Wren's bargain guide, week beginning July 31st:

Interesting item from the British Medical Journal by way of The Atlantic by way of Fooducate:  how the “sports drink industry” – which, as we all know, is actually the soft drink industry – has, sometimes monetarily, influenced the academy into genuinely believing (and telling the public) the absolute crisis-level essential importance of not only “staying hydrated”, but staying hydrated with sports drinks.  Also at Fooducate, how to shop for olive oil, an interesting piece on “food styling” and how advertising photographers make prepared foods look so appealing, and rare cases where a packaged food has more of a nutrient than the label claims!  Marion Nestle analyzes the top ten breakfast cereals and says that of the ten, eight are sugar-laden and at least half are marketed primarily to children.  And Summer Tomato has “How to Kill Cravings, Reduce Your Appetite and Lose Weight Without a Magic Wand”.

And recipes!  Also at Summer Tomato, pesto goes Japanese.  Courtesy of Chow.com we have barbecued ribs from the oven, healthy DIY snacks suitable for road trips, and what they're straightforward enough to call “25 Recipes That Will Use Up Zucchini” – rather in anticipation as Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Night isn't until a week from tomorrow.  Simply Recipes has an incredible stewed-in-the-oven chicken recipe.  At Sprouted Kitchen we find curry roasted almonds (nuts are healthy!) and a lovely peach tart for National Peach Month.  And Snack Girl has interesting things to do with watermelon, which fish are the healthiest, and how to make a two-PointsPlus pizza! 

Friday is National Beer Day!  Saturday is National Mead Day, National Watermelon Day, and Grab Some Nuts Day.  The 5th is National Oyster Day, half dozen on the half shell please.  And tomorrow is Lughnasadh, the Celtic firstfruits festival, and Homowo, a Ghanaian festival for feasting to mock famine.


July 31st:  National Raspberry Cake Day, Cotton Candy Day, National Jump for Jelly Beans Day
August 1st:  National Raspberry Cream Pie Day, India Pale Ale Day;  1932, Mars Bar introduced
August 2nd:  National Ice-Cream Sandwich Day
August 3rd:  National Watermelon Day, Grab Some Nuts Day, Mead Day;  1492, Christopher Columbus sails the ocean blue, comes back with tomatoes, chocolate, slaves, and the lasting conviction that if he sailed upcoast or downcoast far enough he really would reach China
August 4th:  National Chocolate Chip Day (another source gives it as National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day), National Champagne Day;  1693, Dom Perignon discovers the method for making champagne (sadly it is only a legend that he cried out at his first sip, "Brothers, come quickly, I am tasting stars!")
August 5th:  National Waffle Day, National Oyster Day;  Tutti Frutti Hat Day (commemorating the death of Carmen Miranda, 1955
August 6th:  National Root Beer Float Day
August 7th: National Raspberries and Cream Day


Albertson's:

    Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
    Beef London broil, $2.97/lb
    Beef crossrib or top round steaks, thin cut boneless, $7.49/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
    Beef chuck/bottom round/sirloin tip steaks, thin cut boneless, $8.49/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
    93/7 ground beef, $2.97/lb
    Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
    Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.49/lb
    Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
    Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $8.99/lb
    Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.89
    Albertson's eggs, AA large 18 ct, 2/$5
    Yoplait yogurts, 20/$10
    Tribe hummus, 8 oz tub, buy 1 get 2 free
    Deli:     Dietz & Watson premium slicing meats, $7.99/lb
        Dietz & Watson premium slicing cheeses, $5.99/lb
        Charlie's Pride roast beef/corned beef/beef pastrami, $6.99/lb
        Stella Swiss/Provolone/Muenster cheeses, $6.99/lb
    Essential Everyday veggies or tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
    Crystal Light, 10-12 qt canister, 2/$5
    Oroweat bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.99
    Peaches, $1.49/lb
    White nectarines, $2.49/lb
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.99/lb
    Navel oranges, $1.69/lb
    Bartlett pears, 99¢/lb
    Sweet corn, 8/$1
    Vine tomatoes, $2.99/lb
    Artichokes, 2/$5
    “Snacking” cucumbers (the eeny ones), 2 lb bag, $3.99
    Earthbound Farms organic box salads, 1 lb, $3.99


Bashas':

    Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $4.97/lb
    Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $5.99/lb
    Beef crossrib roast, $3.99/lb
    Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, $2.69/lb
    Pork loin country style (?? that what it says), value pack, $1.99/lb
    Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
    King salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
    Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
    Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
    Bashas' eggs, AA large, dozens, 88¢
    Food Club butter, 2/$5
    Bashas' cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $2.39
    Bashas' sour cream incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $1.79
    Nature's Own bread, 20 oz long loaves, $1.99
    Bashas' Homestyle bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.49
    Classico pasta sauces, 8-24 oz jars, 2/$5
    Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, 99¢
    Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 99¢
    Food Club salsa or picante sauce, 16 oz jars, 2/$3
    Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 5/$11
    Red seedless grapes, 87¢/lb
    Green or black seedless grapes, $1.99/lb
    Yellow or white peaches or nectarines, $1.49/lb
    Red or black plums, 87¢/lb
    Sweet corn, 6/96¢
    Vine tomatoes, regular or AZ grown organic, $1.99/lb
    Zucchini or grey squash, 99¢/lb
    Cucumbers OR green bell peppers, 77¢ ea
    Red or gold bell peppers, 88¢ ea
    Venus flytrap in a 3 inch pot, $4.99 – bon appetit!




