As I'm still in Nampa, a good fifteen hours from home, it looks increasingly unlikely I'll be back in time to type up the prices. I'm so sorry about this, but see you next week at the 5:30 meeting!
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Bullhead City, Arizona
Posting on my way to Nampa, Idaho. Right now it is an open question whether I will be home in time to work up this week's entry -- apologies in advance if I'm not. Best to you all.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Wren's bargain guide, week beginning May 22nd:
Found a great collection of “23 Tips For Drinking More Water Each Day”. I particularly appreciated “drink before you snack” (you won't eat as much) and “let ounces of water double grams of fat” (if the item you're eating has 5 grams of fat, drink 10 ounces of water with it). Also Jane Lear, at takepart.com, has an interesting and highly skeptical analysis of the “paleo” diet. At Fooducate, a set of recipes for “side dishes you didn't know you loved”. Marion Nestle has a link to a useful report on how to recognize food industry front groups when they're disguised with shiny happy friendly names like “Beverage Institute for Health and Wellness” (Coca-Cola) or “Center for Consumer Freedom” (founded by Philip Morris.) Summer Tomato has a set of “10 Simple Kitchen Tips You Wish Someone Had Told You Earlier”. And Snack Girl recommends, even if you don't have a garden, growing your own herbs in pots. It's easy. Even I can do it.
Recipes! Simply Recipes has lamb korma (a spicy Afghani lamb stew involving onions, tomatoes, and yogurt) and hotdogs with Asian slaw and sriracha. Chow.com has thirty-two chicken dinners (great for those if-I-see-one-more-damn-boneless-skinless-chicken-breast days), nine iterations of sangria (which may also be good for those days), a refreshing melon-and-cucumber salad, forty different barbecue side dishes just in time for Memorial Day weekend, and for perfect portion control and portability, berry crisps baked in ickle tiny Mason jars. Also at Chow.com, Supertaster samples ten different kinds of Spam – I didn't know there were ten different kinds of Spam! – and deals with the immortal and highly fraught question, “Which is the best banana slicer?” The Chef'n “Bananza”, we're told on the package, “slices bananas in seconds”. Supertaster points out that the same can be said of “like, a credit card, butter knife, envelope, your pinky, a fork, a spoon, a letter opener, a CD, eyeglasses … ”
As mentioned above, Memorial Day is coming up, so the heaviest promotions this week are on anything that can be cooked on a grill. When I was a girl, that category included burgers, steaks, hot dogs, sweet corn, and the occasional piece of chicken. Today, to the benefit of our health, the category has been expanded to include very nearly anything short of soup or couscous.
It's International Pickle Week! Most pickles are still PointsPlus-free. The 25th is National Wine Day, not to be confused with Drink Wine Day which is in February. If there's any left, the 29th, one week from today, is National Coq au Vin Day. The 27th is Grape Popsicle Day – personally I think you might do better to spin some grapes in the food processor and freeze them, or just put grapes into the freezer (mmm, frozen grapes), buthasjusme.
May 22nd: National Vanilla Pudding Day
May 23rd: National Taffy Day
May 24th: National Escargot Day
May 25th: National Wine Day, National Brown Bag It Day
May 26th: National Blueberry Cheesecake Day, National Cherry Dessert Day
May 27th: National Grape Popsicle Day
May 28th: National Brisket Day, National Hamburger Day; 1897, Jell-O introduced
May 29th: National Coq au Vin Day
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.79/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.97/lb (3 lbs or more)
Center cut pork loin chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Country style pork ribs, bone in, family pack, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.49/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, jumbo pack, $1.49/lb
Rockfish OR Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Albertson's eggs, AA large, dozens, 99¢
Challenge butter, 2/$5
Daisy sour cream incl. Light, 24 oz tub, 2/$5
Sargento cheeses, 6-8 oz shreds or shingle pack, $2.99
Deli: Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $4.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $4.99/lb
USA Gold Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Dli Fresh Provolone/Muenster/pepperjack/mild Cheddar cheeses, $4.99/lb
Nature's Own hamburger or hotdog buns, $1.99
Bush's baked beans, 21-28 oz cans, 3/$5
Essential Everyday veg, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Essential Everyday pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 99¢
Birds Eye “SteamFresh” veggie blends, 12 oz frozen pkg, 2/$3
C&W frozen veggies, 14-16 oz bags, 2/$3
Red cherries, $3.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Blackberries/raspberries/blueberries, 6 oz boxes, $2.99
Seedless grapes, green or red, $2.99/lb
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$5
Apricots, $3.99/lb
Sweet corn, 8/$1
Vine tomatoes, $2.49/lb
Bashas':
Beef sirloin steaks, value pack, $3.88/lb (regular pack, $1/lb higher)
Beef crossrib roast, $3.99/lb (steaks, $1/lb higher)
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, $3.49/lb
Ground beef round, fat content not listed, $2.49/lb
Food Club cheeses, 8 oz chunk or shreds, $1.79
Pork shoulder steak, $2.49/lb
Pork country style ribs, boneless, value pack, buy 1 get 2 free
Swordfish steaks, bone in, wild caught, $7.99/lb
They may have Copper River wild salmon but are not telling how much it is
Bush's baked or “Grillin'” beans, 22-28 oz cans, 3/$5
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, 99¢
Whole seedless watermelons, 15¢/lb
Cantaloupes OR honeydew melons, 29¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
OrganicGirl box salads, 5-8 oz, $2.99
Small avocados, 3/99¢
Fry's:
Beef NY strip steak, bone in, family pack, $4.67/lb
Beef crossrib roast OR “Texas broil” whatever that may be, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef brisket, boneless, whole in bag, $2.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.97/lb (2 lb chub)
Pork loin back ribs OR St Louis-style ribs, bone in, buy 1 get 2 free
Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.77/lb
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, 3 lb IQF bag, $6.99
Foster Farms chicken drums or thighs, bone in, $1.79/lb
Kroger 85/15 ground turkey, 19 oz pkg, $3.69
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
They may have Copper River wild salmon but are not telling how much it is
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle pack, $1.79
Bush's baked beans, $1.88
Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
Amy's frozen entrées, $3.39
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blueberries, 6 oz box, 2/$5
Peaches or nectarines, $2.49/lb
Whole seedless watermelons, $4.99 ea
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Whole pineapples, 2/$5
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Sweet corn, 2/99¢
Mini sweet peppers, 2 lb bag, $3.99
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢
Safeway:
Beef top sirloin steaks OR tri tip roast, boneless, value pack, $3.77/lb
Beef NY strip steak, bone in, value pack, $4.77/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef bottom round roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.69/lb
90/10 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork shoulder country style ribs, bone in, value pack, $1.49/lb (boneless 50¢/lb higher)
Pork loin back ribs, bone in, $1.49/lb
Atlantic salmon whole fillet, farm raised, $4.99/lb (to reiterate: WHOLE fillet, half a fish)
Swordfish steaks, wild caught, bone in, $9.99/lb
Ahi tuna steaks, wild caught, bone in, $11.99/lb
Lucerne OR Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $5.99
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, 2/$3
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb bags, 2/$3
Gorton's “Grilled Fillets”, $3.49, still only 2 PointsPlus per fillet or 4 for the whole box!
