t-bone steaks, family pack, $4.77/lb
Beef top round roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
Corned beef brisket, flat cut boneless, $3.49/lb
85/15 ground beef, $3.29/lb
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.77/lb, sliced & wrapped free
Pork loin back OR St-Louis-style ribs, buy 1 get 2 free
Pork loin chops, boneless, family pack, $3.59/lb
Chicken thighs or drumsticks, bone in, $1.19/lb
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Fry's milk, gallons, 2/$3
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, 3/$10
Kroger cream cheese, 8 oz block, 10/$10
Kellogg's breakfast cereals or Nutri-Grain bars, 50% off
Nature's Own bread, 20 oz long loaves, 50% off
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, 50% off
Classico pasta sauces, 8-24 oz jars, 50% off
Pompeian (16 oz) or Star (25 oz) olive oil, 50% off
Libby's veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 50% off
Pirate's Booty, 4 oz bags, 50% off
Kroger black eyed peas, 15 oz cans, 89¢
Libby's sauerkraut, 2 lb jar, $1.89
Glory collard greens, 27 oz cans, $1.89
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 89¢
PopChips, 3 oz bags, 2/$4
Ro*tel tomatoes, 10/$10
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, 6/$12
Dole or Fresh Selections bag salads, $1
Navel oranges, AZ grown, 88¢/lb
Minneola tangelos, 88¢/lb
HoneyCrisp apples, $1.99/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 4 oz boxes, 2/$5
Cauliflower, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Safeway:
Beef New York strip steaks, bone in, value pack, $4.99/lb (regular pack $1/lb higher)
Beef London broil, boneless, $2.49/lb
Beef crossrib roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $5.49/lb
Beef bottom round roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
90/10 ground beef, $2.99/lb
Pork top loin chops, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, whole damn thing in bag, $1.87/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Lucerne cheeses, 5-8 oz chunk or shreds, 2/$5
Daisy sour cream, 16 oz tub, $1.99
Safeway Kitchens breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $1.99
Chicken of the Sea solid white tuna, 2/$3
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, 3/$5
Apples: Fuji, Braeburn, Red Delicious, 98¢/lb
Lemons OR limes, 5 lb bag, $5
Safeway Farms grape tomatoes, 2/$5
Bell peppers, red/yellow/orange, 2/$3
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, $1.29/lb
Sprouts:
Grass-fed organic beef roasts, boneless, $5.99/lb
Pork loin roast, center cut boneless, $1.97/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.88/lb
Seafood-stuffed salmon, 6 oz portions, $2.99 ea
Navel oranges, 3 lbs/$1
Texas grapefruit, 3/$1
Braeburn or Cameo apples, 88¢/lb
Red seedless grapes, 2 lbs/$5
Whole pineapples, 2/$4
Tommies sweet tomatoes, 14 oz thing, $2.99
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Eggplant, 88¢ ea
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Italian or yellow squashes, 88¢/lb
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Bargain guide, week beginning December 19th:
Every food website is devoted entirely around holiday recipes, of course. Doing turkey again this year? Chow.com has the best way to brine it, as well as a set of fast and easy skillet meals entirely suitable for a week when you're terribly tempted to tell the family “Tonight's dinner is a huge pot of EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF”, a vegetarian Christmas menu, and a set of covered dishes you won't want to keep covered for the family potluck.
Snack Girl has a festive looking salad of carrots and beets, how to make your own instant oatmeal, and a very impolite review of “The Worst Snack of 2012”. Simply Recipes has a beef roulade with walnut pesto (and a recipe for the walnut pesto). And at Grist, I found roasted red onions with pumpkin-rosemary stuffing, which even if you don't feel like making pumpkin-rosemary stuffing is a brilliant idea: put your ordinary stuffing into onions and roast them!
Retailers figure you've finished most of your holiday baking by now and are preparing for Christmas dinner, so the biggest promotions this week are for enormous fowl and entire regions of kine and swine.
Lots of food holidays this week, besides the obvious food-oriented holiday. Tomorrow is both National Fried Shrimp Day and National Sangria Day, which combination as far as I'm concerned has dinner covered. The 24th is National Eggnog Day, and the day after Christmas is National Candy Cane Day. And the 23rd, I'm told, is St. Thorlak's Day, the patron saint of Iceland. On that date in Iceland it's traditional to serve “skate hash”, a dish said to be so unappetizing (its aroma is described as “ammoniacal”) that anything served afterwards seems by comparison delicious.
December 19th: National Hard Candy Day
December 20th: National Fried Shrimp Day, National Sangria Day
December 21st: National Hamburger Day, Kiwifruit Day (in California)
December 22nd: National Date Nut Bread Day
December 23rd: National Pfeffernuesse Day; feast of St Thorlak; Saturnalia ends
December 24th: National Eggnog Day
December 25th: National Pumpkin Pie Day
December 26th: National Candy Cane Day
Merry Christmas, and whatever God or Gods you look to, may their blessings rain upon you always!
Albertson's:
Beef standing rib roast, whole damn thing, bone in, $4.77/lb
Beef New York strip roast, bone in, $4.47/lb (steaks $1/lb higher)
Beef ribeye roast, boneless, $6.99/lb
Beef crossrib/bottom round/London broil roasts, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef chuck/eye of round/sirloin tip roasts, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.77/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Hormel Cure 81 spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.37/lb
Hormel Cure 81 half ham, boneless, $3.99/lb
Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.29/lb
Jennie-O fresh turkeys, 12-22 lb, $1.79/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, 12-22 lb, $1.99/lb
Butterball frozen turkeys, 12-24 lb, $1.49/lb
Honeysuckle White turkey breast, $1.77/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.77/lb
Leg of lamb, bone in, $6.99/lb
Coldwater lobster tails, 3 oz minimum, wild caught, $3.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Albertson's eggs, AA large, 18 ct, $1.99
Daisy sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tub, $1.99
Challenge butter, 2/$5
Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz shreds, $2.99
Tillamook cheeses, 2 lb chunk, $7.99
Deli: All Dietz & Watson ham/turkey breast/chicken breast/cheeses, $7.99/lb
Signature (store brand?) turkey breast/roast beef/“double honey” ham, $6.99/lb
Deli Fresh Muenster/Provolone/pepperjack/mild Cheddar, $5.99/lb
Libby's veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 2/$1
Stove Top stuffing mix, 6 oz boxes, 10/$10
Betty Crocker potato dishes, 3-6 oz boxes, 10/$10
Vlasic pickles, 16-46 oz jars, 2/$5
Early California olives, 6 oz cans, 4/$5
PictSweet frozen veg, 14-16 oz bags, 88¢
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, 5/$10
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $2.99
Navel oranges, $1.29/lb
Fuji or Braeburn apples, $1/lb
Cut up pineapple, 20 oz thing, $3.99
Green Giant fresh green beans, 12 oz bag, 2/$5
Vine tomatoes, 14 oz box, 2/$5
Red or golden yams, 79¢/lb
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef standing rib roast, “trimmed, tied, and ready for the oven”, $4.75/lb
Beef standing rib roast, large or small end, $5.75/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, $6.99/lb
Beef tenderloin, whole in bag, $6.99/lb, cut & wrapped free
Beef top sirloin, sirloin tip, top/bottom/eye round, crossrib, rump, chuck roasts, $3.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, $1.99/lb
Cook's spiral sliced half ham, $1.35/lb
Pork shoulder/loin/crown roasts, $2.99/lb
Cook's ham, shank portion, $1.29/lb (butt portion, 30¢/lb higher)
Hormel spiral ham, $2.49/lb
Hormel Cure 81 boneless ham, whole or half, $3.99/lb
Butterball or Jennie-O fresh turkeys, $1.79/lb
Food Club cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/cubes, 5/$10
Food Club butter, 2/$5
Shamrock Farms cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1.99
Bashas' “Homestyle” bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.88
Nature's Own bread, 20 oz long loaves, $1.99
Nabisco snack crackers, 5-10 oz boxes, $1.99
Stove Top stuffing mix, 6 oz boxes, 99¢
Libby's veg, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Dole pineapple, 20 oz cans, 10/$10
Dole Mandarin oranges, 11 oz cans, 10/$10
Idahoan potatoes, 3-4 oz bags, 99¢
Food Club fruit, 8-15 oz cans, 99¢
Flav-R-Pac frozen veg, 12-16 oz bags, 77¢ ea
Whole pineapples, 99¢ ea
Blackberries, 4 oz box, buy 1 get 1 free
Apples, Fuji/Red Delicious/Granny Smith, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Cantaloupe OR honeydew melon, 59¢/lb
Slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Fresh green beans, 77¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef New York strip roast, bone in, $3.77/lb
Beef standing rib roast, bone in, whole in bag, $4.97/lb (trimmed, $1/lb higher)
Beef rib roast, large end, $6.97/lb (small end $1/lb higher)
Beef tenderloin roast, whole in bag, $12.99/lb
Beef top/bottom/eye round, sirloin tip, chuck, shoulder roasts, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef New York strip steaks, $4.77/lb
Cook's spiral sliced ham, bone in, $1.27/lb
Hormel Cure 81 spiral sliced ham, bone in, $2.69/lb
Private Selection spiral sliced ham, bone in, $2.49/lb
Private Selection boneless ham, “quarter sliced”, $3.99/lb
Flame Crafted ham, $6.99/lb “in select stores”
Kroger boneless whole ham, $2.79/lb
Rack of pork, center cut, $5.99/lb
Pork crown roast, $5.99/lb
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $3.49/lb, sliced & wrapped free
Leg of lamb, “semi boneless”, $6.99/lb
Rack of lamb, 8 rib, $13.99/lb
Jennie-O or Foster Farms fresh turkeys, $1.79/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, $1.99/lb
Kroger frozen turkeys, 79¢/lb
Frozen ducks, $2.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Kroger butter, $1.99
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.99
Kroger veggies, 11-15 oz
Bruce's yams, 29 oz cans, buy 1 get 1 free
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-26 oz jars, 3/$5
Kroger frozen veg, 9-12 oz bags, 75¢
PictSweet (14-16 oz) or Birds Eye (12 oz) frozen veg, 10/$10
Navel oranges, 13 lb box, $4.99
Blackberries OR blueberries, 4-6 oz boxes, 2/$3
HoneyCrisp apples, $1.99/lb
Asian pears (apple shaped), 88¢/lb
Safeway:
Beef ribeye roast, bone in, whole in bag, $4.99/lb
Beef chuck pot roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck crossrib steak, thin cut boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, boneless, $7.99/lb
Beef tenderloin roast, $11.99/lb
90-10 ground beef, $3.99/lb
Safeway smoked ham, whole or shank half, 99¢/lb (rump half 20¢/lb higher)
Safeway Select boneless whole ham, $3.99/lb
Safeway spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.79/lb
Smithfield spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $2.99/lb
Hormel Cure 81 boneless half hams, $4.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
Open Nature leg of lamb, boneless, $7.99/lb
Open Nature fresh turkeys, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Lucerne OR Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99
Lucerne butter, $2.99
Safeway Kitchens breads, 24 oz wide pan loaves, $1.99
Vlasic pickles, 24 oz jars, buy 1 get 1 free
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, 3/$5
Safeway Kitchens tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 89¢
Green Giant frozen veg, 7-10 oz boxes, buy 2 get 1 free
Eating Right frozen entrees, 5/$10
Cuties clementines, 5 lb bag, $3.99
Whole pineapples, $2.99 ea
Red Delicious OR Granny Smith apples, $1.49/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Fresh Express OR Safeway Farms bag salads, 2/$5
GreenLine fresh green beans, buy 1 get 1 free
Sprouts:
Beef standing rib roast, “Presidential cut”, $7.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Sprouts spiral sliced ham, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $2.99/lb
Fresh free-range turkeys, $1.99/lb
All pork or chicken sausage, bulk or links, $2.99/lb
Alaskan cod or salmon fillets OR swordfish steaks, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Sprouts butter, 2/$5
Navel oranges, 3 lbs/$1
Fuji/Granny Smith/Jonagold apples, 99¢/lb
Organic Valencia oranges, 4 lb bag, 2/$5
Roma tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Winter squashes, acorn/butternut/spaghetti, 77¢/lb
Snack Girl has a festive looking salad of carrots and beets, how to make your own instant oatmeal, and a very impolite review of “The Worst Snack of 2012”. Simply Recipes has a beef roulade with walnut pesto (and a recipe for the walnut pesto). And at Grist, I found roasted red onions with pumpkin-rosemary stuffing, which even if you don't feel like making pumpkin-rosemary stuffing is a brilliant idea: put your ordinary stuffing into onions and roast them!
Retailers figure you've finished most of your holiday baking by now and are preparing for Christmas dinner, so the biggest promotions this week are for enormous fowl and entire regions of kine and swine.
Lots of food holidays this week, besides the obvious food-oriented holiday. Tomorrow is both National Fried Shrimp Day and National Sangria Day, which combination as far as I'm concerned has dinner covered. The 24th is National Eggnog Day, and the day after Christmas is National Candy Cane Day. And the 23rd, I'm told, is St. Thorlak's Day, the patron saint of Iceland. On that date in Iceland it's traditional to serve “skate hash”, a dish said to be so unappetizing (its aroma is described as “ammoniacal”) that anything served afterwards seems by comparison delicious.
December 19th: National Hard Candy Day
December 20th: National Fried Shrimp Day, National Sangria Day
December 21st: National Hamburger Day, Kiwifruit Day (in California)
December 22nd: National Date Nut Bread Day
December 23rd: National Pfeffernuesse Day; feast of St Thorlak; Saturnalia ends
December 24th: National Eggnog Day
December 25th: National Pumpkin Pie Day
December 26th: National Candy Cane Day
Merry Christmas, and whatever God or Gods you look to, may their blessings rain upon you always!