Fry's:

    Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, 50% off
    Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $3.79/lb
    Foster Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, buy 1 get 2 free
    Kroger 99/1 ground turkey breast, 1 lb pkg, $4.99
    Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
    Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, $1.88
    Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 10/$10
    Blueberries, dry pint, 4/$5
    Red cherries, $3.99/lb
    Cantaloupes, AZ grown, 1.99 ea
    Yellow peaches, 99¢/lb
    Sweet corn, 6/$1
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢


Safeway:

    Beef chuck steak or roast, boneless            }
    93/7 ground beef                    }    mix and match,
    Pork loin chops, center cut boneless            }    buy 1 get 1 free
    Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast    }

    Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $6.99/lb
    Pork shoulder country style ribs, value pack, bone in, $1.99/lb
    Jennie-O Turkey Store ground turkey, 2 lb pkg, $6.99
    King salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
    Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
    Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.89
    Kraft or Lucerne cheeses, 5-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle pack, 2/$5
    Oroweat bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.99
    Safeway Kitchens pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 5/$5
    Safeway Select OR O Organics olive oil, 25-33 oz bottles, buy 1 get 1 free
    Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
    Gorton's Grilled Fillets (still 2 PointsPlus each!), 2/$5
    Peaches, $1.49/lb
    Cantaloupes, 2/$3
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.99/lb
    Blueberries, dry pint, 2/$6
    Red cherries, $3.99/lb
    Sweet corn, yellow or bicolor, 4/$1
    Zucchini OR yellow squash, 99¢/lb
    Vine tomatoes, $2.49/lb
    Organic heirloom tomatoes, $3.99/lb
    Organic leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, $1.49 ea



Sprouts:

    Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $4.99/lb
    Beef chuck roast or steak, boneless, $4.99/lb
    Pork shoulder roast or country-style ribs, $2.49/lb
    Pork loin roast or chops, center cut boneless, $1.99/lb
    Pork or chicken sausage, sweet or hot, $2.99/lb
    Chicken breast tenders, $2.49/lb
    Atlantic flounder fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, 88¢/lb
    Strawberries, 1 lb box, 3/$5
    Blueberries, dry pint, 3/$5
    Blackberries or raspberries, 6 oz boxes, 3/$5
    Yellow peaches or nectarines, 98¢/lb
    Cantaloupes, 98¢ ea
    Pluots, 2 lbs/$3
    Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 2 lbs/$3
    Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/grey, 98¢/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 98¢ ea
    Beefsteak tomatoes, 98¢/lb
    Grape or cherry tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$4

Wren's bargain guide, week beginning July 24th:

From Fooducate and Marion Nestle:  Taco Bell is discontinuing “Kid's Meals”, not for nutritional reason but in an effort at “positioning the brand for Millennials”.  Also reasons to eat watermelon and strawberries AS IF WE NEEDED ANY.  From Grist, a “guide to sustainable liquor”.  Science Daily has scientific proof of what we've known for so long:  that proper seasoning can make even reduced-fat meals taste good.  And from Weighty Matters, Yoni Freedhoff's terrific talk on “Normalizing The Abnormal”:  how consumers, and especially children, are being constantly and inescapably bombarded with sugary and salty and fatty junk food, and as well with the message that this is normative – that getting a Pizza Hut coupon for attending the library's reading club, McDonald's advertising slogans being used as part of a kindergarten reading-readiness lesson (“I'm Lovin {sic} Sight Words”), a 450-calorie-15-teaspoons-of-sugar grab bag awarded for completing a “Kids of Steel Triathlon” (a 25-metre swim, 1-kilometre bike ride, and 200-metre run), free french-fries for playing penalty-free hockey (“something perhaps they should aspire to do anyhow”), is the way things should be.

Recipes!  At Chow.com 26 “Summer Side Dishes”, twenty peach recipes, and eight ways with barbecued chicken.  Sprouted and Smitten are both doing salsa:  one from roasted ingredients with serranos, one with shrimp and avocado.  Simply Recipes has grilled cilantro-and-lime chicken, spatchcocked game hens (I don't know who decided it was necessary to introduce the word “spatchcocked” to our culinary lexicon, but I salute them), and that lovely Tuscan salad made with stale bread.  And at Snack Girl we find replacements for potato chips, homemade Spaghetti-Os, a highly skeptical take on DreamFields allegedly low-carb, low-PointsPlus pasta, and a fridge-stable and vegan-friendly substitute for Cool Whip which has the added benefit of not being made of, as her source tastefully put it, “sugar, wax, and condom lube”.

Many of Chow.com's summer side dishes are hearty salads, appropriate for the fourth week of July which is both National Salad Week and Don't Eat Meat Week.  My sources, in their ongoing effort to confuse me, inform me that the 27th is the second National Crème Brûlée Day in a week.  And on the 29th we have, once again, National Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day and once again I cannot for the life of me figure out what the hell that is supposed to mean.

July 24th:  National Tequila Day
July 25th:  National Hot Fudge Sundae Day
July 26th:  National Coffee Milkshake Day
July 27th:  National Scotch Day, National Crème Brûlée Day
July 28th:  National Milk Chocolate Day
July 29th:  National Lasagna Day, Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day;  feast of St. Martha, patroness of butlers, waitresses, cooks, innkeepers, and people trying to lose weight
July 30th:  National Cheesecake Day
July 31st:  National Raspberry Cake Day, Cotton Candy Day, Jump for Jelly Beans Day (hey, don't blame me, I don't make these things up)

Oh, and there's an alternative grocery-bargains listing available from http://neighborside.com/ -- sign up and get it emailed to you every week!  Kudos to the member who suggested this!