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 5/$10
Red cherries, $3.99/lb
Peaches OR nectarines, $2.99/lb
Seedless grapes, green or red, $2.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Raspberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, $2.99
Sweet corn, white or yellow, 6/96¢
Vine tomatoes, $1.89/lb
Sprouts:
Beef tri tip, flank, skirt, brisket, all boneless, $5.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork loin chops or roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Pork shoulder roast OR country style ribs, boneless, $1.49/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, value pack, $2.99/lb
93/7 ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $4.99
Red cherries, $2.88/lb
Red seedless grapes, $1.88/lb
Cantaloupes OR honeydew melons, $1.88 ea
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$4
Organic Fuji apples, $1.29/lb
Sweet corn, 6/$1
Vine tomatoes, $1.88/lb
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 88¢/lb
Recipes! Simply Recipes has lamb korma (a spicy Afghani lamb stew involving onions, tomatoes, and yogurt) and hotdogs with Asian slaw and sriracha. Chow.com has thirty-two chicken dinners (great for those if-I-see-one-more-damn-boneless-skinless-chicken-breast days), nine iterations of sangria (which may also be good for those days), a refreshing melon-and-cucumber salad, forty different barbecue side dishes just in time for Memorial Day weekend, and for perfect portion control and portability, berry crisps baked in ickle tiny Mason jars. Also at Chow.com, Supertaster samples ten different kinds of Spam – I didn't know there were ten different kinds of Spam! – and deals with the immortal and highly fraught question, “Which is the best banana slicer?” The Chef'n “Bananza”, we're told on the package, “slices bananas in seconds”. Supertaster points out that the same can be said of “like, a credit card, butter knife, envelope, your pinky, a fork, a spoon, a letter opener, a CD, eyeglasses … ”
As mentioned above, Memorial Day is coming up, so the heaviest promotions this week are on anything that can be cooked on a grill. When I was a girl, that category included burgers, steaks, hot dogs, sweet corn, and the occasional piece of chicken. Today, to the benefit of our health, the category has been expanded to include very nearly anything short of soup or couscous.
It's International Pickle Week! Most pickles are still PointsPlus-free. The 25th is National Wine Day, not to be confused with Drink Wine Day which is in February. If there's any left, the 29th, one week from today, is National Coq au Vin Day. The 27th is Grape Popsicle Day – personally I think you might do better to spin some grapes in the food processor and freeze them, or just put grapes into the freezer (mmm, frozen grapes), buthasjusme.
May 22nd: National Vanilla Pudding Day
May 23rd: National Taffy Day
May 24th: National Escargot Day
May 25th: National Wine Day, National Brown Bag It Day
May 26th: National Blueberry Cheesecake Day, National Cherry Dessert Day
May 27th: National Grape Popsicle Day
May 28th: National Brisket Day, National Hamburger Day; 1897, Jell-O introduced
May 29th: National Coq au Vin Day
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.79/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.97/lb (3 lbs or more)
Center cut pork loin chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Country style pork ribs, bone in, family pack, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.49/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, jumbo pack, $1.49/lb
Rockfish OR Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Albertson's eggs, AA large, dozens, 99¢
Challenge butter, 2/$5
Daisy sour cream incl. Light, 24 oz tub, 2/$5
Sargento cheeses, 6-8 oz shreds or shingle pack, $2.99
Deli: Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $4.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $4.99/lb
USA Gold Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Dli Fresh Provolone/Muenster/pepperjack/mild Cheddar cheeses, $4.99/lb
Nature's Own hamburger or hotdog buns, $1.99
Bush's baked beans, 21-28 oz cans, 3/$5
Essential Everyday veg, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Essential Everyday pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 99¢
Birds Eye “SteamFresh” veggie blends, 12 oz frozen pkg, 2/$3
C&W frozen veggies, 14-16 oz bags, 2/$3
Red cherries, $3.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Blackberries/raspberries/blueberries, 6 oz boxes, $2.99
Seedless grapes, green or red, $2.99/lb
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$5
Apricots, $3.99/lb
Sweet corn, 8/$1
Vine tomatoes, $2.49/lb
Bashas':
Beef sirloin steaks, value pack, $3.88/lb (regular pack, $1/lb higher)
Beef crossrib roast, $3.99/lb (steaks, $1/lb higher)
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, $3.49/lb
Ground beef round, fat content not listed, $2.49/lb
Food Club cheeses, 8 oz chunk or shreds, $1.79
Pork shoulder steak, $2.49/lb
Pork country style ribs, boneless, value pack, buy 1 get 2 free
Swordfish steaks, bone in, wild caught, $7.99/lb
They may have Copper River wild salmon but are not telling how much it is
Bush's baked or “Grillin'” beans, 22-28 oz cans, 3/$5
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, 99¢
Whole seedless watermelons, 15¢/lb
Cantaloupes OR honeydew melons, 29¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
OrganicGirl box salads, 5-8 oz, $2.99
Small avocados, 3/99¢
Fry's:
Beef NY strip steak, bone in, family pack, $4.67/lb
Beef crossrib roast OR “Texas broil” whatever that may be, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef brisket, boneless, whole in bag, $2.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.97/lb (2 lb chub)
Pork loin back ribs OR St Louis-style ribs, bone in, buy 1 get 2 free
Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.77/lb
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, 3 lb IQF bag, $6.99
Foster Farms chicken drums or thighs, bone in, $1.79/lb
Kroger 85/15 ground turkey, 19 oz pkg, $3.69
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
They may have Copper River wild salmon but are not telling how much it is
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle pack, $1.79
Bush's baked beans, $1.88
Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
Amy's frozen entrées, $3.39
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blueberries, 6 oz box, 2/$5
Peaches or nectarines, $2.49/lb
Whole seedless watermelons, $4.99 ea
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Whole pineapples, 2/$5
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Sweet corn, 2/99¢
Mini sweet peppers, 2 lb bag, $3.99
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢
Safeway:
Beef top sirloin steaks OR tri tip roast, boneless, value pack, $3.77/lb
Beef NY strip steak, bone in, value pack, $4.77/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef bottom round roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.69/lb
90/10 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork shoulder country style ribs, bone in, value pack, $1.49/lb (boneless 50¢/lb higher)
Pork loin back ribs, bone in, $1.49/lb
Atlantic salmon whole fillet, farm raised, $4.99/lb (to reiterate: WHOLE fillet, half a fish)
Swordfish steaks, wild caught, bone in, $9.99/lb
Ahi tuna steaks, wild caught, bone in, $11.99/lb
Lucerne OR Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $5.99
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, 2/$3
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb bags, 2/$3
Gorton's “Grilled Fillets”, $3.49, still only 2 PointsPlus per fillet or 4 for the whole box!