Albertson's:
Beef standing rib roast, whole damn thing, bone in, $4.77/lb
Beef New York strip roast, bone in, $4.47/lb (steaks $1/lb higher)
Beef ribeye roast, boneless, $6.99/lb
Beef crossrib/bottom round/London broil roasts, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef chuck/eye of round/sirloin tip roasts, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.77/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Hormel Cure 81 spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.37/lb
Hormel Cure 81 half ham, boneless, $3.99/lb
Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.29/lb
Jennie-O fresh turkeys, 12-22 lb, $1.79/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, 12-22 lb, $1.99/lb
Butterball frozen turkeys, 12-24 lb, $1.49/lb
Honeysuckle White turkey breast, $1.77/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.77/lb
Leg of lamb, bone in, $6.99/lb
Coldwater lobster tails, 3 oz minimum, wild caught, $3.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Albertson's eggs, AA large, 18 ct, $1.99
Daisy sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tub, $1.99
Challenge butter, 2/$5
Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz shreds, $2.99
Tillamook cheeses, 2 lb chunk, $7.99
Deli: All Dietz & Watson ham/turkey breast/chicken breast/cheeses, $7.99/lb
Signature (store brand?) turkey breast/roast beef/“double honey” ham, $6.99/lb
Deli Fresh Muenster/Provolone/pepperjack/mild Cheddar, $5.99/lb
Libby's veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 2/$1
Stove Top stuffing mix, 6 oz boxes, 10/$10
Betty Crocker potato dishes, 3-6 oz boxes, 10/$10
Vlasic pickles, 16-46 oz jars, 2/$5
Early California olives, 6 oz cans, 4/$5
PictSweet frozen veg, 14-16 oz bags, 88¢
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, 5/$10
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $2.99
Navel oranges, $1.29/lb
Fuji or Braeburn apples, $1/lb
Cut up pineapple, 20 oz thing, $3.99
Green Giant fresh green beans, 12 oz bag, 2/$5
Vine tomatoes, 14 oz box, 2/$5
Red or golden yams, 79¢/lb
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef standing rib roast, “trimmed, tied, and ready for the oven”, $4.75/lb
Beef standing rib roast, large or small end, $5.75/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, $6.99/lb
Beef tenderloin, whole in bag, $6.99/lb, cut & wrapped free
Beef top sirloin, sirloin tip, top/bottom/eye round, crossrib, rump, chuck roasts, $3.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, $1.99/lb
Cook's spiral sliced half ham, $1.35/lb
Pork shoulder/loin/crown roasts, $2.99/lb
Cook's ham, shank portion, $1.29/lb (butt portion, 30¢/lb higher)
Hormel spiral ham, $2.49/lb
Hormel Cure 81 boneless ham, whole or half, $3.99/lb
Butterball or Jennie-O fresh turkeys, $1.79/lb
Food Club cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/cubes, 5/$10
Food Club butter, 2/$5
Shamrock Farms cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1.99
Bashas' “Homestyle” bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.88
Nature's Own bread, 20 oz long loaves, $1.99
Nabisco snack crackers, 5-10 oz boxes, $1.99
Stove Top stuffing mix, 6 oz boxes, 99¢
Libby's veg, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Dole pineapple, 20 oz cans, 10/$10
Dole Mandarin oranges, 11 oz cans, 10/$10
Idahoan potatoes, 3-4 oz bags, 99¢
Food Club fruit, 8-15 oz cans, 99¢
Flav-R-Pac frozen veg, 12-16 oz bags, 77¢ ea
Whole pineapples, 99¢ ea
Blackberries, 4 oz box, buy 1 get 1 free
Apples, Fuji/Red Delicious/Granny Smith, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Cantaloupe OR honeydew melon, 59¢/lb
Slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Fresh green beans, 77¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef New York strip roast, bone in, $3.77/lb
Beef standing rib roast, bone in, whole in bag, $4.97/lb (trimmed, $1/lb higher)
Beef rib roast, large end, $6.97/lb (small end $1/lb higher)
Beef tenderloin roast, whole in bag, $12.99/lb
Beef top/bottom/eye round, sirloin tip, chuck, shoulder roasts, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef New York strip steaks, $4.77/lb
Cook's spiral sliced ham, bone in, $1.27/lb
Hormel Cure 81 spiral sliced ham, bone in, $2.69/lb
Private Selection spiral sliced ham, bone in, $2.49/lb
Private Selection boneless ham, “quarter sliced”, $3.99/lb
Flame Crafted ham, $6.99/lb “in select stores”
Kroger boneless whole ham, $2.79/lb
Rack of pork, center cut, $5.99/lb
Pork crown roast, $5.99/lb
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $3.49/lb, sliced & wrapped free
Leg of lamb, “semi boneless”, $6.99/lb
Rack of lamb, 8 rib, $13.99/lb
Jennie-O or Foster Farms fresh turkeys, $1.79/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, $1.99/lb
Kroger frozen turkeys, 79¢/lb
Frozen ducks, $2.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Kroger butter, $1.99
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.99
Kroger veggies, 11-15 oz
Bruce's yams, 29 oz cans, buy 1 get 1 free
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-26 oz jars, 3/$5
Kroger frozen veg, 9-12 oz bags, 75¢
PictSweet (14-16 oz) or Birds Eye (12 oz) frozen veg, 10/$10
Navel oranges, 13 lb box, $4.99
Blackberries OR blueberries, 4-6 oz boxes, 2/$3
HoneyCrisp apples, $1.99/lb
Asian pears (apple shaped), 88¢/lb
Safeway:
Beef ribeye roast, bone in, whole in bag, $4.99/lb
Beef chuck pot roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck crossrib steak, thin cut boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, boneless, $7.99/lb
Beef tenderloin roast, $11.99/lb
90-10 ground beef, $3.99/lb
Safeway smoked ham, whole or shank half, 99¢/lb (rump half 20¢/lb higher)
Safeway Select boneless whole ham, $3.99/lb
Safeway spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.79/lb
Smithfield spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $2.99/lb
Hormel Cure 81 boneless half hams, $4.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
Open Nature leg of lamb, boneless, $7.99/lb
Open Nature fresh turkeys, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Lucerne OR Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99
Lucerne butter, $2.99
Safeway Kitchens breads, 24 oz wide pan loaves, $1.99
Vlasic pickles, 24 oz jars, buy 1 get 1 free
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, 3/$5
Safeway Kitchens tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 89¢
Green Giant frozen veg, 7-10 oz boxes, buy 2 get 1 free
Eating Right frozen entrees, 5/$10
Cuties clementines, 5 lb bag, $3.99
Whole pineapples, $2.99 ea
Red Delicious OR Granny Smith apples, $1.49/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Fresh Express OR Safeway Farms bag salads, 2/$5
GreenLine fresh green beans, buy 1 get 1 free
Sprouts:
Beef standing rib roast, “Presidential cut”, $7.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Sprouts spiral sliced ham, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $2.99/lb
Fresh free-range turkeys, $1.99/lb
All pork or chicken sausage, bulk or links, $2.99/lb
Alaskan cod or salmon fillets OR swordfish steaks, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Sprouts butter, 2/$5
Navel oranges, 3 lbs/$1
Fuji/Granny Smith/Jonagold apples, 99¢/lb
Organic Valencia oranges, 4 lb bag, 2/$5
Roma tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Winter squashes, acorn/butternut/spaghetti, 77¢/lb
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Bargain guide, week beginning December 12th:
Fooducate.com has an article on “The Chips Revolution – Not Just Potato and Corn Anymore” (“Kale chips, bean chips, you-name-the-veggie-we-have-it-chips”), and one on Bolthouse Farms' new advertising campaign to sell fresh vegetables as sexxxay. Hey, if it gets people eating their veg it works for me. Chow.com has a roughly-six-PointsPlus-per-serving split pea soup to make in the slow cooker, better than two dozen holiday roasts (content note: sensitive souls may want to exercise caution as #9 features a photograph of a roasted suckling pig), and loads of videos: how to do “easy slow-roasted prime rib”, a “sneaky breakfast remedy for hangovers” (one tablespoon each of bourbon and maple syrup: mix, warm in the microwave, pour over your breakfast oatmeal or yogurt), Supertaster reviews of a Swiss Colony gift box and lutefisk, and an analysis of that eternal question, is it safe to eat raw cookie dough (no). And at Summer Tomato, I find “6 tips to make dessert worth it”.
All manner of recipes! Grist has ideas for edible gifts that aren't cookies: DIY granola, flavored salts, pesto (for some reason they're doing nettle pesto: nettles do not occur in our counties nor do I or the Agricultural Extension people recommend introducing them), lemon curd (“like jam but it's decadent and British”), vin d'orange (start it now for next year). Simply Recipes has roasted butternut squash with radicchio (that's spelled the same way as on the webpage, so my spell checker can just shut up), Smitten Kitchen has cauliflower feta fritters (I know, I know, but as she points out, “In a December that is to the gills with buttery cookies, decadent cheese plates, stiff drinks and rich roasts, they might even be a little island of moderation”), and Snack Girl has a Christmas salad (kale like holly with tiny tomatoes) and her Top Ten Recipes from 2012.
National Cocoa Day – the beverage – is either today or tomorrow, my sources cannot agree. They do however agree that cocoa and hot chocolate are different things (cocoa made with cocoa powder, hot chocolate from chocolate candy melted into hot milk). In commemoration of the poor ickle piggie mentioned at Chow.com above, the 18th is Roast Suckling Pig day. The 16th is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day which let us celebrate with respectful abandon. The 17th is the first day of Saturnalia. And I've finally managed to find out an explanation for why tomorrow is National Ice Cream and Violins Day: December 13th, 1903, the US Patent Office granted Patent Number 746,971 to Italo Marchioni for his invention of a machine to make molded ice-cream cups; and the same date in 2010, violinist Ben Lee of FUSE broke the Guinness World Record for Fastest Violin Player, by playing "Flight of the Bumblebee" in 58.515 seconds, over 14 notes per second. And yeah, that violin has glitter on it. And a pickup.
