Sorry for missing another meeting, I'm not in town but am posting what I can find online of the grocery information. News of the week: the first junk-food tax in America passed last month, and it's not in New York! The Navajo Nation Council passed the Healthy Diné Nation Act of 2013, mandating a 2%-of-retail tax on soft drinks, cookies, candy, pastries, and salty snacks – specifically excluding nuts, nut butters, and seeds.
At entrepreneur.com of all places, a list of tips we've heard before to eat healthy – small plates, keep the healthy things visible, shop the margins of the store, all worth repeating anyway. One I don't recall running across before is to eat off dark blue or green plates: then the leafy greens and veggies don't show up (so you serve more of them), but the pasta and potatoes do (so you serve less). The Atlantic has an interesting piece – at last I thought it was interesting, buthasjusme – on the history of orange juice. A new study reveals that you can boost your metabolism by shivering, and that both shivering and intentional exercise can help transform energy-story white fat into energy-burning brown fat. And a terrific piece from Summer Tomato on how to use willpower to get through cravings. (Darya points out that this may be the only thing willpower is good for: “I’m not the biggest fan of willpower. It’s weak. It’s fallible. And it often backfires when we need it most. If you were dating willpower I’d tell you to dump the jerk immediately.... For long-term goals, willpower is far too unreliable to get you through.”) And Yoni Freedhoff has a Q&A about his forthcoming book, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail And How To Make Yours Work. Important quote:
What is the biggest misconception you wish people could shake off about dieting?
The biggest misconception that I wish people could shake off about dieting is that suffering and sacrifice are dieting’s true determinants of success. Unfortunately, as a species, we just aren’t built to suffer in perpetuity. Consequently, weight that’s lost through suffering, through some combination of under-eating and/or over-exercising, is bound to come back.
Recipes! Chow.com has a pile of chicken-in-the-oven recipes (now that we Arizonans can actually use the oven), a kale-and-roasted-pepper frittata, “classic Valentine's Day dishes”, and – since that day is approaching and strawberries, being red and heart-shaped, are thus inextricably linked – ways to deal with “inevitably tart, firm, and white-shouldered” February strawberries. Simply Recipes has lamb chops with mint chimichurri, a recipe for the mint chimichurri, and creamy celery soup with not too much cream. Summer Tomato has a beanless hummus made from roasted veggies, and if you don't like hummus it starts with making delicious roasted veggies. And Snack Girl does sweet potatoes without marshmallows!
The day after tomorrow is, to absolutely no one's surprise, National Cream-Filled Chocolates Day. Next Tuesday, besides being Drink Wine Day, is National Crab-Stuffed Flounder Day and if you don't care for that delicious dish I will gladly accept your helping of it.
February 12th: National Plum Pudding Day
February 13th: National Tortellini Day
February 14th: National Cream-Filled Chocolates Day
February 15th: International Gumdrop Day
February 16th: National Almond Day
February 17th: National Cafe au Lait Day
February 18th: National Crab-Stuffed Flounder Day
February 19th: National Chocolate Mint Day
Heavy promotions this week and next on chocolate, long-handled strawberries, all things red or pink, and various reputed aphrodisiacs: good luck. Again, my apologies for missing this week's meeting and for the comparative sparsity of the bargains: the Arizona Republic and EV Tribune are surprisingly difficult to locate in Idaho.
