Yoni Freedhoff, at Weighty Matters, points to a new study on meal frequency which seems to indicate that small frequent meals (as distinguished from fewer substantial meals) may help to decrease energy intake in some groups of people. Freedhoff, with that clarity of vision that has made me so fond of his blog, points out that the undeniably best plan – six small meals, three large ones, intermittent fasting – is whichever one works best for you.
Dr. Freedhoff, who's Canadian, is also quoted in a piece at HuffPost Canada about the aura of healthy that surrounds fruit juice. We tend to perceive fruit juice as being good for us – after all, it's fruit, right? But in its most basic terms it's actually “sugar water with vitamins and minerals”, providing four to five teaspoons of sugar per eight-ounce glass. Drink water and eat fruit.
Recipes! Chow.com's going fairly heavily into the whole Foodball Game thing (honestly that was a typo but too perfect to rectify), including chicken wing recipes and eighteen different ways to nacho. Also, for absolutely no reason I've been able to determine, how to make something resembling bacon out of I swear I could not make this up fish skin. Sprouted Kitchen offers a salad of winter greens and quinoa, and bringing us inevitably back to the isn't-there-some-sporting-event-this-weekend? thing, Darya Pino at Summer Tomato has “5 Classic Super Bowl Foods That Are Surprisingly Healthy”; Snack Girl has her own set of “Top Healthy Super Bowl Snacks” as well as a fast and tasty three-layer bean dip (“I believe these dips usually have five layers, but who needs five if three tastes good?”); and Simply Recipes has an artichoke-lemon dip that I think I could live with. Or possibly on.
February is, besides being the official month of heart-shaped red satin candy boxes, Berry Fresh Month, National Fiber Focus Month, National Grapefruit Month, Potato Lovers' Month, National Heart Healthy Month, National Sweet Potato Month, and National Hot Breakfast Month and that's only touching on the healthier topics. The first week in February is Shape Up With Pickles Time – don't forget, most pickles are PointsPlus-free!
We all know what Sunday is. February 4th is National Stuffed Mushroom Day, variably healthy depending on what one chooses to stuff into them; and one week from today, the 6th, besides being National Frozen Yogurt Day (all hail Golden Spoon!) is National Chopsticks Day which could be terrifically weight-loss-friendly if you're as completely uncoordinated with chopsticks as I am. (I know, I know, but I can hold a knitting needle in each hand which is not permissible with chopsticks.)
January 30th: National Croissant Day
January 31st: National Brandy Alexander Day
February 1st: National Baked Alaska Day, Bubble Gum Day; feast of St. Brigid of Ireland, patron of cattle, chicken farmers, and dairymaids; 1960, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr. (later known as Jibreek Khazan), and David Richmond take seats and order coffee at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
February 2nd: Heavenly Hash Day, California Kiwifruit Day
February 3rd: National Carrot Cake Day; Setsubun; 1930, Frank W. Mars introduces the Snickers bar; 1941, Teflon patented; 1946, birthday of Dan Quayle, popularizer of the potatoe
February 4th: Homemade Soup Day, National Stuffed Mushroom Day
February 5th: National Chocolate Fondue Day, World Nutella Day
February 6th: National Chopsticks Day, National Frozen Yogurt Day
Albertson's:
Beef t-bone steaks, family pack, $4.97/lb
Beef ribeye or New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks OR tri tip roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round roasts, boneless, $3.99/lb
Assorted pork chops, bone in, $1.57/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.99/lb
Cod fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Mahi mahi OR shark portions, 5 oz, $3.99
Deli: Jennie-O “Blue Ribbon” turkey breast, $2.99/lb (first 2 lbs)
Jennie-O “Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
All Dietz & Watson hams/turkey breast/chicken breast/cheese, $7.99/lb
USA Gold honey or baked ham, $5.99/lb
Charlie's Pride Italian beef/corned beef/beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Provolone/Muenster, $5.99/lb
Progresso soups incl. “Light” (with the WW logo), 2/$3
Nature Valley OR Fiber One bars, 5-6 ct, 2/$5
“Cuties” clementines, 3 lb bag, 2/$5
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Seedless grapes, green or red, $2.99/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, $2.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Hass avocados, jumbo, 2/$3
Earthbound Farms organic box salads, 1 lb, $4.99
Baby carrots, 1 lb bag, 2/$3
Bashas':
Beef t-bone steaks OR boneless London broil, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef porterhouse steaks, value pack, $4.99/lb
Beef top round roast, $3.99/lb
Pork shoulder roast, $1.89/lb (steaks $2.49/lb)
Sanderson Farms chicken breast, bone in, buy 1 get 1 free
Halibut fillets, wild caught, 6 oz portions, $7 ea
Steelhead fillets, farm raised, $6.88/lb
Food Club cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/cubelets, $1.88
Bashas' cottage cheese incl. low-fat, 16 oz tubs, 2/$3
Oroweat bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.49
Chicken of the Sea solid white tuna, 4/$5
Weight Watchers ice-cream novelties, 6-12 ct, $4.44
Blueberries, dry pint, $1.77
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Apples: Fuji, Ambrosia, Braeburn, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Cantaloupes OR honeydew melons, 59¢/lb
Roma or slicing tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, 2/$3
Sweet onions, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef t-bone steaks, 50% off
Beef chuck roast, boneless, $4.49/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
Ground beef sirloin, fat content not listed, $4.99/lb
Pork loin back ribs OR St Louis-style ribs, buy 1 get 2 free
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.88
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.99
Pace salsa or picante sauce, 24 oz jars, 2/$5
Vlasic pickle spears or “Stackers”, 16-24 oz jars, 2/$5
Bush's baked beans, 16 oz cans, $1.39
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz box, $2.99
Bananas, 57¢/lb
“Mini peeled” carrots, AZ grown, 1 lb bag, 98¢
Mini sweet peppers, 2 lb bag, $2.99
Safeway:
Beef top sirloin, whole damn thing in a bag, $2.77/lb
Beef loin strip, boneless, whole damn thing in a bag, $4.77/lb
Beef ribeye, boneless, whole damn thing in a bag, $5.77/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, $4.49/lb
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
80/20 ground beef, $3.49/lb
Pork loin chops, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork loin back ribs, $2.99/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole damn thing in a bag, $1.87/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, value pack, $6.99/lb (regular pack $7.19/lb)
Dover sole fillets, $7.99/lb “weather permitting”
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.67
Lucerne cream cheese, 8 oz brick or tub, $1.79
Shamrock Farms sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1.99
Safeway Kitchens variety breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $1.99
StarKist solid white tuna, 2/$3
Bush's Best baked beans, 28 oz cans, 2/$4
Bush's Best “Grillin'” beans, 21-22 oz cans, 2/$4
Ro*tel tomatoes, 99¢
Gala apples, $1.49/lb
Organic navel oranges, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Mangos, 10/$10
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $2.99/lb
Sweet mini peppers, 2 lb bag, $3.99
English cucumbers, AZ grown, 2/$3
Wholly Guacamole, 12 oz pkg, buy 1 get 1 free
Sprouts:
Beef rump roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, boneless, $9.99/lb
Grass-fed organic beef chuck roast, boneless, $6.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork shoulder roast, boneless, $1.99/lb
Pork or chicken sausage, bulk or links, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $2.99/lb
Halibut fillets, wild caught (Sea of Cortez), $12.99/lb
Navel oranges, 48¢/lb
Red Delicious apples, 48¢/lb
Braeburn or Fuji apples, 88¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$4
Cantaloupes OR honeydew melons, 2/$5
Organic D'Anjou or Bosc pears, $1.29/lb
Roma tomatoes, 48¢/lb
Hass avocados, 48¢ ea
Eggplant, 88¢ ea
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 4/$5
Winter squashes (acorn, butternut, spaghetti,) 99¢/lb
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Bargain guide, week beginning January 23rd:
Apology for the apology -- the previous (now deleted) posting was in error. I'm going to Nevada tomorrow, not today, and so am preparing this posting and the handout and will be at tonight's meeting.
Fooducate has an interesting piece on “America's protein addiction”: introductions of foods and beverages claimed to be “high-protein” are three times higher in the US than anywhere else in the world. And Americans hardly need to increase our protein intake. Unless you're an endurance athlete, you need about 800 milligrams – 0.8 of a gram – of protein for every kilo of your body weight per day. Most people get more than that, many substantially more. The point being that unless you're training for the Phoenix Marathon, you probably don't need to significantly supplement your protein intake.
News: the Federal Trade Commission has just ruled that POM Wonderful has been making deceptive claims for the benefits of its pomegranate-juice products and must stop. Specifically, POM Wonderful may no longer claim that “consumption of certain doses of Challenged POM Products treats, prevents or reduces the risk of heart disease, prostate cancer, or erectile dysfunction”.
A new study reports that watching The Biggest Loser actually discourages people from taking part in exercise. It's not hard to figure out why: on the show exercise is routinely depicted as an exquisitely unpleasant, physically painful ordeal. Or as Yoni Freedhoff puts it, “By my count during the first week of this season's The Biggest Loser, three contestants lost consciousness, two threw up, one suffered a stress fracture in their knee and a thirteen year old boy fractured his foot. Watching that - who wouldn't want to hit the gym?”