December 12th: National Ambrosia Day, Gingerbread House Day, one date for National Cocoa Day
December 13th: Another date for National Cocoa Day, National Ice Cream and Violins Day; 1827, the first Delmonico's restaurant opens in New York
December 14th: National Bouillabaisse Day
December 15th: National Cupcake Day -- or possibly National Lemon Cupcake Day, this is another on which my sources differ
December 16th: Chocolate Covered Anything Day
December 17th: National Maple Syrup Day; 1843, A Christmas Carol first published
December 18th: National Roast Suckling Pig Day
December 19th: Oatmeal Muffin Day, National Hard Candy Day; 1863, Frederick Walton of London patents linoleum
Oh, and Happy Sound Test Day! (1-2, 1-2, 1-2 … )
Albertson's:
Beef whole standing rib roast, bone in, $4.77/lb (limit 1)
Beef herb crusted standing rib roast, bone in, $6.27/lb
Beef ribeye roast, boneless, $6.99/lb
Beef New York roast, bone in, $4.47/lb
Beef crossrib/bottom round/London broil roasts, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef chuck/eye of round/sirloin tip roasts, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Cure 81 spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.37/lb
Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.29/lb (butt portion, $1.49/lb
American Chef whole boneless hams, 4 lb, $19.99 ea, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, $1.99/lb
Pork half loin roast, boneless, $1.99/lb
Pork sirloin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.77/lb
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.67
Albertson's eggs, AA large, dozens, 2/$3
Albertson's cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1.49
Deli: All Dietz & Watson hams, turkey breast, chicken breast, cheeses, $7.99/lb
Del Monte veggies, 13-15 oz cans, 88¢
Ro*tel tomatoes, 10/$10
Hunt's diced tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Libby's fruit, 15 oz cans, 2/$3
Reese artichoke hearts, 14 oz cans, $3.49
Fresh Aisle olive oil, half litre bottles, $3.99
Healthy Choice “Baked” or “Steaming” entrees, 5/$10
Bananas, 39¢/lb
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $4.99
Navel oranges, $1/lb
Red or Golden Delicious apples, $1/lb
Roma tomatoes, $1/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, $1 ea
Yams/sweet potatoes, $1/lb
Sweet onions, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef top sirloin steaks or London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef New York strip steak, boneless, $9.99/lb
Beef crossrib OR bottom round roast, $4.99/lb
Ground beef sirloin, value pack,
Pork shoulder roast, $1.99/lb
Bashas' chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, 99¢/lb
Bashas' boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Steelhead fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Haddock fillets, $4.99/lb
Bashas' cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $1.99
Land O Lakes butter, $2.99
Nature's Own bread, 20 oz long loaves, $1.99
Classico pasta sauces, 8-24 oz jars, 2/$4
Food Club pasta, 13-16 oz pkg, 99¢
Del Monte veg, 13-15 oz cans, 79¢
Navel oranges, 3 lbs/99¢
Texas grapefruit, 3/99¢
Apples: Gala, Fuji, Braeburn, 99¢/lb
Mangos, 10/$10
Whole pineapples, $1.99
Vine tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Hass avocados, 3/99¢
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, $1.99
Cucumbers, 2/$1
Full Circle organic box salads, 2/$5
Fry's:
Beef New York strip roast, bone in, “oven ready”, $3.77/lb
Beef New York strip steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.77/lb
Beef whole standing rib roast, bone in, whole in bag, $4.97/lb (trimmed, $1 higher)
Beef tenderloin roast, whole in bag, $12.99/lb
Beef rib roast, bone in, large end, $6.97/lb (small end, $1 higher)
Beef chuck, shoulder, top/bottom/eye of round roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
Cook's half ham, bone in, 97¢/lb
Flame Crafted ham, $6.99/lb (“available in select stores”)
Private Selection spiral sliced half ham, $2.49/lb
Hormel Cure 81 spiral sliced ham, bone in, $2.69
Kroger whole boneless hams, $2.79/lb
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $3.49/lb, sliced & wrapped free
Private Selection rack of lamb, fresh, 8 rib, $13.99
Kroger frozen turkeys, 10/20 lb, 79¢/lb
Jennie-O or Foster Farms fresh turkeys, 10/24 lb, $1.79/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, 10-24 lb, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Fry's milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Kroger butter, 2/$5
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.99
Kroger veg, 11-15 oz cans, 2/$1
Progresso soup incl Light (with the WW logo!), 8/$10
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-26 oz jars, 3/$5
Birds Eye frozen veg, 12 oz pkg, 10/$10
Kroger frozen veg, 9-12 oz pkg, 10/$10
HoneyCrisp apples, $1.99/lb
Cuties clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99/lb
Bananas, 57¢/lb
Whole pineapples, 2/$5
Pomegranates, 2/$5
Blackberries OR raspberries, 6 oz boxes, buy 1 get 1 free
Dole bag salads, $1 ea
Fresh green beans, $1.99/lb
Golden or red yams OR sweet potatoes, 99¢/lb
Safeway:
Beef New York roast, boneless, value pack, $4.99/lb
Beef bottom round roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef tenderloin roast, $11.99/lb
Beef chuck pot roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.87/lb
Pork tenderloin, boneless, whole in bag, $4.79/lb
Open Nature “semi-boneless” leg of lamb, $7.99/lb
Safeway smoked ham, whole or shank half, 99¢/lb (rump half, $1.19/lb
Safeway spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.79/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Alaskan true cod fillets, $6.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.67
Lucerne cheeses, 5-8 oz shreds or shingle, 2/$5
Philadelphia cream cheese, 8 oz tubs, 2/$5
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Lucerne sour cream, 16 oz tubs, $1.69
Bush's variety (non-baked) beans, 15-16 oz cans, 5/$5
Safeway Kitchens canned veg, 14-15 oz cans, 79¢ ea
Hunt's tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
Campbell's “100% Natural” soup, 18 oz cans, buy 1 get 1 free
Safeway pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 10/$10
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, $1.99
Navel oranges, 2 lbs/$1
Apples, Red Delicious or Granny Smith, $1.49/lb
Red cherries, imported, $4.99/lb
Blackberries/raspberries/blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$6
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $6.99
Nature Sweet cherry or “Sunburst” (tiny yellow) tomatoes, 10 oz box, 2/$6
GreenLine fresh green beans, 12 oz bags, buy 1 get 1 free
Sprouts:
All ground chicken/pork/lean beef/lamb/turkey breast, 50% off
All bulk foods from bins, 25% off
Beef standing rib roast, “Presidential cut” whatever that may mean, $7.99/lb
Beef rump roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef ribeye steak, boneless, $11.99/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, center cut, $2.99/lb (chops $1 higher)
Pork shoulder roast OR country style ribs, boneless, $2.49/lb
Rack of lamb, French-cut, $14.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $2.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Navel oranges, 3 lbs/$1
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $2.99
Whole seedless watermelons, 3 lbs/$1
Fuji or Braeburn apples, 99¢/lb
Pears: Bartlett, D'Anjou, Bosc, 99¢/lb
Blackberries, 5 oz boxes, 99¢ ea
Roma tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Brown onions, 2 lbs/$1
Eggplant, 88¢ ea
Italian or grey squash, 88¢/lb
All manner of recipes! Grist has ideas for edible gifts that aren't cookies: DIY granola, flavored salts, pesto (for some reason they're doing nettle pesto: nettles do not occur in our counties nor do I or the Agricultural Extension people recommend introducing them), lemon curd (“like jam but it's decadent and British”), vin d'orange (start it now for next year). Simply Recipes has roasted butternut squash with radicchio (that's spelled the same way as on the webpage, so my spell checker can just shut up), Smitten Kitchen has cauliflower feta fritters (I know, I know, but as she points out, “In a December that is to the gills with buttery cookies, decadent cheese plates, stiff drinks and rich roasts, they might even be a little island of moderation”), and Snack Girl has a Christmas salad (kale like holly with tiny tomatoes) and her Top Ten Recipes from 2012.
National Cocoa Day – the beverage – is either today or tomorrow, my sources cannot agree. They do however agree that cocoa and hot chocolate are different things (cocoa made with cocoa powder, hot chocolate from chocolate candy melted into hot milk). In commemoration of the poor ickle piggie mentioned at Chow.com above, the 18th is Roast Suckling Pig day. The 16th is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day which let us celebrate with respectful abandon. The 17th is the first day of Saturnalia. And I've finally managed to find out an explanation for why tomorrow is National Ice Cream and Violins Day: December 13th, 1903, the US Patent Office granted Patent Number 746,971 to Italo Marchioni for his invention of a machine to make molded ice-cream cups; and the same date in 2010, violinist Ben Lee of FUSE broke the Guinness World Record for Fastest Violin Player, by playing "Flight of the Bumblebee" in 58.515 seconds, over 14 notes per second. And yeah, that violin has glitter on it. And a pickup.
December 12th: National Ambrosia Day, Gingerbread House Day, one date for National Cocoa Day
December 13th: Another date for National Cocoa Day, National Ice Cream and Violins Day; 1827, the first Delmonico's restaurant opens in New York
December 14th: National Bouillabaisse Day
December 15th: National Cupcake Day -- or possibly National Lemon Cupcake Day, this is another on which my sources differ
December 16th: Chocolate Covered Anything Day
December 17th: National Maple Syrup Day; 1843, A Christmas Carol first published
December 18th: National Roast Suckling Pig Day
December 19th: Oatmeal Muffin Day, National Hard Candy Day; 1863, Frederick Walton of London patents linoleum
Oh, and Happy Sound Test Day! (1-2, 1-2, 1-2 … )
Albertson's:
Beef whole standing rib roast, bone in, $4.77/lb (limit 1)
Beef herb crusted standing rib roast, bone in, $6.27/lb
Beef ribeye roast, boneless, $6.99/lb
Beef New York roast, bone in, $4.47/lb
Beef crossrib/bottom round/London broil roasts, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef chuck/eye of round/sirloin tip roasts, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Cure 81 spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.37/lb
Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.29/lb (butt portion, $1.49/lb
American Chef whole boneless hams, 4 lb, $19.99 ea, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, $1.99/lb
Pork half loin roast, boneless, $1.99/lb
Pork sirloin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.77/lb
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.67
Albertson's eggs, AA large, dozens, 2/$3
Albertson's cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1.49
Deli: All Dietz & Watson hams, turkey breast, chicken breast, cheeses, $7.99/lb
Del Monte veggies, 13-15 oz cans, 88¢
Ro*tel tomatoes, 10/$10
Hunt's diced tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Libby's fruit, 15 oz cans, 2/$3
Reese artichoke hearts, 14 oz cans, $3.49
Fresh Aisle olive oil, half litre bottles, $3.99
Healthy Choice “Baked” or “Steaming” entrees, 5/$10
Bananas, 39¢/lb
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $4.99
Navel oranges, $1/lb
Red or Golden Delicious apples, $1/lb
Roma tomatoes, $1/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, $1 ea
Yams/sweet potatoes, $1/lb
Sweet onions, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef top sirloin steaks or London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef New York strip steak, boneless, $9.99/lb
Beef crossrib OR bottom round roast, $4.99/lb
Ground beef sirloin, value pack,
Pork shoulder roast, $1.99/lb
Bashas' chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, 99¢/lb
Bashas' boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Steelhead fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Haddock fillets, $4.99/lb
Bashas' cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $1.99
Land O Lakes butter, $2.99
Nature's Own bread, 20 oz long loaves, $1.99
Classico pasta sauces, 8-24 oz jars, 2/$4
Food Club pasta, 13-16 oz pkg, 99¢
Del Monte veg, 13-15 oz cans, 79¢
Navel oranges, 3 lbs/99¢
Texas grapefruit, 3/99¢
Apples: Gala, Fuji, Braeburn, 99¢/lb
Mangos, 10/$10
Whole pineapples, $1.99
Vine tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Hass avocados, 3/99¢
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, $1.99
Cucumbers, 2/$1
Full Circle organic box salads, 2/$5
Fry's:
Beef New York strip roast, bone in, “oven ready”, $3.77/lb
Beef New York strip steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.77/lb
Beef whole standing rib roast, bone in, whole in bag, $4.97/lb (trimmed, $1 higher)
Beef tenderloin roast, whole in bag, $12.99/lb
Beef rib roast, bone in, large end, $6.97/lb (small end, $1 higher)
Beef chuck, shoulder, top/bottom/eye of round roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
Cook's half ham, bone in, 97¢/lb
Flame Crafted ham, $6.99/lb (“available in select stores”)
Private Selection spiral sliced half ham, $2.49/lb
Hormel Cure 81 spiral sliced ham, bone in, $2.69
Kroger whole boneless hams, $2.79/lb
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $3.49/lb, sliced & wrapped free
Private Selection rack of lamb, fresh, 8 rib, $13.99
Kroger frozen turkeys, 10/20 lb, 79¢/lb
Jennie-O or Foster Farms fresh turkeys, 10/24 lb, $1.79/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, 10-24 lb, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Fry's milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Kroger butter, 2/$5
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.99
Kroger veg, 11-15 oz cans, 2/$1
Progresso soup incl Light (with the WW logo!), 8/$10
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-26 oz jars, 3/$5
Birds Eye frozen veg, 12 oz pkg, 10/$10
Kroger frozen veg, 9-12 oz pkg, 10/$10
HoneyCrisp apples, $1.99/lb
Cuties clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99/lb
Bananas, 57¢/lb
Whole pineapples, 2/$5
Pomegranates, 2/$5
Blackberries OR raspberries, 6 oz boxes, buy 1 get 1 free
Dole bag salads, $1 ea
Fresh green beans, $1.99/lb
Golden or red yams OR sweet potatoes, 99¢/lb
Safeway:
Beef New York roast, boneless, value pack, $4.99/lb
Beef bottom round roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef tenderloin roast, $11.99/lb
Beef chuck pot roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.87/lb
Pork tenderloin, boneless, whole in bag, $4.79/lb
Open Nature “semi-boneless” leg of lamb, $7.99/lb
Safeway smoked ham, whole or shank half, 99¢/lb (rump half, $1.19/lb
Safeway spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.79/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Alaskan true cod fillets, $6.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.67
Lucerne cheeses, 5-8 oz shreds or shingle, 2/$5
Philadelphia cream cheese, 8 oz tubs, 2/$5
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Lucerne sour cream, 16 oz tubs, $1.69
Bush's variety (non-baked) beans, 15-16 oz cans, 5/$5
Safeway Kitchens canned veg, 14-15 oz cans, 79¢ ea
Hunt's tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
Campbell's “100% Natural” soup, 18 oz cans, buy 1 get 1 free
Safeway pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 10/$10
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, $1.99
Navel oranges, 2 lbs/$1
Apples, Red Delicious or Granny Smith, $1.49/lb
Red cherries, imported, $4.99/lb
Blackberries/raspberries/blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$6
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $6.99
Nature Sweet cherry or “Sunburst” (tiny yellow) tomatoes, 10 oz box, 2/$6
GreenLine fresh green beans, 12 oz bags, buy 1 get 1 free
Sprouts:
All ground chicken/pork/lean beef/lamb/turkey breast, 50% off
All bulk foods from bins, 25% off
Beef standing rib roast, “Presidential cut” whatever that may mean, $7.99/lb
Beef rump roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef ribeye steak, boneless, $11.99/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, center cut, $2.99/lb (chops $1 higher)
Pork shoulder roast OR country style ribs, boneless, $2.49/lb
Rack of lamb, French-cut, $14.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $2.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Navel oranges, 3 lbs/$1
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $2.99
Whole seedless watermelons, 3 lbs/$1
Fuji or Braeburn apples, 99¢/lb
Pears: Bartlett, D'Anjou, Bosc, 99¢/lb
Blackberries, 5 oz boxes, 99¢ ea
Roma tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Brown onions, 2 lbs/$1
Eggplant, 88¢ ea
Italian or grey squash, 88¢/lb
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Bargain guide, week beginning December 5th:
Disclaimer: This blog, and the corresponding printed handout, are entirely my production. This is a hobby. It is in no way, shape, form, or fashion an official Weight Watchers production. So VERY not. Noop.
Lots of recipes this week and probably for the next couple. Chow.com has a list of recipes for latkes and sufganiyot – not exactly PointPlus-friendly but traditional (although the traditionality of sufganiyot with ginger-lime-curd filling is questionable) – as well as, at this time of entertaining, recipes for “fancy toast” appetizers, cold appetizers, vegetarian appetizers, and (startlingly) healthy appetizers! And for after the cocktail hour, when your guests want to buckle down for some serious (and shudderingly expensive) eating, there are “impressive, yet surprisingly easy” prime-rib and rib-roast ideas.
Weighthacker has the three reasons we tend to overeat during the holidays – abundance (food is EVERYWHERE), palatability (and it's the good stuff), and peer pressure (you're surrounded) – and how to deal with them. The New Yorker has the history of peanut butter (“First created for sanitariums like John Harvey Kellogg’s Western Health Reform Institute, it satisfied the need for a protein-rich food that did not have to be chewed”). And for your weekly dose of snark, Deadspin has a funny if somewhat (warning!) linguistically uninhibited commentary on the Williams-Sonoma catalog. (“Item #02-496059, Bourbon Cranberry Relish. Sauteed cranberries, bourbon, shallots, and herbs with a hint of orange. 16 oz. Price, $40. That's 40 bucks for a bowl of cranberry sauce that everyone will pass up because we all prefer the s*** that costs two bucks and comes plopping out of the can in the shape of the can.”)