Albertson's:
Beef tri-tip or London broil, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef crossrib, eye/bottom round roast or family pack steaks, boneless, $4.49/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef ribeye or NY strip steaks, boneless, $6.97/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.79/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb
Center cut pork chops, bone in, $2.49/lb
Sanderson Farm tray-pack boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, buy 1 get 2 free
Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Whole frozen pink salmon, wild caught, $2.49/lb
Cod, wild caught, 5 oz portions, $1.99
Ahi tuna, wild caught, 5 oz portions, $2.99
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb “weather permitting”
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.87
Essential Everyday cheeses, 6-8 oz shreds, 2/$5
Deli: Healthy Ones oven roasted turkey/“honey turkey”/chicken breast/honey ham, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard/Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $4.99/lb
Unbranded (store) Muenster/pepperjack/mild Cheddar, $4.99/lb
Oroweat bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.99
Nabisco BelVita “breakfast cookies”, 5 ct, $2.99
Libby's veggies, 11-15 oz cans, 88¢
Bumble Bee solid white tuna, 4 pk, $5.99
Hunt's tomato sauce, 8 oz cans, 2/$1
Essential Everyday veg or tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Classico pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, $1.99
Smart Ones frozen entrees, 2/$4
Clementines, 3 lb bag, $2.99
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Jonagold apples, $1.29/lb
Organic bananas, 79¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Long-handled strawberries, 1 lb pkg, $9.99 (thru Friday only)
Asparagus tips, 8 oz pkg, $3.99
Campari tomatoes, 1 lb pkg, $2.99
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢
Earthbound Farms organic box salads, 1 lb, $4.99
Bashas':
Beef t-bone or New York steak, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef top round or London broil, $4.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, $3.99/lb
Pork loin roast, center cut, $2.49/lb
Center cut pork chops, value pack, $2.99/lb
Split chicken breast, bone in, 89¢/lb
Swordfish steaks OR Atlantic salmon, 5 oz portions, $3
Food Club butter, 2/$5
Bashas' cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1.69
Food Club cheeses, 10-16 oz chunk/shreds/string, $3.99
Food Club veg or tomatoes, 14-15 oz can, 69¢
Bush's beans, 15-16 oz cans, 69¢
Asparagus, 88¢/lb
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Braeburn or Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Broccoli OR cauliflower, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, AZ grown, 88¢ ea
Eggplant, 88¢ ea
Zucchini, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Kroger beef tenderloin, boneless, whole in bag, $9.99/lb, sliced free
Beef top round or eye round roast, boneless, $4.99
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in or boneless, 50% off
All fresh pork, 50% off
Whole frying chickens, 99¢/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Kroger butter, $1.99
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz shreds, $1.99
Fry's eggs, AA large, dozens, 2/$3
Kroger veggies or tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 2/$1
Del Monte “Core Cut” tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
Kroger beans, 15-16 oz cans, 2/$1
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, $1.88
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.69/lb
Apples: Gala, Granny Smith, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
D'Anjou pears, 99¢/lb
Asparagus, 97¢/lb
Organic kale, 99¢/bunch
Mini sweet peppers, 2 lb bag, $3.99
Fresh Selections cut up veggies, 12 oz bags, 2/$4
Safeway:
Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef chuck crossrib steak, boneless, value pack, $2.49/lb
Beef NY strip steak, boneless, value pack, $4.99/lb
Beef bottom round steak, boneless, value pack, $4.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, $2.99/lb
93/7 “grass fed” ground beef, $6.99/lb
Pork top loin chops, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork tenderloin, boneless, whole in bag, $4.49/lb
Pork shoulder blade steak, bone in, $2.49/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $2.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, value pack, $8.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Lucerne or Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99
Open Nature breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.49
Safeway Kitchens pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 99¢
Safeway Kitchens pickles, 16-24 oz jars, $2.39 and mostly PointsPlus-free!
Quaker oats, 42 oz classic round box, 2/$5
Lean Cuisine “Simple Favorites”, 5/$10
Apples: Granny Smith, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Navel, Cara Cara, or blood oranges, $1.49/lb
Envy apples, $2.99/lb
Organic Gala apples, $1.99/lb
Asparagus, $2.99/lb
Vine tomatoes, $2.99/lb
Organic grape tomatoes, dry pint, $3.49/lb
Sprouts:
Pork baby back ribs, $2.99/lb
Chicken breast tenders, $1.99/lb
“Cuties” mandarins, 3 lb bag, $2.98
Apples: Braeburn, Cameo, Jonagold, 98¢/lb
Pears: Bartlett, Bosc, D'Anjou, 98¢/lb
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
Asparagus, 98¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Eggplant, 48¢ ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 98¢
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 98¢/lb
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