Albertson's:

    Beef t-bone/ribeye/New York steaks, 50% off
    Beef tri tip roast OR top sirloin steak, $4.99/lb
    Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
    85/15 ground beef, $2.79/lb
    Assorted pork chops, bone in?, $1.79/lb
    Center cut pork chops, bone in or boneless, buy 1 get 1 free
    Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.88/lb
    Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
    Tilapia fillets, 1 lb IQF bag, $9.99, buy 1 get 3 free
    Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.89
    Albertson's eggs, AA lg, 18 ct, $1.99
    Essential Everyday butter, $1.99
    Essential Everyday cheeses, 7-8 oz shreds, $1.99
    Essential Everyday cheeses, 8 oz shingle pack, 2/$5
    Deli:    Dietz & Watson classic or honey ham, regular roast beef, Black Forest turkey, $7.99/lb
        Dietz & Watson baby Swiss, $7.99/lb
    Oroweat bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.99
    Ragu pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, 2/$3, buy 2 get 1 Essential Everyday pasta (16 oz) free
    Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, $1
    Smart Ones frozen entrées, $1.99, buy 5 get 1 24-pk of Albertson's drinking water free
    Green Giant “Valley Fresh Steamers”, 12 oz pkg, $1.88
    Boca veggie burgers, 10 oz box, $3.49
    Blueberries, 11 oz pkg, 4/$5
    Blackberries/raspberries, 6 oz boxes, $2.99
    Honeydew melons, 49¢/lb
    Whole cantaloupes, 2/$4
    Black plums, 99¢/lb
    Nectarines, 99¢/lb
    Kiwifruit, 1 lb pkg, $1.99
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.99/lb
    Red cherries, $3.99/lb
    Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
    Portabella mushrooms, 2/$3 – brush with olive oil and grill like a burger
    Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, 2/$4
    Sweet corn, 4 pk, $2.99


Bashas':

    Beef London broil, value pack, $2.97/lb
    Beef top round steak, $3.97/lb (roast 52¢/lb higher)
    Ground beef round, fat content not listed, value pack, $2.87/lb
    “Pork Loin Country” – that's what it says but it looks like bone-in ribs, value pack, $1.99/lb
    Pork sirloin chops, bone in, $2.99/lb
    Bashas' boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
    Bashas' chicken breasts or leg quarters, bone in, 99¢/lb
    Cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
    Swai fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
    “Silver Brite” salmon, wild caught, $3.77/lb “weather permitting”
    Bashas' milk, gallons, $1.89
    Food Club cheeses, 8 oz chunk or shreds, $1.79
    Food Club pasta sauces, 24 oz jars, 88¢
    Food Club pasta, 13-16 oz pkg, 88¢
    Food Club veggies or tomatoes, 15-16 oz cans, 69¢
    Flav-R-Pac frozen veg, 16 oz pkg, 5/$5
    Lean Gourmet frozen entrées, 5/$5
    Smart Ones frozen entrées, 2/$5
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, 87¢/lb
    Yellow peaches or nectarines, red or black plums, 87¢/lb
    White peaches or nectarines, $1.49/lb
    Blackberries/raspberries/blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
    Slicing tomatoes, 87¢/lb
    Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Fry's:

    Beef top sirloin, boneless, whole in bag, $3.77/lb, sliced & wrapped free
    Beef chuck/shoulder/top round roast, boneless, 50% off
    Beef New York strip steak, bone in, family pack, $6.99/lb
    85/15 ground beef, $3.29/lb (3 lb chub)
    Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, family pack, $1.59/lb
    Kroger chicken thighs or drumsticks, bone in, $1.39/lb
    Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
    Fry's milk, gallons, $1.89
    Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99/lb
    Kroger frozen veg, 10-12 oz, 10/$10
    Red seedless grapes, 75¢/lb
    Yellow peaches, 99¢/lb
    Red or black plums, $1.49/lb
    Whole cantaloupes, AZ grown, $1.99
    Red cherries, $2.99/lb
    Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
    Organic “mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, 2/$3


Safeway:

    Beef bottom round roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
    Beef London broil, boneless, $3.99/lb
    Beef crossrib steak OR country style ribs, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
    90/10 ground beef, value pack, $2.79/lb
    Pork shoulder country style ribs, bone in, value pack, $1.39/lb
    Pork sirloin chops, boneless, value pack, $1.99/lb
    Sanderson Farms whole chickens, 88¢/lb (cut up, 51¢/lb higher)
    Safeway Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, value pack, $1.19/lb
    Swai fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
    Lucerne OR Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99
    Bertolli olive oil, 25 oz bottles, buy 1 get 1 free
    Bush's variety (non-baked) beans, 15-16 oz cans, 5/$5
    Red cherries, $2.99/lb
    Peaches or “Red Lion” nectarines, $1.99/lb
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.99/lb
    Cantaloupes, 2/$5
    “Mini seedless” watermelon, $3.49 ea
    Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
    Safeway Farms grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, 2/$4
    Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, $1.49/lb
    Sweet corn, white or yellow, 2/$1
    Hatch chiles, 2 lbs/$1
    Hass avocados, 99¢ ea



Sprouts:

    Beef rump roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
    93/7 ground sirloin, $4.99/lb
    Boneless skinless chicken thighs, value pack, $1.88/lb
    Chicken or turkey breast tenders, boneless, $2.99/lb
    99/1 ground chicken or turkey breast, $3.99/lb
    Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
    Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
    Baja halibut fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, 98¢/lb
    White peaches or nectarines, 68¢/lb
    Bartlett pears, 48¢/lb
    Pluots, 2 lbs/$3
    Blueberries, dry pint, 4/$5
    Roma tomatoes, 98¢/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 98¢ ea
    Cherry or grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$3
    Artichokes, 2/$3