More recipes! Darya at Summer Tomato reprints her recipe for “Brussels Sprouts that aren't gross”. Sprouted Kitchen provides what I can only describe as pumpkinblackbeanburgers – I know, I know, but they actually look good. And Snack Girl supplies Lighter Latkes, as well as some truly adorable Santa hats made out of strawberries.
December 5th: National Sachertorte Day; 1933, 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, repealing Prohibition
December 6th: National Gazpacho Day, Microwave Oven Day; feast of St. Nicholas of Myra
December 7th: National Cotton Candy Day; 1863, Richard Warren Sears born (founder of Sears & Roebuck); 1904, Clarence “Ducky” Nash born (the original voice of Donald Duck)
December 8th: National Chocolate Brownie Day
December 9th: National Pastry Day, National Apple Pie Day; 1886, Clarence Birdseye born (founder of the General Seafood Corporation, now Birds Eye Frozen Foods)
December 10th: National Lager Day
December 11th: National Noodle Ring Day; 1874, James Lewis Kraft born (inventor of “process” cheese and founder of Kraft Foods)
December 12th: National Cocoa Day, National Ambrosia Day, Gingerbread House Day
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef chuck, crossrib, bottom round steaks, boneless, 50% off
Beef chuck, crossrib, bottom/eye round, sirloin tip roasts, boneless, 50% off
Beef New York roast or steak, bone in, $4.99/lb
Beef standing rib roast or steak, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.49/lb (3 lbs or more)
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork sirloin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.77/lb
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, $1.99/lb
Hormel Cure 81 spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.37/lb
Sanders Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, tray pack, $4.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Store (unbranded) boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Lobster tails, wild caught, 3 oz minimum, $4.99 ea
Essential Everyday cream cheese, 8 oz brick, 4/$5
Deli: Jennie-O “Deli Style” turkey breast, $4.99/lb
USA Gold Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Deitz & Watson bologna, beef or German, $4.99/lb
Margherita hard/Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $4.99/lb
Charlie's Pride pastrami OR corned beef, $4.99/lb
Deli Fresh Provolone/pepperjack/Muenster/mild Cheddar, $4.99/lb
Classico pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, 2/$4
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 2/$3
Bear Creek soup mixes, 9-11 oz envelopes, $3.49
Navel oranges, 3 lb bag, $1
Ambrosia or Pink Lady apples, $1.99/lb
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 88¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz boxes, 2/$3
Earthbound Farms organic box salads, 1 lb, $3.99
Bok choy OR nappa cabbage, 79¢/lb
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Bashas':
Beef New York (steak? roast? It doesn't SAY!), boneless, value pack, $4.77/lb
Beef t-bone steak, $9.99/lb
Beef London broil, $5.99/lb
Beef chuck or crossrib roast, $4.99/lb
Pork shoulder roast or value-pack steak, $2.49/lb
Bashas' boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.77/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, $4.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Bashas' milk, gallons, $1.67
Bashas' sour cream OR cottage cheese, 16 oz tubs, 4/$5
Challenge butter, $3.29
Vlasic pickle spears, 24 oz jars, $2.69
Full Circle organic olive oil, 17 oz bottles, $3.99
Pictsweet frozen veg, 10-12 oz pkg, 4/$5
Apples: Gala, Fuji, Braeburn, Red/Golden Delicious, 10 lbs/$10
Navel oranges, 10 lbs/$10
Roma OR slicing tomatoes, 10 lbs/$10
Asparagus, $1.77/lb
Dole bag salads, buy 1 get 1 free
Sweet onions, 10 lbs/$10
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 10 lbs/$10
Italian or yellow squashes, 10 lbs/$10
Red or gold bell peppers, 10/$10
Fry's:
Having another case sale: check the last page.
Beef top/bottom/eye round, sirloin tip, chuck, shoulder roasts, 50% off
Beef t-bone steaks, family pack, $4.97/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $4.97/lb
Pork shoulder roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.97/lb
Foster Farms whole chickens, 98¢/lb
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
Kroger cottage cheese, 24 oz tubs, $1.77
Kroger butter, 2/$5
Oroweat breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.99
Progresso soups incl Light (with the WW logo!), 8/$10
Pam cooking spray, 5-6 oz cans, $3.29
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, 2/$3
Hunt's tomatoes or sauce, 12-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, $1.99
Smart Ones frozen entrees, 5/$11
Lean Cuisine “Salad Additions”, $2.68
Del Monte pineapples, $1
Asian pears, 99¢ ea
Mangos, 99¢ ea
“Cuties” clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Bartlett or Anjou pears, $1.29
Bananas, 57¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Safeway:
Beef crossrib roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef t-bone steaks, $7.99/lb
Beef bottom round steaks, thin cut boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef London broil, $4.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.49/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, value pack, $2.49/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Safeway Kitchens Pacific cod OR yellowfin sole fillets, 24 oz IQF, $7.99
Land O Lakes butter, $2.99
Safeway Kitchens variety breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $1.99
Nature's Own breads, 20 oz long loaves, 2/$4
Del Monte veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 79¢
Del Monte tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 79¢
Safeway pickles, 24 oz jars, $2.29
HoneyCrisp apples, $1.88/lb (organic, $2.49/lb)
Pomegranates, 2/$5
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, $1.49
Cucumbers, 79¢/lb
Sprouts:
Beef London broil, boneless, $2.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, $1.99/lb
Pork tenderloin, boneless, $3.99/lb
Chicken breast tenders, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, $2.99/lb
Atlantic salmon steaks, bone in, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Apples, Braeburn/Cameo/Jonagold, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
“Texas Star” grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Pineapples, 99¢ ea
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $4.99
Roma tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$5
Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/grey, 99¢/lb
Fry's case sale:
Fry's eggs, AA large, 30 ct, $2.99
Kroger veggies, 11-15 oz cans, 24 ct, $12 (50¢ ea)
Hunt's pasta sauce, 24 oz cans, 12 ct, $10.92 (91¢ ea)
Kroger pineapple, 20 oz cans, 24 ct, $19.92 (83¢ ea)
Kroger chicken or beef broth, 14 oz cans, 24 ct, $10.80 (45¢ ea)
Maruchan ramen noodles, 3 oz pkg, 24 ct, $4.32 (18¢ ea)
Kroger instant oatmeal, 11-15 oz boxes, 12 ct, $15.96 ($1.33 ea)
Lots of recipes this week and probably for the next couple. Chow.com has a list of recipes for latkes and sufganiyot – not exactly PointPlus-friendly but traditional (although the traditionality of sufganiyot with ginger-lime-curd filling is questionable) – as well as, at this time of entertaining, recipes for “fancy toast” appetizers, cold appetizers, vegetarian appetizers, and (startlingly) healthy appetizers! And for after the cocktail hour, when your guests want to buckle down for some serious (and shudderingly expensive) eating, there are “impressive, yet surprisingly easy” prime-rib and rib-roast ideas.
Weighthacker has the three reasons we tend to overeat during the holidays – abundance (food is EVERYWHERE), palatability (and it's the good stuff), and peer pressure (you're surrounded) – and how to deal with them. The New Yorker has the history of peanut butter (“First created for sanitariums like John Harvey Kellogg’s Western Health Reform Institute, it satisfied the need for a protein-rich food that did not have to be chewed”). And for your weekly dose of snark, Deadspin has a funny if somewhat (warning!) linguistically uninhibited commentary on the Williams-Sonoma catalog. (“Item #02-496059, Bourbon Cranberry Relish. Sauteed cranberries, bourbon, shallots, and herbs with a hint of orange. 16 oz. Price, $40. That's 40 bucks for a bowl of cranberry sauce that everyone will pass up because we all prefer the s*** that costs two bucks and comes plopping out of the can in the shape of the can.”)
More recipes! Darya at Summer Tomato reprints her recipe for “Brussels Sprouts that aren't gross”. Sprouted Kitchen provides what I can only describe as pumpkinblackbeanburgers – I know, I know, but they actually look good. And Snack Girl supplies Lighter Latkes, as well as some truly adorable Santa hats made out of strawberries.
December 5th: National Sachertorte Day; 1933, 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, repealing Prohibition
December 6th: National Gazpacho Day, Microwave Oven Day; feast of St. Nicholas of Myra
December 7th: National Cotton Candy Day; 1863, Richard Warren Sears born (founder of Sears & Roebuck); 1904, Clarence “Ducky” Nash born (the original voice of Donald Duck)
December 8th: National Chocolate Brownie Day
December 9th: National Pastry Day, National Apple Pie Day; 1886, Clarence Birdseye born (founder of the General Seafood Corporation, now Birds Eye Frozen Foods)
December 10th: National Lager Day
December 11th: National Noodle Ring Day; 1874, James Lewis Kraft born (inventor of “process” cheese and founder of Kraft Foods)
December 12th: National Cocoa Day, National Ambrosia Day, Gingerbread House Day
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef chuck, crossrib, bottom round steaks, boneless, 50% off
Beef chuck, crossrib, bottom/eye round, sirloin tip roasts, boneless, 50% off
Beef New York roast or steak, bone in, $4.99/lb
Beef standing rib roast or steak, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.49/lb (3 lbs or more)
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork sirloin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.77/lb
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, $1.99/lb
Hormel Cure 81 spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.37/lb
Sanders Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, tray pack, $4.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Store (unbranded) boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Lobster tails, wild caught, 3 oz minimum, $4.99 ea
Essential Everyday cream cheese, 8 oz brick, 4/$5
Deli: Jennie-O “Deli Style” turkey breast, $4.99/lb
USA Gold Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Deitz & Watson bologna, beef or German, $4.99/lb
Margherita hard/Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $4.99/lb
Charlie's Pride pastrami OR corned beef, $4.99/lb
Deli Fresh Provolone/pepperjack/Muenster/mild Cheddar, $4.99/lb
Classico pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, 2/$4
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 2/$3
Bear Creek soup mixes, 9-11 oz envelopes, $3.49
Navel oranges, 3 lb bag, $1
Ambrosia or Pink Lady apples, $1.99/lb
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 88¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz boxes, 2/$3
Earthbound Farms organic box salads, 1 lb, $3.99
Bok choy OR nappa cabbage, 79¢/lb
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Bashas':
Beef New York (steak? roast? It doesn't SAY!), boneless, value pack, $4.77/lb
Beef t-bone steak, $9.99/lb
Beef London broil, $5.99/lb
Beef chuck or crossrib roast, $4.99/lb
Pork shoulder roast or value-pack steak, $2.49/lb
Bashas' boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.77/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, $4.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Bashas' milk, gallons, $1.67
Bashas' sour cream OR cottage cheese, 16 oz tubs, 4/$5
Challenge butter, $3.29
Vlasic pickle spears, 24 oz jars, $2.69
Full Circle organic olive oil, 17 oz bottles, $3.99
Pictsweet frozen veg, 10-12 oz pkg, 4/$5
Apples: Gala, Fuji, Braeburn, Red/Golden Delicious, 10 lbs/$10
Navel oranges, 10 lbs/$10
Roma OR slicing tomatoes, 10 lbs/$10
Asparagus, $1.77/lb
Dole bag salads, buy 1 get 1 free
Sweet onions, 10 lbs/$10
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 10 lbs/$10
Italian or yellow squashes, 10 lbs/$10
Red or gold bell peppers, 10/$10
Fry's:
Having another case sale: check the last page.
Beef top/bottom/eye round, sirloin tip, chuck, shoulder roasts, 50% off
Beef t-bone steaks, family pack, $4.97/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $4.97/lb
Pork shoulder roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.97/lb
Foster Farms whole chickens, 98¢/lb
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
Kroger cottage cheese, 24 oz tubs, $1.77
Kroger butter, 2/$5
Oroweat breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.99
Progresso soups incl Light (with the WW logo!), 8/$10
Pam cooking spray, 5-6 oz cans, $3.29
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, 2/$3
Hunt's tomatoes or sauce, 12-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, $1.99
Smart Ones frozen entrees, 5/$11
Lean Cuisine “Salad Additions”, $2.68
Del Monte pineapples, $1
Asian pears, 99¢ ea
Mangos, 99¢ ea
“Cuties” clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Bartlett or Anjou pears, $1.29
Bananas, 57¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Safeway:
Beef crossrib roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef t-bone steaks, $7.99/lb
Beef bottom round steaks, thin cut boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef London broil, $4.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.49/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, value pack, $2.49/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Safeway Kitchens Pacific cod OR yellowfin sole fillets, 24 oz IQF, $7.99
Land O Lakes butter, $2.99
Safeway Kitchens variety breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $1.99
Nature's Own breads, 20 oz long loaves, 2/$4
Del Monte veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 79¢
Del Monte tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 79¢
Safeway pickles, 24 oz jars, $2.29
HoneyCrisp apples, $1.88/lb (organic, $2.49/lb)
Pomegranates, 2/$5
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, $1.49
Cucumbers, 79¢/lb
Sprouts:
Beef London broil, boneless, $2.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, $1.99/lb
Pork tenderloin, boneless, $3.99/lb
Chicken breast tenders, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, $2.99/lb
Atlantic salmon steaks, bone in, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Apples, Braeburn/Cameo/Jonagold, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
“Texas Star” grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Pineapples, 99¢ ea
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $4.99
Roma tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$5
Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/grey, 99¢/lb
Fry's case sale:
Fry's eggs, AA large, 30 ct, $2.99
Kroger veggies, 11-15 oz cans, 24 ct, $12 (50¢ ea)
Hunt's pasta sauce, 24 oz cans, 12 ct, $10.92 (91¢ ea)
Kroger pineapple, 20 oz cans, 24 ct, $19.92 (83¢ ea)
Kroger chicken or beef broth, 14 oz cans, 24 ct, $10.80 (45¢ ea)
Maruchan ramen noodles, 3 oz pkg, 24 ct, $4.32 (18¢ ea)
Kroger instant oatmeal, 11-15 oz boxes, 12 ct, $15.96 ($1.33 ea)
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Bargain guide, week beginning November 28th:
At this time of year when most of us have more things-that-need-accomplishing than hours-in-which-to-accomplish-them, Fooducate has a short piece on caffeine-adulterated snacks (Really, Frito-Lay? Caffeinated Cracker Jacks?) and a takedown of the use of trendy catch-words in advertising, to make things seem healthier than they probably are. (“That {health} bar may be organic, wheat-free, and raw, but it isn't food.”)
