Bargain guide, week beginning March 2nd

Disclaimer, for the benefit of our newer members: my weekly handout (like this blog version) is a completely unofficial publication of Cactus Wren who does it as a hobby. It is SO VERY VERY MUCH NOT an official Weight Watchers publication.

According to a study published in Food and Nutrition Research, you use more energy in digesting a meal of minimally processed foods than in digesting a nutritionally equivalent meal of highly processed foods.

Welcome to March, National Nutrition Month and National Meat-Out Month. March is also National Frozen Food Month, which means we’ll be seeing very good prices on frozen foods all month long. (National Frozen Food Month is one of the comparatively few such periods that have a practical reason for their existence and their timing: food packers want to clear their freezers out and make room for this year’s pack.)

(March is also National Celery Month, National Flour Month, National Noodle Month, National Peanut Month, National Sauce Month, and National Caffeine Awareness Month.)

Tomorrow, the 3rd, is National Cold Cuts Day – lean cold cuts and light cheese in a FlatOut make a very good light lunch. The 7th is National Crown Roast of Pork Day: I by policy do not prepare anything whose raw ingredients have to be special-ordered from my butcher, but if such a thing pleases you, by all means go for it.

March 2nd: National Banana Creme Pie Day
March 3rd: National Cold Cuts Day, National Mulled Wine Day
March 4th: National Pound Cake Day
March 5th: National Absinthe Day, National Cheese Doodles Day (not a combination that would have spontaneously occurred to me)
March 6th: National Frozen Food Day, National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day
March 7th: National Crown Roast of Pork Day, National Cereal Day
March 8th: National Peanut Cluster Day
March 9th: National Crabmeat Day

Tomorrow is the 132nd anniversary of the birth of Elmer McCollum, discoverer of Vitamins A, B, and D. And the 6th of March, this Sunday, is (my sources cannot agree) either the 99th or 102nd anniversary of the introduction of the Oreo cookie!

My apologies for the paucity of listings this week: half my flyers did not arrive. I will add the balance to the blog as they become available.



Albertson’s:

Beef petite sirloin steaks, $7.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef chuck/crossrib/sirloin tip roasts, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef tri tip steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $4.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.69/lb (5 lbs or more)
Whole frying chickens, 88¢/lb
Pork chops, “assorted”, family pack, $2.49/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, family pack, 88¢/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.69/lb
Honeysuckle White 93/7 ground turkey, 1.2 lb pkg, 2/$7
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Albertson’s milk, half gallons only, 78¢
Albertson’s eggs, AA arge, dozens, 88¢
Albertson’s cheeses, 16 oz chunk, 2/$7
Yoplait yogurts incl. Light, 10/$4
Deli: Dietz & Watson turkey OR cheeses, $6.99
Kretschmar Virginia ham, $5.99/lb
Joseph Farms cheeses, $5.99/lb
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 5/$10
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 4/$10
Smart Ones “Classic Favorites” frozen entrées, 2/$5
Dole frozen fruit, 12-16 oz bag, 2/$6
PictSweet Deluxe or “Steamables” frozen veggies, 10-14 oz pkg, 3/$5
Gluten Free Café soups, 15 oz cans, 2/$5
Classico pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, 2/$5
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 10/$10
Wasa crispbread, 6.7-9 oz boxes, 2/$5
Green or red seedless grapes, 77¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
“Refrigerator size” watermelons, $2.99 ea
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Cantaloupes, $1.99 ea
Jazz apples, $1.49
Cut up cantaloupe, 38 oz bowl, $3.99
Fresh Express bag salads, 2/$3
Earthbound Farms box salads, $2.99
Vine tomatoes, $2.69
Rousseau Farms mini carrots, 1 lb bag, 2/$3



Bashas’:

Beef round steak, boneless, value pack, $1.77/lb (regular pack $2.77/lb)
Beef sirloin tip steak (value pack) or roast, $3.99/lb
Beef boneless crossrib roast, $3.99/lb
Beef stew meat, boneless, $3.99/lb
Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.77/lb
Pork roast, center cut, boneless, $2.27/lb
Pork shoulder steak, bone in, value pack, $2.49/lb
Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.67/lb  Best price!
Food Club butter, $2.49
Tillamook cheeses, 8 oz chunk/shreds/slices, 2/$5
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$4
Shamrock Farms sour cream incl Light, 16 oz tub, $1.69
Shamrock Farms cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tub, $2.49
Green or red seedless grapes, 77¢/lb
Gala/Red Delicious/Fuji/Granny Smith apples, snack size, 87¢/lb
Navel oranges, 47¢/lb
Mangos, 47¢/lb
Yellow onions, 47¢/lb
Peaches or nectarines, from Chile, $1.87/lb
Black or red plums, $1.87
Whole cantaloupe, 87¢/lb
Asparagus, $2.87/lb
Broccoli, AZ grown, 87¢/lb



Fry’s:

Beef New York strip steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.97/lb (regular pack $5.99)
Beef chuck steak, boneless, family pack, $3.79/lb
Pork tenderloin, whole in bag, $3.99/lb
Foster Farms chicken, buy 1 get 1 free (same item)
Private Selection turkey breast, bone in, frozen, $1.99/lb
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds OR 6 oz “Deli Thin” slices, 50% off
Kroger sour cream OR cottage cheese, incl. Light, 24 oz tub, $1.99
Del Monte canned veggies, 11-15 oz cans, 79¢
Buitoni pasta OR sauce, 9-15 oz pkg, 2/$6
Green Giant “Steamers” frozen veggies, 11-12 oz pkg, $1.37
Pictsweet frozen veggies, 16 oz bag, 2/$3
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 5/$10
Blueberries, from Chile, 6 oz box, 99¢
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Blackberries, 4.4 oz box, $2.99
Mandarins, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Peaches or nectarines, from Chile, $1.99/lb
Pears, D’Anjou/red/Bosc, $1.29/lb
Grapefruit, 2/$1
Green or red seedless grapes, $1.99/lb
Lemons, 2/88¢ or post in the blog’s Comments section and I’ll bring you some



Safeway:

Safeway boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.77/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.49/lb
Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
… Okay, now they’re just messing with us.

Beef ribeye steak, bone in, value pack, $5.47/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef London broil, $4.49/lb
Beef 7-bone chuck pot roast, $3.49/lb
Pork loin chops, “assorted”, value pack, $1.99/lb
Pork top loin chops, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Jennie-O extra lean ground turkey breast, 20 oz pkg, $5.99
Open Nature chicken sausage, 12 oz pkg, $3.99
Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Dairy Glen milk, gallons, $1.69  Best price!
Lucerne cheeses, 1 lb chunk or shreds, $2.99
Safeway canned veggies, 11-15 oz cans, 2/$1
Wheat Thins, $1.88
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 5/$10
Birds Eye “Steamfresh” frozen veggies, 11-15 oz bag, 2/$5
“Mystic Treat” red graes, 2 lb box, $4.99 – I have not tried these
Cantaloupes, 88¢ ea
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $1.88
Navel oranges, 39¢/lb  Best price!
Gala apples, $1.29/lb
Asparagus, $2.99/lb
Eating Right “baby peeled” carrots, 2 lb bag, 2/$5