SMOKED PAPRIKA.

Fooducate this week aim their snark at Pop-Tarts, pointing out that the new Pop-Tarts flavor, “Wildlicious”, is hardly a nutritional bonanza: refined flour, sugars, HFCS, and (as I mention in the comments) prominent illustrations of fruit on the box but less than 4% fruit in the actual item.

Chow.com has a nice selection of recipes for winter produce: a Chinese brisket-and-turnip stew, Savoy cabbage soup, kale-and-mushroom stroganoff, a butternut-squash dish that looks absolutely delicious, and the heartbreaking discovery that while blood oranges (just coming in about now) are PointsPlus-free, a blood orange margarita almost certainly is not. And at Summer Tomato, Darya seems to have fallen entirely into List Mode: this week we have “8 Simple Tips to Avoid Late Night Snacking”, including water, herbal teas, walking, the telephone, and video games (“Though I do not consider the Nintendo Wii a particularly effective form of exercise, one bonus of playing video games is it occupies both of your hands and makes it difficult to eat”).

January 27th, the day after tomorrow, is National Chocolate Cake Day. Always remember, a two-inch square of cake tastes just as cakey as a four-inch square.

January 25th: Burns Night, National Irish Coffee Day; 1945, Grand Rapids becomes the first US city to fluoridate its water
January 26th: National Peanut Brittle Day, National Pistachio Day, National Popcorn Day; feast of St. Timothy, patron saint of stomach ache sufferers
January 27th: National Chocolate Cake Day; 1832, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) born
January 28th: National Blueberry Pancake Day
January 29th: National Corn Chip Day; 1924, Carl R. Taylor of Cleveland patents the first ice-cream-cone rolling machine
January 30th: National Croissant Day
January 31st: National Brandy Alexander Day; 1882, birth of Russian dancer Anna Pavlova; 1990, first McDonald's in Moscow opens
February 1st: National Baked Alaska Day; 1960, the "Greensboro Four" order coffee at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina


Albertson's:

Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.49lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef bottom round OR chuck tender roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, family pack, $1.88/lb
Pork picnic roast, whole in bag, $1.69/lb
Hormel spiral sliced half hams, bone in, $1.27/lb
All Sanderson Farms tray-pack chicken, buy 1 get 1 free (same item)
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Catfish (farm raised) or rockfish (wild caught) fillets, $5.99/lb
Albertson's butter, 2/$5
Albertson's eggs, AA large, dozens, $1
Deli: Rotisserie turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
USA Gold honey or baked ham, $5.99/lb
Joseph Farms Colby/mild Cheddar/cojack/pepperjack/Provolone cheeses, $5.99/lb
Earthgrains wide-pan bread, 24 oz loaves, $2.49
Kellogg's Special K or Fiber Plus cereals, 3/$10: buy 3 and get a gallon of milk free
Barilla pasta sauces, 24 oz jars, 2/$5, buy 2 and get 1 Barilla pasta free
Snyder's pretzels, 10-16 oz bags, 2/$5
Green Giant boil-in-bag veggies OR “Steamers”, 9-12 oz frozen, 2/$4
Green or red seedless grapes, 97¢/lb
Kiwifruit, 1 lb bag, 2/$3
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Cantaloupes, $1.99 ea
Sonya apples, $1.29/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, 2/$3
Eggplant, 77¢ ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Bashas':

Beef crossrib OR bottom round roasts, $3.99/lb
Assorted pork chops, value pack, $1.47/lb
Center cut pork chops, value pack, $2.99/lb
Sanderson Farms split chicken breasts or leg quarters, bone in, 97¢/lb
Steelhead fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Swordfish steaks, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Bashas' milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Bashas' cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $2.39
Barilla pasta sauces, 24 oz jars, 2/$4
Bertolli olive oil, 17 oz bottles, $4.99/lb
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, $2.88
Blueberries, dry pint, $1.88
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Peaches or nectarines, from Chile, $1.99/lb
Green or red seedless grapes, from Chile, $2.99/lb
Red or organic green bell peppers, 99¢ ea
Cucumbers, 79¢ ea
Roma or slicing tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Eggplant, 99¢/lb


Food City:

Beef skirt steak, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast, boneless, $2.69/lb
Pork shoulder steak, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb
Chicken leg quarters, 57¢/lb
Large tomatoes, 3 lbs/99¢
Avocados, 5/99¢
Red onions, 3 lbs/99¢
Green bell peppers, 3/99¢


Fry's:

Beef New York strip steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.67/lb
Private Selection Angus t-bone/boneless strip/boneless ribeye steaks, $8.99/lb
Entire selection of fresh pork, 50% off
Whole frying chickens, 98¢/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, $6.99/lb
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.57/lb
Nature's Own bread, 20 oz standard loaves, $1.99
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 10/$10
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, 5/$10
Red seedless grapes, 88¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Anjou or Bosc pears, 99¢/lb
Dole bag salads, $1
Grape tomatoes, 10 oz boxes, 2/$5
Red or yellow bell peppers, 4/$5
Mini sweet peppers, 2 lb bag, $2.99


Safeway:

Beef crossrib roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, $2.49/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.29/lb
Pork tenderloin, boneless, whole in bag, $4.79/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, value pack, $2.49/lb
Chicken leg quarters, value pack, 75¢/lb (10 lb IQF bag)
Swai fillets, $2.99/lb
Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb “weather permitting”
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Lucerne cheeses, 8 oz chunk OR 12 oz singles, 2/$4
Safeway canned fruit, 15 oz cans, 88¢
Pantry Essentials canned veg, 14-15 oz cans, 89¢
Safeway pasta sauces, 25 oz jars, $1.49
PictSweet frozen veg, 6-7 oz pkg, 10/$10
Red seedless grapes, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb OR 4 lb bag, $2
Kiwifruit, 2/$1
Blackberries OR blueberries, 5-6 oz containers, 2/$5
Organic heirloom tomatoes, desperately odd-looking but tasty, $3.99/lb
Safeway Farms bag salads, 2/$4
Organic cauliflower, $1.29/lb
Hass avocados, 10/$10


Smart & Final:

Beef top round steak OR London broil, boneless, $2.99/lb
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, $1.69/lb
First Street chicken thighs or drumsticks, value pack, 89¢/lb
Jennie-O turkey burgers, 3 lb pkg, $5.99
Sara Lee wide-pan bread, 24 oz loaves, 2/$5
First Street quick or old-fashioned oats, 42 oz round box, $2.49
First Street pasta, 2 lb pkg, $1.79
Navel oranges, 39¢/lb
Red seedless grapes, 2 lb pkg, $2.49
Granny Smith apples, 3 lb bag, $2.49
Roma tomatoes, 2 lbs/$1

Sprouts:

85/15 ground beef, value pack, $3.89/lb
Beef chuck roast or steaks, boneless, $4.49/lb
Pork loin chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $3.99/lb
Chicken breast tenders, $1.97/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $8.99/lb
Green or red seedless grapes, 97¢/lb
Navel oranges, 49¢/lb
White nectarines OR yellow peaches OR black plums, $1.99/lb
Apples: Ambrosia, Fuji, Braeburn, 99¢/lb
Organic Gala apples, 99¢/lb
Whole pineapples, 2/$4
Pears: Bartlett, D'Anjou, Bosc, 88¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Cucumbers OR green bell peppers, 49¢ ea
Red/gold/orange bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Hass avocados, 77¢ ea
Eggplant, 88¢ ea