Chow.com has recipes for “shockingly tasty fruitcakes” (if you're not buying yours from Collin Street, and if you're not, in God's name why?), scientific pan shopping (thicker == better), and how to make wonderfully creamy mashed potatoes without overloading them with cream and butter (it involves “diastatic malt powder”, because we all have just boxes and boxes of that hanging around in our kitchens, don't we?). Also a recipe for holiday sugar cookies, a video on how to make them look professionally decorated, a whole stack of recipes for treats that can be easily shipped, another of DIY gifts both edible and drinkable (homemade amaretto! I am awed), and as every year the wondrous, incomparable Turducken of Cheese Balls – twelve layers, five pounds, otherwise known as The Cheese Ball As Big As Your Head.
(Edit: According to the Weight Watchers Recipe Builder, this last item has a total PointsPlus count something over 200 – it's difficult to say as the Recipe Builder has no listing for Bucheret. On the other had you're not going to eat the thing yourself. At least I hope not.)
Summer Tomato has a set of Jedi mind tricks to get people to eat healthy who otherwise might not. Don't be afraid to lie, if that's what it takes (“You don't need to see my recipe. This is not the healthy food you're looking for.”). And what does one do with eighteen tons of chocolate? Someone in Vienna loaded that much onto a tractor-trailer, claiming it was for delivery into the Czech Republic; but the license plate, and the driver's ID, were counterfeits. Eighteen … tons. That's a bit much even for me.
More recipes! Sprouted Kitchen has roasted acorn squash, and an interesting salad of quinoa, arugala, and grapes. If you've still got turkey to deal with, Simply Recipes has a turkey-barley-and-lemon soup. Smitten Kitchen has a spinach salad with bacon vinaigrette – “Not a Salad of Thanksgiving Repentance,” we're assured; “that would be rather dull. It might include wheat germ, and it's too soon for all of that.” And Snack Girl has reworked holiday sugar cookies to involve healthier ingredients while (she assures us) still tasting like cookies!
I cannot imagine anyone will be surprised to learn that December is both National Fruitcake Month and National Eggnog Month, and that the first week is National Cookie Cutter Week.
November 28th: National French Toast Day
November 29th: National ChocolateS Day (not to be confused with National Chocolate Day), National Lemon Creme Pie Day, Throw Out Your Leftovers Day
November 30th: National Mousse Day
December 1st: National Pie Day (not to be confused with Pi Day, 3/14), Eat a Red Apple Day; 1885, first sale of Dr Pepper
December 2nd: National Fritters Day
December 3rd: National Apple Pie Day, National Ice-Cream Box Day
December 4th: National Cookie Day
December 5th: Repeal Day (Prohibition), National Sachertorte Day
Albertson's:
Beef ribeye, t-bone, New York, top sirloin steaks, 50% off
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef crossrib roast OR London broil, boneless, $2.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
80/20 ground beef, $1.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
80/20 ground beef patties, pkg of 10, $10
Pork loin chops, bone in, $4.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.77/lb
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, $1.99/lb
American Chef whole hams, 4lb, boneless, $19.99, buy 1 get 1 free
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.77/lb
Atlantic salmon, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.67
Albertson's sour cream OR cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 10/$10
Essential Everyday cheeses, 2 lb shreds, $6.99/lb
Essential Everyday cream cheese, 8 oz block, 4/$5
Deli: Dietz & Watson gourmet chicken breast items, $5.99/lb
Store (unbranded) rotisserie turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
USA Gold honey or baked ham, $5.99/lb
Charlie's Pride corned beef/beef pastrami/Italian roast beef, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
Oroweat OR Sara Lee bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.99
S&W variety (non-baked) beans, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Essential Everyday tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Hunt's pasta sauce, 24 oz cans, 10/$10
Hunt's diced tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
Hunt's tomato sauce, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
Bush's variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Le Sueur peas (in the silver can), 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Ranch Style beans, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Van Camp's pork & beans, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Essential Everyday pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 10/$10
Ro*tel tomatoes, can't be without them, 10/$10
Smart Ones “Classic Favorite” frozen entrees, 2/$5
Clementine tangerines, 3 lb bag, 2/$5
Navel oranges, $1/lb
Bartlett pears, $1/lb
Apple pears, $1 ea
Fuji or Braeburn apples, $1/lb
Roma tomatoes, $1/lb
Red/yellow/orange bell peppers, $1 ea
Eggplant, $1 ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, $1/bunch
Summer squashes, zucchini/grey/yellow, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef top sirloin, boneless, value pack, $3.77/lb
Beef crossrib roast or steaks, boneless?, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef petite sirloin tip roast or steaks, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef bottom round roast or steaks, buy 1 get 1 free
Ground beef sirloin, small pkg, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork shoulder, whole in bag, buy 1 get 1 free
Whole pork loin, bone in, $1.19/lb (half, $1.47/lb)
Assorted pork chops, $1.99/lb
Center cut pork chops, value pack, $2.99/lb
Chicken breasts, bone in, $1.49/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Catfish fillets, farm raised, $4.99.lb
Bashas' milk, half gallons only, 88¢/lb
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Shamrock Farms cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $3.29
Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz shreds, $2.88
Fiber One OR Nature Valley bars, $2.88
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, 2/$3
Veg-All vegetables, 14-15 oz cans, 2/88¢
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$10
Clementine tangerines, 3 lb bag, $2.97
Whole pineapples, 99¢ ea
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
Pink grapefruits, 88¢ ea
Fuji/Granny Smith/Gala/Red Delicious apples, small, 99¢/lb
Large tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, $1.99
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Organic vine tomatoes, $2.99/lb
Organic Golden Delicious apples, $1.99/lb
Fry's:
Beef crossrib roast OR Texas broil, $2.99/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef t-bone steaks, $7.99/lb
Beef top round roast or London broil, boneless, $3.99/lb
Entire selection of fresh pork, buy 1 get 1 free
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.67/lb
Kroger 85/15 ground turkey, $7.99/lb
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, $1.99
Kroger cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $1.77
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, $1.99
Progresso soups incl. Light (with the WW logo!), 8/$10
Kroger veggies, 11-15 oz cans, 5/$3
Kroger variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 69¢
Ro*tel tomatoes, 10/$10
Hunt's tomatoes, 12-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Smart Ones frozen entrees, 5/$11
HoneyCrisp apples, $1.99/lb
Blackberries, 6 oz boxes, buy 1 get 1 free
Bananas, 57¢/lb
Mangos, 88¢ ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, AZ grown, 99¢/bunch
Hass avocados, 88¢ ea
Safeway:
Beef New York strip steaks, bone in, value pack, $4.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $5.49/lb
Beef chuck pot roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
Beef bottom round steak, thin cut boneless, $3.99/lb
90/10 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.49
Pork loin chops, center cut, boneless, $2.99/lb
Safeway chicken thighs OR drumsticks, bone in, value pack, $1.19/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.49/lb
Jennie-O Turkey Store extra-lean ground turkey breast, 20 oz pkg, $5.99
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Tilapia/catfish/swai fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, value pack, $4.99/lb
Haddock OR Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.57
Lucerne OR Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99
Nature's Own breads, 2/$4
Ragazzo's pasta sauces, 24 oz jars, $3.49
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Safeway Kitchens pineapple, 20 oz cans, 4/$5
Safeway Kitchens other fruits, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
Safeway variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 89¢
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$10
Navel oranges, 8 lb bag, $3.88
Blackberries, 6 oz boxes, buy 1 get 1 free
Pears, Bartlett/red/Bosc, 99¢/lb
Red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Honeycrisp apples, $2.49/lb
Pomegranates, 2/$5
Hass avocados, 69¢ ea
Sprouts:
Beef sirloin tip steak or roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
“Super-lean” ground pork, $3.49/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.88/lb
Navel oranges, 49¢/lb
Pears, Bartlett/Bosc/D'Anjou, 77¢/lb
Apples, Red/Golden Delicious OR Cameo, 77¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 49¢/lb
Lear lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, 77¢/bunch
Winter squashes, acorn/butternut/spaghetti, 77¢/lb
Eggplant, 77¢ ea
Chow.com has recipes for “shockingly tasty fruitcakes” (if you're not buying yours from Collin Street, and if you're not, in God's name why?), scientific pan shopping (thicker == better), and how to make wonderfully creamy mashed potatoes without overloading them with cream and butter (it involves “diastatic malt powder”, because we all have just boxes and boxes of that hanging around in our kitchens, don't we?). Also a recipe for holiday sugar cookies, a video on how to make them look professionally decorated, a whole stack of recipes for treats that can be easily shipped, another of DIY gifts both edible and drinkable (homemade amaretto! I am awed), and as every year the wondrous, incomparable Turducken of Cheese Balls – twelve layers, five pounds, otherwise known as The Cheese Ball As Big As Your Head.
(Edit: According to the Weight Watchers Recipe Builder, this last item has a total PointsPlus count something over 200 – it's difficult to say as the Recipe Builder has no listing for Bucheret. On the other had you're not going to eat the thing yourself. At least I hope not.)
Summer Tomato has a set of Jedi mind tricks to get people to eat healthy who otherwise might not. Don't be afraid to lie, if that's what it takes (“You don't need to see my recipe. This is not the healthy food you're looking for.”). And what does one do with eighteen tons of chocolate? Someone in Vienna loaded that much onto a tractor-trailer, claiming it was for delivery into the Czech Republic; but the license plate, and the driver's ID, were counterfeits. Eighteen … tons. That's a bit much even for me.
More recipes! Sprouted Kitchen has roasted acorn squash, and an interesting salad of quinoa, arugala, and grapes. If you've still got turkey to deal with, Simply Recipes has a turkey-barley-and-lemon soup. Smitten Kitchen has a spinach salad with bacon vinaigrette – “Not a Salad of Thanksgiving Repentance,” we're assured; “that would be rather dull. It might include wheat germ, and it's too soon for all of that.” And Snack Girl has reworked holiday sugar cookies to involve healthier ingredients while (she assures us) still tasting like cookies!
I cannot imagine anyone will be surprised to learn that December is both National Fruitcake Month and National Eggnog Month, and that the first week is National Cookie Cutter Week.
