Fooducate touches ruthlessly on Kellogg's new “Liquid Breakfast to Go” (which contains water, sugar, and other than those absolutely not one single ingredient that can be found in my kitchen or yours unless you stopped off at Bashas' and picked up a six-pack of whey protein concentrate or acesulfame potassium), the possibly distressing quantities of salt found in processed foods, and 7-Up's extraordinarily short-lived attempt to promote a soft drink as a health supplement. Chow.com provide what they allege to be an “easy Thanksgiving menu” (of the fourteen recipes, seven include the word “basic” in the title), a stack of Things To Do With Sweet Potatoes only two of which involve marshmallows (at some point the law requiring that every sweet potato dish be strewn with slightly char red marshmallows was apparently repealed), a link to their “Thanksgiving Dinner Coach App”, and a handy-dandy flow chart to help you figure out what to bring if you're a guest at someone else's table.
Serious Eats asked seventeen different chefs the best way to cook a Thanksgiving turkey. Answers range from “Baste it every fifteen minutes” to “Brine it for twelve hours in a mixture of salt, brown sugar, and whiskey” to “Deep fry”. (Before you try the latter, do a Youtube search for “turkey fire”. Then, if you're still considering it, ponder what you're going to do with several gallons of used cooking oil. Also bear in mind that fried turkey breast has three times the PointsPlus count of roasted.)
Summer Tomato has a nicely timed piece on eating healthy during holiday travel. Yoni Freedhoff at Weighty Matters exhorts us to make the best choices we can, even if they're the best worst choices: “Sometimes your best may be a basket of chicken wings but perhaps a smaller basket than normal and one less beer, or a fancy coffee with whip just ordered less frequently”. Simply Recipes mashes rutabagas with sour cream and dill. (Three tablespoons of full-fat sour cream in a recipe that serves four to six, not too bad.) Mark's Daily Apple shows us how to turn the turkey carcass into turkey stock that will keep for months in the freezer.
Holidays! The 17th is both National Homemade Bread Day and National Baklava Day. The 19th is my official holiday, National Carbonated Beverages With Caffeine Day. And tomorrow, in anticipation of the inexorable advance of the annual cooking marathon, is National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day. And as we all know, the 22nd is Alice's Restaurant Massacree Day!
November 14th: National Guacamole Day, National Pickle Day
November 15th: National Raisin Bran Day
November 16th: National Fast Food Day
November 17th: National Baklava Day, National Homemade Bread Day
November 18th: National Vichyssoise Day
November 19th: National Carbonated Beverages With Caffeine Day
November 20th: National Peanut Butter Fudge Day, Beaujolais Nouveau Day
November 21st: Gingerbread Day, National Stuffing Day
November 22nd: National Cashew Day, National Cranberry Relish Day
November 23rd: National Espresso Day, Eat A Cranberry Day
November 24th: National Sardines Day
November 25th: National Parfait Day
November 26th: National Cake Day
November 27th: National Bavarian Cream Pie Day
November 28th: National French Toast Day
Albertson's:
Beef standing rib roast, $6.99/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef crossrib or bottom round roast, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef eye of round OR sirloin tip roast, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
85/15 ground beef, 3 lbs or more, $2.47/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Hormel spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.57/lb
Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.47/lb (butt portion $1.67/lb)
Honeysuckle White frozen turkeys, 10-20 lb, 79¢/lb
Honeysuckle White frozen turkey breast, bone in, $1.57/lb
Jennie-O fresh turkeys, 12-22 lb, $1.69/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, 12-22 lb, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Challenge butter, 2/$5
Albertson's eggs, AA large, 18 ct, 2/$3
Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz shreds, $2.99
Deli: Signature turkey breast/roast beef/ “double honey” ham, $6.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Provolone/Muenster/baby Swiss, $5.99/lb
All Dietz & Watson sliced-to-order ham, chicken/turkey breast, cheese, $7.99/lb
Essential Everyday cream cheese, 8 oz block, 10/$10
Libby's pumpkin, 15 oz cans, 2/$3
Del Monte veggies, 13-15 oz cans, 88¢
Bruce's yams OR Princella sweet potatoes, 29 oz cans, 2/$3
Nature's Eartly Choice “Easy Quinoa”, 4 oz pkg, 2/$6
Green Giant “Valley Fresh Steamers” frozen veg, 12 oz pkg, 2/$3
PictSweet frozen veg, 14-16 oz bags, 88¢
Clementine tangerines, 3 lb bag, $3.99
Whole pineapples, $3.99 ea
Navel oranges, $1.29/lb
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 14 oz pkg, 2/$5
Red or golden yams, 79¢/lb