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 5/$10
Red cherries, $3.99/lb
Peaches OR nectarines, $2.99/lb
Seedless grapes, green or red, $2.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Raspberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, $2.99
Sweet corn, white or yellow, 6/96¢
Vine tomatoes, $1.89/lb
Sprouts:
Beef tri tip, flank, skirt, brisket, all boneless, $5.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork loin chops or roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Pork shoulder roast OR country style ribs, boneless, $1.49/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, value pack, $2.99/lb
93/7 ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $4.99
Red cherries, $2.88/lb
Red seedless grapes, $1.88/lb
Cantaloupes OR honeydew melons, $1.88 ea
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$4
Organic Fuji apples, $1.29/lb
Sweet corn, 6/$1
Vine tomatoes, $1.88/lb
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 88¢/lb
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Bargain guide, week beginning May 15th:
Wow! Strong piece at AlterNet about “7 Dangerous Food Practices Banned in Europe But Just Fine in America”, including arsenic, chlorine washes, and feeding cows “poultry litter” which is exactly and regrettably what you think it is.
In this handout I usually emphasize what's to be found at “the edges of the store” – the part of the supermarket where the least-processed foodstuffs are to be found. But Fooducate has a handy set of pointers on what to shop for in the middle of the store: oils, canned goods, frozen foods, bulk stuff. (And whatd'ya know, I've been mentioning those things all along!) Darya at Summer Tomato has her own take on the ChooseMyPlate.gov meal-planning system: hers involves filling half your plate with veggies “cooked in natural oils”, putting fruit off to the side, and treating dairy products as optional, not requisite. Oh, and a ten-inch plate: “Dinner plates have become enormous, and since a clean plate is a powerful psychological indicator that a meal is over, it can be helpful to use smaller plates if you’re looking for a painless way to cut down on your daily calories without noticing.”
Taco Bell has invented a breakfast taco made out of waffles. Scrambled egg on top of a sausage patty on top of a waffle, fold the whole thing in half like a taco. Fast food just gets weirder and weirder.
Recipes! A couple at Fooducate, which isn't usual for them, but this week they've got a swiftish vegetarian tamale pie (with step-by-step instructions for making the cornbread topping, and then the utterly sensible notation “Feel free to use cornbread mix”) and a “Super Simple Summer Squash Sauté” that I'm making soon. Chow.com has what they claim is the easiest way to make Eggs Benedict (a base canard: if it doesn't involve poaching the eggs in Saran Wrap, it's not the easiest), road-trip food, fifty-two recipes for a “Memorial Day Grilling Feast” (it will be one hell of a feast if you make fifty-two different dishes), and how to peel a kiwifruit.
Sprouted Kitchen has baked-herb-and-pistachio falafels. Smitten Kitchen has Japanese veggie pancakes and a heart-rending chronicle of a failed rhubarb meringue tart. And Snack Girl has rhubarb, how to make your own convenience foods, all-fruit icepops, and the absolutely essential and necessary information that a Bloody Mary has lycopene and Vitamin C.
The 20th, this Monday, is Pick Strawberries Day. If the only feasible way for you to pick strawberries is to pick three boxes for a dollar at Superstition Ranch Market by all means do so, as the day after is National Strawberries and Cream Day.
May 15th: National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
May 16th: National Coquilles St. Jacques Day
May 17th: National Cherry Cobbler Day
May 18th: National Cheese Soufflé Day
May 19th: National Devil's Food Cake Day, World Baking Day
May 20th: Pick Strawberries Day
May 21st: National Strawberries and Cream Day
May 22nd: National Vanilla Pudding Day; 1931, Mr. George K. End of Arcadia, Florida, begins marketing canned rattlesnake. It is not precisely a rip-roaring success.
Albertson's:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $3.99/lb
Beef tri tip roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef chuck roast, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast OR London broil, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
85/15 ground beef, $2.89/lb
Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.98/lb
Pork loin chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.98/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, jumbo pack, $1.49/lb
Tilapia fillets, 1 lb IQF bag, $9.99, buy 1 get 3 free and that is a hell of a lot of fish
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Albertson's eggs, AA large, dozens, $1
Albertson's sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1
Albertson's cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $2.49
Deli: Dietz & Watson maple or Virginia ham OR classic or Santa Fe turkey breast, $7.99/lb
Dietz & Watson lacy or baby-Swiss cheese, $7.99/lb
Jennie-O “Blue Ribbon” turkey breast, $4.99/lb
Signature Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Stella Muenster or Provolone cheeses, $4.99/lb
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, $1
Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, $1
Ro*tel tomatoes, $1
Hunt's tomato sauce, 15 oz cans, $1
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, $1
Healthy choice frozen entrées, 5/$10
Whole seedless watermelons, $1.99
Red cherries, from California, $4.99
Whole jumbo cantaloupes, 2/$5
Apricots, from California, $2.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries/raspberries/blueberries, 6 oz boxes, $2.99
Roma tomatoes, $1/lb
Earthbound Farms box salads, $2.99
English cucumbers, $1 ea
Vidalia onions, $1/lb
Eggplant, $1 ea
Zucchini squash, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef petite sirloin steaks, value pack, $2.97/lb
Beef breakfast steaks, $3.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast, $4.49/lb
Beef sirloin tip roast, $3.49/lb
Ground beef sirloin, fat content not listed, value pack, $2.87/lb
Assorted pork chops, value pack, $1.57/lb
Center cut pork chops, value pack, $1.99/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, 99¢/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Mahi mahi OR cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Kraft cheeses, 7-8 oz chunk or shreds, 2/$5
Food Club canned veggies or tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Hunt's canned tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 69¢
Ro*tel tomatoes, 69¢
Red seedless grapes, 99¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Whole pineapples, 2/$5
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb (organic, $1/lb higher)
Leaf lettuce, green or red, 99¢
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Zucchini squash, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $3.77/lb
Beef NY strip steaks, bone in, $6.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, $2.49/lb (3 lb chub)
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, family pack, $1.99/lb
Foster Farms boneless skinless chicken breast or tenders, $2.99/lb
Corvina OR Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.79
Kroger cottage cheese OR sour cream incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $1.79
Kroger butter, 2/$5
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.79
Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 97¢
Apples: Gala, Fuji, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Red cherries, $4.99/lb
Whole seedless watermelons, $4.99 ea
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Organic “Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, $1.29
Safeway:
Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, value pack, $4.99/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.59/lb
Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef chuck short ribs, $3.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Center cut pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb
Pork sirloin country style ribs or chops, boneless, value pack, $2.49/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $2.29/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, value pack, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon whole fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb (cut fillets, $1/lb higher)
Tilapia or Swai fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79/lb
Lucerne cheeses, 8 oz shingle pack, 2/$5
Lucerne cheeses, 1 lb chunk or shreds, $3.99
Deli: Primo Taglio ham, $7.99/lb
French Swiss cheese, $7.99/lb
Deli Counter Virginia ham, $5.99/lb
Bush's baked or “Grillin'” beans, 21-28 oz cans, 3/$5
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, $1.85
Red seedless grapes, $1.28/lb
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
Red cherries, $4.99/lb
Seedless watermelons, $5.99/lb
Yellow nectarines, $2.99/lb
Organic strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Sweet corn, 3/$1
Sprouts:
Beef rump roast OR London broil, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef New York steak, bone in, $7.99/lb (boneless, $2/lb higher)
93/7 ground sirloin, $4.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast OR ground pork, $2.99/lb
All boneless chicken, 50% off
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Steelhead fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Albacore tuna steaks, bone in, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Northern Chef frozen seafood, 20% off
Seedless watermelon, 5 lbs/$1
Yellow mangos, 49¢ ea
Whole pineapples, 2/$3
Organic cantaloupe OR honeydew melons, 99¢/lb
Yellow peaches OR nectarines, 2 lbs/$5
Vine tomatoes, 2 lbs/$3 (organic, $1.99/lb, AZ grown)
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢
In this handout I usually emphasize what's to be found at “the edges of the store” – the part of the supermarket where the least-processed foodstuffs are to be found. But Fooducate has a handy set of pointers on what to shop for in the middle of the store: oils, canned goods, frozen foods, bulk stuff. (And whatd'ya know, I've been mentioning those things all along!) Darya at Summer Tomato has her own take on the ChooseMyPlate.gov meal-planning system: hers involves filling half your plate with veggies “cooked in natural oils”, putting fruit off to the side, and treating dairy products as optional, not requisite. Oh, and a ten-inch plate: “Dinner plates have become enormous, and since a clean plate is a powerful psychological indicator that a meal is over, it can be helpful to use smaller plates if you’re looking for a painless way to cut down on your daily calories without noticing.”