November 28th: National French Toast Day
November 29th: National ChocolateS Day (not to be confused with National Chocolate Day), National Lemon Creme Pie Day, Throw Out Your Leftovers Day
November 30th: National Mousse Day
December 1st: National Pie Day (not to be confused with Pi Day, 3/14), Eat a Red Apple Day; 1885, first sale of Dr Pepper
December 2nd: National Fritters Day
December 3rd: National Apple Pie Day, National Ice-Cream Box Day
December 4th: National Cookie Day
December 5th: Repeal Day (Prohibition), National Sachertorte Day
Albertson's:
Beef ribeye, t-bone, New York, top sirloin steaks, 50% off
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef crossrib roast OR London broil, boneless, $2.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
80/20 ground beef, $1.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
80/20 ground beef patties, pkg of 10, $10
Pork loin chops, bone in, $4.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.77/lb
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, $1.99/lb
American Chef whole hams, 4lb, boneless, $19.99, buy 1 get 1 free
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.77/lb
Atlantic salmon, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.67
Albertson's sour cream OR cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 10/$10
Essential Everyday cheeses, 2 lb shreds, $6.99/lb
Essential Everyday cream cheese, 8 oz block, 4/$5
Deli: Dietz & Watson gourmet chicken breast items, $5.99/lb
Store (unbranded) rotisserie turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
USA Gold honey or baked ham, $5.99/lb
Charlie's Pride corned beef/beef pastrami/Italian roast beef, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
Oroweat OR Sara Lee bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.99
S&W variety (non-baked) beans, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Essential Everyday tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Hunt's pasta sauce, 24 oz cans, 10/$10
Hunt's diced tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
Hunt's tomato sauce, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
Bush's variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Le Sueur peas (in the silver can), 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Ranch Style beans, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Van Camp's pork & beans, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Essential Everyday pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 10/$10
Ro*tel tomatoes, can't be without them, 10/$10
Smart Ones “Classic Favorite” frozen entrees, 2/$5
Clementine tangerines, 3 lb bag, 2/$5
Navel oranges, $1/lb
Bartlett pears, $1/lb
Apple pears, $1 ea
Fuji or Braeburn apples, $1/lb
Roma tomatoes, $1/lb
Red/yellow/orange bell peppers, $1 ea
Eggplant, $1 ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, $1/bunch
Summer squashes, zucchini/grey/yellow, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef top sirloin, boneless, value pack, $3.77/lb
Beef crossrib roast or steaks, boneless?, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef petite sirloin tip roast or steaks, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef bottom round roast or steaks, buy 1 get 1 free
Ground beef sirloin, small pkg, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork shoulder, whole in bag, buy 1 get 1 free
Whole pork loin, bone in, $1.19/lb (half, $1.47/lb)
Assorted pork chops, $1.99/lb
Center cut pork chops, value pack, $2.99/lb
Chicken breasts, bone in, $1.49/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Catfish fillets, farm raised, $4.99.lb
Bashas' milk, half gallons only, 88¢/lb
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Shamrock Farms cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $3.29
Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz shreds, $2.88
Fiber One OR Nature Valley bars, $2.88
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, 2/$3
Veg-All vegetables, 14-15 oz cans, 2/88¢
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$10
Clementine tangerines, 3 lb bag, $2.97
Whole pineapples, 99¢ ea
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
Pink grapefruits, 88¢ ea
Fuji/Granny Smith/Gala/Red Delicious apples, small, 99¢/lb
Large tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, $1.99
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Organic vine tomatoes, $2.99/lb
Organic Golden Delicious apples, $1.99/lb
Fry's:
Beef crossrib roast OR Texas broil, $2.99/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef t-bone steaks, $7.99/lb
Beef top round roast or London broil, boneless, $3.99/lb
Entire selection of fresh pork, buy 1 get 1 free
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.67/lb
Kroger 85/15 ground turkey, $7.99/lb
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, $1.99
Kroger cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $1.77
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, $1.99
Progresso soups incl. Light (with the WW logo!), 8/$10
Kroger veggies, 11-15 oz cans, 5/$3
Kroger variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 69¢
Ro*tel tomatoes, 10/$10
Hunt's tomatoes, 12-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Smart Ones frozen entrees, 5/$11
HoneyCrisp apples, $1.99/lb
Blackberries, 6 oz boxes, buy 1 get 1 free
Bananas, 57¢/lb
Mangos, 88¢ ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, AZ grown, 99¢/bunch
Hass avocados, 88¢ ea
Safeway:
Beef New York strip steaks, bone in, value pack, $4.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $5.49/lb
Beef chuck pot roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
Beef bottom round steak, thin cut boneless, $3.99/lb
90/10 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.49
Pork loin chops, center cut, boneless, $2.99/lb
Safeway chicken thighs OR drumsticks, bone in, value pack, $1.19/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.49/lb
Jennie-O Turkey Store extra-lean ground turkey breast, 20 oz pkg, $5.99
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Tilapia/catfish/swai fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, value pack, $4.99/lb
Haddock OR Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.57
Lucerne OR Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99
Nature's Own breads, 2/$4
Ragazzo's pasta sauces, 24 oz jars, $3.49
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Safeway Kitchens pineapple, 20 oz cans, 4/$5
Safeway Kitchens other fruits, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
Safeway variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 89¢
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$10
Navel oranges, 8 lb bag, $3.88
Blackberries, 6 oz boxes, buy 1 get 1 free
Pears, Bartlett/red/Bosc, 99¢/lb
Red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Honeycrisp apples, $2.49/lb
Pomegranates, 2/$5
Hass avocados, 69¢ ea
Sprouts:
Beef sirloin tip steak or roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
“Super-lean” ground pork, $3.49/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.88/lb
Navel oranges, 49¢/lb
Pears, Bartlett/Bosc/D'Anjou, 77¢/lb
Apples, Red/Golden Delicious OR Cameo, 77¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 49¢/lb
Lear lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, 77¢/bunch
Winter squashes, acorn/butternut/spaghetti, 77¢/lb
Eggplant, 77¢ ea
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Bargain guide, fortnight beginning November 14th:
Fooducate touches ruthlessly on Kellogg's new “Liquid Breakfast to Go” (which contains water, sugar, and other than those absolutely not one single ingredient that can be found in my kitchen or yours unless you stopped off at Bashas' and picked up a six-pack of whey protein concentrate or acesulfame potassium), the possibly distressing quantities of salt found in processed foods, and 7-Up's extraordinarily short-lived attempt to promote a soft drink as a health supplement. Chow.com provide what they allege to be an “easy Thanksgiving menu” (of the fourteen recipes, seven include the word “basic” in the title), a stack of Things To Do With Sweet Potatoes only two of which involve marshmallows (at some point the law requiring that every sweet potato dish be strewn with slightly char red marshmallows was apparently repealed), a link to their “Thanksgiving Dinner Coach App”, and a handy-dandy flow chart to help you figure out what to bring if you're a guest at someone else's table.
Serious Eats asked seventeen different chefs the best way to cook a Thanksgiving turkey. Answers range from “Baste it every fifteen minutes” to “Brine it for twelve hours in a mixture of salt, brown sugar, and whiskey” to “Deep fry”. (Before you try the latter, do a Youtube search for “turkey fire”. Then, if you're still considering it, ponder what you're going to do with several gallons of used cooking oil. Also bear in mind that fried turkey breast has three times the PointsPlus count of roasted.)
Summer Tomato has a nicely timed piece on eating healthy during holiday travel. Yoni Freedhoff at Weighty Matters exhorts us to make the best choices we can, even if they're the best worst choices: “Sometimes your best may be a basket of chicken wings but perhaps a smaller basket than normal and one less beer, or a fancy coffee with whip just ordered less frequently”. Simply Recipes mashes rutabagas with sour cream and dill. (Three tablespoons of full-fat sour cream in a recipe that serves four to six, not too bad.) Mark's Daily Apple shows us how to turn the turkey carcass into turkey stock that will keep for months in the freezer.
Holidays! The 17th is both National Homemade Bread Day and National Baklava Day. The 19th is my official holiday, National Carbonated Beverages With Caffeine Day. And tomorrow, in anticipation of the inexorable advance of the annual cooking marathon, is National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day. And as we all know, the 22nd is Alice's Restaurant Massacree Day!
November 14th: National Guacamole Day, National Pickle Day
November 15th: National Raisin Bran Day
November 16th: National Fast Food Day
November 17th: National Baklava Day, National Homemade Bread Day
November 18th: National Vichyssoise Day
November 19th: National Carbonated Beverages With Caffeine Day
November 20th: National Peanut Butter Fudge Day, Beaujolais Nouveau Day
November 21st: Gingerbread Day, National Stuffing Day
November 22nd: National Cashew Day, National Cranberry Relish Day
November 23rd: National Espresso Day, Eat A Cranberry Day
November 24th: National Sardines Day
November 25th: National Parfait Day
November 26th: National Cake Day
November 27th: National Bavarian Cream Pie Day
November 28th: National French Toast Day
Albertson's:
Beef standing rib roast, $6.99/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef crossrib or bottom round roast, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef eye of round OR sirloin tip roast, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
85/15 ground beef, 3 lbs or more, $2.47/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Hormel spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.57/lb
Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.47/lb (butt portion $1.67/lb)
Honeysuckle White frozen turkeys, 10-20 lb, 79¢/lb
Honeysuckle White frozen turkey breast, bone in, $1.57/lb
Jennie-O fresh turkeys, 12-22 lb, $1.69/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, 12-22 lb, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Challenge butter, 2/$5
Albertson's eggs, AA large, 18 ct, 2/$3
Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz shreds, $2.99
Deli: Signature turkey breast/roast beef/ “double honey” ham, $6.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Provolone/Muenster/baby Swiss, $5.99/lb
All Dietz & Watson sliced-to-order ham, chicken/turkey breast, cheese, $7.99/lb
Essential Everyday cream cheese, 8 oz block, 10/$10
Libby's pumpkin, 15 oz cans, 2/$3
Del Monte veggies, 13-15 oz cans, 88¢
Bruce's yams OR Princella sweet potatoes, 29 oz cans, 2/$3
Nature's Eartly Choice “Easy Quinoa”, 4 oz pkg, 2/$6
Green Giant “Valley Fresh Steamers” frozen veg, 12 oz pkg, 2/$3
PictSweet frozen veg, 14-16 oz bags, 88¢
Clementine tangerines, 3 lb bag, $3.99
Whole pineapples, $3.99 ea
Navel oranges, $1.29/lb
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 14 oz pkg, 2/$5
Red or golden yams, 79¢/lb
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Green Giant cut up veggies, 12 oz bags, 2/$4
Fresh Express bag salads, 2/$5
White or yellow onions, 79¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef tenderloin, whole in bag, $6.99/lb, cut & wrapped free
Beef sirloin tip/crossrib/bottom round/top round/petite sirloin/eye of round/help me roasts, $3.99/lb
Beef standing rib roast, $6.99/lb
Beef top sirloin roast or steak, $7.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $1.99/lb
Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.37/lb (butt portion, $1.57/lb)
Cook's spiral cut cut half ham, $1.99/lb
Hormel “Cure 81” boneless whole/half/quarter hams, $4.99/lb
Norbest frozen turkeys, 10-24 lb tom or hen, 79¢/lb
Foster Farms or Jennie-O fresh turkeys, tom or hen,$1.79/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, tom or hen, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Bashas' milk, half gallons only, 99¢
Food Club butter, 2/$5
Nature's Own “WhiteWheat” bread, 20 oz long loaves, $1.49
Nature's Own 100% Whole Wheat bread, 20 oz long loaves, $1.99
Libby's veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 5/$3
Libby's pumpkin, 29-30 oz cans, $2.99
Princella yams, 29 oz cans, 2/$3
Pam cooking or baking spray, 5-6 oz cans, $3.49
Flav-R-Pac frozen veg, 12-16 oz pkg, 77¢
Golden Delicious OR Granny Smith apples, 99¢/lb
Bartlett or Anjou pears, 99¢/lb
Whole pineapples, 2/$5
Tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Fresh green beans, 88¢/lb
Red or Beauregard yams, 50¢/lb
Winter squashes, acorn/butternut/spaghetti, 99¢/lb
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Fry's:
Beef “Holiday Strip” roast (what the hell is that?), bone in, $4.77/lb
Beef whole standing ribeye roast, bone in, $6.99/lb
Beef standing ribeye roast, small end, $7.99/lb
Beef bottom round roast, $3.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/top round/eye round roasts, $3.99/lb
Cook's spiral sliced ham, bone in, $1.47/lb
Private Selection spiral sliced ham, bone in, $2.49/lb
Cook's half ham, bone in, full cooked, $1.49/lb
Kroger whole boneless ham, $2.79/lb
Private Selection quarter sliced ham, $3.99/lb
Hormel “Cure 81” spiral sliced ham, bone in, smoked, $2.69/lb
Foster Farms or Jennie-O fresh turkeys, 10-24 lb, $1.69/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, 10-20 lb, $1.99/lb
Kroger frozen turkeys, 10-20 lb, 79¢/lb
Kroger (?) frozen turkey breast, 7-9 lb, bone in, $1.69/lb
Butterball frozen turkeys, 10-20 lb, $1.49/lb
Private Selection frozen turkeys, 10-20 lb, 99¢/lb
Frozen ducks, $2.99/lb
Kroger butter, 2/$5
Philadelphia cream cheese, 8 oz bar, 4/$5
Fry's eggs, AA large, 18 ct, $1.99
Kroger fruit, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Del Monte veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 4/$3
General Mills breakfast cereals, 4/$10
Nature Valley or Fiber One bars, 5-12 ct, 4/$10
Kroger flour, 5 lb bag, $1.99
Libby's pumpkin, 15 oz cans, $1.99
Kroger frozen veggies, 9-12 oz bags, 88¢/lb
Navel oranges, 77¢/lb
Apples, Fuji/Cameo/Rome/Granny Smith, 99¢/lb
Clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Red or golden yams, 79¢/lb
Safeway:
They do this just to make my project more difficult:
Buy $25 in groceries, get a Safeway turkey for 79¢/lb.
Buy $100 in groceries, get an 8-16 lb Safeway turkey for free.
Buy $150 in groceries, get an 8-24 lb Safeway turkey for free.
Beef ribeye roast, bone in, whole freaking thing in bag, $4.99/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, $2.29/lb
80/20 ground beef, $2.29/lb
Beef chuck pot roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
Safeway spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $2.29/lb
Butterball frozen turkeys, 99¢/lb
Safeway Select fresh turkeys, 8-24 lb, $1.49/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.77/lb
Lucerne or Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz shreds, $6.99/lb
Lucerne “Natural Slices” cheeses, 8 oz shingle pack, $2.99
Lucerne ricotta cheese, 32 oz tub, $3.99
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, 2/$5
American Beauty pasta, 16 oz pkg, 5/$5
Safeway Kitchens frozen veg, 24-32 oz bags, 2/$5
Lean Cuisine “Simple Favorites”, 5/$10
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Green “Pristine” or red “Scarlotta” seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Del Monte whole pineapples, $2.99
Red or orange yams, 39¢/lb
Sprouts:
Beef standing rib roast, “presidential cut” whatever that may mean, $9.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
“Super-lean” ground pork, $1.99/lb
Sprouts fresh free-range turkeys, $1.49/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Haddock fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Apples: Fuji, Granny Smith, Jonagold, 99¢/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, 2 lbs/$5
Winter squashes, acorn/butternut/spaghetti, 49¢/lb
Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/Mexican, 88¢/lb
Red/gold/orange bell peppers, 99¢ ea
Serious Eats asked seventeen different chefs the best way to cook a Thanksgiving turkey. Answers range from “Baste it every fifteen minutes” to “Brine it for twelve hours in a mixture of salt, brown sugar, and whiskey” to “Deep fry”. (Before you try the latter, do a Youtube search for “turkey fire”. Then, if you're still considering it, ponder what you're going to do with several gallons of used cooking oil. Also bear in mind that fried turkey breast has three times the PointsPlus count of roasted.)
Summer Tomato has a nicely timed piece on eating healthy during holiday travel. Yoni Freedhoff at Weighty Matters exhorts us to make the best choices we can, even if they're the best worst choices: “Sometimes your best may be a basket of chicken wings but perhaps a smaller basket than normal and one less beer, or a fancy coffee with whip just ordered less frequently”. Simply Recipes mashes rutabagas with sour cream and dill. (Three tablespoons of full-fat sour cream in a recipe that serves four to six, not too bad.) Mark's Daily Apple shows us how to turn the turkey carcass into turkey stock that will keep for months in the freezer.