Wren's bargain guide, week beginning July 17th:

Definitely worth reading at Weighty Matters:  You've surely noticed the airtime and print-space given this past week to that “report” about artificial sweeteners and how they allegedly don't help with weight loss?  “Diet soda may do more harm than good” blared CNN, while NBC assured us that diet-soda drinkers “are at higher risk of weight gain, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome and cardiovasuclar {sic} disease”.  Well, guess what?  The media have not been covering a study at all, but a press release about an opinion article – basically, an editorial, citing only studies supporting a connection between these diseases and artificial sweeteners (while ignoring those that suggested otherwise), and published in a journal that wants only articles reflecting “a personal viewpoint” and not “a balanced review”.

Fooducate treats a study which claims that people lose more weight by eating only two meals a day than by eating the same number of calories in five or six smaller meals.  The study, they point out, only had 54 participants, and it was in a controlled environment.  (Would you be able to eat breakfast, lunch, and then sit tight until the next morning's breakfast?)  And at Summer Tomato, “7 Reasons Keeping A Food Journal Is Better Than Counting Calories”.  Or in Weight Watchers terms, TRACK. 

Recipes!  Fooducate has shakshuka, eggs poached in a thick sauce of tomatoes and bell peppers.  Eggs, healthy oils, and everything else PointsPlus-free!  Chow.com has a dozen salsas (salsi?  salsae?), “The Easiest Way” to barbecue chicken so it's actually done but still tender, five vegetarian main dishes for the grill if you don't care for chicken, and sixteen skewers and kebabs as long as you've already got the grill heated up.  From Simply Recipes, couscous with pistachios and apricots, an intriguing combination.  And Snack Girl has DIY yogurt parfait, as well as a lightened potato salad made from real ingredients (as distinct from another well-known Hungry individual's “faux-tato salad” recipe which involves cauliflower, no potatoes at all, and what a more honest generation called “imitation mayonnaise” and “sour cream substitute”).

Tomorrow is National Caviar Day:  one tablespoon of caviar has nearly one-third of your recommended daily allowance of cholesterol.  So that OR shakshuka, but not both.  The 21st is National Junk Food Day, which perhaps let us honor in the breach rather than the observance, and Sundae Sunday.  The 23rd is National Hotdog Day – I don't care for hotdogs, but if you do check last week's blog entry for how to spiral-cut them.


July 17th:  National Peach Ice-Cream Day
July 18th:  National Caviar Day
July 19th:  National Daiquiri Day;  Flitch Day (in Dunmow, England, married couples can appear before a jury of unmarried men and women;  if the couple can satisfactorily prove they have never "wished themselves unwedded", they are awarded a flitch of bacon, or half a pig)
July 20th:  National Lollipop Day, National Hotdog Day, National Ice-Cream Soda Day, Fortune Cookie Day;  1969, Apollo XI lands on the Moon
July 21st:  National Ice-Cream Day, National Junk Food Day, National Crème Brûlée Day
July 22nd:  National Penuche Fudge Day, Maple Syrup Day
July 23rd:  National Vanilla Ice-Cream Day;  one of my sources gives this as National Hotdog Day
July 24th:  National Tequila Day

And the recipe for Greek-yogurt pancakes mentioned at tonight's meeting:

1 cup Greek yogurt, plain or vanilla (if you choose plain, it's suggested to add a bit of vanilla)
1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 egg
Milk, enough to thin the batter to the consistency you want

Makes four to five six-inch pancakes.  I must try this!



Albertson's:

    Beef chuck, crossrib, bottom/eye round steak or roast, boneless, fam pk, $6.99/lb, buy1get1free
    Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, bone in, $8.99/lb
    Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
    80/20 ground beef, $2.29/lb (3 lbs or more)
    85/15 ground beef, $2.79/lb (any size pkg)
    Pork back ribs or St Louis ribs, $2.77/lb
    Pork loin chops, center cut, bone in, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
    Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
    Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.59/lb
    Jennie-O 93/7 ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $4.79
    Swai or tilapia fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
    Atlantic salmon fillets or bone-in steaks, $6.99/lb
    Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $8.99/lb
    Albertson's eggs, AA large, dozens, 88¢
    Essential Everyday cheeses, 2 lb shreds, $5.99
    Deli:    Signature ham/hard salami/Genoa salami/pepperoni, $5.99/lb
        Signature Provolone or Muenster cheeses, $5.99/lb
        Rotisserie turkey breast, $5.99/lb
        Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
    Ranch Style beans, 15 oz cans, $1
    Ro*tel tomatoes, $1
    Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, $1
    Essential Everyday pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, $1
    Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, $1
    Hunt's tomatoes, 14 oz cans, $1
    Bush's baked or “Grillin'” beans, 21-28 oz cans, $1.99
    Nabisco snack crackers, family size, $3.69
    Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, $1.88
    Bartlett pears, $1/lb
    Whole cantaloupes, $1 ea
    Black plums, $1/lb
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.99/lb
    Red cherries, $3.99/lb
    Yellow peaches or nectarines, $1.99/lb
    Plumogranates (I have no idea), $2.99
    Roma tomatoes, $1/lb
    Red/yellow/orange bell peppers, $1 ea
    Asparagus tips, 8 oz pkg, $3.99
    Summer squashes, $1/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, $1
    Broccoli crowns, $1/lb


