Welcome to all our new members! Occasional Disclaimer: I'm Wren and every week I go through the grocery flyers and type up a list of the good healthy deals for the week, adding an assortment of recipes, food-related links, and opinionated editorial comment. This is not “everything” in the flyers, only everything that strikes me as low-PointsPlus, low-calorie, low-processed, or in some other way Good For You. Nor, and I must stress this, is this in any way shape form or fashion an official Weight Watchers Thing. So VERY not.
Chow.com has easy butternut squash soup (roast it first in the oven), nineteen “healthy winter salads” and nine chili recipes. These last may be handy as we're likely to get a hard freeze this weekend. Also their ever-popular (or at least ever-repeated) How To Make Your Own Veggie Chips, including taro chips which are speckled, carrot chips, kale chips, and sweet potato chips which are quite pretty with crinkled edges. And a very handy guide to exactly how much produce makes a cup! Of broccoli, sixteen florets. Of green beans, twenty or so. Eight strawberries. Thirty-two grapes. And only four spears of asparagus! (Although it may take many more at this time of year when most of the asparagus looks as though it has chive ancestry.)
Yoni Freedhoff at Weighty Matters is quite thoroughly annoyed at The Biggest Loser for targeting children in the new season. So are a few TBL alumni.
Darya Pino touches on what she calls “Home Court Habits” for effective weight control, as well as how to work out when you don't like to exercise. Snack Girl has a warm lentil salad (for those times when you're too cold to be interested in real salads – or as she puts it, “All I can think about is cheese, potatoes, and beer”), homemade chicken noodle soup, and a very positive review of WW360°. And courtesy of one of her readers, a creamy-tasting roasted-veggie-soup recipe with no cream! Sprouted Kitchen has a glazed-beet-and-carrot salad, Smitten Kitchen has an “ethereally smooth” hummus which involves hand-skinned chickpeas, and Simply Recipes has a chestnut-fennel-apple soup and a perfectly timed recipe for black bean turkey chili.
Seems everyone's into chili this week. Appropriately, one week from today is -- correction from the print version -- International Hot And Spicy Foods Day. The day after tomorrow – when the temperature is expected to drop twenty degrees from today's high – is National Hot Toddy Day. All sorts of warmish things are being celebrated this week, including curried chicken (on the 12th) and hot pastrami sandwiches (the 14th). The 11th is Milk Day and you can even warm that if it so please you.
January 9th: National Apricot Day (I genuinely cannot imagine why it is in January)
January 10th: National Bittersweet Chocolate Day
January 11th: Milk Day, National Hot Toddy Day
January 12th: Curried Chicken Day, National Marzipan Day
January 13th: National Peach Melba Day
January 14th: National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day
January 15th: National Strawberry Ice-Cream Day, National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day
January 16th: National Fig Newton Day, International Hot and Spicy Foods Day
Don't forget to bring your brass monkeys inside this weekend.