Recipes! Chow.com has a set of “Salad Recipes that Make the Meal”, one of inspired dishes to make using “boring winter produce”, and a winter-fruit salad dressed with lime and ginger. That and a blood-orange margarita should tide you over until fresh-produce season. Smitten Kitchen has a lentil-sausage soup that looks delicious. And Snack Girl has tips for homemade-cookie-baking portion control (mix up the cookie dough and freeze it in an ice-cube tray), how to exercise without noticing, and homemade cheese crackers.
Today's National Pie Day. Do not confuse with National Pi Day which is in March. Friday is Burns Night: sadly haggis is difficult to obtain in the US, so you may have to settle for uisge beatha.
January 23rd: National Pie Day
January 24th: National Peanut Butter Day; Beer Can Appreciation Day (1935, canned beer first introduced in Richmond, Virginia; 1959, Coors launches the seamless and recyclable aluminum beer can)
January 25th: Burns Night (Robert Burns born, 1759), National Irish Coffee Day
January 26th: National Pistachio Day, National Peanut Brittle Day
January 27th: Chocolate Cake Day
January 28th: National Blueberry Pancake Day
January 29th: National Corn Chip Day; 1924, Carl R. Taylor of Cleveland patents the first ice-cream-cone-rolling machine
January 30th: National Croissant Day
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef crossrib roast, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef top sirloin steaks OR tri tip roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef New York strip steak, bone in, family pack, $6.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, $1.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
85/15 ground beef, $2.49/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork loin chops, bone in, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Sanderson Farms whole chickens OR leg quarters, bone in, 77¢/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken breast, bone in, jumbo pack, $1.49/lb
Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Whole Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb (half, $5.99/lb)
Rockfish fillets, $5.99/lb
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.67
Albertson's eggs, AA large, 18 ct, $1.99
Essential Everyday butter, 2/$5
Essential Everyday cream cheese, 8 oz brick, $1
Deli: Signature chicken breast or honey ham, $5.99/lb
Charlie's Pride roast beef/corned beef/Italian beef/beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Stella swiss cheese, $6.99/lb
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, $1
Essential Everyday fruit, 15 oz cans, $1
Essential Everyday tomatoes, 28 oz cans, $1
Ro*tel tomatoes, $1
Flav-R-Pac stir-fry veggies, 1 lb frozen bag, $1
Birds Eye “Steamfresh” veggies, 10-12 oz pkg, $1
Whole jumbo cantaloupes, $1 ea
Green or red seedless grapes, from Chile, $2.99/lb
Meridol papayas, $1/lb
Fuji or Braeburn apples, $1/lb
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, $1/bunch
Eggplants, $1 ea
Cactus pears, $1 ea
Fresh Express bag salads, 2/$5
English cucumbers, $1 ea
Daikon radishes, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef crossrib/bottom round/chuck/sirloin tip roasts, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $6.99/lb
Beef New York steaks, bone in, value pack, $6.99/lb
Beef tenderloin steak, boneless, $7.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $2.37/lb
Pork shoulder roast, $1.89/lb
Pork country style ribs, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms whole frying chickens, 99¢/lb
Bashas' chicken leg quarters, value pack, 99¢/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.88/lb
Mountain trout, $7.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb “weather permitting”
Bashas' eggs, AA large, 18 ct, $1.88
Food Club butter, 2/$5
Food Club cheeses, 10-16 oz chunk/shreds/string snacks, $3.99
Bashas' sour cream, 24 oz tub, $1.99
Bashas' cottage cheese, 24 oz tub, $2.39
Yoplait Greek yogurts, 10/$10
Nature's Own “WhiteWheat” bread, 20 oz long loaves, $2.29
Del Monte pasta sauces, 26 oz cans, 99¢
Nature's Bounty OR Sundown vitamins, 50% off
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$11
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Roma or slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Winter squashes (acorn, butternut, spaghetti), 88¢/lb
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Fry's:
Beef roasts: top/bottom/eye round, sirloin tip, chuck, shoulder, 50% off
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
Beef t-bone steaks, $8.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (2 lb chub)
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Pork loin chops, center cut, bone in, family pack, $3.99/lb
Foster Farms whole chickens, buy 1 get 1 free
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.79
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.99
Barilla pasta sauce, 24 oz jars, $2.29
Smart Ones frozen entrees, $1.88
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 4/$5
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Bananas, 57¢/lb
Zucchini OR yellow squash, 99¢/lb
Dole or Fresh Selection bag salads, 3/$5
Safeway:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef bottom round roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef round tip roast, boneless, $4.49/lb
Beef ribeye steak, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, value pack, $1.49/lb
Pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.87/lb
Safeway chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, 99¢/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $3.99/lb
Jennie-O Turkey Store turkey burgers, 3 lb frozen bag, $6.99
Swai fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Dressed rainbow trout, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Progresso Light soups (with the WW logo), 3/$4
StarKist chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Bear Creek soup mixes, 9-12 oz pouches, buy 1 get 1 free
Star olive oil, 25 oz bottles, buy 1 get 1 free
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 99¢
Hunt's pasta sauce, 24 oz cans, 99¢
Eating Right whole-grain pasta, 13 oz boxes, 99¢
Nature Valley protein bars, 7 oz boxes, 2/$6
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, $1.99
Pantry Essentials frozen veg, 12 oz bags, 99¢
Fuji apples, $1.49/lb
D'Anjou or Bosc pears, $1.49/lb
Mangos, 10/$10
Seedless grapes, green or red, $2.99/lb
“Texas Ruby Red” grape fruit, 78¢/lb
Navel oranges, 69¢/lb
Blueberries, 6 oz box, 2/$3
Vine tomatoes, $2.49/lb
O Organics box salads, 2/$6
Organic winter squashes, $1.49/lb
Sprouts:
Beef chuck roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef New York steak, boneless, $9.99/lb
93/7 ground beef sirloin, $4.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, value pack, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Haddock fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Sea of Cortez halibut, wild caught, $12.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$3
Blackberries, 5 oz box, 2/$3
Braeburn or Fuji apples, 88¢/lb (organic, 4 lbs/$5)
Bartlett or Bosc pears, 88¢/lb
Whole cantaloupes OR honeydew melons, 2/$5
Navel oranges, 3 lbs/$1
Organic Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Minneola tangelos, 88¢/lb
Tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Eggplant, 88¢ ea
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$3
Green or red bell peppers, 3/$1
Yellow or orange bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Fooducate has an interesting piece on “America's protein addiction”: introductions of foods and beverages claimed to be “high-protein” are three times higher in the US than anywhere else in the world. And Americans hardly need to increase our protein intake. Unless you're an endurance athlete, you need about 800 milligrams – 0.8 of a gram – of protein for every kilo of your body weight per day. Most people get more than that, many substantially more. The point being that unless you're training for the Phoenix Marathon, you probably don't need to significantly supplement your protein intake.
News: the Federal Trade Commission has just ruled that POM Wonderful has been making deceptive claims for the benefits of its pomegranate-juice products and must stop. Specifically, POM Wonderful may no longer claim that “consumption of certain doses of Challenged POM Products treats, prevents or reduces the risk of heart disease, prostate cancer, or erectile dysfunction”.
A new study reports that watching The Biggest Loser actually discourages people from taking part in exercise. It's not hard to figure out why: on the show exercise is routinely depicted as an exquisitely unpleasant, physically painful ordeal. Or as Yoni Freedhoff puts it, “By my count during the first week of this season's The Biggest Loser, three contestants lost consciousness, two threw up, one suffered a stress fracture in their knee and a thirteen year old boy fractured his foot. Watching that - who wouldn't want to hit the gym?”
Recipes! Chow.com has a set of “Salad Recipes that Make the Meal”, one of inspired dishes to make using “boring winter produce”, and a winter-fruit salad dressed with lime and ginger. That and a blood-orange margarita should tide you over until fresh-produce season. Smitten Kitchen has a lentil-sausage soup that looks delicious. And Snack Girl has tips for homemade-cookie-baking portion control (mix up the cookie dough and freeze it in an ice-cube tray), how to exercise without noticing, and homemade cheese crackers.
Today's National Pie Day. Do not confuse with National Pi Day which is in March. Friday is Burns Night: sadly haggis is difficult to obtain in the US, so you may have to settle for uisge beatha.
