Bargain guide, week beginning July 21st

The Holiday and Champagne grapes ought to be arriving any week now. AJ’s Fine Foods has black apricots, which are delicious (as well they should be at $3.99/lb). Grilling season is in full force, as anyone knows who has walked from their door to the mailbox and back barefoot, and so anything grillable is prominently featured – as are salad greens, for seasonality and also possibly because when it’s 110° out the last thing anyone wants to do is cook. Rainier cherries are peaking.

Coming up this week are National Junk Food Day, National Ice Cream Day, National Vanilla Ice Cream Day, National Hot Fudge Sundae Day, National Coffee Milkshake Day, National Crème Brûlée Day, National Milk Chocolate Day, National Tequila Day, and National Scotch Day. This fourth week of July is National Salad Week. And of course, this weekend is the Gilroy Garlic Festival.

July 21st: National Ice Cream Day, National Junk Food Day
July 22nd: National Penuche Fudge Day
July 23rd: National Vanilla Ice Cream Day
July 24th: National Tequila Day
July 25th: National Hot Fudge Sundae Day*
July 26th: National Coffee Milkshake Day
July 27th: National Crème Brûlée Day, National Scotch Day
July 28th: National Milk Chocolate Day

* Apropos of National Hot Fudge Sundae Day, I offer Fuzzy Pink Niven's Law: Never waste calories. Potato chips, candy, whipped cream, or hot fudge sundae consumption may involve you, your dietician, your wardrobe, or other factors. But ... don't eat soggy potato chips, or cheap candy, or fake whipped cream, or an inferior hot fudge sundae.



Albertson’s:

Beef tbone or ribeye steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.77/lb
Beef New York steaks, boneless, family pack, $5.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, boneless, family pack, $5.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $4.99/lb
Pork country style ribs, bone in, family pack, 99¢/lb (boneless $1.99/lb)
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.49/lb
Rockfish OR Keta salmon OR Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Milk, gallons, $1.67  Best price
ALL Albertson’s natural cheeses incl. Light, 25% off
Shedd’s Spread Country Crock, 45 oz tub, 2/$6
Deli: Jennie-O oven roasted turkey breast, $4.99/lb
Charlie’s Pride roast beef/corned beef/beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Best Foods mayonnaise incl. Light, $2.99
Starkist solid white OR chunk light tuna, 4/$5
Hormel canned chicken or ham, 5 oz cans, 3/$5
Dreyer’s fruit bars, 6-12 ct, $2.99
Cantaloupes, 10/$10
Raspberries, 12 oz box, 2/$5
Peaches, 99¢/lb
Plums, red or black, $1.49/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Bing cherries, $3.99/lb
Honeydew melon, 49¢/lb
Cut up seedless watermelon, 32 oz bowl, $2.99
Fresh Express bag salad “Iceberg Garden”, 2/$3
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Sweet corn, 2/$1
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Jicama, 2 lbs/$1
Earthbound Farms box salads, 5 oz, $2.99
Cut up cantaloupe, 38 oz bowl, $3.99



Bashas’:

Beef round steak, boneless, value pack, $1.69/lb (regular pack, $2.39/lb)
Ground round (no percentage listed), 5+ lb value pack, $1.69/lb
Beef sirloin tip steak, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef sirloin tip or bottom round roast, $2.99/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, center cut, $2.99/lb
Whole chickens, 49¢/lb
Red rockfish OR Dover sole fillets, $4.99/lb
Bashas’ eggs, AA large, dozen, 69¢
Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz shreds, 2/$5
Libby’s OR Stokely’s canned veggies, 69¢
StarKist solid white tuna, 4/$5
Splenda, 9.7 oz granulated OR 200-ct packets, $5.99
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 99¢
Blackberries/raspberries/blueberries, 6 oz box, 2/$5
Green or red seedless grapes, $1.99/lb
Peaches or nectarines, $1.69/lb
Bananas, 48¢/lb
Dole bag salad “Classic Iceberg”, 12 oz bag, 99¢
Cucumbers, 79¢
Italian green squash, 99¢/lb
Green or red bell peppers, 79¢



Food City:

Beef bottom round roast, boneless, $2.49
Beef short ribs, boneless, $2.49/lb
Pork chops, sirloin cut, bone in, 99¢/lb
Pork shoulder steak, bone in, $1.99/lb
Chicken breast, bone in, 99¢/lb
Food Club chunk light tuna, 69¢
Peaches OR Mexican papaya, 3 lbs/99¢
Mexican grey squash, 3 lbs/99¢
Kiwifruit, 10/$1
Iceberg, 2/$1
Plums, 59¢/lb
Mangos, 3/99¢/lb