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Green Giant cut up veggies, 12 oz bags, 2/$4
Fresh Express bag salads, 2/$5
White or yellow onions, 79¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef tenderloin, whole in bag, $6.99/lb, cut & wrapped free
Beef sirloin tip/crossrib/bottom round/top round/petite sirloin/eye of round/help me roasts, $3.99/lb
Beef standing rib roast, $6.99/lb
Beef top sirloin roast or steak, $7.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $1.99/lb
Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.37/lb (butt portion, $1.57/lb)
Cook's spiral cut cut half ham, $1.99/lb
Hormel “Cure 81” boneless whole/half/quarter hams, $4.99/lb
Norbest frozen turkeys, 10-24 lb tom or hen, 79¢/lb
Foster Farms or Jennie-O fresh turkeys, tom or hen,$1.79/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, tom or hen, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Bashas' milk, half gallons only, 99¢
Food Club butter, 2/$5
Nature's Own “WhiteWheat” bread, 20 oz long loaves, $1.49
Nature's Own 100% Whole Wheat bread, 20 oz long loaves, $1.99
Libby's veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 5/$3
Libby's pumpkin, 29-30 oz cans, $2.99
Princella yams, 29 oz cans, 2/$3
Pam cooking or baking spray, 5-6 oz cans, $3.49
Flav-R-Pac frozen veg, 12-16 oz pkg, 77¢
Golden Delicious OR Granny Smith apples, 99¢/lb
Bartlett or Anjou pears, 99¢/lb
Whole pineapples, 2/$5
Tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Fresh green beans, 88¢/lb
Red or Beauregard yams, 50¢/lb
Winter squashes, acorn/butternut/spaghetti, 99¢/lb
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Fry's:
Beef “Holiday Strip” roast (what the hell is that?), bone in, $4.77/lb
Beef whole standing ribeye roast, bone in, $6.99/lb
Beef standing ribeye roast, small end, $7.99/lb
Beef bottom round roast, $3.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/top round/eye round roasts, $3.99/lb
Cook's spiral sliced ham, bone in, $1.47/lb
Private Selection spiral sliced ham, bone in, $2.49/lb
Cook's half ham, bone in, full cooked, $1.49/lb
Kroger whole boneless ham, $2.79/lb
Private Selection quarter sliced ham, $3.99/lb
Hormel “Cure 81” spiral sliced ham, bone in, smoked, $2.69/lb
Foster Farms or Jennie-O fresh turkeys, 10-24 lb, $1.69/lb
Butterball fresh turkeys, 10-20 lb, $1.99/lb
Kroger frozen turkeys, 10-20 lb, 79¢/lb
Kroger (?) frozen turkey breast, 7-9 lb, bone in, $1.69/lb
Butterball frozen turkeys, 10-20 lb, $1.49/lb
Private Selection frozen turkeys, 10-20 lb, 99¢/lb
Frozen ducks, $2.99/lb
Kroger butter, 2/$5
Philadelphia cream cheese, 8 oz bar, 4/$5
Fry's eggs, AA large, 18 ct, $1.99
Kroger fruit, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Del Monte veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 4/$3
General Mills breakfast cereals, 4/$10
Nature Valley or Fiber One bars, 5-12 ct, 4/$10
Kroger flour, 5 lb bag, $1.99
Libby's pumpkin, 15 oz cans, $1.99
Kroger frozen veggies, 9-12 oz bags, 88¢/lb
Navel oranges, 77¢/lb
Apples, Fuji/Cameo/Rome/Granny Smith, 99¢/lb
Clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Red or golden yams, 79¢/lb
Safeway:
They do this just to make my project more difficult:
Buy $25 in groceries, get a Safeway turkey for 79¢/lb.
Buy $100 in groceries, get an 8-16 lb Safeway turkey for free.
Buy $150 in groceries, get an 8-24 lb Safeway turkey for free.
Beef ribeye roast, bone in, whole freaking thing in bag, $4.99/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, $2.29/lb
80/20 ground beef, $2.29/lb
Beef chuck pot roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
Safeway spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $2.29/lb
Butterball frozen turkeys, 99¢/lb
Safeway Select fresh turkeys, 8-24 lb, $1.49/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.77/lb
Lucerne or Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz shreds, $6.99/lb
Lucerne “Natural Slices” cheeses, 8 oz shingle pack, $2.99
Lucerne ricotta cheese, 32 oz tub, $3.99
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, 2/$5
American Beauty pasta, 16 oz pkg, 5/$5
Safeway Kitchens frozen veg, 24-32 oz bags, 2/$5
Lean Cuisine “Simple Favorites”, 5/$10
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Green “Pristine” or red “Scarlotta” seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Del Monte whole pineapples, $2.99
Red or orange yams, 39¢/lb
Sprouts:
Beef standing rib roast, “presidential cut” whatever that may mean, $9.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
“Super-lean” ground pork, $1.99/lb
Sprouts fresh free-range turkeys, $1.49/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Haddock fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Apples: Fuji, Granny Smith, Jonagold, 99¢/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, 2 lbs/$5
Winter squashes, acorn/butternut/spaghetti, 49¢/lb
Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/Mexican, 88¢/lb
Red/gold/orange bell peppers, 99¢ ea
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