Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Bargain guide, week beginning September 5th:

Grilling Season is over but the grilling goes on, as you know perfectly well if you’ve tried to walk from your house to your mailbox in bare feet.  Chow.com has a set of grilled-seafood recipes, as well as a tall stack of apple recipes, just in time for the new crop just moving into stores.  (The first of these is for a stunningly unseasonal spiked wassail, but it gets better.)

A study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics finds that the key to long-term weight loss may lie in fresh fruits and veggies:

“People are so motivated when they start a weight-loss program. You can say, ‘I’m never going to eat another piece of pie,’ and you see the pounds coming off,” Bethany Barone Gibbs, the lead investigator, said in a statement. “Eating fruits and vegetables may not make as big a difference in your caloric intake. But that small change can build up and give you a better long-term result, because it’s not as hard to do as giving up French fries forever.”

From Serious Eats, a new take on an old idea:  instead of pasta with a long-simmered tomato sauce, they serve it up with a fresh-tomato vinaigrette.  From Simply Recipes a quinoa salad with black beans, corn, and tomatoes.

The upcoming second week of September will be National Vegetarian Awareness Week, or if you prefer, National Biscuits-and-Gravy Week.  (Actually it’s both.)  The day after tomorrow is National Acorn Squash Day:  cut two in half, scoop out the seeds, spread with just a teaspoon of butter to each piece, sprinkle with a spoonful of brown sugar, roast at 400°F for an hour.  Four servings, each just a couple of PointsPlus which you have probably already worked off cutting those damn things in half.

September 5th:  National Cheese Pizza Day
September 6th:  National Coffee Ice-Cream Day
September 7th:  National Acorn Squash Day, National Napoleon Day (the pastry), Salami Day, New England Apple Day;  yesterday was National Fight Procrastination Day
September 8th:  National Date Nut Bread Day
September 9th:  Weinerschnitzel Day, National Steak au Poivre Day;  "Colonel" Harland Sanders born, 1890
September 10th:  TV Dinner Day (why this date I do not know as they were introduced on April 6th, 1954)
September 11th:  National Hot Cross Buns Day  ("I have hot cross buns!"  "Wear a long coat and they won't show!")
September 12th:  National Chocolate Milkshake Day


Albertson's:

    Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
    Beef crossrib/bottom round steaks or roast, family pack, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
    Beef ribeye steak, bone in, family pack, $6.99/lb
    Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, $4.99/lb
    85/15 ground beef, $2.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
    Pork top loin chop, center cut, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
    Pork loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.88/lb
    Pork sirloin chops, boneless, family pack, $4.99/lb
    Chicken leg quarters, jumbo pack, OR whole chickens, 77¢/lb
    Sanderson Farms cut up frying chickens, bone in, $1.49/lb
    Jennie-O 93/7 ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $3.99
    Alaska coho salmon fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
    Rockfish or Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
    Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.67
    Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz shreds, 2/$5
    Deli:    Jennie-O oven roasted turkey breast, $2.99/lb
        Dietz & Watson chicken breast varieties, $5.99/lb
        Charlie's Pride regular or Italian roast beef, $6.99/lb
        USA Gold Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
        Stella Muenster or Provolone cheeses, $4.99/lb
        Stella Swiss cheese, $6.99/lb
    Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jar, $1.49
    Lean Cuisine frozen entres, 5/$10
    Healthy Choice frozen entres, 4/$10
    Raspberries, 12 oz box, $1.88
    Peaches OR nectarines, $1.99/lb
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.99/lb
    "King Kong" pluots, $1.99/lb
    Large cantaloupes, 2/$4
    Gala apples, $1.69/lb
    Large slicing tomatoes 99¢/lb
    Fresh Express bag salads, "Premium Romaine" or "Green & Crisp", 2/$3


Bashas':

    Beef petite sirloin OR London broil, value pack, $2.97/lb
    Ground beef sirloin, fat content not listed, $2.77/lb
    Beef top round steak or roast, $3.49/lb
    Pork country style ribs, boneless, $2.89/lb
    Pork roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
    Pork chops, thin cut boneless, vlaue pack, $3.49/lb
    Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, 99¢/lb
    Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
    True cod fillets, $6.99/lb "weather permitting"
    Tillamook cheeses, 12-16 oz chunks, $4.99
    Libby's veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
    PictSweet frozen veg, 28 oz bags, $1.99
    Gala apples, 88¢/lb
    Strawberries, 1 lb box, 88
    Raspberries, 6 oz box, 88¢
    Red seedless grapes, $1.75/lb
    Peaches or nectarines, $1.98/lob
    Whole cantaloupes, 49¢/lb
    Whole seedless watermelons, 39¢/lb
    Vine or large tomatoes, $1.98/lb
    Avocados, 2/$1
    Dole bag salads OR Bashas' box salads, 2/$5

Fry's:

    Case sale:
        Kroger tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 24 pk, $12
        Libby's veg, 14 oz cans, 12 pk, $6
        Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, 12 pk, $11

    Beef roasts: sirloin tip, top/bottom/eye round, chuck, shoulder, buy 1 get 1 free
    Beef New York strip steaks, boneless OR bone in, 50% off
    Beef ribeye steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb
    80/20 ground beef, $2.99/lb (3 lb chub)
    Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, family pack, $6.99/lb
    Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
    Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.88/lb
    Fry's eggs, AA large, 30 ct, $3
    Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
    Gala apples, 77¢/lb
    Navel oranges, 77¢/lb
    Peaches/nectarines/plums/pluots, $1.88/lb
    Bartlett pears, 99¢/lb
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.99/lb
    Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb


Safeway:

    Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
    Beef bottom round roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
    Beef New York strip or t-bone steak, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
    Beef tri tip roast, boneless, $5.99/lb
    Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
    Pork shoulder country style ribs, bone in, value pack, $2.49/lb
    Sanderson Farms cut up chickens, bone in, $1.69/lb
    Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
    Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
    Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.77
    Safeway canned veg, 14-15 oz cans, 79¢
    Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 89¢
    Lean Cuisine "Simple Favorites", 5/$10
    Pears:  Bartlett, red, Bosc, 99¢/lb
    Red Lion nectarines, $1.99/lb
    Apples:  Gala, Granny Smith, $1.29/lb
    Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
    Red or orange yams, 79¢/lb


Sprouts:

    "Buffalo Stampede", shudderingly expensive (prices ranging from $6.99/lb for buffaloburger to $24.99/lb for filet mignon) but if that's what you're into they've got it this week
    85/15 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
    Beef sirloin tip steak or roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
    Pork loin roast, center cut, boneless, $2.99/lb
    Pork loin chops, boneless, $3.99/lb
    Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $2.99/lb
    Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
    Peaches or nectarines, 69¢/lb
    Navel oranges OR minneolas, 99¢/lb
    Seedless grapes, green/red/black, 2 lbs/$3
    Bartlett or Bosc pears, 99¢/lb
    Whole seedless watermelons, 3 lbs/$1
    Organic Gala apples, 3 lb bag, $3.99/lb
    Organic cantaloupes, 69¢/lb
    Vine tomatoes, 88¢/lb
    Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$3
    Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
    Earthbound Farms box salads, buy 1 get 1 free

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