Bargain guide, week beginning September 21st

Thanks to one member tonight for mentioning BountifulBaskets!

Chow.com has a nice selection of recipes for homemade energy bars! At Summer Tomato there’s a posting on learning to like foods you don’t like. And from Atlantic magazine there’s a chart showing exactly what the “average American” eats in a year. For a start, the av.Am. consumes 31.4 pounds of cheese, 600 pounds of dairy products not in cheese form, 415 lbs of vegetables (of which 56 lbs is corn), 110 lbs of red meat, 85 lbs (that is not a typo!) of fats and oils, and 24 lbs of “coffee, cocoa, and nuts”. That includes – every year – 29 pounds of French fries, 23 pounds of pizza, 24 pounds of ice-cream, and 0.2 pounds of caffeine.

From Consumerist: Olive Garden and Red Lobster are planning to cut fat and sodium in their meals by 10% over the next five years. They’re also going to make veggies rather than potato the default side dish on kids’ meals.

And the Food and Drug Administration are nagging the Corn Refiners’ Association about the current attempt to rebrand high-fructose corn syrup as “corn sugar”. Turns out there’s already something called “corn sugar”. It’s more commonly called “dextrose”.

At PBS.com’s “Food” blog, you have one week to submit questions about cooking for Rosh Hashanah: Joan Nathan (author of Jewish Cooking in America) will answer the best five.

Tomorrow is National Ice-Cream Cone Day, and the day after is National White Chocolate Day. Sunday is National Crabmeat Newburg Day – you don’t have to eat it, Debi, I’ll eat yours. And one week from today is Drink Beer Day.

September 21st: National Pecan Cookie Day
September 22nd: National Ice-Cream Cone Day, National Hobbit Day (the birthday of both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, so eat two dinners in their honor)
September 23rd: National White Chocolate Day
September 24th: National Cherries Jubilee Day
September 25th: Crabmeat Newburg Day
September 26th: National Pancake Day, Johnny Appleseed Day (John Chapman, byname "Johnny Appleseed", born this date in 1774); sugar rationing ends in Great Britain, 1953
September 27th: National Corned Beef Hash Day, National Chocolate Milk Day; Marvin Lee Day ("Meat Loaf") born, 1947
September 28th: Drink Beer Day, National Strawberry Cream Pie Day; feast of St Stanislaus, patron of brewers



Albertson’s:

Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.88/lb (boneless, $6.88/lb)
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
85/15 ground beef, $2.98/lb
Assorted pork chops, bone in, family pack, $1.98/lb
Center cut pork chops, bone in, $2.98/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.98/lb
Sanderson Farms whole frying chickens, 98¢/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, family pack, 98¢/lb
RedBird ground chicken, $3.48/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.88/lb
Tilapia/flounder/pollock fillets, 2 lb bag IQF, $7.99, buy 1 get 2 free
Albertson’s cheeses, 2 lb shreds, $5.98
Deli: All Dietz & Watson turkey/ham/chicken, $6.88/lb
Jennie-O turkey pastrami OR “hickory smoked” turkey breast, $3.88/lb
USA Gold Virginia ham, $5.88/lb
Stella Provolone or Muenster cheeses, $5.88/lb
Nature’s Own 100% whole grain bread, $1.98
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, 98¢
Albertson’s tomatoes, 28 oz cans, 98¢
PictSweet “Steamables” or seasoned veggies, 10-14 oz bags, $1.58
Whole cantaloupes, 88¢ ea
“Gattie” peaches, $1.88/lb
Organic green or red grapes, $1.88/lb
Apples pears, 88¢ ea
Cut up “fruit medley”, 24 oz bowl, 4.88
Red/orange/yellow bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Vine tomatoes, 14 oz container, $1.88
Fresh Express bag salads, “Premium Romaine” or “Green & Crisp”, $1.88



Bashas’:

Beef chuck roast, bone in, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef top sirloin steaks, $5.99/lb
Pork shoulder roast, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms whole frying chickens, 67¢/lb
Basa fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Swordfish steaks, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Albacore tuna steaks, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Food Club cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/cubes, 3/$5
Bashas’ sour cream incl. Light, 24 oz tub, $1.99
Bashas’ cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tub, 2.39
Gala apples, 88¢/lb
Green seedless grapes, 88¢/lb
Peaches, $1.88/lb
Red seedless grapes, $1.88/lb
Large cantaloupes, $1.88 ea
Bartlett pears, 88¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, OR Italian squash, 88¢/lb
Green bell peppers, 2/88¢/lb



Food City:

Beef crossrib steaks, bone in, value pack, $2.47/lb (boneless roast, $2.69/lb)
Bone in chicken breast, 97¢/lb
Bartlett pears, 2 lbs/98¢
Nectarines, 67¢/lb



Fry’s:

Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.77/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, 2 lb chub, $4.99 ($2.49/lb)
Pork loin chops, boneless, family pack, $3.99/lb
Kroger Value boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.67/lb
Coho salmon fillets, $7.99/lb
Kroger cheeses, 1 lb chunk or shreds, $2.99
All Shamrock Farms dairy products, 40% off
Kroger tomatoes, 28-29 oz cans, 4/$5
Libby’s veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 4/$3
“SweeTango” (Minneiska) apples, $1.88/lb
Gala or Granny Smith apples, $1.29/lb
Peaches/plums/nectarines/pluots, $1.88/lb
Cantaloupes, 2/$3
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.98/lb
Hass avocados, 77¢ ea
Vine tomatoes OR large hothouse tomatoes, $1.98/lb
Cucumbers OR green bell peppers, 59¢ ea
Dole OR Fresh Selections bag salads, 2/$5



Safeway:

Beef London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.29/lb
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork loin chops, “assorted”, bone in, $2.49/lb
Pork loin chops, center cut, bone in, $2.49/lb
Safeway chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, 99¢/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $3.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, color added, $8.99/lb
Green Giant canned veg, 4-pack of 14-15 oz cans, $2.99 (75¢/can)
C&W frozen veggies OR Birds Eye “Steamfresh” veggies, 11-16 oz bags, 2/$6
Gorton’s “Grilled Fillets” (still 2 Points for one, 4 for the package!), 2/$6
Red seedless grapes, 88¢/lb
“Red Lion” nectarines, 99¢/lb
Cantaloupes, 2/$4
Fresh Express bag salads, 99¢
Green or red bell peppers, 99¢ ea
Sweet corn, white only, 2/$1



Smart & Final:

Beef ribeye steaks, boneless, $5.99/lb
First Street chicken thighs or drumsticks, value pack, 97¢/lb
First Street cheeses, 2 lb shred, $5.99/lb
Green seedless grapes, 2 lb box, $1.99
Plums or pluots, 8 ct, $2.99
Roma tomatoes, 2 lbs/$1
Eat Smart broccoli florets, 2 lb bag, $2.99



Sprouts:

Beef t-bone steaks, $5.99/lb
Beef New York steak, boneless, $8.99/lb
“Extra lean” ground beef (fat content not listed), value pack, $3.49/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roasts OR ground pork, $2.99/lb
Chicken tenders, $1.99/lb
Coho salmon fillets, wild caught, $8.99/lb
Grouper fillets, wild caught, $12.99/lb
Yellow peaches or nectarines, 67¢/lb
Red or black plums, 99¢/lb
Bartlett OR Bosc pears, 88¢/lb
Gala apples, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Jumbo cantaloupes, 4/$5
Organic Gala apples, $1.29/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, 2/$3
Whole pineapples, 2/$5
Organic red plums, 99¢/lb
Organic white peaches, $1.99/lb
Organic kiwifruits, 1 lb bag, $2.99
Organic Bartlett pears, $1.69/lb
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 88¢/lb
Green beans, 88¢/lb
Iceberg, 88¢ ea
Celery, 88¢ ea
Green or red bell peppers, 3/$1
Organic Romaine hearts, 3 pk, $2.99