Taco Bell has invented a breakfast taco made out of waffles. Scrambled egg on top of a sausage patty on top of a waffle, fold the whole thing in half like a taco. Fast food just gets weirder and weirder.
Recipes! A couple at Fooducate, which isn't usual for them, but this week they've got a swiftish vegetarian tamale pie (with step-by-step instructions for making the cornbread topping, and then the utterly sensible notation “Feel free to use cornbread mix”) and a “Super Simple Summer Squash Sauté” that I'm making soon. Chow.com has what they claim is the easiest way to make Eggs Benedict (a base canard: if it doesn't involve poaching the eggs in Saran Wrap, it's not the easiest), road-trip food, fifty-two recipes for a “Memorial Day Grilling Feast” (it will be one hell of a feast if you make fifty-two different dishes), and how to peel a kiwifruit.
Sprouted Kitchen has baked-herb-and-pistachio falafels. Smitten Kitchen has Japanese veggie pancakes and a heart-rending chronicle of a failed rhubarb meringue tart. And Snack Girl has rhubarb, how to make your own convenience foods, all-fruit icepops, and the absolutely essential and necessary information that a Bloody Mary has lycopene and Vitamin C.
The 20th, this Monday, is Pick Strawberries Day. If the only feasible way for you to pick strawberries is to pick three boxes for a dollar at Superstition Ranch Market by all means do so, as the day after is National Strawberries and Cream Day.
May 15th: National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
May 16th: National Coquilles St. Jacques Day
May 17th: National Cherry Cobbler Day
May 18th: National Cheese Soufflé Day
May 19th: National Devil's Food Cake Day, World Baking Day
May 20th: Pick Strawberries Day
May 21st: National Strawberries and Cream Day
May 22nd: National Vanilla Pudding Day; 1931, Mr. George K. End of Arcadia, Florida, begins marketing canned rattlesnake. It is not precisely a rip-roaring success.
Albertson's:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $3.99/lb
Beef tri tip roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef chuck roast, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast OR London broil, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
85/15 ground beef, $2.89/lb
Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.98/lb
Pork loin chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.98/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, jumbo pack, $1.49/lb
Tilapia fillets, 1 lb IQF bag, $9.99, buy 1 get 3 free and that is a hell of a lot of fish
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Albertson's eggs, AA large, dozens, $1
Albertson's sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1
Albertson's cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $2.49
Deli: Dietz & Watson maple or Virginia ham OR classic or Santa Fe turkey breast, $7.99/lb
Dietz & Watson lacy or baby-Swiss cheese, $7.99/lb
Jennie-O “Blue Ribbon” turkey breast, $4.99/lb
Signature Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Stella Muenster or Provolone cheeses, $4.99/lb
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, $1
Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, $1
Ro*tel tomatoes, $1
Hunt's tomato sauce, 15 oz cans, $1
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, $1
Healthy choice frozen entrées, 5/$10
Whole seedless watermelons, $1.99
Red cherries, from California, $4.99
Whole jumbo cantaloupes, 2/$5
Apricots, from California, $2.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries/raspberries/blueberries, 6 oz boxes, $2.99
Roma tomatoes, $1/lb
Earthbound Farms box salads, $2.99
English cucumbers, $1 ea
Vidalia onions, $1/lb
Eggplant, $1 ea
Zucchini squash, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef petite sirloin steaks, value pack, $2.97/lb
Beef breakfast steaks, $3.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast, $4.49/lb
Beef sirloin tip roast, $3.49/lb
Ground beef sirloin, fat content not listed, value pack, $2.87/lb
Assorted pork chops, value pack, $1.57/lb
Center cut pork chops, value pack, $1.99/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, 99¢/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Mahi mahi OR cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Kraft cheeses, 7-8 oz chunk or shreds, 2/$5
Food Club canned veggies or tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Hunt's canned tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 69¢
Ro*tel tomatoes, 69¢
Red seedless grapes, 99¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Whole pineapples, 2/$5
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb (organic, $1/lb higher)
Leaf lettuce, green or red, 99¢
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Zucchini squash, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $3.77/lb
Beef NY strip steaks, bone in, $6.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, $2.49/lb (3 lb chub)
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, family pack, $1.99/lb
Foster Farms boneless skinless chicken breast or tenders, $2.99/lb
Corvina OR Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.79
Kroger cottage cheese OR sour cream incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $1.79
Kroger butter, 2/$5
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.79
Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 97¢
Apples: Gala, Fuji, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Red cherries, $4.99/lb
Whole seedless watermelons, $4.99 ea
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Organic “Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, $1.29
Safeway:
Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, value pack, $4.99/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.59/lb
Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef chuck short ribs, $3.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Center cut pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb
Pork sirloin country style ribs or chops, boneless, value pack, $2.49/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $2.29/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, value pack, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon whole fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb (cut fillets, $1/lb higher)
Tilapia or Swai fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79/lb
Lucerne cheeses, 8 oz shingle pack, 2/$5
Lucerne cheeses, 1 lb chunk or shreds, $3.99
Deli: Primo Taglio ham, $7.99/lb
French Swiss cheese, $7.99/lb
Deli Counter Virginia ham, $5.99/lb
Bush's baked or “Grillin'” beans, 21-28 oz cans, 3/$5
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, $1.85
Red seedless grapes, $1.28/lb
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
Red cherries, $4.99/lb
Seedless watermelons, $5.99/lb
Yellow nectarines, $2.99/lb
Organic strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Sweet corn, 3/$1
Sprouts:
Beef rump roast OR London broil, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef New York steak, bone in, $7.99/lb (boneless, $2/lb higher)
93/7 ground sirloin, $4.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast OR ground pork, $2.99/lb
All boneless chicken, 50% off
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Steelhead fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Albacore tuna steaks, bone in, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Northern Chef frozen seafood, 20% off
Seedless watermelon, 5 lbs/$1
Yellow mangos, 49¢ ea
Whole pineapples, 2/$3
Organic cantaloupe OR honeydew melons, 99¢/lb
Yellow peaches OR nectarines, 2 lbs/$5
Vine tomatoes, 2 lbs/$3 (organic, $1.99/lb, AZ grown)
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Bargain guide, week beginning May 8th:
DYK of the week, per Fooducate: the propellant in squirty-type whipped topping is nitrous oxide. Laughing gas, the stuff your dentist gives you.
