Wren's bargain guide, week beginning December 25th:

Sorry for being so very far overdue in getting this week's edition online:  for Christmas, I threw my back out lifting a ham.  Not even a very big ham.

Fooducate this week explores the top 5 “Over-Hyped New Foods” of 2013.  TIME looks into what foods will be more expensive next year:  beef and bread are on the list, and all hearts crack in unison as chocolate prices are projected to rise.  Oh well, think of it as incentive to practice portion control.  Happily fruits and veggies are not on the rising-prices list, because Andrew Weil promotes a study which strongly indicates that eating more fruits and vegetables can lengthen your life.

The Atlantic has a detailed, analytical, skeptical, and this after all being Atlantic extraordinarily long look at the whole paleo-diet-Grain-Brain-gluten-is-bad-for-you … thing.  Worth reading if only for the cautionary lines, “I hope people don’t give up on nutrition science, because there is a sense that no one agrees on anything. An outlier comes shouting along every year with a new diet bent on changing our entire perspective, and it’s all the talk.... When a person advocates radical change on the order of eliminating one of the three macronutrient groups from our diets, the burden of proof should be enormous. Everything you know is not wrong.”

Recipes!  Chow.com has an absolute plethora of New Year's Eve appetizers, some hot, some vegetarian, some “elegant” (srsly? potato skins with smoked salmon, crème fraîche, and caviar? mini ham-and-cheese sandwiches topped with fried quail eggs?), some just stuff-on-toast.  Also a plan for a New Year's Eve party with a speakeasy motif, creamy cocktails, sherry cocktails, tequila cocktails, hot booze, and what's described as a “sneaky breakfast remedy for hangovers”.

Sprouted Kitchen's kale omelette may be a good counter for hangovers, being proteiny.  And Simply Recipes has mini-muffin frittatas that keep well, reheat well, and come in handy at this time of year:  “I don’t know about you but my survival strategy includes making relatively light, healthy meals for the days between the feasts. These mini frittatas are perfect for the in-between days.”

This week following Christmas, the calendar has us tidying up all the culinary loose ends and leftovers, with days for candy canes, fruit cake and chocolate in quick succession.  The 31st is, somewhat predictably, National Champagne Day;  but somewhat in anticipation of necessity, National Bicarbonate of Soda Day is the 30th.

December 25th:  National Pumpkin Pie Day
December 26th:  National Candy Cane Day, National Coffee Percolator Day
December 27th:  National Fruit Cake Day
December 28th:  National Chocolate Candy Day
December 29th:  Pepper Pot Day – I have not been able to ascertain whether this is in celebration of the seasoning shaker or the tripe stew called Philadelphia Pepper Pot.
December 30th:  National Bicarbonate of Soda Day
December 31st:  National Champagne Day
January 1st:  National Bloody Mary Day, National Apple Gifting Day


Albertson's:

    Beef ribeye, t-bone, New York steaks, boneless or bone in, buy 1 get 1 free
    Beef roasts or family pack steaks: chuck, crossrib, eye/bottom round, sirloin tip, $3.99/lb
    85/15 ground beef, $2.79/lb
    Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
    Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
    Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
    Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
    Tilapia/swai/catfish fillets, $2.99/lb
    Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.87
    Albertson's cottage cheese incl. low-fat, 16 oz tubs, 2/$3
    Deli:    Charlie's Pride Italian beef, corned beef, beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
        Signature rotisserie turkey breast, $5.99/lb
        Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
        Unbranded (store) hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
        Stella Swiss/Provolone/Muenster cheeses, $5.99/lb
        Unbranded (store) Provolone/Muenster/pepperjack/mild Cheddar, $5.99/lb
    Essential Everyday pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 10/$10
    Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, 10/$10
    Carapelli olive oil, 17 oz bottles, $4.99
    Healthy Choice frozen entrees, $1.99 ea
    Bananas, 39¢/lb
    Gala apples, 99¢/lb
    Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
    Organic Fuji apples, $1.99/lb
    Kale, 99¢/bunch (3 varieties available)
    Organic grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, $2.99


Bashas':

    Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, value pack, $3.77/lb
    Beef bottom round or sirloin tip roasts, bone in, buy 1 get 1 free
    Beef crossrib roast, boneless, buy 1 get 1 free
    Beef top sirloin, boneless, $4.77/lb
    Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $2.99
    Pork loin, bone in, whole in bag, 99¢/lb “cut & wrapped free”
    Assorted pork chops, value pack, $1.79/lb
    Split chicken breast, bone in, buy 1 get 1 free
    Swordfish or albacore tuna steaks OR mahi mahi portion, 5 oz, $3 ea
    Shamrock Farms dairy, 40% off
    Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, 2/$5
    Ro*tel tomatoes, 99¢
    StarKist chunk white tuna, 99¢
    Chicken of the sea solid white tuna, 4/$5
    Pompeian olive oil, 16 oz bottles, $3.99
    Braeburn or Fuji apples, 77¢/lb
    Navel oranges, 77¢/lb
    Bartlett/Anjou/Bosc pears, 99¢/lb
    Russet baking potatoes, 5 lb bags, 88¢
    NatureSweet cherub tomatoes, 10 oz box, 2/$4
    Organic vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
    Organic broccoli, 2 lbs/$3


Fry's:

    Beef t-bone steaks, $4.99/lb
    Kroger corned-beef brisket, boneless flat cut, $3.49/lb
    85/15 ground beef, $3.19/lb
    Pork loin back ribs OR St Louis-style ribs, $1.99/lb
    Pork “shoulder butt or picnic roast”, bone in, whole in bag, $1.49/lb
    Tyson boneless ksinless chicken breast, 3 lb IQF bag, $5.97 ($1.99/lb)
    Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
    Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
    Kroger blackeyed peas, 15 oz cans, 79¢
    Del Monte veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 3/$2
    Kroger sauerkraut, 14 oz cans, 79¢
    “Mini seedless” watermelons, 2/$3
    Minneola tangelos, AZ grown, 88¢/lb
    Organic Fuji or Gala apples, $1.89/lb
    Mangoes, 88¢ ea
    Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
    Broccoli OR cauliflower, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, AZ grown, 99¢ ea
    Hass avocados, 88¢ ea
    Fresh Selections “mini peeled” carrots, 4/$5


Safeway:

    Beef top round London broil, boneless, $2.59/lb
    Beef NY strip steak, bone in, value pack, $4.99/lb (boneless, $2/lb higher)
    Beef top sirloin steak OR tri tip roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
    Beef chuck 7-bone steak, value pack, $2.99/lb
    93/7 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Pork loin assorted chops, bone in, $2.99/lb
    Pork spareribs, $2.49/lb
    Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
    Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, value pack, $6.99/lb
    Lucerne OR Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99
    Challenge cream cheese, 8 oz brick or tub, 2/$3
    Classico pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, $2.49
    Healthy Choice “Cafe Steamers”, 4/$10
    Gala apples, 99¢/lb
    Fuji apples, $1.49/lb
    Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
    Red cherries, $6.99/lb
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.99/lb
    Clementines, 5 lb box, $6.99/lb
    Brussels sprouts, $2.99/lb
    Broccoli OR cauliflower, $1.49/lb


Sprouts:

    Beef rump roast, boneless, “tied rotisserie style”, $2.99/lb
    Beef NY steak, boneless, $7.99/lb
    85/15 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Pork spare ribs, $1.69/lb
    Pork baby back ribs, $2.99/lb
    Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $2.99/lb
    Coho salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
    Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
    Blackberries, 5 oz boxes, 88¢
    Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
    Red seedless grapes, $1.98/lb
    Organic Valencia oranges, 4 lb bags, 2/$5
    Comice pears, 98¢/lb
    Jazz or Braeburn apples, 98¢/lb
    Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.98/lb
    Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
    Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/grey, 88¢/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
    Bell peppers, red/yellow/orange, 88¢ ea
    Green bell peppers, 48¢ ea
    Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 88¢/lb

Wren's bargain guide, week beginning December 18th:

So sorry about the hiatus – thanks for your patience.

Fooducate has a very pleasant collection of good news from the past year about food:  access to farmers' markets is UP, childhood obesity is DOWN, and no more sodas in Happy Meals.  And a very good article by a man who lost 155 pounds and has kept it off for twenty years.  Yoni Freedhoff touches on the fraught question of whether 3500 calories “really” equate to one pound of weight;  he points out that “people are not walking math formulas”;  that different foods will have different effects, that some people's “caloric efficiency” – their apparent ability to extract calories from food – is higher than others (that's nice to know, I'm just more efficient than other people on this if nothing else), and finally lands on the point that – emphasis mine – “If weight's your concern, more important than anything else is finding a life that you enjoy that contains fewer calories than before.”

