The Guardian this past week has had a series of interesting articles: columnist Zoe Williams, not herself a WW member, touches on why diets don't work and why Weight Watchers does. “So how do they do it?” she asks, and answers herself: “By not thinking of it as a diet, but as a different way of living; not thinking of restrictions, thinking of abundance.”
Guardian food columnist Jay Rayner touches on “superfoods”: “What really gets me is the smugness of the people who push this stuff. They claim to have stumbled upon some truth the rest of us have missed. Which is: nuts, berries and greens are good for us. Big bloody news. Put out the bunting.” And just for laughs, he levels the same entertaining unkindness on Pizza Hut UK's newest special offering (which seems, perhaps not entirely unfortunately, not to have crossed the Atlantic), a pizza with cheeseburgers in the crust. “The middle is standard Pizza Hut: a soft doughy base … a scab of waxy cheese and flaps of pink salami the colour, worryingly, of a three-year-old girl's party dress.”
Fooducate investigates seaweed snacks: how healthy are they? (Surprisingly okay.) The NYT investigates what your activity meter observes and what it ignores. And at Stone Soup, what “season to taste” means and how to do it.
Recipes! Chow.com has fully three dozen recipes for fish and seafood dinners, which should easily see you through the rest of Lent, and nearly four dozen for the spring ingredients that are turning up in such abundance at the ranch market. Simply Recipes has guacamole deviled eggs and nettle soup (you won't find nettles at the ranch market, nor at Sprouts, but I'm sure the Agricultural Extension Office will let you know where to find them). And from Snack Girl, smoky roasted cauliflower – two PointsPlus per one-cup serving, and it has the magical ingredient of smoked paprika.
Today's National Poultry Day: by all means celebrate it with another damned boneless skinless chicken breast. The 22nd, this Saturday, is the healthy National Water Day. The 25th is either Lobster Newberg Day or Lobster Newburg Day: I'd better have both. Just to be sure. And one week from today is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day: I hereby declare it Do Not Waste Points Day.
March 19th: Poultry Day, National Chocolate Caramel Day
March 20th: National Ravioli Day, Bock Beer Day
March 21st: National French Bread Day, California Strawberry Day; 1413, Henry V becomes King of England; 1804, France adopts the Code Napoléon, which allowed freedom of religion, forbade privilege of birth, (nobility), and ended nepotism in government jobs
March 22nd: Coq au Vin Day, National Water Day
March 23rd: National Chip and Dip Day, National Melba Toast Day; 1857, Elisha Otis installs his first elevator, 488 Broadway, New York City
March 24th: National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
March 25th: National Lobster Newberg/Newburg Day, National Pecan Day, National Waffle Day; 3019 of the Third Age (1419 in the Shire Reckoning), destruction of the One Ring at the Cracks of Doom
March 26th: Spinach Day, National Make Up Your Own Holiday Day, National Nougat Day
Albertson's:
Beef ribeye or New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $5.97/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round roast or family pack steaks, boneless, $4.79/lb
85/15 ground beef, $3.29/lb
93/7 ground beef, $3.49/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Pork loin roast OR assorted chops OR country style ribs, bone in, $1.99/lb
Pork loin chops, center cut boneless, $7.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Rockfish or Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Catfish fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Cod, wild caught, 5 oz portions, $1.99/lb
Mahi mahi OR ahi tuna, wild caught, 5 oz portions, $2.99
Sockeye salmon (wild caught) OR Atlantic salmon (farm raised), 5 oz portions, $3.99/lb
Alaskan salmon fillets, wild caught, 20 oz IQF pkg, $4.99
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.99
Shedd's Country Crock, 45 oz tubs, $3.49
Tillamook cheeses, 8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle pack, $2.99
Kraft Cracker Barrel cheeses, 8 oz chunk, $2.99
Prego pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, 2/$5
Bumble Bee solid white tuna, 5 oz cans, 3/$5
Essential Everyday olive oil, 25 oz bottles, $3.99
Vlasic pickles, 16-24 oz jars, 2/$5
Essential Everyday tomatoes or variety (non-baked) beans, 69¢
PictSweet frozen veg or “Steamables”, 10-14 oz bags, 3/$5
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, $1.99
Healthy Choice frozen entrees or dinners, 2/$5
Strawberries, 3 lb flat, $3.75 – make jam
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Pacific Rose apples, $1.99/lb
Clementines, 3 lb bags, $4.99
Cut up watermelon, 2 lb bowls, $4.99
Cut up strawberries, 24 oz bowls, $4.99
Grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, 2/$4
Iceberg, 99¢
Red bell peppers, 99¢ ea
Broccoli crowns, 99¢/lb
Yellow onions, 99¢/lb
