September is National Rice Month, and Fooducate's promoting the newest-and-latest, something called “red rice”. It's from Bhutan, south of Tibet, and is said to be laden with antioxidants and have more fiber than brown rice. I have not tried it and don't know where it can be found other than Amazon.com – try AJ's or Sprouts? Also, a few facts about bagged salad greens, and reasons to take a short walk after eating. Per Marion Nestle, the FDA's started a new project to study whether people's attitudes about food products change when the products are claimed to have improved nutrition. (Of course they do. That's why companies add extra nutrients, and proclaim that the cookies or breakfast cereals are just laden with calcium or vitamins or fiber – so you'll buy the damn things!)
A couple of recent magazine articles have promoted the notion that by Using The App and properly tweaking the menu, you can actually Eat! Healthy! At! McDonald's! Weighty Matters slams this quite thoroughly, pointing out that even the source article admits one thus risks becoming “one of those 'When Harry Met Sally' types who hold up the line with instructions and substitutions” (which rather goes against the idea of, y'know, fast food), and that some McDonald's salads have (with dressing) more calories than a Big Mac. While we're on McDonald's, Canada's National Post reviews the “McLobster” sandwich, which the reviewer says “is to the lobster roll what the McDonald's burger is to the real burger.... It is lobster that has had its flavor replaced by a 'Mc'.” To my knowledge this sandwich is not available in Southwestern markets, but it doesn't sound as though we're missing much. And at Summer Tomato, seven helpful tips for being less sedentary at work.
Recipes! Grist has how to cook food in your dishwasher – using sealed glass jars or vacuum bags, so you can actually wash dishes at the same time. If you're going to be flying over this holiday weekend, Chow.com has packable snacks that will go through security and not give you food poisoning (and a wonderful tip on mixing your own airplane sangria!). There are also 31 box-lunch recipes (says here “Healthy Recipes for Kids' Lunch Boxes”, but I think the wild-rice-and-edamame salad or the roasted spaghetti squash with parmegiano-reggiano might appeal to grownups) and an instructional flowchart for what you should bring to the picnic. Simply Recipes has a quinoa succotash and an octopus salad (not for me, thank you, I do not eat anything smart enough to open a closed glass jar to extract the contents), and Snack Girl has high-protein snacks, a 133-calorie serving of “fries” (OK, they're roasted carrots, but they look delicious), five-minute homemade frozen yogurt, and what happens when you form the HABIT of eating fruit as your default snack.
Tomorrow is National More Herbs, Less Salt Day, which will be good for us all, and also Lemon Juice Day which can go well with the herbs. The 31st is the highly weather-contingent Eat Outside Day, also National Trail Mix Day. This is followed by September, which is Whole Grains Month, National Chicken Month, National Mushroom Month, National Breakfast Month (the most important meal of the day!), and National Bourbon Heritage Month. I do not know whether this pertains to the beverage Bourbon or the nobility Bourbon. Also Wine Season and Oyster Season begin on the 1st.
August 28th: National Cherry Turnover Day
August 29th: More Herbs Less Salt Day, Chop Suey Day, Lemon Juice Day, Whisk(e)y Sour Day
August 30th: National Toasted Marshmallow Day
August 31st: Eat Outside Day, National Trail Mix Day, International Bacon Day
September 1st: National Cherry Popover Day
September 2nd: National Blueberry Popsicle Day; 1666, a fire starts in a London bakery and over the next four days burns down 13,000 buildings in London
September 3rd: National Welsh Rarebit Day (don't be afraid, it's just posh cheese-on-toast)
September 4th: National Macadamia Nut Day, Eat An Extra Dessert Day
Albertson's:
Beef ribeye, t-bone, New York steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steak OR tri tip roast, $5.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/eye round/bottom round roast or family pack steaks, boneless, $4.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.79/lb
Assorted pork chops, bone in (?), $1.88/lb
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.79/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Coho salmon fillets, wild caught, $8.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, 1 lb frozen bag, $9.99, buy 1 get 3 free
Challenge butter, 2/$5
Daisy sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 2/$4
Sargento cheeses, 6-8 oz shingle pack, $2.99
Bush's baked or “Grillin'” beans, 21-28 oz cans, 3/$5
Bertolli olive oil, 17 oz bottles, $5.99
Carapelli olive oil, 25 oz bottles, $5.99
Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, $1
Essential Everyday tomatoes or variety beans, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢/lb