January 23rd: National Pie Day
January 24th: National Peanut Butter Day; Beer Can Appreciation Day (1935, canned beer first introduced in Richmond, Virginia; 1959, Coors launches the seamless and recyclable aluminum beer can)
January 25th: Burns Night (Robert Burns born, 1759), National Irish Coffee Day
January 26th: National Pistachio Day, National Peanut Brittle Day
January 27th: Chocolate Cake Day
January 28th: National Blueberry Pancake Day
January 29th: National Corn Chip Day; 1924, Carl R. Taylor of Cleveland patents the first ice-cream-cone-rolling machine
January 30th: National Croissant Day
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef crossrib roast, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef top sirloin steaks OR tri tip roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef New York strip steak, bone in, family pack, $6.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, $1.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
85/15 ground beef, $2.49/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork loin chops, bone in, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Sanderson Farms whole chickens OR leg quarters, bone in, 77¢/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken breast, bone in, jumbo pack, $1.49/lb
Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Whole Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb (half, $5.99/lb)
Rockfish fillets, $5.99/lb
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.67
Albertson's eggs, AA large, 18 ct, $1.99
Essential Everyday butter, 2/$5
Essential Everyday cream cheese, 8 oz brick, $1
Deli: Signature chicken breast or honey ham, $5.99/lb
Charlie's Pride roast beef/corned beef/Italian beef/beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Stella swiss cheese, $6.99/lb
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, $1
Essential Everyday fruit, 15 oz cans, $1
Essential Everyday tomatoes, 28 oz cans, $1
Ro*tel tomatoes, $1
Flav-R-Pac stir-fry veggies, 1 lb frozen bag, $1
Birds Eye “Steamfresh” veggies, 10-12 oz pkg, $1
Whole jumbo cantaloupes, $1 ea
Green or red seedless grapes, from Chile, $2.99/lb
Meridol papayas, $1/lb
Fuji or Braeburn apples, $1/lb
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, $1/bunch
Eggplants, $1 ea
Cactus pears, $1 ea
Fresh Express bag salads, 2/$5
English cucumbers, $1 ea
Daikon radishes, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef crossrib/bottom round/chuck/sirloin tip roasts, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $6.99/lb
Beef New York steaks, bone in, value pack, $6.99/lb
Beef tenderloin steak, boneless, $7.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $2.37/lb
Pork shoulder roast, $1.89/lb
Pork country style ribs, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms whole frying chickens, 99¢/lb
Bashas' chicken leg quarters, value pack, 99¢/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.88/lb
Mountain trout, $7.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb “weather permitting”
Bashas' eggs, AA large, 18 ct, $1.88
Food Club butter, 2/$5
Food Club cheeses, 10-16 oz chunk/shreds/string snacks, $3.99
Bashas' sour cream, 24 oz tub, $1.99
Bashas' cottage cheese, 24 oz tub, $2.39
Yoplait Greek yogurts, 10/$10
Nature's Own “WhiteWheat” bread, 20 oz long loaves, $2.29
Del Monte pasta sauces, 26 oz cans, 99¢
Nature's Bounty OR Sundown vitamins, 50% off
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$11
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Roma or slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Winter squashes (acorn, butternut, spaghetti), 88¢/lb
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Fry's:
Beef roasts: top/bottom/eye round, sirloin tip, chuck, shoulder, 50% off
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
Beef t-bone steaks, $8.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (2 lb chub)
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Pork loin chops, center cut, bone in, family pack, $3.99/lb
Foster Farms whole chickens, buy 1 get 1 free
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.79
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.99
Barilla pasta sauce, 24 oz jars, $2.29
Smart Ones frozen entrees, $1.88
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 4/$5
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Bananas, 57¢/lb
Zucchini OR yellow squash, 99¢/lb
Dole or Fresh Selection bag salads, 3/$5
Safeway:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef bottom round roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef round tip roast, boneless, $4.49/lb
Beef ribeye steak, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, value pack, $1.49/lb
Pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.87/lb
Safeway chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, 99¢/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $3.99/lb
Jennie-O Turkey Store turkey burgers, 3 lb frozen bag, $6.99
Swai fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Dressed rainbow trout, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Progresso Light soups (with the WW logo), 3/$4
StarKist chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Bear Creek soup mixes, 9-12 oz pouches, buy 1 get 1 free
Star olive oil, 25 oz bottles, buy 1 get 1 free
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 99¢
Hunt's pasta sauce, 24 oz cans, 99¢
Eating Right whole-grain pasta, 13 oz boxes, 99¢
Nature Valley protein bars, 7 oz boxes, 2/$6
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, $1.99
Pantry Essentials frozen veg, 12 oz bags, 99¢
Fuji apples, $1.49/lb
D'Anjou or Bosc pears, $1.49/lb
Mangos, 10/$10
Seedless grapes, green or red, $2.99/lb
“Texas Ruby Red” grape fruit, 78¢/lb
Navel oranges, 69¢/lb
Blueberries, 6 oz box, 2/$3
Vine tomatoes, $2.49/lb
O Organics box salads, 2/$6
Organic winter squashes, $1.49/lb
Sprouts:
Beef chuck roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef New York steak, boneless, $9.99/lb
93/7 ground beef sirloin, $4.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, value pack, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Haddock fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Sea of Cortez halibut, wild caught, $12.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$3
Blackberries, 5 oz box, 2/$3
Braeburn or Fuji apples, 88¢/lb (organic, 4 lbs/$5)
Bartlett or Bosc pears, 88¢/lb
Whole cantaloupes OR honeydew melons, 2/$5
Navel oranges, 3 lbs/$1
Organic Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Minneola tangelos, 88¢/lb
Tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Eggplant, 88¢ ea
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$3
Green or red bell peppers, 3/$1
Yellow or orange bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Wren's bargain guide, week beginning January 16th:
An interesting article at Salon.com about how the physical experience of food – what the author calls “playing with your food” – can influence appetite. And from Fooducate, something else to figure into the ever-challenging, not to say fraught, topic of “serving sizes”: density. A half-cup serving of Grape-Nuts cereal is 58 grams – two ounces. A 3/4-cup serving of Grape-Nuts Flakes is 29 grams, barely over an ounce.
Recipes! Chow.com has easy roasted or baked chicken recipes (great for the time of year when we Arizonans are actually willing to turn the oven on, as well as for those nights when you're thinking “If I have to deal with one more damn boneless skinless chicken breast … ”) and six ideas for healthier homemade pizza. And Chow's Supertaster does a video review of five different WW Smart Ones meals. Disregard what he says about the meaning of the name “Weight Watchers 360”.
From Darya at Summer Tomato: “Healthy Snacking 101”, and a collection of “9 Surefire Ways to Sabotage Your Weight Loss”. (Start a really hard workout regimen! Choose an impossibly restrictive diet! Rely entirely on willpower, because we all know how well that works!) At Lifehacker, how to learn to love healthy food even if you're a picky eater! And a couple of studies have shown, again, that moderate exercise can have a very beneficial effect on your health.
More recipes! From Smitten Kitchen, gnocchi in tomato broth, not sauce. Simply Recipes has salmon with fennel baked in parchment (“It can look somewhat fancy and intimidating, but I assure you, it's crazy easy to do”). And courtesy of Snack Girl, DIY Reese's peanut-butter snacks and a breakfast hash that's good even without bacon!
Today's the 93rd anniversary of the start of Prohibition. Not precisely what one would call a rip roaring success. Tomorrow's Hot Buttered Rum Day, this Saturday is National Popcorn Day, and one week from today is National Pie Day. (Not to be confused with Pi Day, which is March 14th.)