Also from Fooducate, a take on the nutritional differences between raw and cooked broccoli. They are negligible except that one serving of cooked broccoli has only an entire RDA of Vitamin C, while the raw one has half again as much. Darya Rose at Summer Tomato has a rumination on losing weight by changing habits, rather than by using willpower. Like a muscle, she points out, willpower becomes fatigued when it's used too heavily: “Ironically, increasing your blood sugar can help restore willpower to some extent. But finding a healthy way to raise blood sugar in a state of depleted willpower can pose quite the dilemma....” Marion Nestle at Food Politics takes on the Grocery Manufacturers' Association's new front-of-package nutrition label system, “Facts Up Front”, which she regards as “the industry's end run around the FDA's long delayed attempt to make front-of-package nutrition information actually useful to consumers.” And by way of Grist, the account of two young men who lived for a week, one on strawberry licorice, the other on the Canadian version of Cheetos. Apparently Just Because They Could.
Recipes! Pickings are a bit thin at Chow.com, although Supertaster has a video review of KFC's new “Original Recipe Boneless Chicken” (or as it's been known to the rest of the world for several decades now, chicken strips), an intriguing tomatoless salsa of mangoes and jicama, a rather odd selection of “Easy Recipes for Campsite Cooking”, some of which seem to have little to do with “campsite” or for that matter “easy”. And over at Simply Recipes there's a radish salad with mint and pistachios, and baked salmon with (possibly to do with this being National Salsa Month) another tomatoless salsa, this one involving mangoes and avocado.
This second week in May is National Hamburger Week. Thank you, I will pass and wait for this Friday which is National Shrimp Day. And Saturday, the 11th, is National Eat What You Want Day – which I propose we modify to read Eat What You Want and stop when you're satisfied. And the 11th is also the Letter Carriers' Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive: postal carriers will collect non-perishable food donations, so leave those beside your mailbox. And Sunday of course is Mother's Day.
May 8th: National Empanada Day, National Coconut Cream Pie Day, Have a Coke Day
May 9th: National Butterscotch Brownie Day, National Moscato Day
May 10th: National Shrimp Day
May 11th: Eat What You Want Day, National Mocha Torte Day
May 12th: National Nutty Fudge Day
May 13th: National Apple Pie Day (not to be confused with Pi Day, which is 3/14), National Fruit Cocktail Day
May 14th: National Buttermilk Biscuits Day
May 15th: National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
Albertson's:
Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, 50% off
Beef London broil, $2.77/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef top sirloin OR tri tip steak, $4.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round roast or family pack steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb
Assorted pork chops, bone in, $1.79/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken breast/drums/thighs/leq quarters, bone in, 99¢/lb
Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.49/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Tilapia OR catfish fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Knudsen sour cream OR cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 2/$4
Deli: Jennie-O “honey smoked” or “oven brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Jennie-O Signature ham, $5.99/lb
Charlie's Pride Italian roast beef, corned beef, beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Deli Fresh Provolone/pepperjack/Muenster, $5.99/lb
Bertolli pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, $1.99
Wild Harvest organic pasta sauces, 24 oz jars, 2/$4
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 2/$5
“Mini seedless” watermelons, $2.99 ea
Cut up strawberries or pineapple, 20 oz bowls, $3.99
Cut up “fruit medley”, 36 oz bowls, $5.99
Vine tomatoes, $2.49/lb
Sweet corn, 4 pk, $2.99
Cabbage, 49¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef tenderloin steaks, $8.99/lb
Beef petite top sirloin steaks, $5.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast or value pack steaks, $3.99/lb
Ground beef round, fat content not listed, value pack, $1.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $3.99/lb
Center cut pork chops, boneless, value pack, $1.99/lb
Boneless pork roast, $1.99/lb
Bashas' boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.87/lb
Bashas' milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Borden cheeses, 6-12 oz chunk/shreds/sandwich slices, 5/$10
Daisy sour cream incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $2.99
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, 99¢
PictSweet frozen veggies, 10-12 oz pkg, 2/$3
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 5/$11
Mornintstar Farms frozen, 5-12 oz boxes, $3.99
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 88¢ (first 4)
Organic strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.49
Whole seedless watermelons, 19¢/lb
Fuji or Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, regular or organic, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢
“Extra large” artichokes, 2/$3
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Red or gold bell peppers, 10/$10
Small Hass avocados, 2/$1
Fry's:
Beef NY strip steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.67/lb
Beef tenderloin, whole in bag, $9.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (2 lb chub)
Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.77/lb
Foster Farms chicken thighs/drums, bone in, $1.69
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Fry's eggs, AA large, dozens, 88¢
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, $2.18
Nabisco snack crackers (Triscuits, Wheat Thins), 5-10 oz boxes, 2/$4
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 6/$12 (must buy 6)
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Dulcinea “mini seedless” watermelons, 99¢ ea
Red seedless grapes, $1.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries, 6 oz box, 2/$5
Organic mangoes, 4/$5
English cucumbers, AZ grown, 99¢ ea
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, AZ grown, 99¢
Safeway:
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $2.49/lb
Beef chuck 7-bone steak, bone in, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef bottom round steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steak OR tri tip roast, boneless, $3.97/lb
Beef ribeye steak, bone in, $5.97/lb
Beef tenderloin roast, whole in bag, $9.97/lb
Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $2.49/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, value pack, $1.29/lb
Atlantic salmon, farm raised, whole fillet, $6.99/lb (cut fillets, 50¢/lb higher)
Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb “weather permitting”
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Kraft cheeses, 6-8 oz shreds or shingle pack, $2.99
Hunt's tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 4/$10
Strawberries, 2 lb box, $1.99
Cantaloupes, $2.49 ea
Red or black seedless grapes, $2.99
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Red or Ataulfo mangos, 10/$10
Fuji apples, $1.39/lb
Sweet corn, white, 4/$1
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Zucchini OR yellow squash, $1.49/lb
Iceberg, $1.29
Sprouts:
Beef filet mignon steak or roast, boneless, $14.99/lb
Beef sirloin tip roast/steaks/carne asada, boneless, $3.99/lb
Center cut pork loin roast or chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Pork or chicken sausage, bulk or links, hot or sweet, $2.99/lb
Turkey tenders OR ground turkey breast, $3.99/lb
Swordfish or ahi tuna steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 99¢
Ataulfo (yellow) mangos, 3/$1
Blueberries, 4 oz box, 2/$5
Braeburn or Granny Smith apples, 99¢/lb
Organic Fuji or Cameo apples, 3 lb bag, $3.49
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$4
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 2 lbs/$3
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Eggplant, 99¢ ea
Spinach, 99¢/bunch
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢
Also from Fooducate, a take on the nutritional differences between raw and cooked broccoli. They are negligible except that one serving of cooked broccoli has only an entire RDA of Vitamin C, while the raw one has half again as much. Darya Rose at Summer Tomato has a rumination on losing weight by changing habits, rather than by using willpower. Like a muscle, she points out, willpower becomes fatigued when it's used too heavily: “Ironically, increasing your blood sugar can help restore willpower to some extent. But finding a healthy way to raise blood sugar in a state of depleted willpower can pose quite the dilemma....” Marion Nestle at Food Politics takes on the Grocery Manufacturers' Association's new front-of-package nutrition label system, “Facts Up Front”, which she regards as “the industry's end run around the FDA's long delayed attempt to make front-of-package nutrition information actually useful to consumers.” And by way of Grist, the account of two young men who lived for a week, one on strawberry licorice, the other on the Canadian version of Cheetos. Apparently Just Because They Could.