Peaches or nectarines, $1.99/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.99/lb
Cantaloupes, 2/$5
Honeydew melon, 49¢/lb
Clementines, 2 lb bag, $4.99
Sweet corn, 8/$1 (first 8 only)
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, 2/$4
Earthbound Farms organic mini carrots, 1 lb bag, 2/$4
Earthbound Farms organic romaine hearts, 3 pk, $2.99
Bashas':
Beef t-bone or boneless top sirloin steaks, value pack, $4.97/lb
Beef crossrib roast, $3.99/lb (steaks, 50¢/lb higher)
Beef porterhouse steaks, $6.97/lb
Pork loin country style, value pack, $1.99/lb
Pork loin end chops, $2.99/lb
Chicken breast OR leg quarters, bone in, 87¢/lb
Swai fillets, $2.99/lb
Swordfish steaks, bone in, 6 oz portions, $2.99
Atlantic salmon, 5 oz portions, $2.99
Steelhead fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Orange roughy fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Challenge butter, $2.99
Daisy sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 2/$4
Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz shreds or shingle pack, 2/$5
Bush's baked or “Grillin'” beans, 21-28 oz cans, 3/$5
Red seedless grapes, 87¢/lb
Yellow peaches or nectarines, $1.99/lb
Red or black plums, 99¢/lb
Organic Gala apples, $1.49/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Green or red bell peppers, 77¢ ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
White or mild yellow onions, 59¢/lb
Organic Hass avocados, 88¢ ea
Fry's:
Beef ribeye or strip steaks, bone in, 50% off
Whole beef brisket, boneless, $3.49/lb
Beef crossrib roast or “Texas broil”, $3.99/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, $2.49/lb
Pork loin back ribs OR “St Louis style” ribs, buy 1 get 2 free
Kroger 85/15 ground turkey, 1 lb pkg, 2/$7
Swordfish steaks OR mahi mahi, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Kroger butter, 2/$5
Country Crock spread, 45 oz tubs, $2.97 – buy 1, get a dozen Fry's eggs (AA large) free!
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/slices, $1.79
Kraft or Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz chunk or shreds, 2/$5
Bush's baked beans, 21-28 oz cans, $1.79
Kroger frozen veggies, 10-12 oz bags, 10/$10
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 5/$10
Mini seedless watermelons, 2/$3
Cantaloupes, 99¢ ea
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.99/lb
Yellow peaches, 99¢/lb
Plums, pluots, yellow or white nectarines, $1.88/lb
Bartlett pears, $1.29/lb
Honeydew melons, 2/$5
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Sweet corn, 3/99¢
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢ ea
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, 4/$5
Safeway:
Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, value pack, $3.77/lb
Beef NY strip steak, bone in, value pack, $4.77/lb
Beef ribeye steak, bone in, value pack, $5.77/lb
Beef round tip steak, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck steak, boneless, $3.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork sirloin country style ribs or chops, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork shoulder country style ribs, bone in, value pack, $2.49/lb
Safeway Farms chicken thighs or drumsticks, bone in, $1.39/lb
Jennie-O Turkey Store ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $3.99
King salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Swordfish steaks, bone in, wild caught, $8.99/lb
Rockfish fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb “subject to availability”
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.89
Sargento cheeses, 6-8 oz shingle pack, 2/$5
Daisy sour cream incl, 16 oz tubs, $1.99
Safeway Kitchens bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $1.99
Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
Birds Eye “Steamfresh” or “C&W” frozen veg, 10-16 oz bags, buy 2 get 2 free
Green Giant “Steamers”, 11-12 oz pkg, 2/$5
Yellow peaches or “Red Lion” nectarines, $1.99/lb
“Pristine” green grapes, $2.99/lb
Gala apples, $1.79/lb
Mini watermelons OR cantaloupes, 2/$6
Mangos, 10/$10
Sweet corn, white/yellow/bicolor, 5/$1
Hass avocados, 99¢ ea
Hot house tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Campari tomatoes, 1 lb pkg, $3.99
Organic bell peppers, red/yellow/orange, 2/$4
Safeway Farms sweet mini peppers, 2 lb bag, $3.99
O Organics “baby peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, $1.99
Sprouts:
Beef NY steak, bone in, $5.99/lb
Beef chuck roast or steak, boneless, $3.99/lb
Pork shoulder roast or steaks, boneless, $2.49/lb
Pork or chicken sausage, all varieties, bulk or links, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $2.49/lb
Tilapia fillets, $3.99/lb
Whole seedless watermelons, 18¢/lb
Green or red seedless grapes, 98¢/lb
Yellow nectarines, red or black plums, 98¢/lb
Gala apples, 98¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 98¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 98¢ ea
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