Holidays! The 17th is both National Homemade Bread Day and National Baklava Day. The 19th is my official holiday, National Carbonated Beverages With Caffeine Day. And tomorrow, in anticipation of the inexorable advance of the annual cooking marathon, is National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day. And as we all know, the 22nd is Alice's Restaurant Massacree Day!
November 14th: National Guacamole Day, National Pickle Day
November 15th: National Raisin Bran Day
November 16th: National Fast Food Day
November 17th: National Baklava Day, National Homemade Bread Day
November 18th: National Vichyssoise Day
November 19th: National Carbonated Beverages With Caffeine Day
November 20th: National Peanut Butter Fudge Day, Beaujolais Nouveau Day
November 21st: Gingerbread Day, National Stuffing Day
November 22nd: National Cashew Day, National Cranberry Relish Day
November 23rd: National Espresso Day, Eat A Cranberry Day
November 24th: National Sardines Day
November 25th: National Parfait Day
November 26th: National Cake Day
November 27th: National Bavarian Cream Pie Day
November 28th: National French Toast Day
Albertson's:
Beef standing rib roast, $6.99/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef crossrib or bottom round roast, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef eye of round OR sirloin tip roast, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
85/15 ground beef, 3 lbs or more, $2.47/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Hormel spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.57/lb
Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.47/lb (butt portion $1.67/lb)
Honeysuckle White frozen turkeys, 10-20 lb, 79¢/lb
Honeysuckle White frozen turkey breast, bone in, $1.57/lb
Jennie-O fresh turkeys, 12-22 lb, $1.69/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, 12-22 lb, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Challenge butter, 2/$5
Albertson's eggs, AA large, 18 ct, 2/$3
Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz shreds, $2.99
Deli: Signature turkey breast/roast beef/ “double honey” ham, $6.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Provolone/Muenster/baby Swiss, $5.99/lb
All Dietz & Watson sliced-to-order ham, chicken/turkey breast, cheese, $7.99/lb
Essential Everyday cream cheese, 8 oz block, 10/$10
Libby's pumpkin, 15 oz cans, 2/$3
Del Monte veggies, 13-15 oz cans, 88¢
Bruce's yams OR Princella sweet potatoes, 29 oz cans, 2/$3
Nature's Eartly Choice “Easy Quinoa”, 4 oz pkg, 2/$6
Green Giant “Valley Fresh Steamers” frozen veg, 12 oz pkg, 2/$3
PictSweet frozen veg, 14-16 oz bags, 88¢
Clementine tangerines, 3 lb bag, $3.99
Whole pineapples, $3.99 ea
Navel oranges, $1.29/lb
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 14 oz pkg, 2/$5
Red or golden yams, 79¢/lb
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Green Giant cut up veggies, 12 oz bags, 2/$4
Fresh Express bag salads, 2/$5
White or yellow onions, 79¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef tenderloin, whole in bag, $6.99/lb, cut & wrapped free
Beef sirloin tip/crossrib/bottom round/top round/petite sirloin/eye of round/help me roasts, $3.99/lb
Beef standing rib roast, $6.99/lb
Beef top sirloin roast or steak, $7.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $1.99/lb
Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.37/lb (butt portion, $1.57/lb)
Cook's spiral cut cut half ham, $1.99/lb
Hormel “Cure 81” boneless whole/half/quarter hams, $4.99/lb
Norbest frozen turkeys, 10-24 lb tom or hen, 79¢/lb
Foster Farms or Jennie-O fresh turkeys, tom or hen,$1.79/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, tom or hen, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Bashas' milk, half gallons only, 99¢
Food Club butter, 2/$5
Nature's Own “WhiteWheat” bread, 20 oz long loaves, $1.49
Nature's Own 100% Whole Wheat bread, 20 oz long loaves, $1.99
Libby's veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 5/$3
Libby's pumpkin, 29-30 oz cans, $2.99
Princella yams, 29 oz cans, 2/$3
Pam cooking or baking spray, 5-6 oz cans, $3.49
Flav-R-Pac frozen veg, 12-16 oz pkg, 77¢
Golden Delicious OR Granny Smith apples, 99¢/lb
Bartlett or Anjou pears, 99¢/lb
Whole pineapples, 2/$5
Tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Fresh green beans, 88¢/lb
Red or Beauregard yams, 50¢/lb
Winter squashes, acorn/butternut/spaghetti, 99¢/lb
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Fry's:
Beef “Holiday Strip” roast (what the hell is that?), bone in, $4.77/lb
Beef whole standing ribeye roast, bone in, $6.99/lb
Beef standing ribeye roast, small end, $7.99/lb
Beef bottom round roast, $3.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/top round/eye round roasts, $3.99/lb
Cook's spiral sliced ham, bone in, $1.47/lb
Private Selection spiral sliced ham, bone in, $2.49/lb
Cook's half ham, bone in, full cooked, $1.49/lb
Kroger whole boneless ham, $2.79/lb
Private Selection quarter sliced ham, $3.99/lb
Hormel “Cure 81” spiral sliced ham, bone in, smoked, $2.69/lb
Foster Farms or Jennie-O fresh turkeys, 10-24 lb, $1.69/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, 10-20 lb, $1.99/lb
Kroger frozen turkeys, 10-20 lb, 79¢/lb
Kroger (?) frozen turkey breast, 7-9 lb, bone in, $1.69/lb
Butterball frozen turkeys, 10-20 lb, $1.49/lb
Private Selection frozen turkeys, 10-20 lb, 99¢/lb
Frozen ducks, $2.99/lb
Kroger butter, 2/$5
Philadelphia cream cheese, 8 oz bar, 4/$5
Fry's eggs, AA large, 18 ct, $1.99
Kroger fruit, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Del Monte veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 4/$3
General Mills breakfast cereals, 4/$10
Nature Valley or Fiber One bars, 5-12 ct, 4/$10
Kroger flour, 5 lb bag, $1.99
Libby's pumpkin, 15 oz cans, $1.99
Kroger frozen veggies, 9-12 oz bags, 88¢/lb
Navel oranges, 77¢/lb
Apples, Fuji/Cameo/Rome/Granny Smith, 99¢/lb
Clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Red or golden yams, 79¢/lb
Safeway:
They do this just to make my project more difficult:
Buy $25 in groceries, get a Safeway turkey for 79¢/lb.
Buy $100 in groceries, get an 8-16 lb Safeway turkey for free.
Buy $150 in groceries, get an 8-24 lb Safeway turkey for free.
Beef ribeye roast, bone in, whole freaking thing in bag, $4.99/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, $2.29/lb
80/20 ground beef, $2.29/lb
Beef chuck pot roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
Safeway spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $2.29/lb
Butterball frozen turkeys, 99¢/lb
Safeway Select fresh turkeys, 8-24 lb, $1.49/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.77/lb
Lucerne or Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz shreds, $6.99/lb
Lucerne “Natural Slices” cheeses, 8 oz shingle pack, $2.99
Lucerne ricotta cheese, 32 oz tub, $3.99
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, 2/$5
American Beauty pasta, 16 oz pkg, 5/$5
Safeway Kitchens frozen veg, 24-32 oz bags, 2/$5
Lean Cuisine “Simple Favorites”, 5/$10
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Green “Pristine” or red “Scarlotta” seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Del Monte whole pineapples, $2.99
Red or orange yams, 39¢/lb
Sprouts:
Beef standing rib roast, “presidential cut” whatever that may mean, $9.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
“Super-lean” ground pork, $1.99/lb
Sprouts fresh free-range turkeys, $1.49/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Haddock fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Apples: Fuji, Granny Smith, Jonagold, 99¢/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, 2 lbs/$5
Winter squashes, acorn/butternut/spaghetti, 49¢/lb
Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/Mexican, 88¢/lb
Red/gold/orange bell peppers, 99¢ ea
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Bargain guide, week beginning November 7th:
Halloween is over, which means the chocolate pumpkins and bats are finally gone from stores replaced by chocolate Santas and trees. This is not a caloric improvement. Chow.com, in the spirit, are already flinging at us recipes for turkey, dressing, “leftover Christmas turkey, ham, and roast beef”, a good skewered-veggie video for “holiday party snacks”, and an “elegant Thanksgiving menu” including a cocktail called a 1621. This last involves brandy, apple juice, sparkling wine, and the unfortunate inclusion of what looks distressingly like a drowned crouton in the bottom of the glass. Actually it's a sugar cube but in the photographs it looks exactly like a drowned crouton. O well, you're not drinking it with your eyes. They've also got extraordinarily labor-intensive step-by-step instructions for making one's own “puffy rice snacks”. This involves a lesson in the physics of “rigid foams”, a hand blender to puree rice that has been cooked to porridge, and the use of a deep-fryer, and ends with the instruction “If it doesn't work, throw everything out and start over again”, so you'd probably do as well or better to buy your puffy rice snacks in a bag. I nonetheless include it for the curious.
Still on the holiday-menu theme, which we're not going to be rid of for two months so enjoy, Serious Eats bring us how and why to brine your turkey and how and why to spatchcock it. I've never spatchcocked a turkey but may try it this year.
Just in time for Arizona's exercise season, Summer Tomato has an entry on “Healthy Snacks For After Your Workout” – in a word, nuts. Also jerky (high in protein) or fruit (“Be careful with soft fruits, however, or you may end up with a gym bag filled with goo. Yes, I’m speaking from experience”). She's also got a healthy dessert recipe: sauteed Bosc pears with a balsamic vinegar reduction. Simply Recipes has a tasty and easy roasted broccoli recipe. Sprouted Kitchen has roasted butternut squash penne pasta with pistachio pesto. (dabs lips)
Tomorrow is National Harvey Wallbanger Day. The day after is National Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day, being in WW you must have a cabinet full of herbs and spices so I'm sure you can manage that. Sunday is Sundae Day, and the day after is Pizza With The Works Except Anchovies Day. And one week from today is the birthday (1863) of someone you owe a debt to and have probably never heard of: Leo Hendrik Baekeland, inventor of the first plastic that did not soften when heated: the black stuff pot handles are made of, Bakelite.
November 7th: National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
November 8th: National Cappuccino Day, National Harvey Wallbanger Day
November 9th: National Scrapple Day, Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day; 1891, George A. Hormel opens his packing house, Austin, Minnesota
November 10th: National Vanilla Cupcake Day
November 11th: National Sundae Day; 1933, the first great dust storm of the Dust Bowl
November 12th: National Pizza With The Works Except Anchovies Day
November 13th: National Indian Pudding Day
November 14th: National Pickle Day, National Guacamole Day; Leo Hendrik Baekeland born, 1863; Prosper Montagné, creator of Larousse Gastronomique, born, 1865
Albertson's:
Free Honeysuckle White frozen turkey (up to $15.99) with $100 purchase OR
Beef crossrib/bottom round/London broil roasts, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef crossrib or bottom round steaks, family pack, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef eye round OR sirloin tip roast, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Pork shoulder roast, bone in, $1.89/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.47/lb
Hormel spiral sliced hams, bone in, $1.99/lb
American Chef whole hams, boneless, $19.99 ea, buy 1 get 1 free
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.77/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Honeysuckle White turkey breast, bone in, frozen, $1.99/lb
Albertson's eggs, AA large, dozens, 99¢
Land O Lakes butter, 2/$5
Yoplait yogurts incl. Light, 20/$10
Deli: All Dietz & Watson STL hams, chicken/turkey breast, cheeses, $7.99/lb
Charlie's Pride roast beef/corned beef/Italian beef/pastrami, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Muenster/Provolone/baby Swiss, $5.99/lb
Libby's vegetables, 14-15 oz cans, 2/$1
Barilla pasta, 24 oz jars, 2/$5, buy 2 get 2 Barilla pasta (12-16 boxes) free
Essential Everyday beans OR tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Marie Callender's “Baked” entrees, 5/$10
Fuji apples, $1.49/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Winter squashes, butternut/acorn/spaghetti, 99¢/lb
Fresh Express bag salad “Iceberg Garden”, 99¢
Leeks, 99¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef crossrib/sirloin/bottom round steak or roast, buy 1 get 1 free
Ground beef chuck, value pack, $1.99/lb
Beef London broil, $5.99/lb
Beef New York steak, bone in, value pack, $4.99/lb
Pork shoulder steak, $3.49/lb
Farmland whole or half ham, boneless, $1.99/lb
Bashas' chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, 10 lbs/$10
Bashas boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Swordfish steaks, 6 oz portion, $4 ea
True cod fillets, $6.99/lb, “weather permitting”
Halibut fillets, 6 oz portion, $7 ea
Yoplait yogurts incl. Light, 10/$5
Deli: Boar's Head Sweet Slice ham, $6.99/lb
Ovengold turkey breast, $8.99/lb
“Deluxe” roast beef, $9.99/lb
“Classic” chicken, $6.99/lb
Stella Provolone cheese, $5.99/lb
Stella baby Swiss, loaf or wheel, $7.99/lb
Kellogg's cereals, 11-21 oz boxes, 4/$10, buy 4 get a gallon of milk free
Bertolli olive oil (healthy!), 17 oz bottles, $3.99
PictSweet frozen veg, 10-12 oz pkg, 2/$3
Barilla whole grain pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, $1.39
PopChips, 3.5 oz bags, $1.99
MorningStar Farms frozen entrees, 2/$8
Honeycrisp apples, 99¢/lb
Gala apples, $1.19/lb
Whole pineapples, 2/$5
Bartlett or Anjou pears, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Red/white/brown onions, 59¢/lb
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Italian squash, 79¢/lb
Fresh spinach, 99¢/bunch
Fry's:
Fry's is having a “Case Lot Sale” – see last page.