While you're finding a life you enjoy, enjoy your bananas while you've got them:  per Nature by way of Grist, a fungus is spreading in banana-growing regions that may destroy the Cavendish, the banana cultivar you see in supermarkets.  (This has happened before:  the Cavendish is widely grown because it replaced the similar-looking but some say better-tasting Gros Michel which itself was nearly eradicated by a fungus.)  MSN News offers some possible alternatives.  And Marion Nestle at Food Politics informs us that the American Meat Institute has sent out an “advisory” to news media on good and bad (read:  flattering and unflattering) words.  Good words:  “lean finely textured beef”, “finely textured beef”, “beef”, “product”.  Bad words:  “filler”, “binder”, “extender”, “additive”, “pink slime”.  And Summer Tomato offers a set of tips on reasonably healthy eating while traveling.

Recipes!  Chow.com has twenty Christmas-cookie recipes, twenty-seven Christmas roast recipes, panettone (a holiday bread which autocorrect wants to render as “Benneton”), and a set of make-ahead breakfast casseroles that may be handy if you're dealing with house guests this week or next.  At Simply Recipes there's a curried chicken salad in endive boats, a lovely salad of Romanesco which is itself inherently lovely, and good basic hamburger-macaroni hotdish for after an exhausting day.  And Snack Girl has healthier holiday snacks (including her famous strawberry Santa hats) and what she describes as a “slightly lighter” eggnog.

It looks as though we Wednesday Warriors will be missing at last one meeting, perhaps two, but if the grocery flyers are available I'll be posting to the blog.  Merry Christmas, and I'll see you all in the New Year!


Albertson's:

    Beef rib roast, bone in, whole in bag, $4.97/lb (limit 1)
    Beef New York roast, bone in, whole but “trimmed & tied”, $3.99/lb
    Beef rib roast, bone in, whole but “trimmed & tied”, $5.97/lb (“custom cut”, $1/lb higher)
    Beef rib roast, boneless, “trimmed & tied”, $7.97/lb
    Beef New York “holiday roast”, bone in, “custom cut”, $4.99/lb
    93/7 ground beef, $2.97/lb
    Hormel Cure 81 spiral cut ham, $1.37/lb (limit 1)
    Hormel Cure 81 half ham, boneless, unsliced, $2.99/lb
    Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.37/lb (butt portion, 20¢/lb higher)
    Kentucky Farms spiral cut ham, boneless, $3.99/lb
    Pork loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $2.49/lb
    Jennie-O fresh turkeys, 12-20 lb, $1.69/lb
    Butterball fresh turkeys, 12-20 lb, $1.99/lb
    Honeysuckle White frozen turkey breast, bone in, $1.57/lb
    Crystal Farms cheeses, 8 oz chunk/shred/shingle pack, 2/$5
    Kraft cheeses, 7-8 oz chunk or shreds, $3.99
    Libby's veggies, 11-15 oz cans, 2/$1
    Pam cooking spray, 5-6 oz cans, 2/$5
    Pictsweet veggies, 14-16 oz frozen bags, 88¢/lb
    Fuji or Granny Smith apples, 99¢/lb
    Organic Gala apples, $1.99/lb
    Organic bananas, 79¢/lb
    Slicing tomatoes, $1.49/lb
    Organic vine tomatoes, $2.49/lb
    Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
    Yams OR sweet potatoes, 99¢/lb
    Organic cucumbers, 89¢ ea
    Red/yellow/orange bell peppers, 4/$5


Bashas':

    Beef New York roast, boneless, $3.59/lb
    Beef tenderloin, whole in bag, $6.99/lb, “cut & wrapped free”
    Beef standing rib roast, bone in, whole, “trimmed, tied, ready for oven,” $4.99/lb
    “EZ-Carve” beef New York roast, boneless, $4.67/lb
    Beef standing rib roast, bone in, large end, $5.99/lb (small end, $1/lb higher)
    Beef bottom round/eye round/crossrib/sirloin tip roasts, $3.99/lb
    Ground beef sirloin, fat content not listed, $2.69/lb
    John Morrell spiral sliced ham, $1.37/lb
    Hormel Cure 81 spiral sliced ham, $2.49/lb
    Hormel Cure 81 whole or half ham, unsliced, $3.99/lb
    Cook's ham, shank portion, $1.29/lb
    Pork picnic or shoulder roast, $1.99/lb
    Pork loin roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
    Leg of lamb, $7.99/lb
    Jennie-O or Butterball fresh turkeys, $1.79/lb
    Bashas' boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
    Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
    Food Club butter, $2.39
    Philadelphia OR Challenge cream cheese, 8 oz bricks, $1.29
    Tillamook cheeses, 8 oz chunk or shreds, 2/$5
    Libby's veggies, 11-15 oz cans, 5/$3
    Bashas' “Homestyle” bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.49
    Flav-R-Pac veggies, 16 oz bags or 12 oz “Steam of the Crop”, 77¢
    Apples, Fuji/Granny Smith/Red Delicious, 99¢/lb
    Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
    Clementines, 3 lb bag, $2.77
    Whole pineapples, 99¢ ea
    Fresh green beans, 77¢/lb (first 4 lbs)
    Red or orange yams, 77¢/lb
    Butternut OR green acorn squashes, 88¢/lb
    Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb


Fry's:

    Beef NY strip roast, bone in, $3.77/lb (family pack steaks, $1.20/lb higher)
    Beef round/sirloin tip/chuck/shoulder roasts, boneless, $3.99/lb
    Beef rib roast, whole in bag, $5.99/lb (“trimmed & tied”, $1/lb higher)
    Hormel Cure 81 OR Private Selection spiral sliced ham, bone in, $2.99/lb
    Cook's unsliced smoked ham, bone in, shank half, 89¢/lb (butt half, 30¢/lb higher)
    Cook's spiral cut smoked ham, bone in, $1.47/lb
    Private Selection boneless ham, $3.99/lb
    Pork “shoulder butt or picnic roast” (please, Fry's, learn to punctuate), whole in bag, $1.49/lb
    Unbranded (store) frozen turkey breast, bone in, $1.69/lb
    Jennie-O fresh turkey breast, bone in, $2.69/lb
    Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
    Kroger butter, $1.88
    Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle pack, $1.79
    Fry's eggs, AA large, dozens, 3/$5
    Kroger veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 5/$3
    Kroger beef or chicken broth, 14 oz cans, 2/$1
    Dole pineapple, 20 oz cans, 10/$10
    Kroger veggies, 10-12 oz frozen bags, 10/$10
    Apples, Gala/Fuji/Granny Smith/Cameo, 99¢/lb
    Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
    Mandarins, 3 lb bag, $3.99 (5 lb box, $5.99)
    Mangos, 99¢ ea
    Broccoli OR cauliflower, $1.29/lb


Safeway:

    Safeway whole or shank-half ham, $1.59/lb with $25 purchase (rump half 10¢/lb higher)
    Safeway whole or shank-half ham, 89¢/lb with $50 purchase (rump half 10¢/lb higher)
    Safeway shank-half or rump-half ham, FREE with $125 purchase
    Beef ribeye, bone in, whole in bag, $4.99/lb (value pack roast or steaks, $1/lb higher)
    Beef NY strip steak or roast, boneless, value pack, $4.99/lb
    Beef crossrib roast, $2.99/lb
    80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Safeway half ham, bone in, spiral sliced, $1.79/lb
    Hormel Cure 81 half ham, boneless, $3.99/lb (whole ham 50¢/lb lower)
    Safeway Select whole boneless ham, $3.29/lb (half ham, 50¢/lb higher)
    Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
    Whole pork shoulder, bone in, $1.99/lb
    Pork top loin chops, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Safeway Select fresh turkeys, 8-22 lb, $1.69/lb
    Open Nature fresh turkeys, 9-16 lb, $1.79/lb
    Honeysuckle White frozen turkey breast, bone in, $1.99/lb
    Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
    Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz shreds, 2/$4
    Lucerne cream cheese, 8 oz brick, 4/$5
    Sargento cheeses, 6-8 oz shingle pack, 2/$6
    Lucerne butter, $3.49
    Birds Eye “Steamfresh” or “C&W” frozen veg, 10-16 oz bags, buy 2 get 2 free
    Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $4.99
    Whole pineapples, buy 1 get 1 free
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.99/lb
    Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
    Honeycrisp or Envy apples, $2.99/lb
    Red cherries, $6.99/lb (God only knows where they're from)
    Vine or slicing tomatoes, $2.49/lb
    GreenLine fresh green beans, 12 oz bags, buy 1 get 1 free
    Broccoli OR cauliflower, $1.49/lb
    Brussels sprouts, $1.99/lb


Sprouts:

    Beef standing rib roast, “Presidential Cut”, $7.99/lb
    Spiral sliced ham, bone in, $1.99/lb
    Pork crown roast, Frenched, $3.99/lb
    Pork shoulder roast, boneless, $2.49/lb
    Fresh turkeys, $1.99/lb
    Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
    Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
    Alaskan coho salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
    Apples, Cameo/Granny Smith/Jonagold, 98¢/lb
    Organic apples, Pink Lady or Braeburn, $1.29/lb
    Bartlett pears, 98¢/lb
    Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
    Red or black seedless grapes, 2 lbs/$4
    “Cuties” mandarins, 5 lb box, $3.98
    Whole pineapples, 2/$3
    Organic vine tomatoes, $1.68/lb
    Winter squashes, acorn/butternut/spaghetti, 88¢/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, 88¢/bunch
    Jewel or Garnet yams, 88¢/lb
    Organic eggplant, 99¢ ea

Hiatus

Due to circumstances beyond my control (my home was broken into when I was out of town), this blog and the bargain-guide handout will be on hiatus for a week.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

Wren's bargain guide, week beginning December 4th:

Sorry about not showing for tonight's meeting – I'm posting this from a motel in Kingman, on my way to Idaho.

Fooducate has a great set of “5 Tips for Holiday Health”.  The whole article is worth reading, and clickable at the blog, but I'll give you the short version:  1: Don't prepare for a special occasion by not eating all day;  that's preparing yourself to overeat.  2: Do start with water.  3: When you're facing a buffet-style meal, do give the table a good look and choose carefully.  4: The “holiday season” may be six weeks long, but do remember that that's not forty-two days of holidays, so you don't have to indulge on every one of them.  5, very important for us in WW:  Do keep up your healthy routines! 

Slate has an entertainingly skeptical article on “juice cleanses”.  At Summer Tomato, I find “5 Steps to Stop Emotional Eating” and a great piece, “Don't Be Afraid of Thanksgiving”, that can be well applied to many of the holiday meals we're about to face.

Recipes!  Chow.com has a set of DIY holiday gifts, many of them of the drinkable variety (homemade coffee liqueur, homemade amaretto, homemade aquavit … ), a baked halibut puttanesca, a brandy Alexander (possibly the least PointsPlus-friendly drink recipe ever conceived, but oh is it tasty), and a mulled-wine recipe which may come in handy as tonight and tomorrow will be cold enough to freeze the brass off a bald monkey.  And a list of two dozen dishes suitable for the office holiday potluck, including spanakopita, deviled ham, and – inevitably, inescapably – Chow.com's notorious Turducken Of Cheese Balls, otherwise known as The Cheese Ball As Big As Your Head.  (Twelve layers.  Five pounds.)

December.  Would it surprise you to learn that this is National Fruitcake Month and National Eggnog Month?  This first week is also National Cookie Cutter Week, and today, the 4th, was National Cookie Day.  And Saturday is, absolutely bafflingly, National Cotton Candy Day.  Why isn't that in summer? 


December 4th:  National Cookie Day
December 5th:  National Sachertorte Day, National Repeal (of Prohibition) Day
December 6th:  National Gazpacho Day
December 7th:  National Cotton Candy Day
December 8th:  National Brownie Day
December 9th:  National Pastry Day, Apple Pie Day
December 10th:  National Lager Day
December 11th:  National Noodle Kugel Day


Albertson's:

    Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
    Beef t-bone or New York steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
    Beef London broil, boneless, $2.99/lb
    Beef 7-bone chuck roast, bone in, $2.99/lb
    Beef crossrib, eye/bottom round, brisket, sirloin tip roasts, boneless, $2.99/
    85/15 ground beef, $2.99/lb
    Pork loin chops, center cut boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
    Pork loin back ribs, bone in, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
    Hormel pork tenderloin tips, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 3 free
    Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
    Great American tilapia fillets, 1 lb IQF bag, $9.99/lb, buy 1 get 3 free
    Cod, 5 oz portions, $1.99
    Swordfish OR mahi mahi, 5 oz portions, $2.99
    Ahi tuna, 5 oz portions, $3.99
    Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
    Tillamook cheeses, 2 lb “baby loaf” block, $7.99
    Yoplait yogurts, 20/$10
    Deli:    Jennie-O oven roasted turkey breast, $4.99/lb
            Signature Virginia smoked ham, $4.99/lb
            Dietz & Watson ham or turkey, $6.99/lb
            Dietz & Watson medium or hot-pepper Cheddar OR baby Swiss, $6.99/lb
    American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, 10/$10
    Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, 10/$10
    Hunt's tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
    Bertolli olive oil, 25 oz bottles, $6.99
    Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, $1.99
    Gala apples, $1.49/lb
    “Cuties” clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99
    Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
    Grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, $2.49
    Roma tomatoes, $1/lb
    Earthbound Farms organic mini carrots, 1 lb bag, $1.99
    Fresh Express “Iceberg Garden” bag salad, 12 oz, 99¢
    Iceberg, $1 ea
    Summer squashes, zucchini/yellow/grey, $1/lb
    Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, $1.49/lb