January 16th: National Fig Newton Day, International Hot & Spicy Foods Day
January 17th: Hot Buttered Rum Day
January 18th: Peking Duck Day
January 19th: National Popcorn Day; 1895, Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City granted the first US patent for food storage in tin cans
January 20th: National Buttercrunch Day, National Cheese Lovers' Day, National Granola Bar Day, National Coffee Break Day
January 21st: New England Clam Chowder Day, Rid the World of Fad Diets Day
January 22nd: National Blond Brownie Day
January 23rd: National Pie Day
Albertson's:
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round roasts, boneless, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef t-bone or bone-in ribeye steaks, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
85/15 ground beef, $2.49/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
Spiral ham, bone-in with glaze packet, $1.57/lb
Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, tray pack, $4.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Jennie-O 93/7 ground turkey breast, 20 oz pkg, $2.99
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.67
Essential Everyday cheeses, 8 oz shingle, $2.99
Deli: Jennie-O oven roasted turkey breast, $4.99/lb
USA Gold Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Deli Fresh Muenster/Provolone/pepperjack/mild Cheddar, $4.99/lb
Essential Everyday pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 88¢
Nature Valley OR Fiber One protein bars, 5 ct, $1.99
Nature's Own “WhiteWheat” or “100% Whole Grain” bread, 20 oz long loaves, $2.39
Lean Cuisine OR Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$10
Morningstar Farms meatless frozen entrees, 2/$7
Special K flatbread breakfast sandwiches, 4 pk, $4.99
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$4
Mangos, $1 ea
Cara Cara oranges, $1.49/lb
Jonagold or Braeburn apples, $1/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Earthbound Farms organic box salads, 1 lb, $4.99
Leeks, $1.49/lb
Banana squash, 69¢/lb
Chard, green or red, 2 bunches/$3
Bashas':
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $4.47/lb (regular pack $4.99/lb)
Beef top sirloin, $6.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, value pack, $3.49/lb
Center cut pork chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Cook's spiral ham, $1.27/lb
Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, buy 1 get 1 free
Bashas' Homestyle bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, 2/$4
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Land O Lakes butter, $3.29
Food Club cheeses, 2 lb chunk or shreds, $7.77
Birds Eye OR C & W frozen veg, 10-16 oz bags, 5/$10
Smart Ones frozen entrees, 5/$10, buy 5 get 1 free
Weight Watchers ice-cream novelties, 6-12 ct, $4.44
Mangos, 10/$10
Strawberries (1 lb box), blackberries (6 oz box), blueberries (dry pint), buy 1 get 1 free
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Minneola tangelos, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Apples: Fuji, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, 2/$4
Sweet mini peppers, 10 oz bag, 2/$4
Sweet onions, 99¢/lb
Red or gold bell peppers, 10/$10
Dole bag salads, 2/$5
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Cucumbers, 2/$1
Earthbound Farms organic baby-peeled carrots, 1 lb bag, 2/$3
Organic Romaine hearts, 3 ct, $1.99
Fry's:
Beef New York strip steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.97/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $5.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast, $4.49/lb
80/20 ground beef, $2.99/lb (3 lb chub)
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.97/lb
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.77/lb
Sockeye salmon, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.99
Kraft or Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $2.29
Yoplait yogurts, 20/$10
Kroger fruit, 15 oz cans, 99¢/lb
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, 99¢
Bush's variety (non-baked) or chili beans, 15-16 oz cans, 99¢
Del Monte veggies, 11-15 oz cans, 99¢
Hunt's tomatoes/sauce/paste, 11-15 oz cans, 99¢/lb
Simple Truth organic tomatoes or sauce, 14-15 oz cans, 99¢/lb
Simple Truth organic variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 99¢
Hunt's pasta sauce, 24 oz cans, 99¢
Kroger frozen veg, 9-12 oz pkg, 99¢
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, 6/$12
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Bananas, 57¢/lb
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, 99¢
Simple Truth organic box salads, 5-9 oz boxes, 2/$6
Safeway:
Beef top round London broil steak, boneless, value pack, $2.49/lb (regular pack 50¢/lb higher)
Beef New York strip steak, boneless, value pack, $5.99/lb
Beef crossrib OR bottom round roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
90/10 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork top loin chops, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, $1.69/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Swai fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.67
Lucerne cheeses, 8 oz chunk or shreds, $2.29
Bumble Bee solid white tuna, 2/$3
Fiber One Chewy bars, 5-6 ct, 2/$6
Kashi GoLean cereal, 13-14 oz boxes, 2/$7
Green Giant frozen veg, 7-10 oz boxes, $1.99
Apples: Granny Smith, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 88¢/lb
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$5
Peaches OR nectarines, yellow, $1.99/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Clementine tangerines, 5 lb box, $6.99
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.49/lb
Fresh Express OR Safeway Farms bag salads, 2/$5
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, AZ grown, $1.29/lb
Sprouts:
Specially marked “gluten free” products, 25% off
Beef ribeye steak or roast, bone in, $5.99/lb
Pork loin roast, center cut, boneless, $1.99/lb
Ground pork, $2.99/lb
Whole/split/cut up chickens, $1.59/lb
Ground chicken or chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
“Colossal” raw shrimp, <15 br="br" caught="caught" ct="ct" lb="lb" wild="wild"> Navel oranges, 3 lbs/$1
Braeburn or Cameo apples, 88¢/lb
Organic Fuji or Gala apples, 4 lbs/$5
Organic Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Bartlett or Bosc pears, 88¢/lb
Organic Bosc pears, 3 lb bag, $2.99
Yellow peaches or nectarines, $2.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 2 lbs/$1
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 4/$5
Eggplant, 88¢ ea
Winter squashes (acorn/butternut/spaghetti), 2/$1
Summer squashes (Italian/yellow/Mexican), 4 lbs/$5
Gold or orange bell peppers, 2/$1
Red or green bell peppers, 3/$1
Recipes! Chow.com has easy roasted or baked chicken recipes (great for the time of year when we Arizonans are actually willing to turn the oven on, as well as for those nights when you're thinking “If I have to deal with one more damn boneless skinless chicken breast … ”) and six ideas for healthier homemade pizza. And Chow's Supertaster does a video review of five different WW Smart Ones meals. Disregard what he says about the meaning of the name “Weight Watchers 360”.
From Darya at Summer Tomato: “Healthy Snacking 101”, and a collection of “9 Surefire Ways to Sabotage Your Weight Loss”. (Start a really hard workout regimen! Choose an impossibly restrictive diet! Rely entirely on willpower, because we all know how well that works!) At Lifehacker, how to learn to love healthy food even if you're a picky eater! And a couple of studies have shown, again, that moderate exercise can have a very beneficial effect on your health.
More recipes! From Smitten Kitchen, gnocchi in tomato broth, not sauce. Simply Recipes has salmon with fennel baked in parchment (“It can look somewhat fancy and intimidating, but I assure you, it's crazy easy to do”). And courtesy of Snack Girl, DIY Reese's peanut-butter snacks and a breakfast hash that's good even without bacon!
Today's the 93rd anniversary of the start of Prohibition. Not precisely what one would call a rip roaring success. Tomorrow's Hot Buttered Rum Day, this Saturday is National Popcorn Day, and one week from today is National Pie Day. (Not to be confused with Pi Day, which is March 14th.)
January 16th: National Fig Newton Day, International Hot & Spicy Foods Day
January 17th: Hot Buttered Rum Day
January 18th: Peking Duck Day
January 19th: National Popcorn Day; 1895, Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City granted the first US patent for food storage in tin cans
January 20th: National Buttercrunch Day, National Cheese Lovers' Day, National Granola Bar Day, National Coffee Break Day
January 21st: New England Clam Chowder Day, Rid the World of Fad Diets Day
January 22nd: National Blond Brownie Day
January 23rd: National Pie Day
Albertson's:
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round roasts, boneless, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef t-bone or bone-in ribeye steaks, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
85/15 ground beef, $2.49/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
Spiral ham, bone-in with glaze packet, $1.57/lb
Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, tray pack, $4.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Jennie-O 93/7 ground turkey breast, 20 oz pkg, $2.99
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.67
Essential Everyday cheeses, 8 oz shingle, $2.99
Deli: Jennie-O oven roasted turkey breast, $4.99/lb
USA Gold Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Deli Fresh Muenster/Provolone/pepperjack/mild Cheddar, $4.99/lb
Essential Everyday pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 88¢
Nature Valley OR Fiber One protein bars, 5 ct, $1.99
Nature's Own “WhiteWheat” or “100% Whole Grain” bread, 20 oz long loaves, $2.39
Lean Cuisine OR Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$10
Morningstar Farms meatless frozen entrees, 2/$7
Special K flatbread breakfast sandwiches, 4 pk, $4.99
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$4
Mangos, $1 ea
Cara Cara oranges, $1.49/lb
Jonagold or Braeburn apples, $1/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Earthbound Farms organic box salads, 1 lb, $4.99
Leeks, $1.49/lb
Banana squash, 69¢/lb
Chard, green or red, 2 bunches/$3
Bashas':
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $4.47/lb (regular pack $4.99/lb)
Beef top sirloin, $6.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, value pack, $3.49/lb
Center cut pork chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Cook's spiral ham, $1.27/lb
Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, buy 1 get 1 free
Bashas' Homestyle bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, 2/$4
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Land O Lakes butter, $3.29
Food Club cheeses, 2 lb chunk or shreds, $7.77
Birds Eye OR C & W frozen veg, 10-16 oz bags, 5/$10
Smart Ones frozen entrees, 5/$10, buy 5 get 1 free
Weight Watchers ice-cream novelties, 6-12 ct, $4.44
Mangos, 10/$10
Strawberries (1 lb box), blackberries (6 oz box), blueberries (dry pint), buy 1 get 1 free
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Minneola tangelos, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Apples: Fuji, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, 2/$4
Sweet mini peppers, 10 oz bag, 2/$4
Sweet onions, 99¢/lb
Red or gold bell peppers, 10/$10
Dole bag salads, 2/$5
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Cucumbers, 2/$1
Earthbound Farms organic baby-peeled carrots, 1 lb bag, 2/$3
Organic Romaine hearts, 3 ct, $1.99
Fry's:
Beef New York strip steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.97/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $5.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast, $4.49/lb
80/20 ground beef, $2.99/lb (3 lb chub)
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.97/lb
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.77/lb
Sockeye salmon, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.99
Kraft or Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $2.29
Yoplait yogurts, 20/$10
Kroger fruit, 15 oz cans, 99¢/lb
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, 99¢
Bush's variety (non-baked) or chili beans, 15-16 oz cans, 99¢
Del Monte veggies, 11-15 oz cans, 99¢
Hunt's tomatoes/sauce/paste, 11-15 oz cans, 99¢/lb
Simple Truth organic tomatoes or sauce, 14-15 oz cans, 99¢/lb
Simple Truth organic variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 99¢
Hunt's pasta sauce, 24 oz cans, 99¢
Kroger frozen veg, 9-12 oz pkg, 99¢
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, 6/$12
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Bananas, 57¢/lb
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, 99¢
Simple Truth organic box salads, 5-9 oz boxes, 2/$6
Safeway:
Beef top round London broil steak, boneless, value pack, $2.49/lb (regular pack 50¢/lb higher)
Beef New York strip steak, boneless, value pack, $5.99/lb
Beef crossrib OR bottom round roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
90/10 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork top loin chops, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, $1.69/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Swai fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.67
Lucerne cheeses, 8 oz chunk or shreds, $2.29
Bumble Bee solid white tuna, 2/$3
Fiber One Chewy bars, 5-6 ct, 2/$6
Kashi GoLean cereal, 13-14 oz boxes, 2/$7
Green Giant frozen veg, 7-10 oz boxes, $1.99
Apples: Granny Smith, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 88¢/lb
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$5
Peaches OR nectarines, yellow, $1.99/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Clementine tangerines, 5 lb box, $6.99
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.49/lb
Fresh Express OR Safeway Farms bag salads, 2/$5
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, AZ grown, $1.29/lb
Sprouts:
Specially marked “gluten free” products, 25% off
Beef ribeye steak or roast, bone in, $5.99/lb
Pork loin roast, center cut, boneless, $1.99/lb
Ground pork, $2.99/lb
Whole/split/cut up chickens, $1.59/lb
Ground chicken or chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
“Colossal” raw shrimp, <15 br="br" caught="caught" ct="ct" lb="lb" wild="wild"> Navel oranges, 3 lbs/$1
Braeburn or Cameo apples, 88¢/lb
Organic Fuji or Gala apples, 4 lbs/$5
Organic Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Bartlett or Bosc pears, 88¢/lb
Organic Bosc pears, 3 lb bag, $2.99
Yellow peaches or nectarines, $2.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 2 lbs/$1
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 4/$5
Eggplant, 88¢ ea
Winter squashes (acorn/butternut/spaghetti), 2/$1
Summer squashes (Italian/yellow/Mexican), 4 lbs/$5
Gold or orange bell peppers, 2/$1
Red or green bell peppers, 3/$1
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Wren's bargain guide, week beginning January 9th:
Welcome to all our new members! Occasional Disclaimer: I'm Wren and every week I go through the grocery flyers and type up a list of the good healthy deals for the week, adding an assortment of recipes, food-related links, and opinionated editorial comment. This is not “everything” in the flyers, only everything that strikes me as low-PointsPlus, low-calorie, low-processed, or in some other way Good For You. Nor, and I must stress this, is this in any way shape form or fashion an official Weight Watchers Thing. So VERY not.
