Bargain guide, week of September 2nd

Sorry for the shortness of this week’s sheet: I got no flyers for Rancho Grande, Smart & Final or Sprouts.

Welcome to September. Welcome also to – I swear I could not make all of these up – Food Safety Month, National Rice Month, National Potato Month, National Honey Month, National Papaya Month, National Biscuit Month, National Chicken Month, National Mushroom Month, National Better Breakfast Month, National Ice Cream Sandwich Month, National Organic Harvest Month, National Cholesterol Awareness Month, and National Bourbon Heritage Month. It is also National Apple Month, but that will continue through November – yes, apples get three consecutive months all their own.

Labor Day is this weekend, which means good prices on soft drinks and anything that can be put onto a grill. Stone fruits are still good, apples and pears are coming in: typing this up every week has made me so much more aware of the seasonality of fruits and how it changes, not just month to month but week to week!

Wine Season and Oyster Season both begin this month.

September 2nd: National Blueberry Popsicle Day
September 3rd: National Welsh Rarebit Day (I am a traditionalist and still think of it as "Welsh rabbit")
September 4th: National Macadamia Day, Eat an Extra Dessert Day
September 5th: National Cheese Pizza Day
September 6th: National Coffee Ice Cream Day
September 7th: National Acorn Squash Day (healthy), National Napoleon Day (not so much)
September 8th: National Date Nut Bread Day
September 9th: National Weinerschnitzel day, National Steak au Poivre Day (that recipe is better with red wine instead of beef broth)



Bashas’:

Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, value pack, $1.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $1.38/lb
Beef tenderloin, boneless, whole in bag, $5.99/lb (cut into filet mignons!)
Cook’s ham, bone in, shank portion, 99¢/lb (butt portion $1.19/lb)
Chicken leg quarters, 38¢/lb (10 lb bag)
Alaskan salmon, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Mahi-mahi or swordfish steaks, $6.99/lb
Food Club cheeses, chunks or shreds, 50% off
Sargento “Deli Style” cheeses, $2.88
Daisy sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tub, 2/$3
Store brand cottage cheese incl. Light, 2/$3
Smart Ones frozen entrees, 2.$5
Various margarine spreads, 2/$5
Snyder’s pretzels, 2/$4
Hass avocados, 88¢
Whole seedless watermelons, $1.99/lb
Peaches, $1.49/lb
Cantaloupes or honeydew melons, 49¢/lb
Seedless grapes, black/green/red, $1.79/lb
Bartlett pears, $1.25/lb
Gala apples, $1.25/lb
Strawberries, 2 lb box, $4.99
Sweet yellow onions, 89¢/lb
Sweet corn, 49¢ ea
Large tomatoes, $1.49/lb
Dole bag salad kits, 2/$5



Fresh & Easy:

Atlantic salmon, skin on, family pack, $5.99/lb
Seedless grapes, red or green, 88¢/lb
Sweet corn, 4 pk, 98¢
Whole seedless watermelons, $1.98



Fry’s:

Beef New York strip steak, bone-in, $3.77/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.67/lb
Whole chickens, 88¢/lb
Coho salmon, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Hebrew National hotdogs, incl nearly-fat-free, $1.97
Kroger cottage cheese OR sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tub, 97¢
Dannon Activia or DanActive yogurts, 4 pk, $1.88
Country Crock spread incl. Light, 3/$4
Betty Crocker cake mixes (for soda cake), $1.19/lb
Kraft mayonnaise incl. Light, $2.47
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$10
Banquet Lean Gourmet entrees, 10/$10
Fuze OR Arizona Tea OR Snapple, 10/$10
Cantaloupes, 88¢ ea
Dole bag salads, 97¢
Seedless grapes, red or green, organic, $1.79/lb
Peaches/nectarines/plums/pluots, $1.79/lb
Bartlett pears, 4/$5
Cherry tomatoes, 12 oz bag, $1.99
Roma tomatoes, $1/lb
Asparagus, green or white, $2.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries OR raspberries, 4.4 oz box, 2/$5
Sweet white onions, $1/lb
Broccoli OR cauliflower, $1/lb



Safeway:

Beef ribeye steak, bone in, $3.77/lb
93/7 ground beef, $1.99/lb
Boneless beef chuck steak or roast, $1.99/lb
Chicken breast, bone in, $1.79/lb
Chicken kebabs with veggies, $3.99/lb
Lucerne cheeses incl. Light, chunk or shreds, 2 lb, $5.99
Lucerne yogurt incl. Light, 40¢
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter spray, $2.99
Nature’s Own bread or rolls, $1.99
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 65¢
Vitaminwater, 20 oz, 99¢
Smartwater, 1 liter, 99¢
Arizona tea, 42 oz, 10/$10
Hass avocados, 77¢ ea
Tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Fresh Express bag salads, buy 1 get 1 free
Whole seedless watermelons, $1.99/lb
Green seedless grapes, $1.79/lb
Peaches, $1.79/lb
Nectarines, “Red Lion”, $1.79/lb
Gala apples, $1.29/lb
Iceberg, 89¢ ea
Pineapples, $2.99 ea.