Summer squashes (zucchini/yellow/grey), 99¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, bone in, value pack, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef crossrib/bottom round roast or steaks, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef tri tip roast, $5.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, value pack, $2.99/lb
Center cut pork roast or chops, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Whole chickens OR leg quarters, 87¢/lb
Cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb “weather permitting”
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $8.99/lb
Food Club butter, 2/$5
Bashas' cottage cheese, 16 oz tub, $1.89
Tillamook cheeses, 12 oz slices OR 16 oz chunk, $3.99
Francesco Rinaldi pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, 2/$3
Crown Prince oysters, clams, sardines, 3-10 oz cans, $1.69
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 99¢
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Apples, Red Delicious or Granny Smith, 99¢/lb
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Vine tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Bell peppers, green/red/gold, 77¢ ea
Cucumber, 77¢ ea
Sweet mini peppers, 1 lb bag, $1.99
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz boxes, 2/$4
Large artichokes, 2/$4
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, 2/$4
Zucchini squash, 88¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef chuck or crossrib roast, boneless, $3.49/lb
Beef NY strip steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
Beef stew meat or cube steaks, $3.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, $3.69/lb (3 lb chub)
Tyson chicken, buy 1 get 1 free
Kroger 85/15 ground turkey, $2.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Tilapia OR corvina fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Swai fillets, $2.99/lb
Kroger cheeses, 16 oz chunk or shreds, 3/$10
Kroger veggies or variety (non-baked) beans, 11-15 oz cans, 2/$1
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 5 oz cans, 2/$1
Kroger pasta, 12-22 oz boxes, 87¢
Starkist chunk light tuna, 5 oz cans OR 2-3 oz pouches, 4/$5
Smart Ones “Classic” or “Creations” frozen entrees, $1.69
Mini seedless watermelons, 99¢ ea
Apples: Lady Alice, Gala, Granny Smith, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Vine tomatoes, 75¢/lb
Asparagus, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢
Mini sweet peppers, 1 lb pkg, $1.99
Hass avocados, 4/$5
Organic cherry tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$6
Organic kale, 99¢/bunch
Safeway:
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef bottom round steak, boneless, value pack, $4.99/lb
Beef ribeye steak, bone in, value pack, $9.99/lb
90/10 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
“All natural” pork shoulder country style ribs, bone in, $1.79/lb
“All natural” pork top loin chops, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Sanderson Farms thin sliced boneless skinless chicken breast, $4.99/lb
Alaskan pollock fillets, wild caught, $3.99/lb
Snapper fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb, “availability subject to fishing and weather conditions”
Yellowfin ahi tuna steaks, wild caught, $8.99/lb
Steelhead fillets, farm raised, $8.99/lb
Jennie-O turkey burgers, 3 lb IQF pkg, $6.99
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $2.19
Kellogg's Nutri-Grain bars, 7-10 oz boxes, 2/$5
Nature Valley protein bars, 7 oz boxes, 2/$6
Kellogg's Special K cereal, 11-13 oz boxes, 2/$5
Teasdale pinto beans, 30 oz cans, $1.79
Prego pasta sauces, 14-24 oz jars, $2.29
Hunt's tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
El Pato salsa de chile fresco, 27 oz cans, $1.19
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, 5/$5
Pantry Essentials frozen veggies, 12 oz bags, 99¢
Lean Cuisine “Simple Favorites”, 5/$10
Weight Watchers ice-cream novelties, 6-12 ct, $3.99
Gala apples, $1.49/lb
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$5
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Navel oranges, $1.49/lb
Red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Vine tomatoes, $2.99/lb
NatureSweet “Glory” cherry or grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, 2/$6
Hass avocados, 4/$5
Green cabbage, 49¢/lb
Mini tulips/daffodils/hyacinths, in 4 inch pot, 3/$9.99
If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.
Sprouts:
Pork loin chops or roast, center cut boneless, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, value pack, $1.99/lb
All the frozen food you can fit into a sale bag, 20% off
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 98¢
Navel oranges, 48¢/lb
Texas Red grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Cantaloupes OR honeydew melons, 48¢/lb
Pink Lady or Cameo apples, 98¢/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.98/lb
Apple pears, 3/$1
Organic Valencia oranges, 4 lb bags, 2/$5
Vine tomatoes, 98¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Cucumbers OR red bell peppers, 48¢ ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 88¢ ea
Brussels sprouts OR Italian squash, 98¢/lb
Organic Garnet or Jewel yams, 98¢/lb
Organic grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$5
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