Chow.com has easy butternut squash soup (roast it first in the oven), nineteen “healthy winter salads” and nine chili recipes. These last may be handy as we're likely to get a hard freeze this weekend. Also their ever-popular (or at least ever-repeated) How To Make Your Own Veggie Chips, including taro chips which are speckled, carrot chips, kale chips, and sweet potato chips which are quite pretty with crinkled edges. And a very handy guide to exactly how much produce makes a cup! Of broccoli, sixteen florets. Of green beans, twenty or so. Eight strawberries. Thirty-two grapes. And only four spears of asparagus! (Although it may take many more at this time of year when most of the asparagus looks as though it has chive ancestry.)
Yoni Freedhoff at Weighty Matters is quite thoroughly annoyed at The Biggest Loser for targeting children in the new season. So are a few TBL alumni.
Darya Pino touches on what she calls “Home Court Habits” for effective weight control, as well as how to work out when you don't like to exercise. Snack Girl has a warm lentil salad (for those times when you're too cold to be interested in real salads – or as she puts it, “All I can think about is cheese, potatoes, and beer”), homemade chicken noodle soup, and a very positive review of WW360°. And courtesy of one of her readers, a creamy-tasting roasted-veggie-soup recipe with no cream! Sprouted Kitchen has a glazed-beet-and-carrot salad, Smitten Kitchen has an “ethereally smooth” hummus which involves hand-skinned chickpeas, and Simply Recipes has a chestnut-fennel-apple soup and a perfectly timed recipe for black bean turkey chili.
Seems everyone's into chili this week. Appropriately, one week from today is -- correction from the print version -- International Hot And Spicy Foods Day. The day after tomorrow – when the temperature is expected to drop twenty degrees from today's high – is National Hot Toddy Day. All sorts of warmish things are being celebrated this week, including curried chicken (on the 12th) and hot pastrami sandwiches (the 14th). The 11th is Milk Day and you can even warm that if it so please you.
January 9th: National Apricot Day (I genuinely cannot imagine why it is in January)
January 10th: National Bittersweet Chocolate Day
January 11th: Milk Day, National Hot Toddy Day
January 12th: Curried Chicken Day, National Marzipan Day
January 13th: National Peach Melba Day
January 14th: National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day
January 15th: National Strawberry Ice-Cream Day, National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day
January 16th: National Fig Newton Day, International Hot and Spicy Foods Day
Don't forget to bring your brass monkeys inside this weekend.
Albertson's:
Beef New York steaks, bone in, $4.97/lb
Beef tip sirloin steaks, boneless, $4.97/lb
Beef chuck or sirloin tip roasts, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef bottom round roasts, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb
Hormel pork tenderloin OR roasts, 18-24 oz, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Sanderson Farms whole chickens, 99¢/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, jumbo pack, 99¢/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Albertson's sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1.29
Deli: Charlie's Pride roast beef/corned beef/beef pastrami/Italian beef, $6.99/lb
Stella Swiss cheese, $6.99/lb
USA Gold honey or baked ham, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
Stella Provolone or Muenster cheese, $5.99/lb
Nabisco Wheat Thins, 5-10 oz boxes, $1.99
Essential Everyday chunk light tuna, 79¢
Del Monte canned veggies, 13-15 oz cans, 99¢
PictSweet “Steam'ables”, 10-12 oz frozen bag, 2/$3
Essential Everyday frozen strawberries, whole or sliced, 16 oz, $2.49
Jonagold or Braeburn apples, jumbo, $1/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 4/$5
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Red/yellow/orange bell peppers, $1 ea
Japanese eggplant, $1.99/lb
Green or red cabbage, 49¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef top sirloin, boneless, value pack, $2.88/lb
Beef London broil, $3.99/lb
Beef sirloin steaks, $3.88/lb
Beef sirloin tip roast, $4.49/lb
“Assorted” pork chops, value pack, $1.48/lb
Center cut pork chops, value pack, $2.99/lb
Cook's spiral sliced ham, $1.27/lb
True cod fillets, $6.99/lb “weather permitting”
Bashas' milk, gallons, $1.67
Food Club butter, $2.991b
Shamrock Farms cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tub, $2.69
Bashas' Homestyle bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.79
Bush's variety (non-baked) beans, 15-16 oz cans, 69¢
Veg-All veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Fiber One cereal or bars, $2.99
Kash GoLean cereal, 13-14 oz boxes, $2.99
Balance nutrition bars, 10/$10
Star olive oil, 17 oz bottles, $3.99
Pompeian olive oil, 16 oz bottles, $4.29
Food Club pasta, 2 lb pkg, $1.99
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, $1.99
Food Club fruit, 12-16 oz frozen pkg, $3.88
Apples: Fuji, Braeburn, Red/Golden Delicious, organic Gala, 99¢/lb
Bananas, 39¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, 2/$3
Asparagus, $1.88/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, AZ grown, 99¢ ea
Italian or yellow squash, 88¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef t-bone steaks, family pack, $4.97/lb
Beef chuck roast or steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef top round roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
Pork extravaganza! All fresh pork: buy 1 get 1 (like item) free!
Cook's spiral sliced hams, bone in, 99¢/lb
Foster Farms chicken, buy 1 get 1 free (like item)
Kroger 85/15 ground turkey, 3 lb pkg, $7.99
Denmark ground chicken, 1 lb pkg, $3.99
Fry's eggs, AA large, dozens, 99¢
Simple Truth “cage free” eggs, brown or white, AA large, dozens, 2/$5
Simple Truth organic butter, $3.99
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
Yoplait yogurts, 20/$10
Simple Truth breakfast cereals, 10-17 oz boxes, 20% off
Kroger variety (non-baked) beans, 69¢
Simple Truth pasta, 1 lb boxes, 2/$4
Simple Truth pasta sauces, 25 oz jars, 2/$6
Ro*tel tomatoes, 10/$10
Barilla pasta, 1 lb boxes, 10/$10
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, 6/$12
Minneola tangelos, AZ grown, 88¢/lb
Bananas, 38¢/lb
Lemons, AZ grown, 3/88¢
Red or D'Anjou pears, $1.28/lb
Mangos, 88¢ ea
Blueberries, 6 oz box, $1.98
Pom Wonderful pomegranates, $1.98 ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine/Boston, 88¢ ea
Cauliflower, 88¢/lb
Safeway:
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $5.99/lb (small package, $1/lb higher)
Beef round tip roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $3.29/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.79/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.87/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, 99¢/lb
Safeway lean ground turkey, fat content not listed, 20 oz pkg, $3.89
Lucerne or Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99
Laughing Cow cheese wedges incl. Light, 2/$7
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, $1
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Rice-A-Roni OR Pasta Roni, 10/$10
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$10
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, 3/$4
Red seedless grapes, $1.88/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Red cherries (imported), $4.99/lb
Opal apples, $1.99/lb
HoneyCrisp apples, $2.99/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$6
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Sprouts:
Beef chuck roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground sirloin, $3.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Apple-anche! Granny Smith, Pinata, Gala, Delicious, Braeburn, Fuji, Cameo, Jonagold, 49¢/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 5-6 oz boxes, 2/$3
Navel oranges, 49¢/lb
Red mangos, 88¢ ea (organic, 4/$5)
Yellow nectarines or peaches, $2.99/lb
Texas grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Tomatoes, 49¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, 99¢/bunch
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower OR green beans, 99¢/lb
Organic butternut squash, 79¢/lb
Organic garnet yams, 99¢/lb
Chow.com has easy butternut squash soup (roast it first in the oven), nineteen “healthy winter salads” and nine chili recipes. These last may be handy as we're likely to get a hard freeze this weekend. Also their ever-popular (or at least ever-repeated) How To Make Your Own Veggie Chips, including taro chips which are speckled, carrot chips, kale chips, and sweet potato chips which are quite pretty with crinkled edges. And a very handy guide to exactly how much produce makes a cup! Of broccoli, sixteen florets. Of green beans, twenty or so. Eight strawberries. Thirty-two grapes. And only four spears of asparagus! (Although it may take many more at this time of year when most of the asparagus looks as though it has chive ancestry.)