Recipes! Pickings are a bit thin at Chow.com, although Supertaster has a video review of KFC's new “Original Recipe Boneless Chicken” (or as it's been known to the rest of the world for several decades now, chicken strips), an intriguing tomatoless salsa of mangoes and jicama, a rather odd selection of “Easy Recipes for Campsite Cooking”, some of which seem to have little to do with “campsite” or for that matter “easy”. And over at Simply Recipes there's a radish salad with mint and pistachios, and baked salmon with (possibly to do with this being National Salsa Month) another tomatoless salsa, this one involving mangoes and avocado.
This second week in May is National Hamburger Week. Thank you, I will pass and wait for this Friday which is National Shrimp Day. And Saturday, the 11th, is National Eat What You Want Day – which I propose we modify to read Eat What You Want and stop when you're satisfied. And the 11th is also the Letter Carriers' Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive: postal carriers will collect non-perishable food donations, so leave those beside your mailbox. And Sunday of course is Mother's Day.
May 8th: National Empanada Day, National Coconut Cream Pie Day, Have a Coke Day
May 9th: National Butterscotch Brownie Day, National Moscato Day
May 10th: National Shrimp Day
May 11th: Eat What You Want Day, National Mocha Torte Day
May 12th: National Nutty Fudge Day
May 13th: National Apple Pie Day (not to be confused with Pi Day, which is 3/14), National Fruit Cocktail Day
May 14th: National Buttermilk Biscuits Day
May 15th: National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
Albertson's:
Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, 50% off
Beef London broil, $2.77/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef top sirloin OR tri tip steak, $4.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round roast or family pack steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb
Assorted pork chops, bone in, $1.79/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken breast/drums/thighs/leq quarters, bone in, 99¢/lb
Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.49/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Tilapia OR catfish fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Knudsen sour cream OR cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 2/$4
Deli: Jennie-O “honey smoked” or “oven brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Jennie-O Signature ham, $5.99/lb
Charlie's Pride Italian roast beef, corned beef, beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Deli Fresh Provolone/pepperjack/Muenster, $5.99/lb
Bertolli pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, $1.99
Wild Harvest organic pasta sauces, 24 oz jars, 2/$4
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 2/$5
“Mini seedless” watermelons, $2.99 ea
Cut up strawberries or pineapple, 20 oz bowls, $3.99
Cut up “fruit medley”, 36 oz bowls, $5.99
Vine tomatoes, $2.49/lb
Sweet corn, 4 pk, $2.99
Cabbage, 49¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef tenderloin steaks, $8.99/lb
Beef petite top sirloin steaks, $5.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast or value pack steaks, $3.99/lb
Ground beef round, fat content not listed, value pack, $1.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $3.99/lb
Center cut pork chops, boneless, value pack, $1.99/lb
Boneless pork roast, $1.99/lb
Bashas' boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.87/lb
Bashas' milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Borden cheeses, 6-12 oz chunk/shreds/sandwich slices, 5/$10
Daisy sour cream incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $2.99
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, 99¢
PictSweet frozen veggies, 10-12 oz pkg, 2/$3
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 5/$11
Mornintstar Farms frozen, 5-12 oz boxes, $3.99
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 88¢ (first 4)
Organic strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.49
Whole seedless watermelons, 19¢/lb
Fuji or Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, regular or organic, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢
“Extra large” artichokes, 2/$3
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Red or gold bell peppers, 10/$10
Small Hass avocados, 2/$1
Fry's:
Beef NY strip steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.67/lb
Beef tenderloin, whole in bag, $9.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (2 lb chub)
Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.77/lb
Foster Farms chicken thighs/drums, bone in, $1.69
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Fry's eggs, AA large, dozens, 88¢
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, $2.18
Nabisco snack crackers (Triscuits, Wheat Thins), 5-10 oz boxes, 2/$4
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 6/$12 (must buy 6)
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Dulcinea “mini seedless” watermelons, 99¢ ea
Red seedless grapes, $1.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries, 6 oz box, 2/$5
Organic mangoes, 4/$5
English cucumbers, AZ grown, 99¢ ea
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, AZ grown, 99¢
Safeway:
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $2.49/lb
Beef chuck 7-bone steak, bone in, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef bottom round steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steak OR tri tip roast, boneless, $3.97/lb
Beef ribeye steak, bone in, $5.97/lb
Beef tenderloin roast, whole in bag, $9.97/lb
Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $2.49/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, value pack, $1.29/lb
Atlantic salmon, farm raised, whole fillet, $6.99/lb (cut fillets, 50¢/lb higher)
Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb “weather permitting”
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Kraft cheeses, 6-8 oz shreds or shingle pack, $2.99
Hunt's tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 4/$10
Strawberries, 2 lb box, $1.99
Cantaloupes, $2.49 ea
Red or black seedless grapes, $2.99
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Red or Ataulfo mangos, 10/$10
Fuji apples, $1.39/lb
Sweet corn, white, 4/$1
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Zucchini OR yellow squash, $1.49/lb
Iceberg, $1.29
Sprouts:
Beef filet mignon steak or roast, boneless, $14.99/lb
Beef sirloin tip roast/steaks/carne asada, boneless, $3.99/lb
Center cut pork loin roast or chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Pork or chicken sausage, bulk or links, hot or sweet, $2.99/lb
Turkey tenders OR ground turkey breast, $3.99/lb
Swordfish or ahi tuna steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 99¢
Ataulfo (yellow) mangos, 3/$1
Blueberries, 4 oz box, 2/$5
Braeburn or Granny Smith apples, 99¢/lb
Organic Fuji or Cameo apples, 3 lb bag, $3.49
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$4
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 2 lbs/$3
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Eggplant, 99¢ ea
Spinach, 99¢/bunch
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Wren's bargain guide, week beginning May 1st:
Occasional explanation and disclaimer: this is my compilation of the week's healthy/low-PointPlus grocery bargains, extracted from the newspaper grocery flyers. Not the entire contents of the flyers, only the things that strike me as being healthy, minimally processed, or otherwise Good For You. And this is most assuredly not IN ANY WAY to be taken as an official Weight Watchers item.