Beef top/bottom/eye round, chuck, shoulder, sirloin tip, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $5.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, $2.79/lb (3 lb chub)
Center cut pork loin chops, bone in, family pack, $3.59/lb
Cook's half ham, bone in, $1.37/lb
Kroger frozen turkey, 10-20 lb, 79¢/lb
Frozen turkey breast, bone in, $1.69/lb
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Kroger fish fillets OR scallops, 12 oz IQF bag, 25% off
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.57
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $3.29
Kroger sour cream or cottage cheese, 16 oz tubs, 4/$5
Kroger frozen veg, 9-12 oz bags, 10/$10
Green Giant frozen veg, 7-10 oz boxes, 10/$10
Blackberries, 6 oz box, 99¢
Apples: Gala, Fuji, Red/Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, 99¢/lb
Organic Honeycrisp apples, $2.99/lb
Simple Truth organic box salads, 5-9 oz, 2/$5
Zucchini OR yellow squash, 99¢/lb
Red or yellow bell peppers, 99¢ ea
Hass avocados, 99¢ ea
Safeway:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef ribeye or t-bone steaks, value pack, $7.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork top loin chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $2.49/lb
Safeway spiral sliced half ham, $2.29/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, value pack, 99¢/lb
Safeway turkeys, 8-24 lb frozen, 79¢/lb
Butterball turkeys, 10-24 lb frozen, 99¢/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Swai/tilapia /catfish fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Oroweat breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.99
Campbell's “100% Natural” soups, buy 1 get 1 free
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb bags, 5/$5
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 89¢
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, $1.99
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Organic Opal apples, $1.99/lb
Bartlett pears, 99¢/lb
“Texas Ruby Red” grapefruit, 99¢ ea
Pomegranates, 2/$5
“Pristine” seedless green or “Scarlotta” seedless red grapes, $2.49/lb
Sprouts:
Beef New York steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
Beef chuck roast or steaks, $4.99/lb
93/7 ground sirloin, $4.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
“Super-lean” ground pork, $2.99/lb
Pork tenderloin, $4.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, value pack, $1.99/lb
Chicken sausage, sweet or hot, $2.99/lb
Ground chicken breast or thighs, $2.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Sprouts butter, $2.99
Earthbound Farms frozen veg, 9-10 oz bags, 2/$4
Organic HoneyCrisp apples, $1.99/lb
Navel oranges, 3 lbs/$1
“Texas Rio Red” grapefruit, 3/$1
Organic Gala apples, 99¢/lb
Bananas, 49¢/lb
Kiwifruit, 4/$1
Braeburn, Golden Delicious or Jonagold apples, 99¢/lb
Bartlett or Bosc pears, 99¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/grey, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Yellow onions, 49¢/lb
Green bell peppers, 49¢ ea
Red/gold/orange bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Addendum:
The Holiday Pricematching has begun. They're just trying to confooze me:
Albertson's “will match the price on our Honeysuckle White turkey (Grade A Frozen) to the lowest advertised price offered by Fry's, Safeway, or Bashas'”.
Fry's says “If you find a lower advertised price on a Grade A frozen turkey we will match it with our Kroger brand Grade A frozen turkey”.
Safeway in large type on Page 1 say “Guaranteed LOWEST PRICE on Frozen Turkeys!”, and then at the very bottom of Page 2 in letters a thirty-second of an inch high says “We will match any competitor's advertised price on USDA grade A frozen turkeys. Just present competitor's coupon, clipless coupon, or ad to your checker. All competitor's rules, guidelines and coupon terms apply. Price match does not apply to free turkey with purchase offer, Honeysuckle, Butterball, Empire, Jennie-O, Zacky Farms brands, and all fresh turkeys.”
Fry's is also throwing a “Case Lot Sale” apparently centered on the notion that you want to bake two cakes and a triple batch of cookies for every single person you have ever met in your life:
Fry's eggs, AA medium, 30 ct, $2.88
Kroger flour, 5 lb bags, 8 ct, $12.99
Kroger vegetable oil, 48 oz bottles, 9 ct, $23.99
Kroger Value white sugar, 4 lb bags, 10 ct, $19.99
Kroger brown OR powdered sugar, 2 lb bags, 12 ct, $16.99
Nestle chocolate morsels, 10-12 oz bags, 24 ct, $47.99 – that's a lot of chocolate even for me
Quaker oatmeal, 18 oz round box, 12 ct, $24.99
Kroger coconut, 14 oz bag, 12 ct, $16.99
Dole mandarin oranges, 11 oz cans, 12 ct, $17.99
Fetzer Sundial chardonnay, 750 ml bottles, 6 pg, $29.99 and boy are you going to need it
Good luck.
Still on the holiday-menu theme, which we're not going to be rid of for two months so enjoy, Serious Eats bring us how and why to brine your turkey and how and why to spatchcock it. I've never spatchcocked a turkey but may try it this year.
Just in time for Arizona's exercise season, Summer Tomato has an entry on “Healthy Snacks For After Your Workout” – in a word, nuts. Also jerky (high in protein) or fruit (“Be careful with soft fruits, however, or you may end up with a gym bag filled with goo. Yes, I’m speaking from experience”). She's also got a healthy dessert recipe: sauteed Bosc pears with a balsamic vinegar reduction. Simply Recipes has a tasty and easy roasted broccoli recipe. Sprouted Kitchen has roasted butternut squash penne pasta with pistachio pesto. (dabs lips)
Tomorrow is National Harvey Wallbanger Day. The day after is National Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day, being in WW you must have a cabinet full of herbs and spices so I'm sure you can manage that. Sunday is Sundae Day, and the day after is Pizza With The Works Except Anchovies Day. And one week from today is the birthday (1863) of someone you owe a debt to and have probably never heard of: Leo Hendrik Baekeland, inventor of the first plastic that did not soften when heated: the black stuff pot handles are made of, Bakelite.
November 7th: National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
November 8th: National Cappuccino Day, National Harvey Wallbanger Day
November 9th: National Scrapple Day, Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day; 1891, George A. Hormel opens his packing house, Austin, Minnesota
November 10th: National Vanilla Cupcake Day
November 11th: National Sundae Day; 1933, the first great dust storm of the Dust Bowl
November 12th: National Pizza With The Works Except Anchovies Day
November 13th: National Indian Pudding Day
November 14th: National Pickle Day, National Guacamole Day; Leo Hendrik Baekeland born, 1863; Prosper Montagné, creator of Larousse Gastronomique, born, 1865
Albertson's:
Free Honeysuckle White frozen turkey (up to $15.99) with $100 purchase OR
Beef crossrib/bottom round/London broil roasts, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef crossrib or bottom round steaks, family pack, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef eye round OR sirloin tip roast, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Pork shoulder roast, bone in, $1.89/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.47/lb
Hormel spiral sliced hams, bone in, $1.99/lb
American Chef whole hams, boneless, $19.99 ea, buy 1 get 1 free
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.77/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Honeysuckle White turkey breast, bone in, frozen, $1.99/lb
Albertson's eggs, AA large, dozens, 99¢
Land O Lakes butter, 2/$5
Yoplait yogurts incl. Light, 20/$10
Deli: All Dietz & Watson STL hams, chicken/turkey breast, cheeses, $7.99/lb
Charlie's Pride roast beef/corned beef/Italian beef/pastrami, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Muenster/Provolone/baby Swiss, $5.99/lb
Libby's vegetables, 14-15 oz cans, 2/$1
Barilla pasta, 24 oz jars, 2/$5, buy 2 get 2 Barilla pasta (12-16 boxes) free
Essential Everyday beans OR tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Marie Callender's “Baked” entrees, 5/$10
Fuji apples, $1.49/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Winter squashes, butternut/acorn/spaghetti, 99¢/lb
Fresh Express bag salad “Iceberg Garden”, 99¢
Leeks, 99¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef crossrib/sirloin/bottom round steak or roast, buy 1 get 1 free
Ground beef chuck, value pack, $1.99/lb
Beef London broil, $5.99/lb
Beef New York steak, bone in, value pack, $4.99/lb
Pork shoulder steak, $3.49/lb
Farmland whole or half ham, boneless, $1.99/lb
Bashas' chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, 10 lbs/$10
Bashas boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Swordfish steaks, 6 oz portion, $4 ea
True cod fillets, $6.99/lb, “weather permitting”
Halibut fillets, 6 oz portion, $7 ea
Yoplait yogurts incl. Light, 10/$5
Deli: Boar's Head Sweet Slice ham, $6.99/lb
Ovengold turkey breast, $8.99/lb
“Deluxe” roast beef, $9.99/lb
“Classic” chicken, $6.99/lb
Stella Provolone cheese, $5.99/lb
Stella baby Swiss, loaf or wheel, $7.99/lb
Kellogg's cereals, 11-21 oz boxes, 4/$10, buy 4 get a gallon of milk free
Bertolli olive oil (healthy!), 17 oz bottles, $3.99
PictSweet frozen veg, 10-12 oz pkg, 2/$3
Barilla whole grain pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, $1.39
PopChips, 3.5 oz bags, $1.99
MorningStar Farms frozen entrees, 2/$8
Honeycrisp apples, 99¢/lb
Gala apples, $1.19/lb
Whole pineapples, 2/$5
Bartlett or Anjou pears, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Red/white/brown onions, 59¢/lb
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Italian squash, 79¢/lb
Fresh spinach, 99¢/bunch
Fry's:
Fry's is having a “Case Lot Sale” – see last page.
Beef top/bottom/eye round, chuck, shoulder, sirloin tip, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $5.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, $2.79/lb (3 lb chub)
Center cut pork loin chops, bone in, family pack, $3.59/lb
Cook's half ham, bone in, $1.37/lb
Kroger frozen turkey, 10-20 lb, 79¢/lb
Frozen turkey breast, bone in, $1.69/lb
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Kroger fish fillets OR scallops, 12 oz IQF bag, 25% off
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.57
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $3.29
Kroger sour cream or cottage cheese, 16 oz tubs, 4/$5
Kroger frozen veg, 9-12 oz bags, 10/$10
Green Giant frozen veg, 7-10 oz boxes, 10/$10
Blackberries, 6 oz box, 99¢
Apples: Gala, Fuji, Red/Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, 99¢/lb
Organic Honeycrisp apples, $2.99/lb
Simple Truth organic box salads, 5-9 oz, 2/$5
Zucchini OR yellow squash, 99¢/lb
Red or yellow bell peppers, 99¢ ea
Hass avocados, 99¢ ea
Safeway:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef ribeye or t-bone steaks, value pack, $7.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork top loin chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $2.49/lb
Safeway spiral sliced half ham, $2.29/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, value pack, 99¢/lb
Safeway turkeys, 8-24 lb frozen, 79¢/lb
Butterball turkeys, 10-24 lb frozen, 99¢/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Swai/tilapia /catfish fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Oroweat breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.99
Campbell's “100% Natural” soups, buy 1 get 1 free
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb bags, 5/$5
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 89¢
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, $1.99
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Organic Opal apples, $1.99/lb
Bartlett pears, 99¢/lb
“Texas Ruby Red” grapefruit, 99¢ ea
Pomegranates, 2/$5
“Pristine” seedless green or “Scarlotta” seedless red grapes, $2.49/lb
Sprouts:
Beef New York steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
Beef chuck roast or steaks, $4.99/lb
93/7 ground sirloin, $4.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
“Super-lean” ground pork, $2.99/lb
Pork tenderloin, $4.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, value pack, $1.99/lb
Chicken sausage, sweet or hot, $2.99/lb
Ground chicken breast or thighs, $2.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Sprouts butter, $2.99
Earthbound Farms frozen veg, 9-10 oz bags, 2/$4
Organic HoneyCrisp apples, $1.99/lb
Navel oranges, 3 lbs/$1
“Texas Rio Red” grapefruit, 3/$1
Organic Gala apples, 99¢/lb
Bananas, 49¢/lb
Kiwifruit, 4/$1
Braeburn, Golden Delicious or Jonagold apples, 99¢/lb
Bartlett or Bosc pears, 99¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/grey, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Yellow onions, 49¢/lb
Green bell peppers, 49¢ ea
Red/gold/orange bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Addendum:
The Holiday Pricematching has begun. They're just trying to confooze me:
Albertson's “will match the price on our Honeysuckle White turkey (Grade A Frozen) to the lowest advertised price offered by Fry's, Safeway, or Bashas'”.
Fry's says “If you find a lower advertised price on a Grade A frozen turkey we will match it with our Kroger brand Grade A frozen turkey”.
Safeway in large type on Page 1 say “Guaranteed LOWEST PRICE on Frozen Turkeys!”, and then at the very bottom of Page 2 in letters a thirty-second of an inch high says “We will match any competitor's advertised price on USDA grade A frozen turkeys. Just present competitor's coupon, clipless coupon, or ad to your checker. All competitor's rules, guidelines and coupon terms apply. Price match does not apply to free turkey with purchase offer, Honeysuckle, Butterball, Empire, Jennie-O, Zacky Farms brands, and all fresh turkeys.”
Fry's is also throwing a “Case Lot Sale” apparently centered on the notion that you want to bake two cakes and a triple batch of cookies for every single person you have ever met in your life:
Fry's eggs, AA medium, 30 ct, $2.88
Kroger flour, 5 lb bags, 8 ct, $12.99
Kroger vegetable oil, 48 oz bottles, 9 ct, $23.99
Kroger Value white sugar, 4 lb bags, 10 ct, $19.99
Kroger brown OR powdered sugar, 2 lb bags, 12 ct, $16.99
Nestle chocolate morsels, 10-12 oz bags, 24 ct, $47.99 – that's a lot of chocolate even for me
Quaker oatmeal, 18 oz round box, 12 ct, $24.99
Kroger coconut, 14 oz bag, 12 ct, $16.99
Dole mandarin oranges, 11 oz cans, 12 ct, $17.99
Fetzer Sundial chardonnay, 750 ml bottles, 6 pg, $29.99 and boy are you going to need it
Good luck.
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