Fruit, as we all know, is PointPlus-free – perhaps students at UMass Amherst were thinking of this on Monday when they created a 15,000-pound fruit salad: “20 varieties of apples, five kinds of banana, 14 varieties of berries, three of currants, four of cherries, three kinds of mint, three of grapefruit, 10 kinds of grapes, three kinds of mangoes, 19 different melon varieties, 10 kinds of oranges, three kinds of papayas, 13 of peaches, 12 of pears, two pineapples, nine different plums, three kinds of kiwi, 15 other fruits and 500 pounds of orange juice”, all mixed in a 15-foot swimming pool which had been specially donated for the occasion. As was the fruit, and I am informed all of it will be used, none wasted.
Nutrition Diva has why you're so much hungrier than usual during your period, and how to deal with it; Marion Nestle analyzes the word “natural” on food labels. (The FDA has declined to give this word a definition, so essentially it is all but meaningless.) Fooducate has fruit, and Weighty Matters offers a brief photo essay on the pitfalls of shopping the “edges” of the supermarket. And at Summer Tomato, a kale-and-radicchio salad, and six ways to motivate yourself to go to the gym!
Recipes! Chow.com has a salad of green beans and cherry tomatoes, a melon baller review, and for some reason again with the bloody bacon jam. Smitten Kitchen has pink-lemonade popsicles and a baked zucchini-parmesan crisp, Simply Recipes has an ALT: an Avocado-Lettuce-Tomato sandwich! The poster calls it her father's favorite sandwich: “I once asked him, why not add bacon? His response? A grumbled, 'Why should I? It’s perfectly fine with avocado,' along with a look that said, if I wanted a BLT I would have made a BLT.” The only nutritional quibble I'd make concerns the use of the verb “slather” in connection with the mayonnaise. And Snack Girl has baked oatmeal, what she admits is a wholly unfair “best” v. “worst” pasta sauce analysis (unfair because she compares a tomato-based sauce with a cheese-based sauce), and a set of “two-ingredient snacks”. Her values of “two” are sometimes inventive: she counts “edamame and salt” as two ingredients, as well as “hard-boiled egg and pepper” and “avocado half and spoon”.
I forgot to mention in the last handout that this is National Apple Month! Specifically is the first of three consecutive National Apple Months, which is a tribute either to the popularity of the apple or the power of the apple-growers' lobby. The 9th is National Steak au Poivre Day, which can be quite PointsPlus-friendly if you choose your steak (and your serving size) well. Today is Eat An Extra Dessert Day – perhaps not quite so friendly, but they're your PointsPlus to spend! The 7th is National Acorn Squash Day – cut in half, scoop out the seeds, add a bit of butter and brown sugar, and bake. And boring ordinary people can settle for a National Day or a National Week, but the 7th is also the first day of National Scottish Food And Drink Fortnight.
September 4th: Eat An Extra Dessert Day, National Macadamia Day
September 5th: National Cheese Pizza Day
September 6th: National Coffee Ice-Cream Day
September 7th: National Acorn Squash Day, National Napoleon Day, first day of National Scottish Food And Drink Fortnight ; yesterday was National Procrastination Day
September 8th: National Date Nut Bread Day
September 9th: Wienerschnitzel Day, National Steak au Poivre Day
September 10th: TV Dinner Day (for no reason I can discover: National TV Dinner Day, the anniversary of the introduction of TV dinners, is in April)
September 11th: National Hot Cross Buns Day
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb (seasoned $1/lb higher), buy 1 get 2 free
Beef chuck, crossrib, eye/bottom round roast or steaks, boneless, family pack, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork sirloin chops, bone in, family pack, 99¢/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.88/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Coho salmon fillets, wild caught, $8.99/lb
Rockfish/Dover sole/Alaska cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.89
Daisy sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 2/$5
Essential Everyday butter, 2/$5
Deli: Jennie-O oven roasted turkey breast, $2.99/lb
Signature Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Stella Muenster of Provolone cheeses, $4.99/lb
Charlie's Pride regular or Italian roast beef, $6.99/lb
Stella Swiss cheese, $6.99/lb
Dietz & Watson Black Forest or Gourmet Lite turkey, $7.99/lb
Dietz & Watson honey ham, $7.99/lb
Dietz & Watson Buffalo chicken breast, $7.99/lb
Swanson's chunk white chicken, 9 oz cans, $2.99
Essential Everyday olive oil, 51 oz (!! that's what it says) bottles, $7.99