Albertson's:
Beef New York steaks, bone in, $4.97/lb
Beef tip sirloin steaks, boneless, $4.97/lb
Beef chuck or sirloin tip roasts, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef bottom round roasts, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb
Hormel pork tenderloin OR roasts, 18-24 oz, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Sanderson Farms whole chickens, 99¢/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, jumbo pack, 99¢/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Albertson's sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1.29
Deli: Charlie's Pride roast beef/corned beef/beef pastrami/Italian beef, $6.99/lb
Stella Swiss cheese, $6.99/lb
USA Gold honey or baked ham, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
Stella Provolone or Muenster cheese, $5.99/lb
Nabisco Wheat Thins, 5-10 oz boxes, $1.99
Essential Everyday chunk light tuna, 79¢
Del Monte canned veggies, 13-15 oz cans, 99¢
PictSweet “Steam'ables”, 10-12 oz frozen bag, 2/$3
Essential Everyday frozen strawberries, whole or sliced, 16 oz, $2.49
Jonagold or Braeburn apples, jumbo, $1/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 4/$5
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Red/yellow/orange bell peppers, $1 ea
Japanese eggplant, $1.99/lb
Green or red cabbage, 49¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef top sirloin, boneless, value pack, $2.88/lb
Beef London broil, $3.99/lb
Beef sirloin steaks, $3.88/lb
Beef sirloin tip roast, $4.49/lb
“Assorted” pork chops, value pack, $1.48/lb
Center cut pork chops, value pack, $2.99/lb
Cook's spiral sliced ham, $1.27/lb
True cod fillets, $6.99/lb “weather permitting”
Bashas' milk, gallons, $1.67
Food Club butter, $2.991b
Shamrock Farms cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tub, $2.69
Bashas' Homestyle bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.79
Bush's variety (non-baked) beans, 15-16 oz cans, 69¢
Veg-All veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Fiber One cereal or bars, $2.99
Kash GoLean cereal, 13-14 oz boxes, $2.99
Balance nutrition bars, 10/$10
Star olive oil, 17 oz bottles, $3.99
Pompeian olive oil, 16 oz bottles, $4.29
Food Club pasta, 2 lb pkg, $1.99
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, $1.99
Food Club fruit, 12-16 oz frozen pkg, $3.88
Apples: Fuji, Braeburn, Red/Golden Delicious, organic Gala, 99¢/lb
Bananas, 39¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, 2/$3
Asparagus, $1.88/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, AZ grown, 99¢ ea
Italian or yellow squash, 88¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef t-bone steaks, family pack, $4.97/lb
Beef chuck roast or steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef top round roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
Pork extravaganza! All fresh pork: buy 1 get 1 (like item) free!
Cook's spiral sliced hams, bone in, 99¢/lb
Foster Farms chicken, buy 1 get 1 free (like item)
Kroger 85/15 ground turkey, 3 lb pkg, $7.99
Denmark ground chicken, 1 lb pkg, $3.99
Fry's eggs, AA large, dozens, 99¢
Simple Truth “cage free” eggs, brown or white, AA large, dozens, 2/$5
Simple Truth organic butter, $3.99
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
Yoplait yogurts, 20/$10
Simple Truth breakfast cereals, 10-17 oz boxes, 20% off
Kroger variety (non-baked) beans, 69¢
Simple Truth pasta, 1 lb boxes, 2/$4
Simple Truth pasta sauces, 25 oz jars, 2/$6
Ro*tel tomatoes, 10/$10
Barilla pasta, 1 lb boxes, 10/$10
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, 6/$12
Minneola tangelos, AZ grown, 88¢/lb
Bananas, 38¢/lb
Lemons, AZ grown, 3/88¢
Red or D'Anjou pears, $1.28/lb
Mangos, 88¢ ea
Blueberries, 6 oz box, $1.98
Pom Wonderful pomegranates, $1.98 ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine/Boston, 88¢ ea
Cauliflower, 88¢/lb
Safeway:
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $5.99/lb (small package, $1/lb higher)
Beef round tip roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $3.29/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.79/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.87/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, 99¢/lb
Safeway lean ground turkey, fat content not listed, 20 oz pkg, $3.89
Lucerne or Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99
Laughing Cow cheese wedges incl. Light, 2/$7
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, $1
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Rice-A-Roni OR Pasta Roni, 10/$10
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$10
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, 3/$4
Red seedless grapes, $1.88/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Red cherries (imported), $4.99/lb
Opal apples, $1.99/lb
HoneyCrisp apples, $2.99/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$6
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Sprouts:
Beef chuck roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground sirloin, $3.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Apple-anche! Granny Smith, Pinata, Gala, Delicious, Braeburn, Fuji, Cameo, Jonagold, 49¢/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 5-6 oz boxes, 2/$3
Navel oranges, 49¢/lb
Red mangos, 88¢ ea (organic, 4/$5)
Yellow nectarines or peaches, $2.99/lb
Texas grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Tomatoes, 49¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, 99¢/bunch
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower OR green beans, 99¢/lb
Organic butternut squash, 79¢/lb
Organic garnet yams, 99¢/lb
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