Bashas':

    Beef top sirloin steaks, value pack, $3.88/lb (regular pack, $1/lb higher)
    Beef crossrib roast, $4.49/lb (steaks, 50¢/lb higher)
    Beef t-bone/porterhouse/New York steaks, 50% off
    Ground beef sirloin, fat content not listed, 50% off
    Center cut pork chops, boneless, 50% off
    Sanderson Farms whole frying chickens, 88¢/lb
    Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, 50% off
    Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
    Flav-R-Pac veggies, 1 lb frozen bag, $1.88
    Yellow or white peaches or nectarines, red or black plums, 88¢/lb
    Blueberries, 6 oz box, 88¢
    Large mangos, 2/88¢
    Green or red seedless grapes, $1.99/lb
    Roma or slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
    Organic heirloom tomatoes, $1.99/lb
    Summer squashes, 99¢/lb
Fry's:

    Beef New York strip steak, bone in, family pack, 50% off
    Beef rib roast or “Texas broil”, boneless, $3.69/lb
    Pork loin chops, center cut boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
    Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.99
    Kroger chicken leg quarters, bone in, 99¢/lb
    Foster Farms chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, $1.79
    Jennie-O 99/1 ground turkey breast, $6.49
    Atlantic salmon fillets, $7.99/lb
    Kroger cheeses, 5-8 oz chunk or shreds, $1.79
    Yoplait yogurts, 20/$10
    Kroger cheeses, 12-16 chunk or shreds, $2.99
    Kroger veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 5/$3
    Bush's Best variety (non-baked) beans, 15-16 oz cans, 10/$10
    Ro*tel tomatoes, 10/$10
    Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, 10/$10
    Healthy Choice regular or “Baked” entrées OR Lean Cuisine entrées, 6/$12 (must buy 6)
    Red cherries, $1.88/lb
    Yellow peaches, 99¢/lb
    Yellow or white nectarines, red or black plums, $1.88
    Organic green or red seedless grapes, $2.49/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢
    Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb


Safeway:

    Beef London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.59/lb
    Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $4.99/lb
    80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.79/lb
    Pork sirloin country style chops or ribs, boneless, value pack, $1.69/lb
    Pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, value pack, $1.99/lb
    Sanderson Farms chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, $1.79/lb
    Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb “subject to availability”
    Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
    Classico OR Bertolli pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, buy 1 get 1 free
    Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 5/$5
    Green Giant canned veg, 14-15 oz cans, buy 1 get 1 free
    Bush's Best “Grillin'” beans, 21-22 oz cans, 2/$4
    Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.89
    Lean Cuisine “Simple Favorites”, $1.85
    Pantry Essentials frozen veggies, 12 oz pkg, 99¢
    Red seedless grapes, 77¢/lb
    Red cherries, $3.99/lb
    Peaches or nectarines, $1.99/lb
    Seedless watermelons, $5.99 ea
    Organic cantaloupes, $3.49 ea
    White corn, 5/$1
    Heirloom tomatoes, $1.99/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 2/$3


Sprouts:

    Beef sirloin tip steak or roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
    Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
    Pork shoulder roast, boneless, $2.49/lb
    Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
    Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $12.99/lb
    Sea bass fillets, wild caught, $8.99/lb
    Red cherries, $1.98/lb
    Yellow peaches or nectarines, black plums, 88¢/lb
    Cantaloupes, 48¢ ea
    Blueberries, dry pint (11 oz box), 2/$5
    Bartlett pears OR Pink Lady apples, 98¢/lb
    Seedless grapes, green or red, $1.68/lb
    Roma tomatoes, 98¢/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 98¢ ea

Wren's bargain guide, week beginning July 10th:

Interesting stuff at Fooducate this week.  Papayas!  The new Special K Protein cereal – will it really satisfy your hunger longer?  (Bear in mind that the average American consumes substantially more than the RDA for protein.)  Upsizing portion sizes, and how you can make people order a bigger portion by labeling it “small” or “medium”:  in a study at Cornell University, “A group of subjects were fed either one or two cups of pasta. Some of the two-cup servings were listed as 'normal', and some were listed as 'double size'. The people consuming a two cup portion labelled as 'normal' ate much more than their counterparts who saw the 'double size' label.”  And researchers have conclusively demonstrated what we at WW have known for years:  drinking water helps you to lose weight.

Slater's 50/50, a restaurant chain in California, is offering (or offered, for Independence Day) the most horrifying culinary object ever put on a plate:  a bacon burger, and by that I mean a patty made entirely out of bacon topped with a slice of bacon, a fried egg, a slice of bacon cheddar, and bacon Thousand Island dressing.  On a bacon bun.  I'm really not very hungry any more.  And Summer Tomato offers “7 Habits of Highly Effective Foodists”.

Recipes!  Chow.com has twenty-five salads that can be main courses, thirty things to do with or to bell peppers, grilled side dishes, and a Bastille Day picnic.  (Allons, enfants du patrie!)  Also an avocado corn salsa (that somehow made it into the print version as "scorn salad", forgive me), grilled shrimp tacos, and an ultra-simple heirloom tomato salad.  Simply Recipes has a tuna-salad alternative (this one is Asian-influenced) and a turkey-and-zucchini burger.  From Smitten Kitchen, dry-rub barbecued chicken in the oven;  from Michael Ruhlman, wheatberry salad.  And over at Snack Girl there's a corn salad ideal for potluck barbecues, a roundup of fast healthy snacks, and the perfect breakfast for an Arizona summer:  a half banana doused in yogurt, rolled in granola and frozen!  (“Why does this work? First, it is cold which will feel good in this summer heat. Secondly, it is fun. Everything is more fun served on a popsicle stick (I am looking at you Filet Mignon).”)