Herdez salsa, 16 oz jars, $1.79
Prego pasta sauces, 14-24 oz jars, $1.88
Cantaloupes, 2/$5
Peachesm nectarines, “King Kong” pluots, $1.99/lb
Organic green or red grapes, $2.99/lb
Bartlett pears, 99¢/lb
Gala apples, $1.69/lb
Navel oranges, $1.69/lb
Slicing tomatoes, $1.29/lb
“Cherub” grape tomatoes, 10 oz boxes, $3.99
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢
Rapini (broccoli rabe), 2 bunches/$3
Celery hearts, 2/$4
Earthbound Farms organic bag salads, 5 oz, $2.99
Bashas':
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef crossrib steaks, boneless, $4.49/lb
Beef sirloin tip or bottom round steaks, bone in, $4.49/lb
Ground beef round, fat content not listed, value pack, $3.49/lb
Assorted pork chops, $1.99/lb
Center cut pork chops, bone in, value pack, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.87/lb
Tilapia fillets, $2.49/lb
Atlantic salmon, 5 oz portions, skin on, $3
Bashas' milk, gallons, $1.89
Bashas' sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1.29
Food Club cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/cubelets, 5/$10
Classico pasta sauces, 8-24 oz jars, 2/$5
C&W or Birds Eye frozen veg, 10-16 oz, 2/$4
Cantaloupe OR honeydew melons, 29¢/lb
Green or red seedless grapes, 88¢/lb (organic, $1.99/lb)
Black seedless grapes, $1.99/lb
Gala apples OR Bartlett pears, 77¢/lb
Yellow peaches or nectarines, $1.49/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green or red, 99¢ ea
Bell peppers, green/red/gold, 77¢ ea
Zucchini, 77¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef roasts: sirloin tip, eye/top round, chuck, shoulder, 50% off
Beef NY strip steak, bone in, 50% off
80/20 ground beef, 3 lb chub, $8.97 ($2.99/lb)
Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.99/lb
Chicken leg quarters, bone in, 99¢/lb
Jennie-O 93/7 ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $4.99
Coho salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.87
Yoplait yogurts, 20/$10
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle pack, $1.79
Kroger string cheese, 10-12 oz, $3.29
Prego pasta sauces, 14-24 oz jars, 3/$5
Bush's Best variety (non-baked) beans, 15-16 oz cans, 10/$10
Lean Cuisine “Simple Favorites”, 6/$10
Bartlett pears, 99¢/lb
Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
SweeTango apples, $1.68/lb
Yellow peaches or nectarines, 99¢/lb
Red or black plums, 99¢/lb
Pluots, $1.88/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.99/lb
Cantaloupes, $1.99 ea
Sweet corn, 2/88¢
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢ ea
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Broccoli, 99¢/lb
Safeway:
Beef crossrib steak OR country style ribs, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef ribeye steak, bone in, value pack, $8.49/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, $4.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, $1.59/lb
Chicken thighs or drumsticks, bone in, $1.39/lb
King salmon fillets, farm raised, color added, $7.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.89
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Chobani Greek-style yogurt, 10/$10
Safeway solid white tuna, 4/$5
Safeway Kitchens veggies, 14/15 oz cans, 79¢
Lean Cuisine “Simple Favorites”, 5/$10
Safeway Kitchens frozen veg, 8-16 oz bags, 3/$5
Morningstar Farms veggie burgers, 2/$7
Gala apples, 99¢/lb
Yellow peaches OR “Red Lion” nectarines, $1.99/lb
Navel oranges, $1.49/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.99/lb
Mangos, 10/$10
Raspberries, 6 oz box, buy 1 get 1 free
Vine tomatoes, $2.49/lb
Sweet corn, 2/$1
Hass avocados, 77¢ ea
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, $1.49/lb
Sprouts:
“Buffalo stampede”: prices range from $7.99/lb for buffaloburger to $24.99/lb for filet mignon
Beef New York steak, boneless, $8.99/lb
Beef rump roast or stew meat, $4.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork loin chops or roast, center cut boneless, $2.99/lb
Pork or chicken sausage, sweet or hot, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, value pack, $1.99/lb
Chicken drumsticks, bone in, $1.29/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Chilean sea bass fillets, wild caught, $12.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $3.99/lb
Wholly Guacamole, buy 1 get 1 free
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, 68¢/lb
Peaches OR nectarines, 88¢/lb
Gala apples OR Bartlett pears, 98¢/lb
Whole seedless watermelon, 3 lbs/$1
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$3
Cherub tomatoes, 10 oz box, 2/$4
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Italian or yellow squash, 98¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Sweet corn, 48¢ ea
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