Yoni Freedhoff at Weighty Matters is quite thoroughly annoyed at The Biggest Loser for targeting children in the new season. So are a few TBL alumni.
Darya Pino touches on what she calls “Home Court Habits” for effective weight control, as well as how to work out when you don't like to exercise. Snack Girl has a warm lentil salad (for those times when you're too cold to be interested in real salads – or as she puts it, “All I can think about is cheese, potatoes, and beer”), homemade chicken noodle soup, and a very positive review of WW360°. And courtesy of one of her readers, a creamy-tasting roasted-veggie-soup recipe with no cream! Sprouted Kitchen has a glazed-beet-and-carrot salad, Smitten Kitchen has an “ethereally smooth” hummus which involves hand-skinned chickpeas, and Simply Recipes has a chestnut-fennel-apple soup and a perfectly timed recipe for black bean turkey chili.
Seems everyone's into chili this week. Appropriately, one week from today is -- correction from the print version -- International Hot And Spicy Foods Day. The day after tomorrow – when the temperature is expected to drop twenty degrees from today's high – is National Hot Toddy Day. All sorts of warmish things are being celebrated this week, including curried chicken (on the 12th) and hot pastrami sandwiches (the 14th). The 11th is Milk Day and you can even warm that if it so please you.
January 9th: National Apricot Day (I genuinely cannot imagine why it is in January)
January 10th: National Bittersweet Chocolate Day
January 11th: Milk Day, National Hot Toddy Day
January 12th: Curried Chicken Day, National Marzipan Day
January 13th: National Peach Melba Day
January 14th: National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day
January 15th: National Strawberry Ice-Cream Day, National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day
January 16th: National Fig Newton Day, International Hot and Spicy Foods Day
Don't forget to bring your brass monkeys inside this weekend.
Albertson's:
Beef New York steaks, bone in, $4.97/lb
Beef tip sirloin steaks, boneless, $4.97/lb
Beef chuck or sirloin tip roasts, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef bottom round roasts, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb
Hormel pork tenderloin OR roasts, 18-24 oz, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Sanderson Farms whole chickens, 99¢/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, jumbo pack, 99¢/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Albertson's sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1.29
Deli: Charlie's Pride roast beef/corned beef/beef pastrami/Italian beef, $6.99/lb
Stella Swiss cheese, $6.99/lb
USA Gold honey or baked ham, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
Stella Provolone or Muenster cheese, $5.99/lb
Nabisco Wheat Thins, 5-10 oz boxes, $1.99
Essential Everyday chunk light tuna, 79¢
Del Monte canned veggies, 13-15 oz cans, 99¢
PictSweet “Steam'ables”, 10-12 oz frozen bag, 2/$3
Essential Everyday frozen strawberries, whole or sliced, 16 oz, $2.49
Jonagold or Braeburn apples, jumbo, $1/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 4/$5
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Red/yellow/orange bell peppers, $1 ea
Japanese eggplant, $1.99/lb
Green or red cabbage, 49¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef top sirloin, boneless, value pack, $2.88/lb
Beef London broil, $3.99/lb
Beef sirloin steaks, $3.88/lb
Beef sirloin tip roast, $4.49/lb
“Assorted” pork chops, value pack, $1.48/lb
Center cut pork chops, value pack, $2.99/lb
Cook's spiral sliced ham, $1.27/lb
True cod fillets, $6.99/lb “weather permitting”
Bashas' milk, gallons, $1.67
Food Club butter, $2.991b
Shamrock Farms cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tub, $2.69
Bashas' Homestyle bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.79
Bush's variety (non-baked) beans, 15-16 oz cans, 69¢
Veg-All veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Fiber One cereal or bars, $2.99
Kash GoLean cereal, 13-14 oz boxes, $2.99
Balance nutrition bars, 10/$10
Star olive oil, 17 oz bottles, $3.99
Pompeian olive oil, 16 oz bottles, $4.29
Food Club pasta, 2 lb pkg, $1.99
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, $1.99
Food Club fruit, 12-16 oz frozen pkg, $3.88
Apples: Fuji, Braeburn, Red/Golden Delicious, organic Gala, 99¢/lb
Bananas, 39¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, 2/$3
Asparagus, $1.88/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, AZ grown, 99¢ ea
Italian or yellow squash, 88¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef t-bone steaks, family pack, $4.97/lb
Beef chuck roast or steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef top round roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
Pork extravaganza! All fresh pork: buy 1 get 1 (like item) free!
Cook's spiral sliced hams, bone in, 99¢/lb
Foster Farms chicken, buy 1 get 1 free (like item)
Kroger 85/15 ground turkey, 3 lb pkg, $7.99
Denmark ground chicken, 1 lb pkg, $3.99
Fry's eggs, AA large, dozens, 99¢
Simple Truth “cage free” eggs, brown or white, AA large, dozens, 2/$5
Simple Truth organic butter, $3.99
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
Yoplait yogurts, 20/$10
Simple Truth breakfast cereals, 10-17 oz boxes, 20% off
Kroger variety (non-baked) beans, 69¢
Simple Truth pasta, 1 lb boxes, 2/$4
Simple Truth pasta sauces, 25 oz jars, 2/$6
Ro*tel tomatoes, 10/$10
Barilla pasta, 1 lb boxes, 10/$10
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, 6/$12
Minneola tangelos, AZ grown, 88¢/lb
Bananas, 38¢/lb
Lemons, AZ grown, 3/88¢
Red or D'Anjou pears, $1.28/lb
Mangos, 88¢ ea
Blueberries, 6 oz box, $1.98
Pom Wonderful pomegranates, $1.98 ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine/Boston, 88¢ ea
Cauliflower, 88¢/lb
Safeway:
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $5.99/lb (small package, $1/lb higher)
Beef round tip roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $3.29/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.79/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.87/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, 99¢/lb
Safeway lean ground turkey, fat content not listed, 20 oz pkg, $3.89
Lucerne or Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99
Laughing Cow cheese wedges incl. Light, 2/$7
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, $1
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Rice-A-Roni OR Pasta Roni, 10/$10
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$10
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, 3/$4
Red seedless grapes, $1.88/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Red cherries (imported), $4.99/lb
Opal apples, $1.99/lb
HoneyCrisp apples, $2.99/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$6
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Sprouts:
Beef chuck roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground sirloin, $3.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Apple-anche! Granny Smith, Pinata, Gala, Delicious, Braeburn, Fuji, Cameo, Jonagold, 49¢/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 5-6 oz boxes, 2/$3
Navel oranges, 49¢/lb
Red mangos, 88¢ ea (organic, 4/$5)
Yellow nectarines or peaches, $2.99/lb
Texas grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Tomatoes, 49¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, 99¢/bunch
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower OR green beans, 99¢/lb
Organic butternut squash, 79¢/lb
Organic garnet yams, 99¢/lb
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Wren's bargain guide, week beginning January 2nd:
Welcome to 2013! What you are reading is, I cannot too strongly emphasize this, my hobby and not to be considered in any way an official Weight Watchers publication: every week I go through the newspaper grocery flyers, type up the good deals on what looks healthy or nutritious or WW-friendly (with emphasis on what Michael Pollan calls “the edges of the store” – the least-processed items to be found), add links to what food news or recipes look interesting on my favorite food blogs, intersperse rude and snarky comments, print the resulting hodgepodge out and post it as well to the blog you are now reading.
And, dig it, one of my equally rude and snarky comments on Facebook got copied at Fooducate! Go to their blog entry on the Top 5 Foods and Ingredients People Don't Want to See in 2013: they credit me by my Facebook name, Susan. (I could not persuade Facebook that Cactus Wren was a real name.)
The one thing I dislike about the cooler weather (and yes, frost warnings to me count as “cooler weather”) is the sad paucity of fresh fruit in markets. Chow.com has a nice fruit salad made from easily available winter fruits including kiwifruit and blood oranges, with a ginger-lime dressing. Also a tasty-looking miso-and-noodle soup, a set of no less than forty-seven “healthy and easy dinner dishes” ranging from a seven-veg soup to Korean Stir-Fried Sweet Potato Noodles (with that many there surely must be something your family will eat), and their Top Ten Kitchen Tips of 2012.
