Fooducate this week comes down hard on the bakery department at Whole Foods Market, where it’s hard to find anything of whole grain. Note: the word “flour” in an ingredients list, without a qualifier, means refined wheat flour: white flour. So does the phrase “wheat flour”. If it doesn’t say specifically “whole wheat”, it’s not whole wheat. (The blogger describes asking a restaurant worker if a particular muffin contained wheat, and being assured it was made only of “sperry blossom flour”. “Sperry Blossoms” is one of Gold Medal’s brands of wheat flour!)
Fooducate also analyzes what’s in low-fat and fat-free “sour cream”. At Chow.com there’s a nice how-to on Salade Niçoise, but it’s elicited some controversy in the Comments section for its inclusion of potatoes which according to some commentors is simply Not Done. Also at Chow.com: how to grill corn on the cob, how to make your own low-fat salad dressing, and a truly unspeakable recipe for a milkshake made of chocolate ice-cream and beer.
Per Grist, Americans spend twice as much of our budgets on processed food as we did thirty years ago. Snack Girl has, incredibly, a lower-calorie and lower-PointsPlus recipe for buffalo chicken wings: a serving is four or five pieces, with a PointsPlus count of SIX! Restaurant wings are 3 PointsPlus per wing!
To match Chow.com’s “how to grill corn on the cob”, Simply Recipes has how to grill artichokes! Smitten Kitchen has broccoli fritters, and asparagus with almonds and a yogurt dressing. And Burger King is introducing, please believe me this was not my idea, a bacon sundae.
This Sunday, the 17th, is National Eat All Your Veggies Day. You can do that, because they’re PointsPlus-free, but I still say that if vegetables had been intended for human consumption we wouldn’t have to douse them in butter or cheese sauce to disguise their essential vegetality. The day after, Monday the 18th, is International Picnic Day: perhaps celebrate it a day early, since Father’s Day would be a great day for a picnic.
June 13th: Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
June 14th: National Strawberry Shortcake Day
June 15th: National Lobster Day, Key West Conch Fritter Day, Potatoe Day (1992, Vice President Dan Quayle incorrectly corrects a student's correct spelling of "potato")
June 16th: National Fudge Day
June 17th: Eat All your Veggies Day, National Apple Strudel Day; Ruth Graves Wakefield, inventor of the chocolate chip cookie, born in 1903
June 18th: National Cherry Tart Day, International Picnic Day
June 19th: National Dry Martini Day
June 20th: National Vanilla Milkshake Day
Albertson’s:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
Beef tenderloin, boneless,whole in bag, $10.99/lb
Beef chuck or crossrib steaks, boneless, family pack, $3.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $3.49/lb
Beef or chicken-breast kebabs with veggies, $7.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Sockeye salmon, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Raw jumbo shrimp (16-20 ct), $7.99.kb
Albertson’s sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 10/$10
Deli: Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Unbranded rotisserie turkey breast, $5.99/lb
USA Gold honey or baked ham, $5.99/lb
Charlie’s Pride Italian beef/corned beef/pastrami, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Muenster/Provolone/baby Swiss cheeses, $5.99/lb
Albertson’s tomatoes or veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Red cherries, $1.47/lb (limit 4 lbs)
Peaches or nectarines, $1.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2.$5
Blackberries/raspberries/blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Cut up watermelon, 2 lb bowl, $3.99
Cut up pineapple, 20 oz bowl, $3.99
Green or red seedless grapes, 2/$1
Honeydew melon, 69¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 14 oz pkg, $1.99
Mini cucumbers, 1 lb bag, $1.99
Sweet corn, 2/$1
Fresh Express bag salads, 2/$5
Earthbound Farms organic box salads, $2.99
Bashas’:
Beef top sirloin steaks OR London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.97/lb
Beef t-bone steaks, $9.99/lb
Beef tenderloin, boneless, whole in bag, $6.99/lb
Ground beef round, fat content not listed, value pack, $2.49/lb
Pork shoulder steak, value pack, $2.49/lb
Center cut pork chops, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, 10 lbs/$10
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $10.99/lb “weather permitting”
Steelhead portion, farm raised, 5 oz, $2.9
Bashas’ eggs, AA large, dozens, 77¢
Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz shreds, 2/$5
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, 2/$4
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 5/$10
Seedless red grapes, 85¢/lb
Red cherries, $1.85/lb
Peaches or nectarines, $2.44/lb
Seedless green grapes, $1.85/lb
Whole seedless watermelons, $4.99 ea
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Food City:
Beef chuck steak, bone in, value pack, $1.98/lb (roast 1¢/lb higher. yes.)
Sirloin cut pork chops, bone in, $1.79/lb
Whole frying chickens, 68¢/lb
Whole tilapia, 99¢/lb
Honeydew melons, 2 lbs/$1
Avocados, 5/99¢
White onions, 5 lbs/$1
Mexican grey squash, 2 lbs/$1
Cucumbers, 4/99¢
Fry’s:
WHOLE boneless ribeye, the entire region of a cow, $4.77/lb
(But they will cut it up for you free.)
Beef ribeye steaks, boneless, family pack, $5.97/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.49/lb (3 lb chub)
Foster Farms chicken breast, bone in, $1.69/lb
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $8.99/lb
Kroger process cheese singles, 12 oz, $1.79
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds or 6 oz shingle pack, $1.79
Oroweat wide-pan bread, 24 oz loaves, $2.79
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, $1.57
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, $1.07
Red cherries, $1.47/lb
Peaches or nectarines, $1.99/lb
Cantaloupes, AZ grown, $1.99
Seedless grapes, green or red, 1.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries/raspberries/blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Mangoes, 3/$1
Roma vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Red or yellow bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Safeway:
Beef New York strip steak, bone in, value pack, $4.99/lb
Beef ribeye steak, bone in, $7.99/lb
Beef crossrib or bottom round steaks, thin cut boneless, $3.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.49/lb
Beef kebabs with veggies, $5.99/lb
Chicken leg quarters, 10 lb IQF bag, $7.49 (75¢/lb)
Sanderson Farms chicken thighs or drumsticks, bone in, $1.69/lb
Jennie-O extra lean ground turkey breast, 20 oz pkg, $5.99
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.57
Lucerne cheeses, 8 oz chunk, $1.99
Del Monte veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 99¢
Chicken of the Sea solid white tuna, 4/$5
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 4/$10
Peaches, 77¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Mini seedless watermelons, $2.99 ea
“Tuscan style” cantaloupe (I have no idea), $2.99 ea
Other melons, $3.49 ea
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.49/lb
Hass avocados, 77¢ ea
Hot house tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Smart & Final:
Beef New York steak, boneless, $6.99/lb
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, $1.69/lb
First Street chicken thighs or drumsticks, value pack, 99¢/lb
Peaches, 2 lb pkg, $1.99
Sprouts:
Beef chuck roast OR London broil, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, boneless, $9.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops/roast/ground pork, boneless, $2.99/lb
All pork or chicken sausage, bulk or links, $2.99/lb
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Red cherries, $1.47/l
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$4
Blueberries, 6 oz box, 2/$4
Mangos, 88¢ ea
Whole seedless watermelons, 4 lbs/$1
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Cameo or Granny Smith apples, 99¢/lb
Peaches or nectarines, white or yellow, $1.49/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Cucumbers, 2/$1
Red bell peppers, 2/$1
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