Bashas':

    Beef crossrib roast or value pack steaks, buy 1 get 1 free
    Beef sirloin tip roast or value pack steaks, buy 1 get 1 free
    Beef bottom round roast or value pack steaks, buy 1 get 1 free
    Beef top sirloin, value pack, $5.99/lb
    Beef London broil, $3.99/lb
    Ground beef chuck/round/sirloin, value pack, $3.88/lb
    Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.87/lb
    Pork picnic, bone in it looks like, $1.69/lb
    Center cut pork roast, $2.99/lb
    Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.67/lb
    Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
    Food Club cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, 5/$10
    American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, 99¢
    Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, 99¢
    S&W variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 69¢
    Food Club tomatoes or veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
    Progresso soups incl. Light (with the WW logo), 4/$5
    Flav-R-Pac frozen veggies, 12-16 oz bags, 3/$5
    Cuties clementines, 3 lb bags, $2.77
    Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
    Fuji or Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.99/lb
    Vine tomatoes, 99¢/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, AZ grown, 99¢ ea
    Whole pineapples, 2/$5


Fry's:

    Beef chuck or crossrib roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
    New York strip steak, bone in, family pack, $6.99/lb
    85/15 ground beef, $2.99/lb
    Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
    Pork shoulder butt or picnic roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.49/lb
    Tyson chicken, buy 1 get 1 free
    Kroger 99/1 ground turkey breast, 1 lb pkg, $4.99
    Alaskan cod fillets, $5.99/lb
    Fry's milk, gallons, $1.87
    Kroger butter, $1.99
    Fry's eggs, AA large, dozens, 2/$3
    Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
    Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$10
    Whole pineapples, 99¢
    Halos mandarins, 3 lb bag, $4.99
    Honeycrisp apples, $2.49/lb
    Gala, Granny Smith, Red/Golden Delicious apples, 99v
    D'Anjou pears, 99¢/lb
    Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢ ea


Safeway:

    Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Beef tri tip roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
    Beef chuck pot roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
    Beef chuck 7-bone steak, bone in, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Beef New York strip steaks, boneless, value pack, $5.99/lb
    80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Whole pork shoulder, bone in, whole in bag, $1.29/lb
    Safeway Farms ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $3.99
    Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $5/lb
    Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $8.99/lb
    Lucerne OR Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk, $6.99/lb
    Lucerne cheeses, 6-8 oz shingle pack, $2.99
    Land O Lakes butter, $2.99
    Ragu pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, 3/$4
    Safeway Kitchens canned pineapple, 20 oz cans, 4/$5
    American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, 5/$5
    Libby's veg, 14-15 oz cans, 4/$5
    Oroweat variety breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.99
    Smart Ones frozen entrees, 5/$10
    Safeway Kitchens frozen veggies, 24-32 oz baags, 2/$5
    Gorton's “Grilled Fillets”, $3.49, still only 2 PointsPlus per serving!
    Organic Fuji apples, $1.99/lb
    Pears, red/Bosc/Comice, $1.49/lb
    Honeycrisp apples, $2.99/lb
    Envy apples, $2.49/lb
    Kiwifruit, 3/$1
    Vine/hothouse/slicing tomatoes, $2.49/lb
    Red/orange/yellow bell peppers, 2/$3
    Cucumbers, 99¢ ea


Sprouts:

    93/7 ground beef sirloin, $4.99/lb
    Pork tenderloin, boneless, $2.99/lb
    Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, OR ground pork, $1.99/lb
    Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
    Ahi tuna steaks, wild caught, $6.99/lb
    Navel oranges, 48¢/lb
    D'Anjou pears, 98¢/lb
    Apples, Braeburn or Red/Golden Delicious, 98¢/lb
    Eggplant, 98¢ ea
    Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/grey, 98¢/lb
    Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, 88¢/bunch

Called away

I'm sorry -- I've been called away on an emergency and won't be able to make tonight's meeting.  I will do my best to get the information posted, if not tonight then tomorrow.

I'm so sorry for the inconvenience.  Stay well, all.