If you want to try something New and Different, Grist has an article on how to legalize the keeping of goats in your city. Snack Girl has information on potatoes, a healthy winter vegetable with an unfortunate rep. (“The problem is we load them. Potatoes are not guns.”) Simply Recipes has a slightly belated Hoppin' John recipe (well, the recipe wasn't belated when they put it on the site, but I'm not putting it here until the day after New Year's) which is good at any time of year, salmon mousse, and sweet potatoes mashed with bourbon. And Sprouted Kitchen has a truly lovely herbal beverage. (Juniper is an herb. Gin is made with juniper. QED.)
This is January: National Hot Tea Month (my hot beverage of choice, sweet and milky and strong enough to stir itself), National Oatmeal Month (more oatmeal is served in January than any other month), National Soup Month, National Bread Machine Month, National Slow Cooking Month, and … ta rata ta rata ta rata tataa … the Seventh National Soup Swap Month! The 26th is National Soup Swap Day, so you have plenty of time: make up batches of soup and swap with your friends!
January 6th is Bean Day. For some reason most American websites link this to bean dishes, although I'd always thought it was from the bean in the King Cake served on Twelfth Night (whoever gets the bean in their slice is king for the day). The day after is National Fruitcake Toss Day, and for most of those I've tasted (Collin Street is as always the exception) this is a very good idea.
January 2nd: National Cream Puff Day, National Buffet Day; feast of St. Marcarius, patron of confectioners and pastry chefs
January 3rd: National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day (One source gives this, inexplicably, as National Chocolate-Filled Cherry Day. I won't turn down either); 1871, Henry Bradley of Binghamton, New York, receives the US patent for oleomargarine; 1892, J.R.R. Tolkien born
January 4th: National Spaghetti Day
January 5th: National Whipped Cream Day; 1889, the word "hamburger" first appears in print (before that, and for some time after, it was generally referred to as "hamburg steak"); 1914, Aaron "Bunny" Lapin born, inventor of, God help us, Reddi-Wip which was once marketed as something to put on cold cereal in place of milk and I think that merits a second "God help us"
January 6th: Bean Day, National Shortbread Day
January 7th: National Tempura Day; 1896, The Boston Cooking School Cookbook first published (first cookbook to specify level measurements for ingredients); 1972, "American Pie" (the song) is #1 on the charts
January 8th: English Toffee Day; 1676, Charles II of England revokes his proclamation closing all Coffee Houses in London (it lasted all of sixteen days); 1940, Britain's Ministry of Food institutes rationing of butter, sugar, and bacon
January 9th: National Apricot Day
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round/sirloin tip roasts, boneless, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef t-bone steaks, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks OR tri tip roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.49/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork half loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
“Assorted” pork chops, family pack, $1.48/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, $1.88/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.67/lb
Jennie-O 93/7 ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $4.99
Cod portions, 5 oz, boneless, $2.99
Tilapia fillets, 1 lb IQF bag, $7.99, buy 1 get 2 free
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.67
Deli: Dietz & Watson “Gourmet Lite” turkey breast/ham/chicken breast, $7.99/lb
Jennie-O “Blue Ribbon” turkey breast, $4.99/lb
USA Gold Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Deli Fresh Muenster/Provolone/pepperjack/mild Cheddar, $5.99/lb
Wild Harvest organic soups, 14 oz cans, $2.29
Essential Everyday fruit, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Good Health veggie chips OR veggie sticks, 6-7 oz bags, $3.49
Wild Harvest organic frozen veg, 1 lb bags, $2.49
Cantaloupes, $1 ea
Fuji or Braeburn apples, $1/lb
Navel oranges, $1/lb
Texas grapefruit, $1 ea
Mangos, $1 ea
Roma tomatoes, $1/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, AZ grown, $1 ea
Summer squashes, zucchini/yellow/grey, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef chuck/bottom round/crossrib/sirloin tip roasts or steaks, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef t-bone OR New York strip steaks, $9.99/lb
Beef top sirloin, value pack, $3.99/lb
Ground beef round, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork shoulder steaks, bone in, $2.99/lb
Pork country style ribs, boneless, $2.99/lb
Bashas chicken breast, bone in, 87¢/lb
Jennie-O lean ground turkey, 1.25 lb pkg, $4.99
Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb “weather permitting”
Rockfish fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb “weather permitting”
Fresh clams, $2.99/lb
Bashas' sour cream OR cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 4/$5
Bumble Bee solid white tuna, $1.99
Flav-R-Pac frozen veg, 1 lb bag, 3/$5
Morningstar Farms frozen entrees, $3.99
Blackberries OR blueberries, 5-6 oz boxes, 2/$3
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, AZ grown, 88¢/lb
Lemons, AZ grown, 3/99¢
Organic pink grapefruit, AZ grown, 77¢/lb
Organic navel oranges, AZ grown, $1.49/lb
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Hot house cucumbers, AZ grown, 10/$10
Hass avocados, 77¢ ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, AZ grown, 88¢/lb
Iceberg, AZ grown, 77¢ ea
Bok choy OR Nappa cabbage, AZ grown, 88¢/lb
Broccoli OR cauliflower, AZ grown, 10 lbs/$10
Green cabbage, AZ grown, 49¢/lb (red, also AZ grown, 69¢/lb)
Fry's:
Doing a case-lot sale again: see end of entry
Beef New York strip steaks, bone in, $4.88/lb
Beef chuck roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.88/lb (2 lb chub)
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $4.99/lb
Center Cut pork loin chops, bone in, family pack, $3.59/lb
Pork shoulder roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.79/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.59/lb (3 lb IQF bag)
Foster Farms whole chickens, 98¢/lb
Jennie-O ground turkey, 18-20 oz boxes, 25% off
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.77/lb
Fry's milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
Yoplait yogurts incl. Light, 20/$10
Kroger sour cream OR cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $1.77
Simple Truth cage-free eggs, AA large, dozens, 2/$5
Del Monte OR S&W tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
Simple Truth organic variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Kroger potatoes, 22-32 oz frozen bag, 3/$5
Gorton's fish fillets, $3.29 (still only 2 PointsPlus per fillet, 4 for the whole package!)
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, 6/$12
Cuties clementines, 3 lb bag, $2.47
Organic Fuji apples, $1.49/lb
Mini seedless watermelons OR cantaloupes, 2/$4
Mangos, 88¢ ea
Asian pears, 88¢ ea
Dole OR Fresh Selections bag salads, 2/$5
Zucchini OR yellow squash, 99¢/lb
Organic kale, $1.99/bunch
Safeway:
Beef t-bone steaks, $5.99/lb
Beef bottom round OR thin-cut chuck steaks, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork tenderloin, boneless, whole in bag, $4.79/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, value pack, $2.49/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.88/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.67
O Organics variety (not baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 3/$4
Chicken of the Sea solid white tuna, 4/$5
Smart Ones frozen entrees, $2
Weight Watchers ice-cream novelties, 6-12 ct, $3.16
Navel oranges, 2 lbs/$1
Blackberries or blueberries, 6 oz boxes, buy 1 get 1 free
Strawberries, 1 lb box, buy 1 get 1 free
Bananas, 57¢/lb
Apples: Gala, Fuji, Granny Smith, Red/Golden Delicious, $1.49/lb
Red cherries, imported, $4.99/lb
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, AZ grown, $1.29/lb
Sprouts:
All vitamins and body care products, 25% off
Beef rump roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef New York steaks, boneless, $9.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Not necessarily all but lots of their pork, $2.99/lb
Whole/split/cut-up chickens, $1.59/lb
Alaskan sockeye salmon, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Albacore tuna steaks, wild caught, $8.99/lb
Boca meat alternatives, 10-12 oz frozen boxes, 2/$7
Cascadian Farms frozen veg, 1 lb bags, 2/$4
Amy's “Light & Lean” frozen entrees, $2.99
Braeburn or Fuji apples, 88¢/lb
Organic Fuji or Gala apples, 4 lbs/$1
Organic D'Anjou pears, $1.49/lb
Organic Bosc pears, 3 lb bag, $2.49
Navel oranges, 3 lbs/$1
Blueberries, 6 oz box, 4/$5
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Green bell peppers, 3/$1
Red/gold/orange bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Green onions OR cilantro OR radishes, 49¢/bunch
Organic butternut squash, 79¢/lb
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Fry's case sale:
Fry's eggs, AA medium, 30 ct, $2.99
Libby's veg, 14-15 oz cans, 12 ct, $6 (50¢ ea)
Kroger tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 24 ct, $11.76 (49¢ ea)
Kroger fruit, 15 oz cans, 24 ct, $18.96 (79¢ ea)
Duncan Hines cake mixes, 16 oz boxes, 12 ct, $11.88 (99¢ ea)
Kroger variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 24 ct, $14.16 (59¢ ea)
And, dig it, one of my equally rude and snarky comments on Facebook got copied at Fooducate! Go to their blog entry on the Top 5 Foods and Ingredients People Don't Want to See in 2013: they credit me by my Facebook name, Susan. (I could not persuade Facebook that Cactus Wren was a real name.)
