Bargain guide, week beginning April 4th

Sorry this week's flyer is short: half the store flyers never showed up.

Biggest deals and promotions this week: ham, lamb, eggs, and anything kosher-for-Passover. Turkeys are promoted but not heavily discounted, I fear. This is also that rare period when it's possible to find medium and even small eggs in supermarkets if for some reason you want them (I can't think why except for coloring: most recipes that call for eggs require large or better).

This past Sunday, Fooducate published an April Fool's story about how the cola companies were supposedly going to reduce the sugar content of their products by 30%. Well, it turns out Pepsi is actually bringing out a new product, Pepsi Next, which has “60% less sugar”. It still has 4 teaspoons of sugar in every 12-ounce can, and artificial sweeteners.

Fooducate also has a recipe for “mini apple crisp” with a PointsPlus count per serving of 1, or 3 for the entire recipe! Chow.com has a video on making your own marshmallow chicks, if for some inexplicable reason you want to. Oh, and a few recipes for Scotch eggs, which are tasty but extraordinarily Points-unfriendly, more's the pity.

Serious Eats has an article on “favorite cooking hacks”, including hotel paninis (the hotel room doesn't have a panini press, so use the iron!) and using a beer cooler as a sous-vide cooker, as well as a couple of pages on Easter eggs, including natural dyes, making them look like Chinese tea eggs, and making them heart shaped. Heart shaped eggs.

Welcome to April, which is National Food Month. Perhaps someone thinks food doesn't occur the rest the year? It's also National BLT Month and National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month, as well as – yum! – National Garlic Month. This is National Bake Week, and the day after tomorrow being Good Friday is National Hot Cross Buns Day. Friday is also Fresh Tomato Day and the 58th anniversary of the frozen TV dinner. Saturday is the birthday (1860) of Will Keith Kellogg – the cereal Kellogg, not the “Road to Wellville” Kellogg.

April 4th: Cordon Bleu Day
April 5th: National Caramel Day, National Dandelion Day
April 6th: National Caramel Corn Day, Fresh Tomato Day; Teflon patented, 1938; TV Dinners released, 1954 (roast turkey and dressing only)
April 7th: Coffee Cake Day
April 8th: National Empanada Day
April 9th: Chinese Almond Cookie Day
April 10th: National Cinnamon Croissant Day
April 11th: National Cheese Fondue Day


Albertson's:

Beef ribeye or New York roasts, bone in, $4.67/lb
Hormel spiral sliced ham, bone in, $1.47/lb
Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.29/lb (butt portion 10¢ higher)
Albertson's sliced quarter ham, boneless, $3.99/lb
Hormel “Cure 81” boneless ham, $4.99/lb
Cook's ham slices, bone in, $3.49/lb
Pork shoulder roast, bone in, $1.99/lb
Pork roast, boneless, rolled and tied, $3.99/lb
Leg of lamb, $6.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.88/lb
Honeysuckle White frozen turkey, 10-22 lb, $1.29/lb
Honeysuckle White fresh turkey, 12-14 lb, $1.59/lb
Honeysuckle White frozen turkey breast, $1.77/lb
Alaskan halibut fillet portions, wild caught, 5 oz each, $6.99
Barramundi fillet portions, 5 oz each, $2.99
Rockfish OR Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Catfish fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Challenge butter, $1.99
Kraft cheeses, 7-8 oz chunk or shreds, $2.49
Philadelphia cream cheese, 8 oz brick, 3/$5
Deli: All Dietz & Watson meats and cheeses, $7.99/lb
Jennie-O oven roasted turkey breast, $4.99/lb
USA Gold Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Deli Fresh Muenster/pepperjack/Provolone cheeses, $4.99/lb
Deli Fresh corned beef or beef pastrami, $4.99/lb
Sara Lee wide-pan bread, 24 oz loaves, $1.99
Libby's veg, 14-15 ounce cans, 4/$3
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, 4/$10
PictSweet frozen veg, 14-16 oz bags, 77¢
Strawberries, 3 lb box, $2.99
Whole pineapples, 99¢/lb
Gala or Granny Smith apples, $1.49/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Anjou pears, 99¢/lb
Cut up seedless watermelon, 2 lb bowl, $3.99/lb
Cut up pineapple, 20 oz bowl, $3.99
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Earthbound Farms organic box salads, 1 lb, $4.99
Fresh Express bag salads, 4-12 oz, 2/$5
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb


Bashas':

Beef tenderloin, boneless, whole in bag, $6.99/lb through Sunday only
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $4.59/lb through Sunday only
Beef bottom round steak, value pack, $3.99/lb
Ground beef round, value pack, $2.47/lb
Cook's smoked ham shank, bone in, 95¢/lb
Cook's butt portion ham, bone in, $1.29/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, 95¢/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.79/lb
Rainbow trout fillets, $6.99/lb
Philadelphia cream cheese, 8 oz bricks, 3/$5
Food Club butter, $1.99
Daisy sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tub, $1.49
Food Club pasta, 13-16 oz pkg, 99¢
Del Monte veg, 13-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Dole OR Food Club fruit, 13-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Flav-R-Pac frozen veg, 12-16 oz bags, 77¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $1.27
Whole pineapples, 97¢ ea
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Organic mangos, $1.49
Organic Bartlett pears, $1.49/lb
Vine tomatoes, 97¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, $2.99/lb
Bashas' box salads, 5-12 oz, 2/$5
Asparagus, $2.97/lb
Organic green kale, $1.99 ea


Fry's:

Beef New York strip steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.67/lb (roast, $4.97/lb)
Beef sirloin tip roast or steak, boneless, $4.29/lb
Cook's half ham OR spiral-sliced ham, bone in, $1.47/lb
Hormel “Cure 81” spiral sliced ham, bone in, $2.69/lb
Private Selection spiral-sliced half hams, $2.49/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.97/lb
Steelhead fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Kroger butter, $1.99
Private Selection organic butter, $3.99
Simple Truth cage-free eggs, AA large, dozens, brown or white, 2/$5
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
Philadelphia cream cheese, 8 oz blocks, 10/$10
American Beauty pasta, 12-16 oz pkg, 10/$10
Kroger veg, 14-15 oz cans, 67¢
Ro*Tel tomatoes, 94¢
Kroger fruit, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Hunt's pasta sauces, 24-26 oz cans, 10/$10
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, $1.97
Birds Eye veggies, 10-12 oz pkg, 10/$10
Kroger frozen veggies, 9-12 oz bags, 88¢
Gala/Granny Smith/Jazz/Pink Lady, 99¢/lb
Mangos, 99¢ ea
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.49/lb
Mini seedless watermelons, 2/$5
Whole or cored pineapples, $1.98/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 78¢/lb
Asparagus, 98¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, $1.98/lb


Safeway:

Beef ribeye roast, bone in, $4.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $5.99/lb
Beef bottom round roast, $3.89/lb
Safeway smoked half ham, shank end, bone in, 97¢/lb (rump end, $1.17/lb)
Safeway spiral-sliced whole or half ham, bone in, $1.99/lb
Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Open Nature semi-boneless leg of lamb, $7.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Lucerne cheeses, 2 lb chunk or shreds, $5.99
Strawberries, 3 lb box, $3.77/lb
Asparagus, $2.99/lb
Broccoli OR cauliflower, $1.49/lb
Radishes OR green onions, 2 bunches/$1
Green Line fresh green beans, 12 oz bag, buy 1 get 1 free