Interesting piece at NBCNews.com: you may be consuming far more sugar than you realize. A lot of added sugars are concealed in products you don't normally think of as sugary, such as ketchup and even bread. Check those labels. Fooducate has a fascinating review of what looks to be a fascinating new book: Mark Bittman (How to Cook Everything) has taken up a new eating system he calls “VB6”, or eating vegan before 6:00 p.m. After that he eats pretty much what he damn pleases, but in reasonable portions. Sounds as though it might be worth a try, or at least a look.
Yoni Freedhoff, at Weighty Matters, has a short but inspiring piece on the difference between “perfection” and doing your best: “Bests aren't perfection. Bests are affected by real life. Bests need flexibility. And bests change depending on circumstances.” Lifehacker has an interesting article on the altogether too familiar phenomenon of portion control fail: “When food's placed in front of us, we tend to follow mom's advice and clean our plates, even when it's more than we actually want.” Why is that, and what can we do about it?
Recipes! Chow.com has you fixed for the weekend: Saturday is the Kentucky Derby, so they've collected a set of “Southern favorites” ranging from mint juleps and pimento cheese to God help us elk meatballs in barbecue sauce; and Sunday being Cinco de Mayo, they've collected every imaginable variation on the taco or the margarita. On video they've got 7 ways to get ketchup out of a glass bottle, and Supertaster reviews something called “SEXCEREAL”. Smitten Kitchen has spring-veggie potstickers, Simply Recipes has Yucatan-style chicken soup with lime. And at Sprouted Kitchen, a phenomenally delicious-looking grilled asparagus plate.
Grilling season is starting, and May is National Barbecue Month and National Hamburger Month – along with the possibly less nutritionally fraught items of National Salad Month, National Strawberry Month, National Asparagus Month, National Mediterranean Diet Month and National Gazpacho Aficionado Month. This first week of May is both National Raisin Week and National Herb Week. And Monday, the 6th, is International No Diet Day*. Well, we at WW are not on a “diet”, are we?
May 1st: National Chocolate Parfait Day
May 2nd: National Truffles Day (my sources conflict on whether this refers to the pungent fungus or the chocolate)
May 3rd: National Raspberry Tart Day
May 4th: National Orange Juice Day, National Candied Orange Peel Day (you have to do something after you've juiced them), National Homebrew Day
May 5th: Cinco de Mayo, National Chocolate Custard Day, National Hoagie Day, Totally Chipotle Day
May 6th: National Crepes Suzette Day, International No Diet Day
May 7th: National Roast Leg of Lamb Day
May 8th: National Empanada Day, National Coconut Cream Pie Day
* In the print version I put "National" by mistake. Apologies.
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib roast or (family pack) steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.99/lb
Pork sirloin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.47/lb (chops, $1.99/lb
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.47/lb
Pork blade steak OR country-style ribs, bone in, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.88/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, jumbo pack, $1.49/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $3.99/lb
Tilapia or swai fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Deli: Jennie-O oven roasted turkey breast, $4.99/lb
“Signature Ham & Provolone or Muenster Cheese” – decipher that if you can – $4.99/lb
Charlie's Pride regular or Italian roast beef, $6.99/lb
Stella Swiss cheese, $6.99/lb
Skinny Cow ice-cream novelties, 4-12 ct, $3.99
Whole jumbo cantaloupes, $1 ea
Mangos, 3/$1
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries, 6 oz box, 2/$5
Maridol papayas, 99¢/lb
Gala apples, $1.49/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Tomatillos, 99¢/lb
Vidalia onions, $1.29/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, 99¢/bunch
Bashas':
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $4.77/lb
Beef porterhouse steaks, $6.27/lb
Beef New York steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast, $3.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, $2.69/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, $2.49/lb
Center cut pork chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Bashas' chicken breast or leg quarters, bone in, 97¢/lb
Sockeye salmon, wild caught, 5 oz portions, $4.99 ea
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Swordfish steaks, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Fresh clams (cherrystone?), $2.99/lb
Bashas' sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 4/$5
Bashas' cottage cheese incl. low-fat, 16 oz tubs, 2/$3
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 88¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 99¢
Mangos, 2/$1
Whole pineapples, 99¢
Organic Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Summer squashes, zucchinni/yellow/grey, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Fry's:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $4.79/lb
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.77/lb, sliced & wrapped free
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.69/lb
Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
Cook's half ham, bone in, smoked, $1.79/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, $1.88/lb
Chicken thighs or drums, bone in, $1.19/lb
Catfish fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Fry's milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 10/$10
Ragu pasta sauce, 16-26 oz jars, $1.79
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 4/$5
Kroger frozen veggies, 9-12 oz pkg, 10/$10
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 97¢/lb
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Sweet corn, 2/99¢
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, 99¢
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Hass avocados, 88¢ ea
Jalapeño peppers, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢
Safeway:
Buy $20 worth of Weight Watchers items with club card, save $5!
Beef chuck OR bottom round roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef eye or found roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb (boneless, $1/lb higher)
Pork sirloin chops or country style ribs, boneless, value pack, $1.69/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.49/lb
Pork shoulder country style ribs, bone in, $2.29/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, $1.79/lb
Jennie-O Turkey Store lean ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $3.99
Atlantic salmon fillets, whole side of a fish, $6.99/lb (cut fillets, 50¢/lb higher)
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79
Lucerne cheeses, 16 oz chunk or shreds, $3.99
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Classico pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, 2/$5
Bush's Best variety (non-baked) beans, 15-16 oz cans, 5/$5
Safeway Kitchens frozen veg, 14-16 oz pkg, 2/$3
Safeway frozen fruit, 12-16 oz pkg, 10% off
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Blackberries, 6 oz box, $2.99
Red seedless watermelons, $2.99 ea
Red mangos, 10/$10
Apples, Fuji or Red Delicious, $1.39/lb
Red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Sweet corn, white, 2/$1
Tomatillos OR jalapeño peppers, 99¢/lb
Sprouts:
Beef rump roast OR stew meat, boneless, $4.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork baby back ribs, $2.99
Pork shoulder roast OR country-style ribs, boneless, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack $1.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Jonagold or Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$4
Organic Cameo apples, 99¢/lb
Whole seedless watermelon, 4 lbs/$1
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Grapefruit, 99¢ ea
Organic D'Anjou pears, $1.49/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢/bunch
Green bell peppers, 49¢ ea
Red bell peppers, 4/$1
Sweet corn, white, 4/$1
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Interesting piece at NBCNews.com: you may be consuming far more sugar than you realize. A lot of added sugars are concealed in products you don't normally think of as sugary, such as ketchup and even bread. Check those labels. Fooducate has a fascinating review of what looks to be a fascinating new book: Mark Bittman (How to Cook Everything) has taken up a new eating system he calls “VB6”, or eating vegan before 6:00 p.m. After that he eats pretty much what he damn pleases, but in reasonable portions. Sounds as though it might be worth a try, or at least a look.