The one thing I dislike about the cooler weather (and yes, frost warnings to me count as “cooler weather”) is the sad paucity of fresh fruit in markets. Chow.com has a nice fruit salad made from easily available winter fruits including kiwifruit and blood oranges, with a ginger-lime dressing. Also a tasty-looking miso-and-noodle soup, a set of no less than forty-seven “healthy and easy dinner dishes” ranging from a seven-veg soup to Korean Stir-Fried Sweet Potato Noodles (with that many there surely must be something your family will eat), and their Top Ten Kitchen Tips of 2012.
If you want to try something New and Different, Grist has an article on how to legalize the keeping of goats in your city. Snack Girl has information on potatoes, a healthy winter vegetable with an unfortunate rep. (“The problem is we load them. Potatoes are not guns.”) Simply Recipes has a slightly belated Hoppin' John recipe (well, the recipe wasn't belated when they put it on the site, but I'm not putting it here until the day after New Year's) which is good at any time of year, salmon mousse, and sweet potatoes mashed with bourbon. And Sprouted Kitchen has a truly lovely herbal beverage. (Juniper is an herb. Gin is made with juniper. QED.)
This is January: National Hot Tea Month (my hot beverage of choice, sweet and milky and strong enough to stir itself), National Oatmeal Month (more oatmeal is served in January than any other month), National Soup Month, National Bread Machine Month, National Slow Cooking Month, and … ta rata ta rata ta rata tataa … the Seventh National Soup Swap Month! The 26th is National Soup Swap Day, so you have plenty of time: make up batches of soup and swap with your friends!
January 6th is Bean Day. For some reason most American websites link this to bean dishes, although I'd always thought it was from the bean in the King Cake served on Twelfth Night (whoever gets the bean in their slice is king for the day). The day after is National Fruitcake Toss Day, and for most of those I've tasted (Collin Street is as always the exception) this is a very good idea.
January 2nd: National Cream Puff Day, National Buffet Day; feast of St. Marcarius, patron of confectioners and pastry chefs
January 3rd: National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day (One source gives this, inexplicably, as National Chocolate-Filled Cherry Day. I won't turn down either); 1871, Henry Bradley of Binghamton, New York, receives the US patent for oleomargarine; 1892, J.R.R. Tolkien born
January 4th: National Spaghetti Day
January 5th: National Whipped Cream Day; 1889, the word "hamburger" first appears in print (before that, and for some time after, it was generally referred to as "hamburg steak"); 1914, Aaron "Bunny" Lapin born, inventor of, God help us, Reddi-Wip which was once marketed as something to put on cold cereal in place of milk and I think that merits a second "God help us"
January 6th: Bean Day, National Shortbread Day
January 7th: National Tempura Day; 1896, The Boston Cooking School Cookbook first published (first cookbook to specify level measurements for ingredients); 1972, "American Pie" (the song) is #1 on the charts
January 8th: English Toffee Day; 1676, Charles II of England revokes his proclamation closing all Coffee Houses in London (it lasted all of sixteen days); 1940, Britain's Ministry of Food institutes rationing of butter, sugar, and bacon
January 9th: National Apricot Day
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round/sirloin tip roasts, boneless, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef t-bone steaks, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks OR tri tip roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.49/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork half loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
“Assorted” pork chops, family pack, $1.48/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, $1.88/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.67/lb
Jennie-O 93/7 ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $4.99
Cod portions, 5 oz, boneless, $2.99
Tilapia fillets, 1 lb IQF bag, $7.99, buy 1 get 2 free
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.67
Deli: Dietz & Watson “Gourmet Lite” turkey breast/ham/chicken breast, $7.99/lb
Jennie-O “Blue Ribbon” turkey breast, $4.99/lb
USA Gold Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Deli Fresh Muenster/Provolone/pepperjack/mild Cheddar, $5.99/lb
Wild Harvest organic soups, 14 oz cans, $2.29
Essential Everyday fruit, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Good Health veggie chips OR veggie sticks, 6-7 oz bags, $3.49
Wild Harvest organic frozen veg, 1 lb bags, $2.49
Cantaloupes, $1 ea
Fuji or Braeburn apples, $1/lb
Navel oranges, $1/lb
Texas grapefruit, $1 ea
Mangos, $1 ea
Roma tomatoes, $1/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, AZ grown, $1 ea
Summer squashes, zucchini/yellow/grey, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef chuck/bottom round/crossrib/sirloin tip roasts or steaks, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef t-bone OR New York strip steaks, $9.99/lb
Beef top sirloin, value pack, $3.99/lb
Ground beef round, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork shoulder steaks, bone in, $2.99/lb
Pork country style ribs, boneless, $2.99/lb
Bashas chicken breast, bone in, 87¢/lb
Jennie-O lean ground turkey, 1.25 lb pkg, $4.99
Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb “weather permitting”
Rockfish fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb “weather permitting”
Fresh clams, $2.99/lb
Bashas' sour cream OR cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 4/$5
Bumble Bee solid white tuna, $1.99
Flav-R-Pac frozen veg, 1 lb bag, 3/$5
Morningstar Farms frozen entrees, $3.99
Blackberries OR blueberries, 5-6 oz boxes, 2/$3
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, AZ grown, 88¢/lb
Lemons, AZ grown, 3/99¢
Organic pink grapefruit, AZ grown, 77¢/lb
Organic navel oranges, AZ grown, $1.49/lb
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Hot house cucumbers, AZ grown, 10/$10
Hass avocados, 77¢ ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, AZ grown, 88¢/lb
Iceberg, AZ grown, 77¢ ea
Bok choy OR Nappa cabbage, AZ grown, 88¢/lb
Broccoli OR cauliflower, AZ grown, 10 lbs/$10
Green cabbage, AZ grown, 49¢/lb (red, also AZ grown, 69¢/lb)
Fry's:
Doing a case-lot sale again: see end of entry
Beef New York strip steaks, bone in, $4.88/lb
Beef chuck roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.88/lb (2 lb chub)
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $4.99/lb
Center Cut pork loin chops, bone in, family pack, $3.59/lb
Pork shoulder roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.79/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.59/lb (3 lb IQF bag)
Foster Farms whole chickens, 98¢/lb
Jennie-O ground turkey, 18-20 oz boxes, 25% off
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.77/lb
Fry's milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
Yoplait yogurts incl. Light, 20/$10
Kroger sour cream OR cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $1.77
Simple Truth cage-free eggs, AA large, dozens, 2/$5
Del Monte OR S&W tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
Simple Truth organic variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Kroger potatoes, 22-32 oz frozen bag, 3/$5
Gorton's fish fillets, $3.29 (still only 2 PointsPlus per fillet, 4 for the whole package!)
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, 6/$12
Cuties clementines, 3 lb bag, $2.47
Organic Fuji apples, $1.49/lb
Mini seedless watermelons OR cantaloupes, 2/$4
Mangos, 88¢ ea
Asian pears, 88¢ ea
Dole OR Fresh Selections bag salads, 2/$5
Zucchini OR yellow squash, 99¢/lb
Organic kale, $1.99/bunch
Safeway:
Beef t-bone steaks, $5.99/lb
Beef bottom round OR thin-cut chuck steaks, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork tenderloin, boneless, whole in bag, $4.79/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, value pack, $2.49/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.88/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.67
O Organics variety (not baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 3/$4
Chicken of the Sea solid white tuna, 4/$5
Smart Ones frozen entrees, $2
Weight Watchers ice-cream novelties, 6-12 ct, $3.16
Navel oranges, 2 lbs/$1
Blackberries or blueberries, 6 oz boxes, buy 1 get 1 free
Strawberries, 1 lb box, buy 1 get 1 free
Bananas, 57¢/lb
Apples: Gala, Fuji, Granny Smith, Red/Golden Delicious, $1.49/lb
Red cherries, imported, $4.99/lb
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, AZ grown, $1.29/lb
Sprouts:
All vitamins and body care products, 25% off
Beef rump roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef New York steaks, boneless, $9.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Not necessarily all but lots of their pork, $2.99/lb
Whole/split/cut-up chickens, $1.59/lb
Alaskan sockeye salmon, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Albacore tuna steaks, wild caught, $8.99/lb
Boca meat alternatives, 10-12 oz frozen boxes, 2/$7
Cascadian Farms frozen veg, 1 lb bags, 2/$4
Amy's “Light & Lean” frozen entrees, $2.99
Braeburn or Fuji apples, 88¢/lb
Organic Fuji or Gala apples, 4 lbs/$1
Organic D'Anjou pears, $1.49/lb
Organic Bosc pears, 3 lb bag, $2.49
Navel oranges, 3 lbs/$1
Blueberries, 6 oz box, 4/$5
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Green bell peppers, 3/$1
Red/gold/orange bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Green onions OR cilantro OR radishes, 49¢/bunch
Organic butternut squash, 79¢/lb
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Fry's case sale:
Fry's eggs, AA medium, 30 ct, $2.99
Libby's veg, 14-15 oz cans, 12 ct, $6 (50¢ ea)
Kroger tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 24 ct, $11.76 (49¢ ea)
Kroger fruit, 15 oz cans, 24 ct, $18.96 (79¢ ea)
Duncan Hines cake mixes, 16 oz boxes, 12 ct, $11.88 (99¢ ea)
Kroger variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 24 ct, $14.16 (59¢ ea)
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