Fresh & Easy:

Beef New York steaks, boneless family pack, $4.99/lb
Lean Pockets, $2.29
Fresh & Easy cheeses, 8 oz chunk or shreds, $2.49
Skinny Cow ice-cream sandwiches or cones, 4-8 ct, $3.99
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, $2.19-$2.99
Mangos, 98¢
Iceberg, 98¢
Avocados, 98¢
Beefsteak tomatoes, 98¢
Peaches or nectarines, 2 lb pkg, $1.96
Bing cherries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Asparagus, 1 lb pkg, $1.99
Fresh & Easy bag salads: “European Blend” or “Crunchy Beet”, 2/$4
“Arugula”, $1.99
Cauliflower or broccoli florets, 12 oz steamer bag, $1.99
Cut up cantaloupe or watermelon, 10 oz bowl, $1.99



Fry’s:

Beef New York strip steak, boneless, family pack, $4.99/lb (std. pack $1 higher)
Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, family pack, $4.97
85/15 ground beef, 3 lb chub, $4.98 ($1.66/lb)
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.97/lb
Pork shoulder blade steaks, bone in, $2.39/lb
Chicken leg quarters, 59¢/lb (10 lb bag)
Yoplait yogurts incl. Light, 20/$10
Kroger cheeses, 2 lb chunk or shred, $3.88
Starkist tuna, chunk white, 88¢/lb
Fry’s canned veggies, 79¢
Fry’s pasta, 1 lb box, 10/$10
Barilla pasta sauces, 24 oz jar, 2/$5
Blueberries, dry pint, $1
Bing cherries, $2.99/lb
Green or red seedless grapes, $1.79/lb
Cantaloupes, AZ grown, $1.99 ea
Mangos, $1
Seedless or seeded whole watermelons, AZ grown, $4.99
Dole bag salads, “Just Lettuce”, “Classic Romaine,” “Greener Selection”, $1
Vine or large tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Broccoli or cauliflower, $1.lb
Walla Walla sweet onions, $1.29/lb
Green or white asparagus, $2.99/lb
Zucchinni or yellow squash, $1.29/lb



Rancho Grande:

Beef shoulder steak, family pack, $1.99/lb
Beef sirloin tip steak, $2.39/lb
Assorted pork chops, family pack, $1.59/lb
Boneless chicken (unspecified), $1.39/lb
Tomatillos, 3 lbs/99¢
Mexican squash, 3 lbs/99¢
Papayas, 2 lbs/99¢
Cabbage, 5 lbs/99¢
Chayote squash, 4/99¢
Brown onions, 2 lbs/99¢



Safeway:

Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef eye of round steak, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef crossrib steak (boneless) OR flanken ribs (bone in), $3.99/lb
Beef round tip steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
94/7 ground beef, value pack, $1.97/lb
Pork shoulder roast, bone in, 99¢/lb
Chicken breast, bone in, $1.99/lb
Tilapia or swai fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Milk, gallons, $1.68  Best price
Progresso canned soups, 5/$5
Pam cooking spray, 5-6 oz can, $2.79
Red Lion nectarines, 69¢/lb
Sweet corn, white or yellow, 5/$1
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Zucchini or yellow squash, 99¢/lb
Green or red seedless grapes, 3 lb box, $5 (regular packages, $1.99/lb)
Bing cherries, $2.99/lb
Clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blueberries, dry pint, 2/$6
Fresh Express bag salads, 2/$5



Smart & Final:

80/20 ground beef, $2.49/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, IQF, 4 lb bag, $6.36
First Street cheeses, 2 lb chunk, $4.49
Seedless red grapes, 2 lb box, $1.99



Sprouts:

All organic beef, 40% off
Beef rump roast (non organic), $2.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steak (non organic), $3.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, $1.77/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, $1.77/lb
Sprouts cage free brown eggs, AA large, dozen, $1.99
Tasty Bite frozen entrées, 2/$4
All Van’s frozen waffles, 2/$4
Delallo whole wheat pasta, 16 oz box, 2/$4
Red/Golden Delicious or Granny Smith apples, 88¢/lb  Best price
Mangos, 4/$1 ea
Cantaloupes, 88¢ ea
Green or red seedless grapes, 2 lbs/$3
Apricots, 2 lbs/$3  Best price
All other stone fruits except cherries, 77¢/lb  Best price
Vine tomatoes, 49¢/lb  Best price
Iceberg, 88¢
Cauliflower, 88¢
Red bell peppers, 88¢