Yoni Freedhoff, at Weighty Matters, has a short but inspiring piece on the difference between “perfection” and doing your best: “Bests aren't perfection. Bests are affected by real life. Bests need flexibility. And bests change depending on circumstances.” Lifehacker has an interesting article on the altogether too familiar phenomenon of portion control fail: “When food's placed in front of us, we tend to follow mom's advice and clean our plates, even when it's more than we actually want.” Why is that, and what can we do about it?
Recipes! Chow.com has you fixed for the weekend: Saturday is the Kentucky Derby, so they've collected a set of “Southern favorites” ranging from mint juleps and pimento cheese to God help us elk meatballs in barbecue sauce; and Sunday being Cinco de Mayo, they've collected every imaginable variation on the taco or the margarita. On video they've got 7 ways to get ketchup out of a glass bottle, and Supertaster reviews something called “SEXCEREAL”. Smitten Kitchen has spring-veggie potstickers, Simply Recipes has Yucatan-style chicken soup with lime. And at Sprouted Kitchen, a phenomenally delicious-looking grilled asparagus plate.
Grilling season is starting, and May is National Barbecue Month and National Hamburger Month – along with the possibly less nutritionally fraught items of National Salad Month, National Strawberry Month, National Asparagus Month, National Mediterranean Diet Month and National Gazpacho Aficionado Month. This first week of May is both National Raisin Week and National Herb Week. And Monday, the 6th, is International No Diet Day*. Well, we at WW are not on a “diet”, are we?
May 1st: National Chocolate Parfait Day
May 2nd: National Truffles Day (my sources conflict on whether this refers to the pungent fungus or the chocolate)
May 3rd: National Raspberry Tart Day
May 4th: National Orange Juice Day, National Candied Orange Peel Day (you have to do something after you've juiced them), National Homebrew Day
May 5th: Cinco de Mayo, National Chocolate Custard Day, National Hoagie Day, Totally Chipotle Day
May 6th: National Crepes Suzette Day, International No Diet Day
May 7th: National Roast Leg of Lamb Day
May 8th: National Empanada Day, National Coconut Cream Pie Day
* In the print version I put "National" by mistake. Apologies.
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib roast or (family pack) steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.99/lb
Pork sirloin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.47/lb (chops, $1.99/lb
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.47/lb
Pork blade steak OR country-style ribs, bone in, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.88/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, jumbo pack, $1.49/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $3.99/lb
Tilapia or swai fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Deli: Jennie-O oven roasted turkey breast, $4.99/lb
“Signature Ham & Provolone or Muenster Cheese” – decipher that if you can – $4.99/lb
Charlie's Pride regular or Italian roast beef, $6.99/lb
Stella Swiss cheese, $6.99/lb
Skinny Cow ice-cream novelties, 4-12 ct, $3.99
Whole jumbo cantaloupes, $1 ea
Mangos, 3/$1
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries, 6 oz box, 2/$5
Maridol papayas, 99¢/lb
Gala apples, $1.49/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Tomatillos, 99¢/lb
Vidalia onions, $1.29/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, 99¢/bunch
Bashas':
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $4.77/lb
Beef porterhouse steaks, $6.27/lb
Beef New York steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast, $3.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, $2.69/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, $2.49/lb
Center cut pork chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Bashas' chicken breast or leg quarters, bone in, 97¢/lb
Sockeye salmon, wild caught, 5 oz portions, $4.99 ea
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Swordfish steaks, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Fresh clams (cherrystone?), $2.99/lb
Bashas' sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 4/$5
Bashas' cottage cheese incl. low-fat, 16 oz tubs, 2/$3
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 88¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 99¢
Mangos, 2/$1
Whole pineapples, 99¢
Organic Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Summer squashes, zucchinni/yellow/grey, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Fry's:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $4.79/lb
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.77/lb, sliced & wrapped free
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.69/lb
Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
Cook's half ham, bone in, smoked, $1.79/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, $1.88/lb
Chicken thighs or drums, bone in, $1.19/lb
Catfish fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Fry's milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 10/$10
Ragu pasta sauce, 16-26 oz jars, $1.79
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 4/$5
Kroger frozen veggies, 9-12 oz pkg, 10/$10
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 97¢/lb
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Sweet corn, 2/99¢
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, 99¢
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Hass avocados, 88¢ ea
Jalapeño peppers, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢
Safeway:
Buy $20 worth of Weight Watchers items with club card, save $5!
Beef chuck OR bottom round roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef eye or found roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb (boneless, $1/lb higher)
Pork sirloin chops or country style ribs, boneless, value pack, $1.69/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.49/lb
Pork shoulder country style ribs, bone in, $2.29/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, $1.79/lb
Jennie-O Turkey Store lean ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $3.99
Atlantic salmon fillets, whole side of a fish, $6.99/lb (cut fillets, 50¢/lb higher)
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79
Lucerne cheeses, 16 oz chunk or shreds, $3.99
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Classico pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, 2/$5
Bush's Best variety (non-baked) beans, 15-16 oz cans, 5/$5
Safeway Kitchens frozen veg, 14-16 oz pkg, 2/$3
Safeway frozen fruit, 12-16 oz pkg, 10% off
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Blackberries, 6 oz box, $2.99
Red seedless watermelons, $2.99 ea
Red mangos, 10/$10
Apples, Fuji or Red Delicious, $1.39/lb
Red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Sweet corn, white, 2/$1
Tomatillos OR jalapeño peppers, 99¢/lb
Sprouts:
Beef rump roast OR stew meat, boneless, $4.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork baby back ribs, $2.99
Pork shoulder roast OR country-style ribs, boneless, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack $1.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Jonagold or Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$4
Organic Cameo apples, 99¢/lb
Whole seedless watermelon, 4 lbs/$1
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Grapefruit, 99¢ ea
Organic D'Anjou pears, $1.49/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢/bunch
Green bell peppers, 49¢ ea
Red bell peppers, 4/$1
Sweet corn, white, 4/$1
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
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