Today is Pick Blueberries Day and also National Piña Colada Day, a combination that strikes me as having potential.  Blue piña coladas.  Tomorrow is National Mojito Day, the 14th is National Grand Marnier Day – I hereby declare this National It's Too Damn Hot To Do Anything But Drink Week.  Or eat ice-cream, the 16th being both National Ice-Cream Day and National Ice-Cream Sundae Day, followed immediately by National Peach Ice-Cream Day. 



July 10th:  Pick Blueberries Day, National Piña Colada Day
July 11th:  National Mojito Day, National Blueberry Muffin Day, Vegetarian Food Day;  feast of Theano, wife of Pythagoras and patron of vegetarians
July 12th:  National Pecan Pie Day;
July 13th:  National French Fries Day, Beans'n'Franks Day
July 14th:  Macaroni Day, National Grand Marnier Day;  1789, the storming of the Bastille, generally regarded as the flashpoint of the French Revolution.  Ça ira!
July 15th:  National Gummy Worms Day, National Tapioca Pudding Day;  feast of St. Swithin.  Folklore has it that whatever weather prevails on St Swithin's day you're stuck with for the next forty days:

'St. Swithin’s day, gif ye do rain,
for forty days it will remain;
St. Swithin’s day, an ye be fair,
for forty days ’twill rain nae mair.'

July 16th:  National Corn Fritters Day, National Ice-Cream Day, Ice-Cream Sundae Day;  1907, Orville Redenbacher born;  1967, Arlo Guthrie's first live performance of "Alice's Restaurant"
July 17th:  National Peach Ice-Cream Day



Albertson's:

    Beef London broil, $2.97/lb
    Beef top sirloin steaks OR tri tip roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
    Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round roast or steaks, family pack, $4.49/lb
    Beef petite sirloin steaks, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
    85/15 ground beef, $2.79/lb
    93/7 ground beef, $2.97/lb
    Assorted pork chops, bone in, $1.59/lb
    Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
    Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.88/lb
    Sockeye salmon fillet, wild caught, $8.99/lb
    Rockfish or “Dover” (Dover sole?) fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
    Essential Everyday cheeses, 8 oz chunk, $1.78
    Essential Everyday cheeses, 8 oz shingle pack, 2/$5
    Deli:    Jennie-O oven roast turkey breast, $3.99/lb
        Dietz & Watson regular or “Black Forest” turkey breast, classic or honey ham, $7.99/lb
        Dietz & Watson baby Swiss, $7.99/lb
        Unbranded (store) Provolone/Muenster/pepperjack/mild Cheddar cheeses, $5.99/lb
    Oroweat bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.99
    Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, $1
    Bush's variety (non-baked) beans, 15-16 oz cans, 99¢
    Barilla pasta sauces, 24 oz jars, 2/$5
    Francesco Rinaldi 23-24 oz jars, 3/$5
    Essential Everyday fruit, 15 oz cans, $1
    Blueberries, 18 oz box, 2/$4
    Red cherries, $3.99/lb
    Rainier cherries, $5.99/lb
    Seedless grapes, green or red, $1.99/lb
    Kiwifruit, 1 lb pkg, $2.99
    “Donut” peaches, 1 lb pkg, $4.99
    Yellow peaches or nectarines, $1.99/lb
    Cantaloupes, 2/$5
    Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
    Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
    Grape tomatoes, 12 oz pkg, 2/$3
    Iceberg, 69¢ ea
    Earthbound Farms organic box salads, 5 oz, $2.99


Bashas':

    Beef sirloin tip steak or roast, $2.77/lb
    Beef crossrib/bottom round roast, $3.99/lb
    Ground sirloin, fat content not listed, $2.77/lb
    Center cut pork chops, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, 88¢/lb
    Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
    Corvina sea bass fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
    Cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
    Bashas' eggs, AA large, dozens, 99¢
    Food Club cheeses, 2 lb chunk or shreds, $7.77
    Bashas' “Homestyle” bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.49
    Barilla pasta sauces, 24 oz jars, 2/$4
    Seedless grapes, green or red, 87¢/lb
    Yellow peaches or nectarines, 87¢/lb
    White peaches or nectarines, $1.49/lb
    Red or black plums, $1.49/lb
    Seedless watermelons, 3 lbs/99¢
    Vine tomatoes, 2 lbs/$3



Fry's:

    Beef top sirloin, boneless, family pack, $4.99/lb
    Beef top round steaks or roast, $4.29/lb
    85/15 ground beef, $3.29/lb (3 lb chub)
    Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb, sliced & wrapped free
    Foster Farms chicken, buy 1 get 1 free (like item only, all except whole chickens)
    Kroger 99/1 ground turkey breast, 1 lb pkg, $5.49
    Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $8.99/lb
    Swai fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
    Fry's milk, half gallons only, 10/$10
    Fry's eggs, AA large, dozens, 99¢
    Kraft or Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz chunk or shreds, 2/$4
    Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 88¢
    Kellogg's Special K or Fiber Plus bars, 5-10 ct, 2/$5
    Birds Eye frozen veg, 10-16 oz, 3/$5
    Mix/match:  Healthy Choice or Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 6/$12 (must buy 6)
    Mangoes, 2/99¢
    White or yellow nectarines, red or black plums, $1.99/lb
    Seedless grapes, green or red, $1.99/lb
    Yellow peaches, 99¢/lb
    Cantaloupes, $1.99 ea
    Raspberries, 6 oz boxes, 99¢
    Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢


Safeway:

    Beef crossrib steak OR country style ribs, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Beef London broil, boneless, $4.99/lb
    Beef tri-tip roast, boneless, $5.99/lb
    Beef NY strip steak, bone in, $6.99/lb
    93/7 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.59/lb
    Pork shoulder country style ribs, boneless, $2.99/lb
    Pork sirloin chops, boneless, value pack, $1.99/lb
    Safeway Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, $1.19/lb
    Sockeye salmon fillets, value pack, $9.99/lb “subject to availability”
    Rockfish fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb “subject to availability”
    Kellogg's Nutri-Grain “Fruit Crunch” bars, 7 oz box, $2.99
    Star olive oil, 25 oz bottles, buy 1 get 1 free
    Cantaloupes, 2/$4
    Blueberries, 2 lb pkg, $4.99
    Red cherries, $3.99/lb
    Mangos, 10/$10
    Peaches OR nectarines, $1.99/lb
    Red or black plums, $1.49/lb
    Bosc/D'Anjou/Packham bears, $1.69
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.99/lb
    Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 88¢/lb
    Grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, 2/$4


Sprouts:

    Beef chuck steak or roast, $4.99/lb
    85/15 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Pork loin chops or roast, center cut boneless, $2.99/lb
    Ground pork/chicken/chicken breast, $2.99/lb
    Boneless skinless chicken thighs, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
    Sea bass fillets, wild caught, $8.99/lb
    Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
    Blueberries, dry pint (11 oz), $1.48
    Red cherries, $3.98/lb
    Yellow peaches or nectarines, red or black plums, 88¢/lb
    Vine tomatoes, 98¢/lb
    Beefsteak tomatoes, 88¢/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR fresh spinach, 88¢
    Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/grey, 98¢/lb

Wren's bargain guide, week beginning July 3rd:

Interesting piece at Fooducate:  an experiment conducted at the University of Pennsylvania showed that sleep-deprived people tended to eat more and to eat more fat-laden foods.  Also nectarines, how to make your own pickles, and an interview with someone who's lost 65 pounds “by eating real food”.

The baking-cookies-in-a-car meme is making its annual rounds.  Weighty Matters has a great review of Michael Moss's book, Salt Sugar Fat:  How the Food Giants Hooked Us, which makes me even more eager to read it.  Exercising causes your body to turn passive neutral “white fat” into active, calorie-burning “brown fat”.  Taking a walk after a meal really does aid your digestion!  And Darya at Summer Tomato has 9 tips for “Enjoying A Long Holiday Weekend (With Minimal Damage)”.  (Drink water.  Split things with a friend.  And resist, in her phrase, “the 'what-the-hell' effect”.)

Recipes!  Chow.com has summer cocktails (including a Pimm's Cup for Wimbledon – I've tried it and frankly prefer the strawberries and cream), a spicy no-mayo cabbage slaw, stir-fried tamarind eggplant, and how to spiral-cut your hotdogs.  Because I know you've always wanted to spiral-cut a hotdog.  Snack Girl has how to make strawberry jam without adding sugar!  Smitten Kitchen has an incredibly beautiful sandwich slaw (she cheats, layering the veggies by colors to create a taste-the-rainbow effect).    And at Simply Recipes we have grilled salmon with dill butter, a melon salad with mint and a hint of chilies, and what the French call panaché and the English shandy:  beer with 7-Up.

It's July, National Grilling Month.  I grilled my feet yesterday going out to the mailbox!  Also National Hotdog Month, National Picnic Month, National Ice-Cream Month, National Baked Bean Month, National Pickle Month, National Bison Month, National Watermelon Month, and National July Belongs To Blueberries Month.  This first week of July is National Canned Luncheon Meat Week.  (Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam  … )  Tomorrow is National Barbecued Spareribs Day and National Sidewalk Egg Frying Day.


July 3rd:  Eat Beans Day, National Chocolate Wafer Day
July 4th:  National Barbecued Spareribs Day, Sidewalk Egg Frying Day;  1924, Caesar salad invented by chef Caesar Cardini
July 5th:  National Apple Turnover Day
July 6th:  National Fried Chicken Day
July 7th:  National  Strawberry Sundae Day, National Chocolate Day, Macaroni Day, National Ice-Cream Cone Day
July 8th:  National Milk Chocolate with Almonds Day
July 9th:  National Sugar Cookie Day
July 10th:  Pick Blueberries Day, National Piña Colada Day


See you next week, and have a safe and happy Fourth!


Albertson's:

    Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
    Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
    Beef top sirloin steak OR tri tip roast, $4.99/lb
    Beef country style ribs, “extra lean” boneless, $3.49/lb
    85/15 ground beef, $2.59/lb
    Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
    Pork loin back ribs, $3.99/lb
    Pork baby back ribs, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
    Pork country style ribs, bone in, $1.99/lb (boneless, 50¢/lb higher)
    Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.79/lb
    Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, jumbo pack, $1.49/lb
    Alaska sockeye salmon, wild caught, $8.99/lb
    Keta salmon fillets, wild caught, $3.99/lb
    Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.89
    Albertson's eggs, AA large, dozens, 88¢
    Sargento cheese, 6-8 oz shingle pack, 2/$6
    Deli:      Jennie-O oven roasted turkey breast, $4.99/lb
        Signature Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
        Provolone or Muenster cheeses, $4.99/lb
        Charlie's Pride regular or Italian roast beef, $6.99/lb
        Stella Swiss cheese, $6.99/lb
    Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, $1
    Essential Everyday tomatoes/veggies/variety (not-baked) beans, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
    Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, $1.49
    Smart Ones frozen entrées, $1.99
    Healthy Choice “Baked” frozen entrées, 2/$4
    Green seedless grapes, 75¢/lb
    White peaches or nectarines, $2.79/lb
    Black plums, $1.99/lb
    Honeydew melons, 69¢/lb
    Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
    Cut up fruit bowls, 1.5-2 lb, $3.99
    Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢


Bashas':

    Beef t-bone OR top sirloin steaks, value pack, $4.77/lb
    Beef tenderloin, whole in bag, $6.99/lb
    Beef London broil, $3.99/lb
    Ground beef round, fat content not listed, $2.37/lb
    “Pork loin country style” (a bit inspecific but that's what it says), value pack, 99¢/lb
    Pork shoulder steak, $2.49/lb
    Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, buy 1 get 1 free
    “Silver Brite” salmon (you tell me!), wild caught, $3.99/lb “weather permitting”
    Cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
    Bashas' milk, gallons, $1.89
    Food Club cheeses, 16 oz chunk or shreds, $3.99/lb
    Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
    Bashas' “Homestyle” bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.49
    Bush's baked or “Grillin'” beans, 21-28 oz cans, 3/$5
    American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, 99¢
    Blueberries, 6 oz box, 99¢ – July Belongs to Blueberries!
    Green or red seedless grapes, $1.77/lb
    Yellow peaches or nectarines, $1.77/lb
    Apricots, red or black plums, $1.99/lb
    Large mangoes, 77¢ ea
    Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
    Bell peppers, green/red/gold, 77¢ ea
    Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, 2/$4
    Mini sweet peppers, 1 lb bag, 2/$4
    OrganicGirl box salads, 5-8 oz, $2.99
Fry's:

    Beef NY strip steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.97/lb
    Beef crossrib roast OR “Texas broil”, boneless, $3.99/lb
    80/20 ground beef patties, 10 ct pkg, $10
    93/7 ground beef, $2.88/lb
    Pork loin back ribs OR St Louis-style ribs, buy 1 get 2 free
    Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
    Pork country style ribs, bone in, family pack, $2.50/lb
    Kroger 80/20 ground turkey, 1 lb pkg, 2/$7
    Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.79/lb
    Kroger chicken leg quarters, 99¢/lb
    Keta salmon fillets, wild caught, $3.88/lb
    Bush's baked beans, 21-28 oz cans, $1.79
    Nabisco snack crackers (Triscuits/Wheat Thins), 5-9 oz boxes, 2/$4
    Red cherries, $2.29/lb
    Yellow peaches, 99¢/lb
    “Mini seedless” watermelons, 2/$5
    Yellow or white nectarines, $1.99/lb
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.99/lb
    Rainier cherries, $4.99/lb, FINALLY THEY ARE RIPE AND SWEET so buy them
    Cantaloupes, AZ grown, $1.88 ea
    Tuscan melons, AZ grown, 2/$5
    Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
    Sweet corn, 2/88¢
    Baby seedless cucumbers, AZ grown, 9 oz pkg, 2/$3


Safeway:

    Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $4.99/lb
    Beef top sirloin steaks OR tri tip roast, value pack, $3.99/lb
    Beef crossrib steak OR chuck country-style ribs, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
    Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
    Beef round tip steak or roast, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
    Beef back ribs, bone in, $1.99/lb
    80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
    Pork top loin chops, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, value pack, $1.99/lb
    Safeway chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, value pack, $1.29/lb
    Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, value pack, $9.99
    Halibut steaks, wild caught, bone in, $14.99/lb
    King salmon fillets, farm raised, $8.99/lb
    Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
    Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79
    Lucerne OR Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz shreds, $6.99
    Lucerne sour cream incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $2.29
    Bush's baked beans, 28 oz cans, 3/$5
    Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 10/$10
    Ro*tel tomatoes, 10/$10
    Safeway variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 89¢
    Safeway Kitchens veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 79¢
    Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 5/$10
    Skinny Cow ice-cream novelties, 4-6 ct, $3.99
    Red cherries, $2.99/lb
    “Red Raven” plums, organic, $1.99/lb
    Red seedless watermelons, $3.99 ea
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.99/lb
    Peaches OR nectarines, $1.99/lb
    Sweet corn, white or yellow, 6/$1
    Vine tomatoes, 99¢/lb
    Organic heirloom tomatoes, $3.99/lb
    Safeway Farms grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, 2/$4


Sprouts:

        Beef short ribs, boneless
        Beef back ribs
        Pork baby back ribs
        Pork loin country-style ribs, boneless
        Pork shoulder country-style ribs
        Pork spare ribs


          ==  all 30% off

    Beef sirloin steak, boneless, $6.99/lb
    Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
    Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, $1.49/lb
    Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
    Sea bass fillets, wild caught, $8.99/lb
    Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $12.99/lb
    Blackberries, 5 oz boxes, 88¢
    Green seedless grapes, 88¢/lb
    Whole seedless watermelon, 3 lbs/$1
    Yellow peaches or nectarines, 88¢/lb
    Red or black plums, 2 lb/$3
    Organic yellow peaches OR black plums, $1.49/lb
    Cantaloupe, 2/$3
    Beefsteak OR Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
    Organic vine tomatoes, $1.49/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 98¢ ea
    Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/grey, 98¢/lb